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King C. Gillette

1855 - 1932

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King Camp Gillette (January 5, 1855 – July 9, 1932) was an American businessman who invented a bestselling safety razor. Gillette's innovation was the thin, inexpensive, disposable blade of stamped steel. Gillette is often erroneously credited with inventing the so-called razor and blades business model in which razors are sold cheaply to increase the market for blades. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of King C. Gillette has received more than 759,697 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). King C. Gillette is the 265th most popular businessperson (down from 200th in 2019), the 2,913th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,187th in 2019) and the 83rd most popular American Businessperson.

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  • 61.25

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, King C. Gillette ranks 265 out of 847. Before him are Horacio Pagani, Charles Koch, Jack Tramiel, Jimmy Lai, Shibusawa Eiichi, and Yves Rocher. After him are Ivy Lee, Jorge Paulo Lemann, Hans Riegel, Bob Iger, Jack Welch, and Pavel Tretyakov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1855, King C. Gillette ranks 40. Before him are Edwin Hall, Alexandros Zaimis, Louis de Beaufront, Pavlos Kountouriotis, Joseph Hellmesberger Jr., and Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser. After him are Eugène Boch, Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha, Samad bey Mehmandarov, Giovanni Pascoli, Albert F. Mummery, and James S. Sherman. Among people deceased in 1932, King C. Gillette ranks 52. Before him are José Félix Uriburu, René-Louis Baire, Kenneth Grahame, Ignaz Seipel, Louis Anquetin, and Harriet Backer. After him are Patrick Geddes, Peg Entwistle, Nureddin Pasha, Farabundo Martí, Pēteris Stučka, and Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, King C. Gillette ranks 2,913 out of 20,380. Before him are Delbert Mann (1920), Woody Strode (1914), Milton L. Humason (1891), Mary Baker Eddy (1821), Carl Van Vechten (1880), and Ellen Church (1904). After him are Dean Norris (1963), Karen Black (1939), Terence McKenna (1946), William Levada (1936), Richard F. Gordon Jr. (1929), and Kathy Reichs (1948).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, King C. Gillette ranks 83. Before him are David Packard (1912), John Warnock (1940), Eric Schmidt (1955), Howard Schultz (1953), Rex Tillerson (1952), and Charles Koch (1935). After him are Ivy Lee (1877), Bob Iger (1951), Jack Welch (1935), Melinda Gates (1964), Hetty Green (1834), and Alfred P. Sloan (1875).

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