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James Buchanan Duke

1856 - 1925

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James Buchanan Duke (December 23, 1856 – October 10, 1925) was an American tobacco and electric power industrialist best known for the invention of modern cigarette manufacture and marketing techniques, and his involvement with Duke University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Buchanan Duke has received more than 1,066,118 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). James Buchanan Duke is the 437th most popular businessperson (up from 438th in 2019), the 5,415th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,936th in 2019) and the 134th most popular American Businessperson.

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  • 49.97

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, James Buchanan Duke ranks 437 out of 847. Before him are Vicente Calderón, Peter Lynch, Jawed Karim, Azim Premji, N. R. Narayana Murthy, and Elisabeth Abegg. After him are J. R. D. Tata, Muhtar Kent, Pierre Veyron, Fred Karno, Michael Dell, and Rina Zaripova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, James Buchanan Duke ranks 90. Before him are Luigi Bianchi, Matilde Serao, Carl Axel Magnus Lindman, Aleksander Brückner, Elbert Hubbard, and Apollinary Vasnetsov. After him are Ernesto Schiaparelli, Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper, Władysław Ślewiński, Edmund Beecher Wilson, Gabrielle Réjane, and Paul von Jankó. Among people deceased in 1925, James Buchanan Duke ranks 107. Before him are Geo Milev, Ioan Slavici, Jules Méline, Georg August Schweinfurth, Surendranath Banerjee, and Arkady Averchenko. After him are Zigfrīds Anna Meierovics, Hans Carl Friedrich von Mangoldt, Park Eun-sik, Karl von Pflanzer-Baltin, Nelson A. Miles, and Johan Jensen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James Buchanan Duke ranks 5,415 out of 20,380. Before him are Burt Ward (1945), Edie Falco (1963), Ed Koch (1924), Harry Guardino (1925), Roy Cohn (1927), and Anthony Mackie (1978). After him are Ian Ziering (1964), Don Schollander (1946), Hank Mobley (1930), Susan Cabot (1927), Harry James (1916), and Leon Fleisher (1928).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, James Buchanan Duke ranks 134. Before him are John Elkann (1976), Jim Walton (1948), Vincent J. McMahon (1914), Eli Lilly (1838), Suge Knight (1965), and Peter Lynch (1944). After him are Muhtar Kent (1952), Michael Dell (1965), Henry Clay Frick (1849), Alan Lomax (1915), Robert Durst (1943), and Michael Eisner (1942).

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