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Kim Dotcom

1974 - Today

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Kim Dotcom (né Schmitz; born 21 January 1974), also known as Kimble and Kim Tim Jim Vestor, is a German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur and political activist who lives in Glenorchy, New Zealand.He rose to fame in Germany in the 1990s as a hacker and an Internet entrepreneur. He was arrested in 1994 for trafficking in stolen phone calling card numbers. He was convicted on eleven charges of computer fraud, ten charges of data espionage and various other charges in 1998 that he served a two-year suspended sentence for. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kim Dotcom has received more than 4,112,846 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia. Kim Dotcom is the 463rd most popular businessperson (down from 395th in 2019), the 4,252nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,658th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular German Businessperson.

Memorability Metrics

  • 4.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.36

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Kim Dotcoms by language

Over the past year Kim Dotcom has had the most page views in the with 304,373 views, followed by German (124,706), and Spanish (40,931). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Asturian (98.80%), Simple English (97.38%), and Slovak (56.84%)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Kim Dotcom ranks 463 out of 847. Before him are Savva Mamontov, Jean-Michel Aulas, Reinhard Mohn, Brendan Eich, Lila Tretikov, and Eugène Lanti. After him are Carl Icahn, Lawrence Roberts, Pierre Omidyar, Gigi Becali, Mark Cuban, and Anders Frisk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1974, Kim Dotcom ranks 88. Before him are Magnus Manske, Natasha Henstridge, Rey Mysterio, Thure Lindhardt, Yevgeny Kafelnikov, and Sávio. After him are Angela Gossow, Benoît Magimel, Ed Helms, Chloë Sevigny, Parov Stelar, and Joe Abercrombie.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Kim Dotcom ranks 4,252 out of 7,253. Before him are Gisela Arendt (1918), Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient (1804), Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster (1869), Wolfgang Staudte (1906), Ernst, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen (1859), and Rudi Fischer (1912). After him are Princess Marie Alexandrine of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1849), Angela Gossow (1974), Vadim Glowna (1941), Wolfgang Flür (1947), Michael Zorc (1962), and Manfred Burgsmüller (1949).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Germany

Among businesspeople born in Germany, Kim Dotcom ranks 52. Before him are Elizabeth Christ Trump (1880), Adolf Merckle (1934), Peter Thiel (1967), Ernest Oppenheimer (1880), Jawed Karim (1979), and Reinhard Mohn (1921). After him are Marcus Goldman (1821), Hermann Josef Abs (1901), Steve Shirley (1933), Josef Neckermann (1912), Bernard Knubel (1872), and Katerina Tikhonova (1986).

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