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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 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). John Templeton is the 418th most popular businessperson (down from 381st in 2019), the 5,018th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,855th in 2019) and the 127th most popular American Businessperson.

Memorability Metrics

  • 670k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.58

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of John Templetons by language

Over the past year John Templeton has had the most page views in the with 75,453 views, followed by Spanish (5,432), and German (5,261). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Tajik (97.35%), Egyptian Arabic (33.79%), and Armenian (26.37%)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, John Templeton ranks 418 out of 847Before him are Steve Chen, Charles Yerkes, Stephen A. Schwarzman, Victor Pinchuk, Andrea Agnelli, and Sylvia Beach. After him are John Elkann, Jim Walton, Jim Marshall, Maurice Farman, Vincent J. McMahon, and Jim Ratcliffe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, John Templeton ranks 210Before him are Kulyash Baiseitova, Vlastimil Kopecký, Carvalho Leite, Akram al-Hawrani, Herluf Bidstrup, and Walter Sisulu. After him are Gholam Reza Azhari, Alfred Deller, Sabiha Kasimati, Carlos Guastavino, George Devol, and Agnes Martin. Among people deceased in 2008, John Templeton ranks 184Before him are Lennart Bergelin, Võ Văn Kiệt, Marlyn Meltzer, Ken Ogata, Ronnie Drew, and Antonio Innocenti. After him are Ferenc Fejtő, Fujio Akatsuka, Ahmed al-Mirghani, Yuri Rytkheu, Aleksandr Abdulov, and Anita Page.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Templeton ranks 5,018 out of 20,380Before him are William Smith (1933), Lenny Wilkens (1937), Bradley Whitford (1959), Frank J. Tipler (1947), Boz Scaggs (1944), and Yvette Mimieux (1942). After him are James Coco (1930), Daniel Baldwin (1960), Haskell Curry (1900), Francis Davis Millet (1848), Adlai Stevenson II (1900), and Myrtle Bachelder (1908).

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, John Templeton ranks 127Before him are Robert Monroe (1915), Roy Raymond (1947), Ron Woodroof (1950), Charles Yerkes (1837), Stephen A. Schwarzman (1947), and Sylvia Beach (1887). After him are John Elkann (1976), Jim Walton (1948), Vincent J. McMahon (1914), Eli Lilly (1838), Suge Knight (1965), and Peter Lynch (1944).