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John D. Rockefeller III

1906 - 1978

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John Davison Rockefeller III (March 21, 1906 – July 10, 1978) was an American philanthropist. Rockefeller was the eldest son and second child of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller as well as a grandson of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John D. Rockefeller III has received more than 1,501,211 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. John D. Rockefeller III is the 361st most popular businessperson (down from 355th in 2019), the 4,163rd most popular biography from United States (up from 4,391st in 2019) and the 109th most popular American Businessperson.

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  • 52.15

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, John D. Rockefeller III ranks 361 out of 847. Before him are Oleg Deripaska, Siegfried Bing, Uğur Şahin, Allen Klein, Karl Wittgenstein, and Emil Rathenau. After him are Maxwell Perkins, Nino Cerruti, Thomas Blake Glover, Gustav Wiederkehr, Mikhail Fridman, and Satya Nadella.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, John D. Rockefeller III ranks 185. Before him are Nils Axelsson, Jerzy Giedroyc, Jan Werich, R. K. Narayan, Agniya Barto, and Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov. After him are Friz Freleng, Alex Thépot, Igor Moiseyev, Paolo Pedretti, S. D. Burman, and Princess Vera Constantinovna of Russia. Among people deceased in 1978, John D. Rockefeller III ranks 117. Before him are Zivia Lubetkin, Raymond Braine, Nancy Spungen, Federico Chávez, Harold Abrahams, and José Gonzalvo. After him are Rubén Morán, Nicolau dos Reis Lobato, Josef Frings, Roy Harrod, Rudolf Svensson, and Juan Evaristo.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John D. Rockefeller III ranks 4,163 out of 20,380. Before him are Eddie Bracken (1915), Albert George Wilson (1918), Jane Toppan (1854), Lawrence Kasdan (1949), Willa Cather (1873), and Charles Francis Hall (1821). After him are Horace Greeley (1811), John Lloyd Stephens (1805), Ansel Adams (1902), Belle Starr (1848), Wallace Stevens (1879), and James Karen (1923).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, John D. Rockefeller III ranks 109. Before him are Timothy Dexter (1747), Chris Gardner (1954), Arthur D. Levinson (1950), Arnold Rothstein (1882), Charles Geschke (1939), and Allen Klein (1931). After him are Maxwell Perkins (1884), Tommy Mottola (1949), Ray Dalio (1949), Cyrus West Field (1819), Franklin Clarence Mars (1883), and Andrew Tate (1986).

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