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Jack Welch

1935 - 2020

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John Francis Welch Jr. (November 19, 1935 – March 1, 2020) was an American business executive, chemical engineer, and writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jack Welch has received more than 3,592,403 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Jack Welch is the 183rd most popular businessperson (down from 146th in 2019), the 2,006th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,788th in 2019) and the 67th most popular American Businessperson.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.27

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.51

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Jack Welch ranks 183 out of 601. Before him are Ted Turner, Thomas Lipton, Ambroise Vollard, John Langenus, Rebiya Kadeer, and Piero Ferrari. After him are Lorenzo Sanz, Lakshmi Mittal, Jesse Livermore, Mino Raiola, Dietmar Hopp, and Josep Lluís Núñez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Jack Welch ranks 81. Before him are António Ramalho Eanes, Gene Vincent, Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, Terry Riley, Roger B. Chaffee, and Lyudmila Gurchenko. After him are Jack Kemp, Serge Klarsfeld, Brian Clough, David Prowse, Azzedine Alaïa, and Sergio Rossi. Among people deceased in 2020, Jack Welch ranks 99. Before him are Bill Withers, Ernesto Cardenal, Kelly Preston, Stanley Ho, Florian Schneider, and Vera Lynn. After him are Lorenzo Sanz, Gérard Houllier, David Prowse, Abdul Halim Khaddam, Amadou Toumani Touré, and Sergio Rossi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jack Welch ranks 2,006 out of 18,182. Before him are Margaret Bourke-White (1904), Harlow Shapley (1885), George Lakoff (1941), John Landis (1950), Peter Criss (1945), and Jim Henson (1936). After him are Irving Penn (1917), Charles Sweeney (1919), Jim Parsons (1973), Megan Fox (1986), King Vidor (1894), and Jamie Foxx (1967).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Jack Welch ranks 67. Before him are Malcolm Glazer (1928), Edsel Ford (1893), Asa Griggs Candler (1851), Jack Daniel (1850), Thomas J. Watson (1874), and Ted Turner (1938). After him are Jesse Livermore (1877), Sheldon Adelson (1933), George Gallup (1901), Maxwell Perkins (1884), Henry J. Heinz (1844), and King C. Gillette (1855).

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