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John Munro Longyear

1850 - 1922

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John Munro Longyear, Sr. (April 15, 1850 – May 28, 1922) was an American businessman and noted developer of timber and mineral lands in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and Minnesota who became the central figure behind the Arctic Coal Company, which surveyed and mined coalfields on Spitsbergen, from 1905 to 1916. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Munro Longyear has received more than 67,228 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. John Munro Longyear is the 546th most popular businessperson (down from 387th in 2019), the 8,677th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,024th in 2019) and the 202nd most popular American Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, John Munro Longyear ranks 546 out of 601Before him are Jamie Dimon, Shahid Khan, Güler Sabancı, Alan Eustace, Andrey Melnichenko, and Christy Walton. After him are Christian von Koenigsegg, Isabel dos Santos, Avram Glazer, Leo Burnett, Michael Milken, and Abigail Johnson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, John Munro Longyear ranks 96Before him are Federico Errázuriz Echaurren, Franziskus von Bettinger, Zdenko Hans Skraup, Guerra Junqueiro, Franciszek Rychnowski, and Emma Abbott. After him are Daniel Chester French, Robert Ridgway, Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, Henry Cabot Lodge, Constantin Henriquez, and Samuel Gompers. Among people deceased in 1922, John Munro Longyear ranks 112Before him are Anna Missuna, August Palm, William Desmond Taylor, Jørgen Løvland, A. V. Dicey, and Gösta Runö. After him are Cathal Brugha, Pál Simon, Lyman Abbott, Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, Liberato Marcial Rojas, and Henry Lawson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Munro Longyear ranks 8,677 out of 18,182Before him are Carl Yastrzemski (1939), Donald H. Peterson (1933), Cindy Williams (1947), Sam Jones (1924), The Game (1979), and James Foley (1973). After him are ZaSu Pitts (1894), Harvey Fletcher (1884), Brian Tyree Henry (1982), Rakim (1968), Larry Adler (1914), and Michelle Forbes (1965).

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, John Munro Longyear ranks 202Before him are Mark R. Hughes (1956), Meg Whitman (1956), Jimmy Iovine (1953), Jamie Dimon (1956), Alan Eustace (1957), and Christy Walton (1949). After him are Avram Glazer (1960), Leo Burnett (1891), Michael Milken (1946), Abigail Johnson (1961), Carly Fiorina (1954), and Billy Beane (1962).