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Kenneth Lay

1942 - 2006

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Kenneth Lee Lay (April 15, 1942 – July 5, 2006) was an American businessman who was the founder, chief executive officer and chairman of Enron. He was heavily involved in Enron's accounting scandal that unraveled in 2001 into the largest bankruptcy ever to that date. Lay was indicted by a grand jury and was found guilty of 10 counts of securities fraud at trial. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kenneth Lay has received more than 2,818,626 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Kenneth Lay is the 52nd most popular mafioso (down from 41st in 2019), the 6,859th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,637th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular American Mafioso.

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  • 3.44

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Among MAFIOSOS

Among mafiosos, Kenneth Lay ranks 52 out of 52Before him are Teresa Claramunt Creus, Jonathan Pollard, Salomon Morel, Vincent Gigante, Belle Starr, and Tony Accardo. After him are Sergei Magnitsky, Rakhat Aliyev, Assata Shakur, Abu Qatada, Anna Sorokin, and Salah Abdeslam.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Kenneth Lay ranks 454Before him are Anita Roddick, Wayne Newton, Gideon Toury, Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, Quentin Bryce, and Mamoni Raisom Goswami. After him are Mimis Domazos, Bob Einstein, Susan Anspach, Valdis Birkavs, Johnny Rivers, and Michael Ogio. Among people deceased in 2006, Kenneth Lay ranks 238Before him are Oskar Pastior, Ruth Brown, Darry Cowl, György Faludy, Ole Madsen, and Gordon Parks. After him are Duygu Asena, Viktor Pavlov, Mirko Marjanović, Karl Hugo Strunz, Ondina Valla, and Alan Shugart.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Kenneth Lay ranks 6,859 out of 18,182Before him are Norman Joseph Woodland (1921), Mildred Gillars (1900), Theodore Freeman (1930), Charles R. Knight (1874), Gil Birmingham (1953), and Mildred Davis (1901). After him are Bob Kiesel (1911), Ashley Benson (1989), George Floyd (1973), Mark Frost (1953), Donald Wills Douglas Sr. (1892), and Arthur Barnard (1929).

Among MAFIOSOS In United States

Among mafiosos born in United States, Kenneth Lay ranks 23Before him are Lepke Buchalter (1897), Dutch Schultz (1902), Jonathan Pollard (1954), Vincent Gigante (1928), Belle Starr (1848), and Tony Accardo (1906). After him are Assata Shakur (1947), Troy Davis (1968), and Amanda Knox (1987).