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Jeff Bezos

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Jeffrey Preston Bezos ( BAY-zohss; né Jorgensen; born January 12, 1964) is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. Bezos is the founder and executive chairman of Amazon, having previously served as chairman, president and CEO of the company. With a net worth of more than $200 billion as of June 2021, he is the richest person in the world according to both Forbes and Bloomberg's Billionaires Index.Born in Albuquerque and raised in Houston and later Miami, Bezos graduated from Princeton University in 1986. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jeff Bezos has received more than 42,420,795 page views. His biography is available in 78 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 70 in 2019). Jeff Bezos is the 41st most popular businessperson (up from 50th in 2019), the 417th most popular biography from United States (up from 507th in 2019) and the 16th most popular American Businessperson.

Jeff Bezos is most famous for being the founder and CEO of Amazon.com, the largest online retailer in the world.

Memorability Metrics

  • 42M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 75.21

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 78

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Entrepreneur
Jeff Bezos is Willing to Cover $2 Billion in Fees For NASA Program
The newly-minted space explorer is willing to cover $2 billion in fees for NASA's Human Landing System program.
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Jeff Bezos loses $ 13.5 billion (but he's still the richest man in the world)
Amazon is facing the biggest drop since May of last year.
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Fox Business
Jeff Bezos is making a 'dent' in Van Horn Texas - Fox Business
Why did Jeff Bezos choose Van Horn Texas for Blue Origin flight?
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calendar Saturday, July 31, 2021
New York Daily News
Jeff Bezos loses bid to block NASA’s contract with SpaceX
The U.S. Government Accountability Office upheld NASA’s decision to award Elon Musk’s SpaceX the sole winner of a contract to develop the next lunar lander, despite protests from Jeff Bezos, who has argued that it is unfair to grant a single company the award.
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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Jeff Bezos ranks 41 out of 604. Before him are Ferruccio Lamborghini, Soichiro Honda, Rudolf Dassler, Bernard Arnault, Bernie Ecclestone, and Robert Kardashian. After him are Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, João Havelange, Robert Kiyosaki, Henri Nestlé, Sergei Diaghilev, and Mohamed Al-Fayed.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1964, Jeff Bezos ranks 8. Before him are Monica Bellucci, Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, Dan Brown, Russell Crowe, and Boris Johnson. After him are Marco van Basten, Sarah Palin, Juliette Binoche, Michael Laudrup, Courteney Cox, and Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jeff Bezos ranks 417 out of 15,968. Before him are Gordon Allport (1897), Jennifer Lopez (1969), Jerome Bruner (1915), Iggy Pop (1947), Robert Kardashian (1944), and Chet Baker (1929). After him are Susan Sarandon (1946), Barry Barish (1936), Bernie Madoff (1938), Katherine Johnson (1918), Kurt Vonnegut (1922), and James Caan (1940).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Jeff Bezos ranks 16. Before him are Tim Cook (1960), J. P. Morgan (1837), J. Paul Getty (1892), P. T. Barnum (1810), Steve Ballmer (1956), and Robert Kardashian (1944). After him are Robert Kiyosaki (1947), Johns Hopkins (1795), Madam C. J. Walker (1867), Robert McNamara (1916), Paul Allen (1953), and Margaret Hamilton (1936).

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