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Henry Cole

1808 - 1882

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Sir Henry Cole FRSA (15 July 1808 – 15 April 1882) was a British civil servant and inventor who facilitated many innovations in commerce and education in the 19th century in the United Kingdom. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Cole has received more than 405,397 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Henry Cole is the 352nd most popular businessperson (up from 368th in 2019), the 2,431st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,038th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular British Businessperson.

Memorability Metrics

  • 410k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.78

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Henry Cole ranks 352 out of 601. Before him are Viktor Vekselberg, Mikhail Prokhorov, Jakob Nielsen, Johanna Quandt, Franklin Clarence Mars, and Edwin Drake. After him are Pavel Durov, George Averoff, John D. Rockefeller III, Charles Koch, Satya Nadella, and Adolf Merckle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1808, Henry Cole ranks 39. Before him are Samson Raphael Hirsch, Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Duval, Prince Frederick of Württemberg, Karl Friedrich Lessing, Johann Kaspar Bluntschli, and James Nasmyth. After him are Lysander Spooner, August von Werder, Auguste Franchomme, Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso, Michael William Balfe, and Josef Kajetán Tyl. Among people deceased in 1882, Henry Cole ranks 49. Before him are Charles J. Guiteau, François-Auguste Biard, John William Draper, Đuro Daničić, Charles Blanc, and Carl Robert Jakobson. After him are Theodor Kullak, Giovanni Lanza, Auguste Barbier, Juraj Dobrila, Ferdinand Reich, and Franz von Schober.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Henry Cole ranks 2,431 out of 7,765. Before him are James Whale (1889), W. V. D. Hodge (1903), William Kingdon Clifford (1845), John Alcott (1930), Samantha Bond (1961), and Edmund Crouchback (1245). After him are Peter Cheyney (1896), William Langland (1332), L. S. Lowry (1887), Peter J. Ratcliffe (1954), Nancy Mitford (1904), and Ronald Neame (1911).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United Kingdom

Among businesspeople born in United Kingdom, Henry Cole ranks 22. Before him are B. C. Forbes (1880), Edward Colston (1636), Ken Aston (1915), Mark Thatcher (1953), Edward Cave (1691), and Alfred Edwards (1850). After him are Thomas Blake Glover (1838), William Knox D'Arcy (1849), Jim Marshall (1923), John Houlding (1833), Neil Aspinall (1941), and Andrew Planche (1727).

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