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Levi Strauss

1829 - 1902

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Levi Strauss ( LEE-vy STROWSS; born Löb Strauß, German: [løːp ˈʃtʁaʊs]; February 26, 1829 – September 26, 1902) was a German-born American businessman who founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans. His firm of Levi Strauss & Co. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Levi Strauss has received more than 2,640,983 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Levi Strauss is the 17th most popular businessperson (up from 19th in 2019), the 150th most popular biography from Germany (up from 216th in 2019) and the most popular German Businessperson.

Levi Strauss is most famous for inventing the blue jeans.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 72.93

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 49

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Levi Strauss ranks 17 out of 847. Before him are Vince McMahon, Warren Buffett, Ingvar Kamprad, George Soros, Aristotle Onassis, and Bernard Arnault. After him are Florentino Pérez, Tim Cook, Jeffrey Epstein, Cosimo de' Medici, Ludwig Erhard, and David Rockefeller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1829, Levi Strauss ranks 1. After him are Oscar II of Sweden, Geronimo, August Kekulé, Chester A. Arthur, Anton Rubinstein, John Everett Millais, Auguste Beernaert, Philip Sclater, Asaph Hall, Theodor Billroth, and Alfred Brehm. Among people deceased in 1902, Levi Strauss ranks 3. Before him are Émile Zola, and Cecil Rhodes. After him are Swami Vivekananda, Rudolf Virchow, Samuel Butler, Maria Goretti, Marie Henriette of Austria, Francis, Duke of Cádiz, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Ion Ivanovici, and Albert of Saxony.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Levi Strauss ranks 150 out of 7,253. Before him are Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767), Rudolf Christoph Eucken (1846), Ernst Röhm (1887), Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor (973), Frederick William I of Prussia (1688), and Friedrich Ebert (1871). After him are Pope Joan (null), Eckhart Tolle (1948), Agrippina the Younger (15), Franz von Papen (1879), Friedrich Hölderlin (1770), and Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Germany

Among businesspeople born in Germany, Levi Strauss ranks 1. After him are Ludwig Erhard (1897), Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838), Adolf Dassler (1900), Otto Frank (1889), Rudolf Dassler (1898), Jakob Fugger (1459), Henri Nestlé (1814), Robert Bosch (1861), Paul Reuter (1816), Bertha Benz (1849), and Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777).

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