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Jerry Buss

1933 - 2013

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Gerald Hatten "Jerry" Buss (January 27, 1933 – February 18, 2013) was an American businessman, investor, chemist, and philanthropist. He was the majority owner of the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA), winning 10 league championships that were highlighted by the team's Showtime era during the 1980s. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a contributor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jerry Buss has received more than 6,147,161 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Jerry Buss is the 433rd most popular businessperson (down from 337th in 2019), the 5,886th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,992nd in 2019) and the 142nd most popular American Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Jerry Buss ranks 433 out of 601Before him are Piero Dusio, Maurice Farman, Michael Dell, George Peabody, Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, and Jorma Ollila. After him are Rina Zaripova, J. R. D. Tata, Helen Walton, Neil Aspinall, James Buchanan Duke, and Anders Hejlsberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Jerry Buss ranks 287Before him are Alfredo Landa, Janet Baker, Sergio Pitol, Otar Chiladze, Lou Rawls, and Mark Zakharov. After him are László Kovács, Miriam Stevenson, Imre Nagy, Knut Johannesen, Theodore Roszak, and Jean Vuarnet. Among people deceased in 2013, Jerry Buss ranks 280Before him are Alfredo Landa, Maria Tallchief, Dave Charlton, John Thomas, Nigel Davenport, and Zlatko Papec. After him are Imre Nagy, Ottavio Missoni, Valeri Zolotukhin, Boris Vasilyev, Harold Agnew, and Viktor Tsybulenko.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jerry Buss ranks 5,886 out of 18,182Before him are Abigail Fillmore (1798), Cameron Crowe (1957), William Gaddis (1922), Pamela Bellwood (1951), Henry Lee III (1756), and Masten Gregory (1932). After him are Grace Park (1974), Mario Cuomo (1932), Mariel Hemingway (1961), Eliza McCardle Johnson (1810), David Douglas Duncan (1916), and Ed Wynn (1886).

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Jerry Buss ranks 142Before him are Vincent J. McMahon (1914), Charles Geschke (1939), Bob Lazar (1959), Lawrence Roberts (1937), Michael Dell (1965), and George Peabody (1795). After him are Helen Walton (1919), James Buchanan Duke (1856), Milton S. Hershey (1857), Herman Cain (1945), Guy Kawasaki (1954), and Mary Barra (1961).