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Jay Gould

1836 - 1892

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Jason Gould (; May 27, 1836 – December 2, 1892) was an American railroad magnate and financial speculator who founded the Gould business dynasty. He is generally identified as one of the robber barons of the Gilded Age. His sharp and often unscrupulous business practices made him one of the wealthiest men of the late nineteenth century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jay Gould has received more than 1,713,699 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Jay Gould is the 466th most popular businessperson (down from 376th in 2019), the 6,496th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,706th in 2019) and the 154th most popular American Businessperson.

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  • 20

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  • 1.89

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  • 3.59

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Jay Gould ranks 466 out of 601. Before him are Isabella Beeton, Gardiner Greene Hubbard, Zhong Shanshan, Teddy Mayer, Dmitry Rybolovlev, and Lila Tretikov. After him are Stephen A. Schwarzman, Ana Botín, Richard Bass, Steve Forbes, Sean Parker, and Sheryl Sandberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1836, Jay Gould ranks 62. Before him are Bret Harte, Ferdinand Monoyer, Robert Swinhoe, Michał Elwiro Andriolli, Adolf Schwarz, and Isabella Beeton. After him are W. S. Gilbert, Casimir de Candolle, John W. Foster, Greene Vardiman Black, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, and Remigio Morales Bermúdez. Among people deceased in 1892, Jay Gould ranks 60. Before him are Henri Duveyrier, Pashko Vasa, Amelia Edwards, Ludvig Holstein-Holsteinborg, James B. Francis, and Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau. After him are José María Castro Madriz, John Pope, Dimitrie Brătianu, Henry Edward Manning, Sereno Watson, and Dimitrios Valvis.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jay Gould ranks 6,496 out of 18,182. Before him are Lester Bowie (1941), Iwao Takamoto (1925), Jennifer Capriati (1976), Chris Andersen (1978), Pat Torpey (1953), and Richard Burgi (1958). After him are Richard Powers (1957), Nathan Hale (1755), Stephen A. Schwarzman (1947), Nick Carter (1980), Betty Buckley (1947), and David Weber (1952).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Jay Gould ranks 154. Before him are Mary Barra (1961), Trip Hawkins (1953), Eli Lilly (1838), Gregory Olsen (1945), Gardiner Greene Hubbard (1822), and Teddy Mayer (1935). After him are Stephen A. Schwarzman (1947), Richard Bass (1929), Steve Forbes (1947), Sean Parker (1979), Sheryl Sandberg (1969), and Mark Cuban (1958).

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