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Leonard Chess

1917 - 1969

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Leonard Samuel Chess (born Lejzor Szmuel Czyż; March 12, 1917 – October 16, 1969), best known simply as Leonard Chess, was a Polish-American record company executive and the co-founder of Chess Records. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leonard Chess has received more than 1,416,668 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Leonard Chess is the 575th most popular businessperson (down from 488th in 2019), the 173rd most popular biography from Belarus (down from 138th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Belarusian Businessperson.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.62

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Leonard Chess ranks 575 out of 601Before her are Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, Ton Roosendaal, Henry Tate, Kai-Fu Lee, Oleg Tinkov, and Yelena Baturina. After her are Anil Ambani, Tim Sweeney, Marissa Mayer, Athina Onassis, Andy Jassy, and Bernard Knubel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Leonard Chess ranks 286Before her are David Hampshire, Merle Travis, Mikhail Anikushin, Ottorino Volonterio, Lou Harrison, and Oswald Karch. After her are Walter Munk, Arthur Laurents, Margo, Kamal Ranadive, Robert La Caze, and Marcel Hansenne. Among people deceased in 1969, Leonard Chess ranks 205Before her are Commodore Cochran, Petras Klimas, Natalie Talmadge, Bess Meredyth, Zheng Junli, and Pauline Bush. After her are Cyril Slater, Paul Hawkins, Barbara Bates, Josh White, Márton Homonnai, and Katsutoshi Naito.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Leonard Chess ranks 173 out of 330Before her are Nikolai Gorbachev (1948), Syarhey Rumas (1969), Darya Domracheva (1986), Ivan Edeshko (1945), Maja Berezowska (1893), and Svetlana Boginskaya (1973). After her are Max Mirnyi (1977), Gary Vaynerchuk (1975), Aleksandr Kurlovich (1961), Viktor Kupreichik (1949), Oleg Novitsky (1971), and Krystsina Tsimanouskaya (1996).

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Belarus

Among businesspeople born in Belarus, Leonard Chess ranks 3Before her are David Sarnoff (1891) and Andrey Melnichenko (1972). After her are Gary Vaynerchuk (1975).