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Jamsetji Tata

1839 - 1904

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Jamshedji Nusserwanji Tata (3 March 1839 – 19 May 1904) was a pioneering Indian industrialist who founded the Tata Group, India's biggest conglomerate company. Named the greatest philanthropist of the century by several polls and ranking lists, he established the city of Jamshedpur. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jamsetji Tata has received more than 4,995,332 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Jamsetji Tata is the 218th most popular businessperson (down from 211th in 2019), the 225th most popular biography from India (down from 206th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Indian Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Jamsetji Tata ranks 218 out of 601Before him are Mukesh Ambani, Umberto Agnelli, Vidal Sassoon, Erin Brockovich, Shin Kyuk-ho, and Maurice de Hirsch. After him are Hetty Green, Friedrich Alfred Krupp, Stavros Niarchos, Aurelio Peccei, Carl Laemmle, and Pavel Tretyakov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1839, Jamsetji Tata ranks 24Before him are Théodule-Armand Ribot, Josef Rheinberger, Konstantin Makovsky, Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria, August Kundt, and Floriano Peixoto. After him are Ivan Goremykin, Ahmed Muhtar Pasha, Princess Feodora of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Takasugi Shinsaku, Gaston Paris, and Henry George. Among people deceased in 1904, Jamsetji Tata ranks 38Before him are Isabelle Eberhardt, Vladimir Markovnikov, Mór Jókai, Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt, Kartini, and Antonio Labriola. After him are Laura Vicuña, Wilhelm Marr, Herbert von Bismarck, Clemens Winkler, Franz von Lenbach, and Vyacheslav von Plehve.

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In India

Among people born in India, Jamsetji Tata ranks 225 out of 1,493Before him are Henry McMahon (1862), Surdas (1478), Anna Mani (1918), Tilopa (928), Rajaraja I (947), and Hemachandra (1089). After him are Khaleda Zia (1945), Shankar Dayal Sharma (1918), Tansen (1493), George Alencherry (1945), Inayat Khan (1882), and Meher Baba (1894).

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In India

Among businesspeople born in India, Jamsetji Tata ranks 2Before him are Lakshmi Mittal (1950). After him are Ratan Tata (1937), Dhirubhai Ambani (1932), Satya Nadella (1967), Sundar Pichai (1972), Azim Premji (1945), Vijay Mallya (1955), Indra Nooyi (1955), Anil Ambani (1959), Chandrashekhar Agashe (1888), and N. R. Narayana Murthy (1946).