1795 - 1873
Johns Hopkins (May 19, 1795 – December 24, 1873) was an American entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist of 19th-century Baltimore, Maryland. His bequests founded numerous institutions bearing his name, most notably Johns Hopkins Hospital, and Johns Hopkins University (including its academic divisions such as Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies). A biography entitled Johns Hopkins: A Silhouette written by his cousin, Helen Hopkins Thom, was published in 1929 by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johns Hopkins has received more than 1,022,934 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Johns Hopkins is the 50th most popular businessperson (up from 147th in 2019), the 530th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,828th in 2019) and the 18th most popular American Businessperson.
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Among businesspeople, Johns Hopkins ranks 50 out of 604. Before him are Robert Kiyosaki, Henri Nestlé, Sergei Diaghilev, Mohamed Al-Fayed, Thomas Cook, and Otto Frank. After him are Madam C. J. Walker, Aga Khan IV, Joan Gamper, J. Bruce Ismay, Calouste Gulbenkian, and Robert McNamara.
1947 - Present
HPI: 74.97
Rank: 44
1814 - 1890
HPI: 74.81
Rank: 45
1872 - 1929
HPI: 74.81
Rank: 46
1929 - Present
HPI: 74.79
Rank: 47
1808 - 1892
HPI: 74.54
Rank: 48
1889 - 1980
HPI: 74.32
Rank: 49
1795 - 1873
HPI: 74.25
Rank: 50
1867 - 1919
HPI: 74.22
Rank: 51
1936 - Present
HPI: 74.15
Rank: 52
1877 - 1930
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 53
1862 - 1937
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 54
1869 - 1955
HPI: 73.41
Rank: 55
1916 - 2009
HPI: 73.37
Rank: 56
Among people born in 1795, Johns Hopkins ranks 7. Before him are James K. Polk, Frederick William IV of Prussia, John Keats, Leopold von Ranke, Anna Pavlovna of Russia, and Thomas Carlyle. After him are Antonio José de Sucre, Ernst Heinrich Weber, Pavel Jozef Šafárik, Gabriel Lamé, Alexander Griboyedov, and Dred Scott. Among people deceased in 1873, Johns Hopkins ranks 5. Before him are Napoleon III, John Stuart Mill, David Livingstone, and Justus von Liebig. After him are Alessandro Manzoni, Caroline Augusta of Bavaria, John of Saxony, Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria, Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Alexandru Ioan Cuza, and Fyodor Tyutchev.
1795 - 1849
HPI: 86.14
Rank: 1
1795 - 1861
HPI: 78.57
Rank: 2
1795 - 1821
HPI: 77.77
Rank: 3
1795 - 1886
HPI: 77.18
Rank: 4
1795 - 1865
HPI: 75.03
Rank: 5
1795 - 1881
HPI: 74.41
Rank: 6
1795 - 1873
HPI: 74.25
Rank: 7
1795 - 1830
HPI: 71.59
Rank: 8
1795 - 1878
HPI: 71.46
Rank: 9
1795 - 1861
HPI: 71.29
Rank: 10
1795 - 1870
HPI: 70.84
Rank: 11
1795 - 1829
HPI: 70.82
Rank: 12
1795 - 1858
HPI: 70.79
Rank: 13
1808 - 1873
HPI: 86.45
Rank: 1
1806 - 1873
HPI: 83.59
Rank: 2
1813 - 1873
HPI: 81.25
Rank: 3
1803 - 1873
HPI: 77.91
Rank: 4
1795 - 1873
HPI: 74.25
Rank: 5
1785 - 1873
HPI: 73.28
Rank: 6
1792 - 1873
HPI: 73.13
Rank: 7
1801 - 1873
HPI: 72.08
Rank: 8
1801 - 1873
HPI: 71.91
Rank: 9
1805 - 1873
HPI: 71.91
Rank: 10
1820 - 1873
HPI: 71.65
Rank: 11
1803 - 1873
HPI: 70.65
Rank: 12
Among people born in United States, Johns Hopkins ranks 530 out of 15,968. Before him are Richard Widmark (1914), Michael Porter (1947), Howard Hawks (1896), Tyrone Power (1914), Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811), and Farrah Fawcett (1947). After him are Nancy Pelosi (1940), Billie Holiday (1915), Madam C. J. Walker (1867), Harper Lee (1926), Dwayne Johnson (1972), and Stephen Hillenburg (1961).
1914 - 2008
HPI: 74.35
Rank: 524
1947 - Present
HPI: 74.33
Rank: 525
1896 - 1977
HPI: 74.29
Rank: 526
1914 - 1958
HPI: 74.26
Rank: 527
1811 - 1896
HPI: 74.26
Rank: 528
1947 - 2009
HPI: 74.26
Rank: 529
1795 - 1873
HPI: 74.25
Rank: 530
1940 - Present
HPI: 74.24
Rank: 531
1915 - 1959
HPI: 74.23
Rank: 532
1867 - 1919
HPI: 74.22
Rank: 533
1926 - 2016
HPI: 74.22
Rank: 534
1972 - Present
HPI: 74.22
Rank: 535
1961 - 2018
HPI: 74.20
Rank: 536
Among businesspeople born in United States, Johns Hopkins ranks 18. Before him are J. Paul Getty (1892), P. T. Barnum (1810), Steve Ballmer (1956), Robert Kardashian (1944), Jeff Bezos (1964), and Robert Kiyosaki (1947). After him are Madam C. J. Walker (1867), Robert McNamara (1916), Paul Allen (1953), Margaret Hamilton (1936), Fred Trump (1905), and Estée Lauder (1906).
1892 - 1976
HPI: 76.15
Rank: 12
1810 - 1891
HPI: 75.87
Rank: 13
1956 - Present
HPI: 75.59
Rank: 14
1944 - 2003
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 15
1964 - Present
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 16
1947 - Present
HPI: 74.97
Rank: 17
1795 - 1873
HPI: 74.25
Rank: 18
1867 - 1919
HPI: 74.22
Rank: 19
1916 - 2009
HPI: 73.37
Rank: 20
1953 - 2018
HPI: 73.32
Rank: 21
1936 - Present
HPI: 72.99
Rank: 22
1905 - 1999
HPI: 72.88
Rank: 23
1906 - 2004
HPI: 72.72
Rank: 24