INVENTOR

Jimmy Wales

1966 - Today

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Jimmy Donal Wales (born August 7, 1966), also known as Jimbo Wales, is an American Internet entrepreneur, webmaster, and former financial trader. He is a co-founder of the non-profit free encyclopedia, Wikipedia, and the for-profit wiki hosting service Fandom (formerly Wikia). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jimmy Wales has received more than 9,412,354 page views. His biography is available in 177 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 166 in 2019). Jimmy Wales is the 43rd most popular inventor (up from 64th in 2019), the 394th most popular biography from United States (up from 638th in 2019) and the 10th most popular American Inventor.

Jimmy Wales is most famous for being the founder of Wikipedia.

Memorability Metrics

  • 9.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 72.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 177

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 7.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Jimmy Wales ranks 43 out of 426. Before him are László Bíró, Richard Trevithick, Adolphe Sax, Frank Whittle, John Logie Baird, and Ruth Handler. After him are Konrad Zuse, Wilhelm Maybach, John Herschel, Hans Lippershey, Willis Carrier, and Herman Hollerith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1966, Jimmy Wales ranks 3. Before him are Adam Sandler, and Mike Tyson. After him are Romário, Sophie Marceau, George Weah, Salma Hayek, Roman Abramovich, Hristo Stoichkov, Grigori Perelman, Helena Bonham Carter, and Eric Cantona.

Others Born in 1966

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jimmy Wales ranks 394 out of 20,380. Before him are Edward Drinker Cope (1840), Sylvia Plath (1932), Kurt Cobain (1967), Brian De Palma (1940), Anthony Kiedis (1962), and Martin Sheen (1940). After him are Ben Roy Mottelson (1926), Joseph Henry (1797), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1947), Barbara McClintock (1902), Dean Martin (1917), and Michelle Pfeiffer (1958).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Jimmy Wales ranks 10. Before him are Samuel Colt (1814), Steve Wozniak (1950), Eli Whitney (1765), George Westinghouse (1846), Robert Fulton (1765), and Ruth Handler (1916). After him are Willis Carrier (1876), Herman Hollerith (1860), William G. Morgan (1870), Douglas Engelbart (1925), Charles Goodyear (1800), and Isaac Singer (1811).

American born Inventors

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