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John Houlding

1833 - 1902

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John Houlding (c. August 1833 – 17 March 1902) was an English businessman and local politician, most notable for being, the founder of Liverpool Football Club and later Lord Mayor of Liverpool. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Houlding has received more than 306,903 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). John Houlding is the 489th most popular businessperson (down from 424th in 2019), the 3,394th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,113th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular British Businessperson.

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  • 310k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.40

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, John Houlding ranks 489 out of 847. Before him are Neil Aspinall, Ana Botín, Andrew Planche, Alexey Miller, Piero Dusio, and Helen Walton. After him are Dmitry Rybolovlev, Mansour Ojjeh, William Henry Conley, Earl Tupper, Suleyman Kerimov, and Samuel Cunard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1833, John Houlding ranks 65. Before him are Hortense Schneider, Géza Fejérváry, Robert G. Ingersoll, Artur Hazelius, Baron Karl von Hasenauer, and Cándido Bareiro. After him are Frederick Guthrie, Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla, Salvador Jovellanos, Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley, John Anderson, and Constantine V of Constantinople. Among people deceased in 1902, John Houlding ranks 66. Before him are John Wesley Powell, Salomon Jadassohn, Princess Marie of Nassau, Dmitry Sipyagin, Gleb Uspensky, and Clémence Royer. After him are Hamoud bin Mohammed of Zanzibar, Princess Bathildis of Anhalt-Dessau, Richard Leach Maddox, Johannes Wislicenus, Emil Holub, and Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Houlding ranks 3,394 out of 8,785. Before him are Ian Abercrombie (1934), Alison Moyet (1961), George Abecassis (1913), Joseph Noel Paton (1821), John Mawe (1764), and Peter Grant (1935). After him are Clint Mansell (1963), Agnes Arber (1879), Frederick Catherwood (1799), Janet Baker (1933), Roy Ward Baker (1916), and Carlo Acutis (1991).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United Kingdom

Among businesspeople born in United Kingdom, John Houlding ranks 32. Before him are Jim Marshall (1923), Jim Ratcliffe (1952), Angus Ogilvy (1928), Fred Karno (1866), Neil Aspinall (1941), and Andrew Planche (1727). After him are John Henry Davies (1864), Ian Livingstone (1949), Christopher O'Neill (1974), Isabella Beeton (1836), William McGregor (1846), and David Richards (1952).

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