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Leonardo Del Vecchio

1935 - 2022

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Leonardo Del Vecchio (22 May 1935 – 27 June 2022) was an Italian billionaire businessman, the founder and chairman of Luxottica, the world's largest producer and retailer of glasses and frames, with 77,734 employees and over 8,000 stores. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leonardo Del Vecchio has received more than 1,039,254 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Leonardo Del Vecchio is the 280th most popular businessperson, the 2,375th most popular biography from Italy and the 18th most popular Italian Businessperson.

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  • 54.63

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Leonardo Del Vecchio ranks 280 out of 847. Before him are Friedrich Bayer, Madame Clicquot Ponsardin, Herbert Hainer, Melinda Gates, Hetty Green, and Arkady Rotenberg. After him are Mino Raiola, Alfred P. Sloan, Erin Brockovich, Joseph Oller, Beate Uhse-Rotermund, and Aurelio Peccei.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Leonardo Del Vecchio ranks 152. Before him are Ludmila Belousova, Jack Welch, Robert Conrad, Vasily Livanov, Pierre Kartner, and Annie Proulx. After him are Armando Manzanero, Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, Diane Ladd, Donald Arnold, Sergio Rossi, and M. Emmet Walsh. Among people deceased in 2022, Leonardo Del Vecchio ranks 154. Before him are Ronnie Hellström, Dominique Lapierre, Pierre Kartner, Mwai Kibaki, Bujar Nishani, and Richard Leakey. After him are Tekla Juniewicz, Mino Raiola, Philip Baker Hall, Elza Soares, Bernd Bransch, and Ivanka Khristova.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Leonardo Del Vecchio ranks 2,375 out of 5,161. Before him are Mondino de Luzzi (1275), Vigilius of Trent (355), Nino Ferrer (1934), Tommaso da Modena (1326), Beatrice d'Este, Queen of Hungary (1215), and Nicola Di Bari (1940). After him are Antonio Bazzini (1818), Aulus Caecina Alienus (50), Oliviero Toscani (1942), Marco Barbarigo (1413), Dagobert of Pisa (1100), and Archduke Ferdinand Karl Viktor of Austria-Este (1821).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Italy

Among businesspeople born in Italy, Leonardo Del Vecchio ranks 18. Before him are Luca Cordero di Montezemolo (1947), Adriano Galliani (1944), Edoardo Agnelli (1892), Marcel Bich (1914), Giulia Tofana (1581), and Francesco Baracca (1888). After him are Mino Raiola (1967), Aurelio Peccei (1908), Sergio Marchionne (1952), Stefano Casiraghi (1960), Lazare Ponticelli (1897), and Giangiacomo Feltrinelli (1926).

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