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Jimmy Wales

1966 - Today

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Jimmy Donal Wales (born August 7, 1966), also referred to as Jimbo Wales (as a user of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects), is a British-American Internet entrepreneur, webmaster, and former financial trader. He is a co-founder of 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 8,968,640 page views. His biography is available in 166 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 162 in 2019). Jimmy Wales is the 64th most popular inventor (down from 33rd in 2019), the 638th most popular biography from United States (down from 283rd in 2019) and the 16th most popular American Inventor.

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

Memorability Metrics

  • 9.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.94

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 166

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Jimmy Wales ranks 64 out of 354. Before him are Louis Blériot, Douglas Engelbart, Henry Fox Talbot, Louis Renault, John Browning, and Paul Gottlieb Nipkow. After him are Alberto Santos-Dumont, Josephine Cochrane, Étienne Lenoir, Les Paul, George Eastman, and Jacques de Vaucanson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1966, Jimmy Wales ranks 6. Before him are Mike Tyson, Sophie Marceau, Salma Hayek, Romário, and George Weah. After him are Roman Abramovich, Mikhail Mishustin, Vincent Cassel, Hristo Stoichkov, Helena Bonham Carter, and Adam Sandler.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jimmy Wales ranks 638 out of 18,182. Before him are Jimmy Hoffa (1913), John Browning (1855), Michael Crichton (1942), Martha Graham (1894), Ben Roy Mottelson (1926), and Edgar Cayce (1877). After him are Martin Lewis Perl (1927), Martin Cooper (1928), Hulk Hogan (1953), John Cazale (1935), Dennis Ritchie (1941), and Bill Cosby (1937).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Jimmy Wales ranks 16. Before him are William G. Morgan (1870), Willis Carrier (1876), Isaac Singer (1811), John Deere (1804), Douglas Engelbart (1925), and John Browning (1855). After him are Josephine Cochrane (1839), Les Paul (1915), George Eastman (1854), Ray Tomlinson (1941), Elisha Otis (1811), and Leo Fender (1909).

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