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Ingvar Kamprad

1926 - 2018

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Feodor Ingvar Kamprad (Swedish: [ˈɪ̌ŋːvar ˈkǎmːprad] ; 30 March 1926 – 27 January 2018) was a Swedish billionaire business magnate best known for founding IKEA, a multinational retail company specialising in furniture. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ingvar Kamprad has received more than 2,980,846 page views. His biography is available in 64 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Ingvar Kamprad is the 13th most popular businessperson (down from 9th in 2019), the 13th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 12th in 2019) and the most popular Swedish Businessperson.

Ingvar Kamprad is most famous for founding IKEA, a furniture company that sells affordable furniture.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 75.76

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 64

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 16.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Ingvar Kamprad ranks 13 out of 847. Before him are Sepp Blatter, Larry Ellison, John D. Rockefeller, Jeff Bezos, Vince McMahon, and Warren Buffett. After him are George Soros, Aristotle Onassis, Bernard Arnault, Levi Strauss, Florentino Pérez, and Tim Cook.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Ingvar Kamprad ranks 6. Before him are Elizabeth II, Marilyn Monroe, Fidel Castro, Michel Foucault, and Alfredo Di Stéfano. After him are Jiang Zemin, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Leslie Nielsen, Dario Fo, Andrzej Wajda, and Svetlana Alliluyeva. Among people deceased in 2018, Ingvar Kamprad ranks 6. Before him are Stephen Hawking, Aretha Franklin, George H. W. Bush, Kofi Annan, and Charles Aznavour. After him are Montserrat Caballé, Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark, Stan Lee, Bernardo Bertolucci, Miloš Forman, and Amos Oz.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Ingvar Kamprad ranks 13 out of 1,879. Before him are Anders Celsius (1701), Tycho Brahe (1546), Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden (1946), August Strindberg (1849), Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (1882), and Charles XII of Sweden (1682). After him are Jöns Jacob Berzelius (1779), Sigismund III Vasa (1566), Gustaf V of Sweden (1858), Svante Arrhenius (1859), Olof Palme (1927), and Ingrid Bergman (1915).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Sweden

Among businesspeople born in Sweden, Ingvar Kamprad ranks 1. After him are Ludvig Nobel (1831), Ivar Kreuger (1880), Stefan Persson (1947), Anders Frisk (1963), Christian von Koenigsegg (1972), Daniel Ek (1983), and Niklas Zennström (1966).

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