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George Averoff

1815 - 1899

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George M. Averoff (15 August 1815 – 15 July 1899), alternately Jorgos Averof or Georgios Averof (in Greek: Γεώργιος Αβέρωφ), was a Greek businessman and philanthropist. He is one of the great national benefactors of Greece. Born in the town of Metsovo (Epirus, Greece, then Ottoman Empire), Averoff moved to Alexandria while still young. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Averoff has received more than 111,903 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). George Averoff is the 354th most popular businessperson (down from 288th in 2019), the 567th most popular biography from Greece (down from 540th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Greek Businessperson.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, George Averoff ranks 354 out of 601. Before him are Jakob Nielsen, Johanna Quandt, Franklin Clarence Mars, Edwin Drake, Henry Cole, and Pavel Durov. After him are John D. Rockefeller III, Charles Koch, Satya Nadella, Adolf Merckle, Sundar Pichai, and Susanne Klatten.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1815, George Averoff ranks 46. Before him are Jean-Delphin Alard, Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz, Charles Renouvier, Johann Gottfried Piefke, Andrew Graham, and Robert Volkmann. After him are Alexander von Keyserling, Princess Therese of Nassau-Weilburg, Karl von Blaas, Pavel Fedotov, Edward John Eyre, and Eduard August von Regel. Among people deceased in 1899, George Averoff ranks 41. Before him are Robert G. Ingersoll, Dwight L. Moody, Teodolfo Mertel, Sophronius IV of Alexandria, Henry Becque, and Wilhelm Jordan. After him are Gaston Tissandier, José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior, Antonio Guzmán Blanco, Heymann Steinthal, Ulises Heureaux, and Mór Than.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, George Averoff ranks 567 out of 936. Before him are Eurycrates (null), Athanasios Diakos (1788), Alberto Savinio (1891), Wehib Pasha (1877), Porphyry of Gaza (347), and Ioannis Rallis (1878). After him are Agesipolis II (-400), Myrtis of Anthedon (-500), Konstantinos Tsiklitiras (1888), Nikos Beloyannis (1915), Petrobey Mavromichalis (1765), and Carlo II Tocco (1450).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Greece

Among businesspeople born in Greece, George Averoff ranks 3. Before him are Isaac Carasso (1874) and Stavros Niarchos (1909). After him are Arianna Huffington (1950) and Sam Panopoulos (1934).

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