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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. He is regarded as the Father of Indian Industry.Born into a Zoroastrian Parsi family in Navsari, his family had fled persecution in Persia, finding refuge in India. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jamsetji Tata has received more than 4,903,651 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Jamsetji Tata is the 198th most popular businessperson (up from 218th in 2019), the 220th most popular biography from India (up from 222nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Indian Businessperson.

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  • 4.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 52

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.43

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Jamsetji Tatas by language

Over the past year Jamsetji Tata has had the most page views in the with 650,364 views, followed by Hindi (42,354), and Persian (13,281). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Cantonese (81.85%), Malagasy (72.92%), and Serbian (69.76%)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Jamsetji Tata ranks 198 out of 847. Before him are Roger Ailes, Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, Henry J. Heinz, Carl Laemmle, Charles Simonyi, and Morris Chang. After him are Dieter Schwarz, Stavros Niarchos, Friedrich Krupp, Friedrich Alfred Krupp, Terry Gou, and Vidal Sassoon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1839, Jamsetji Tata ranks 23. Before him are Nikolay Bobrikov, Ali Rıza Efendi, Théodule-Armand Ribot, Josef Rheinberger, Yoshitoshi, and Konstantin Makovsky. After him are Floriano Peixoto, Henry George, Ahmed Muhtar Pasha, Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria, Gaston Paris, and Hermann Levi. Among people deceased in 1904, Jamsetji Tata ranks 39. Before him are Mór Jókai, Princess Alexandrine of Baden, Antonio Labriola, Wilhelm Marr, Herbert von Bismarck, and Isabelle Eberhardt. After him are Jovan Jovanović Zmaj, Clemens Winkler, Franz von Lenbach, Eugen Schauman, Korla Awgust Kocor, and Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau.

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In India

Among people born in India, Jamsetji Tata ranks 220 out of 1,861. Before him are Ibrahim Lodi (1450), Harivansh Rai Bachchan (1907), Anna Leonowens (1831), Rajendra Chola I (1000), Anna Hazare (1937), and Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1876). After him are Rani Durgavati (1524), Nizamuddin Auliya (1238), Rajaraja I (947), Amrapali (-450), Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana (1556), and Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay (1887).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In India

Among businesspeople born in India, Jamsetji Tata ranks 2. Before him are Lakshmi Mittal (1950). After him are Ratan Tata (1937), Dhirubhai Ambani (1932), Sundar Pichai (1972), Akshata Murty (1980), Satya Nadella (1967), Azim Premji (1945), N. R. Narayana Murthy (1946), Indra Nooyi (1955), Gautam Adani (1962), and Vijay Mallya (1955).

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