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Jack Tramiel

1928 - 2012

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Jack Tramiel ( trə-MEL; born Idek Trzmiel; December 13, 1928 – April 8, 2012) was a Polish-American businessman and Holocaust survivor, best known for founding Commodore International. The Commodore PET, VIC-20, and Commodore 64 are some home computers produced while he was running the company. Tramiel later formed Atari Corporation after he purchased the remnants of the original Atari, Inc. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jack Tramiel has received more than 541,670 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Jack Tramiel is the 261st most popular businessperson (up from 264th in 2019), the 520th most popular biography from Poland (down from 517th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Polish Businessperson.

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  • 540k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.25

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.83

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Jack Tramiel ranks 261 out of 847. Before him are Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, Ramón Calderón, Georgios Sinas, Rex Tillerson, Horacio Pagani, and Charles Koch. After him are Jimmy Lai, Shibusawa Eiichi, Yves Rocher, King C. Gillette, Ivy Lee, and Jorge Paulo Lemann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Jack Tramiel ranks 186. Before him are Emilio Pericoli, Jo Schlesser, Arnfinn Bergmann, Gordie Howe, Aleksey Batalov, and Bob Cousy. After him are Helen Frankenthaler, Jean Vanier, Lorna Wing, Cannonball Adderley, William Peter Blatty, and Laurence Harvey. Among people deceased in 2012, Jack Tramiel ranks 119. Before him are Dorothea Tanning, Wilhelm Brasse, Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, Alexander Arutiunian, Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, and Angelo Dundee. After him are Lefter Küçükandonyadis, Paddy Roy Bates, Henry Hill, Russell Means, Bohdan Stupka, and Daniel Inouye.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Jack Tramiel ranks 520 out of 1,694. Before him are Paweł Pawlikowski (1957), Johann Gottlieb Goldberg (1727), Catherine of Brandenburg-Küstrin (1549), Emil Leon Post (1897), Jan Gotlib Bloch (1836), and Ernst Kantorowicz (1895). After him are Gustav Flatow (1875), Bronisław Huberman (1882), Nikita Ivanovich Panin (1718), George Adamski (1891), Stefan Żeromski (1864), and Helmut Lent (1918).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Poland

Among businesspeople born in Poland, Jack Tramiel ranks 3. Before him are Helena Rubinstein (1872), and Max Factor (1877). After him are Joanna Hoffman (1955).

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