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John Templeton

1912 - 2008

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Sir John Marks Templeton (29 November 1912 – 8 July 2008) was an American-born British investor, banker, fund manager, and philanthropist. In 1954, he entered the mutual fund market and created the Templeton Growth Fund, which averaged growth over 15% per year for 38 years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Templeton has received more than 665,853 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). John Templeton is the 381st most popular businessperson (up from 390th in 2019), the 4,867th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,041st in 2019) and the 119th most popular American Businessperson.

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  • 20

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  • 3.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, John Templeton ranks 381 out of 601Before him are Dieter Zetsche, Henry Luce, John Elkann, Tatsumi Kimishima, Akio Toyoda, and Sylvia Beach. After him are Charles Yerkes, Salt Bae, Li Ning, Chris Hughes, Jamie Hyneman, and Brendan Eich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, John Templeton ranks 190Before him are Juan Carlos Aramburu, Niyazi, Carvalho Leite, Robert Jacobsen, Boun Oum, and Carlos Guastavino. After him are Mwambutsa IV of Burundi, Campanal I, Kulyash Baiseitova, Connie Sawyer, Ernst Lehner, and Romain Maes. Among people deceased in 2008, John Templeton ranks 171Before him are Yuri Rytkheu, Barry Morse, León Febres Cordero, Prince Ludwig of Bavaria, Robert Jonquet, and Simon Hantaï. After him are Antonio Innocenti, Raúl Reyes, Ken Naganuma, Vija Artmane, Ken Ogata, and Evelyn Keyes.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Templeton ranks 4,867 out of 18,182Before him are Katherine Anne Porter (1890), LL Cool J (1968), Donald Keene (1922), Paul Sweezy (1910), Linda Thompson (1950), and Lesley Ann Warren (1946). After him are Henry Darrow (1933), Andrew Davis (1946), Steven Williams (1949), L. L. Langstroth (1810), Robert Webber (1924), and Asia Carrera (1973).

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, John Templeton ranks 119Before him are Linda McMahon (1948), Howard Schultz (1953), Laurene Powell Jobs (1963), Roy Raymond (1947), John Elkann (1976), and Sylvia Beach (1887). After him are Charles Yerkes (1837), Chris Hughes (1983), Jamie Hyneman (1956), Brendan Eich (1961), Gene Haas (1952), and Jim Walton (1948).