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Henry Luce

1898 - 1967

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Henry Robinson Luce (April 3, 1898 – February 28, 1967) was an American magazine magnate who founded Time, Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated magazines. He has been called "the most influential private citizen in the America of his day".Born in Shandong, China, to Presbyterian parents, Luce moved to the US at the age of 15 and later attended Yale University. He launched and closely supervised a stable of magazines that transformed journalism and the reading habits of millions of Americans. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Luce has received more than 747,010 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Henry Luce is the 376th most popular businessperson (down from 369th in 2019), the 756th most popular biography from China (down from 725th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Chinese Businessperson.

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  • 23

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  • 3.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.34

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Henry Luce ranks 376 out of 601Before him are Alexey Miller, Laurene Powell Jobs, Louis Réard, Roy Raymond, Wang Jianlin, and Dieter Zetsche. After him are John Elkann, Tatsumi Kimishima, Akio Toyoda, Sylvia Beach, John Templeton, and Charles Yerkes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Henry Luce ranks 149Before him are Alfred Sauvy, Rudolph Maté, Eugen Wüster, Mikhail Koltsov, Ninette de Valois, and Helene Engelmann. After him are Edward Lawry Norton, Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz, Dorothy Gish, Masuji Ibuse, Jan Brzechwa, and Boughera El Ouafi. Among people deceased in 1967, Henry Luce ranks 160Before him are Siegfried Sassoon, Varian Fry, Antonio Riberi, Zhou Zuoren, Reginald Punnett, and Morris Swadesh. After him are Daniel Jones, Arthur Ransome, Georges Berger, Oskar Maria Graf, Vlastimil Kopecký, and George S. Robertson.

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In China

Among people born in China, Henry Luce ranks 756 out of 1,392Before him are Fang Lizhi (1936), Sanmao (1943), Han Zheng (1954), Qian Qichen (1928), Wang Jianlin (1954), and Harry Wu (1937). After him are Gordon Liu (1951), Chen Hongshou (1598), Li Zhaoxing (1940), Wu Ma (1942), Chen Jingrun (1933), and Chen Qimei (1878).

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In China

Among businesspeople born in China, Henry Luce ranks 11Before him are Morris Chang (1931), Jimmy Lai (1948), Ma Huateng (1971), Lei Jun (1969), Lee Shau-kee (1929), and Wang Jianlin (1954). After him are Li Ning (1963), Meng Wanzhou (1972), Zhong Shanshan (1954), Li Shufu (1963), Eric Yuan (1970), and Wendi Deng Murdoch (1968).