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Lee Iacocca

1924 - 2019

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Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca ( EYE-ə-KOH-kə; October 15, 1924 – July 2, 2019) was an American automobile executive best known for the development of the Ford Mustang, Continental Mark III, and Ford Pinto cars while at the Ford Motor Company in the 1960s, and for reviving the Chrysler Corporation as its CEO during the 1980s. He was president of Chrysler from 1978 to 1991 and chairman and CEO from 1979 until his retirement at the end of 1992. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lee Iacocca has received more than 5,984,626 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Lee Iacocca is the 149th most popular businessperson (down from 104th in 2019), the 1,692nd most popular biography from United States (down from 1,168th in 2019) and the 48th most popular American Businessperson.

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  • 6.0M

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  • 59.21

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.96

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Lee Iacocca ranks 149 out of 847. Before him are Asa Griggs Candler, Giovanni Battista Caproni, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Joe Weider, Eugène Schueller, and Theodor de Bry. After him are Basil Zaharoff, Vincenzo Lancia, Ron Dennis, Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, Amschel Mayer Rothschild, and John Langenus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Lee Iacocca ranks 76. Before him are Rosamunde Pilcher, Eva Marie Saint, Eduardo Chillida, Moktar Ould Daddah, David Bronstein, and Kim Song-ae. After him are André Franquin, Paisios of Mount Athos, Milka Planinc, Haim Bar-Lev, Girma Wolde-Giorgis, and Sverre Fehn. Among people deceased in 2019, Lee Iacocca ranks 81. Before him are John Robert Schrieffer, Nikolai Kardashev, Luke Perry, Felice Gimondi, André Previn, and Antônio Wilson Vieira Honório. After him are Šaban Šaulić, Roger Etchegaray, Alan García, Johnny Kitagawa, Yukiya Amano, and Tomi Ungerer.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lee Iacocca ranks 1,692 out of 20,380. Before him are Ralph Bellamy (1904), Seymour Hersh (1937), Diane Lane (1965), Alan Kay (1940), Michael P. Anderson (1959), and Griffin Dunne (1955). After him are Rosanna Arquette (1959), Richard Fleischer (1916), Stevie Nicks (1948), Tanya Roberts (1955), Christine Baranski (1952), and Janet Jackson (1966).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Lee Iacocca ranks 48. Before him are Sam Walton (1918), Margaret Hamilton (1936), Larry Flynt (1942), Phil Knight (1938), Asa Griggs Candler (1851), and John D. Rockefeller Jr. (1874). After him are Henry Ford II (1917), Malcolm Glazer (1928), Johnny Kitagawa (1931), Jack Daniel (1850), Thomas J. Watson (1874), and Johns Hopkins (1795).

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