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Liliane Bettencourt

1922 - 2017

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Liliane Henriette Charlotte Bettencourt (French pronunciation: [liljan ɑ̃ʁjɛt ʃaʁlɔt bɛtɑ̃kuʁ]; née Schueller; 21 October 1922 – 21 September 2017) was a French heiress, socialite and businesswoman. She was a board member and one of the principal shareholders of L'Oréal. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Liliane Bettencourt has received more than 3,055,389 page views. Her biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 39 in 2019). Liliane Bettencourt is the 33rd most popular businessperson (up from 78th in 2019), the 398th most popular biography from France (up from 872nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular French Businessperson.

Liliane Bettencourt is most famous for being the richest woman in the world. She inherited her fortune from her father, who created L'Oreal.

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  • 3.1M

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  • 73.89

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.05

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Liliane Bettencourt ranks 33 out of 847. Before her are Colonel Sanders, Muhammad Yunus, Adolf Dassler, Carlos Slim, P. T. Barnum, and Jules Rimet. After her are J. P. Morgan, Philip Kotler, João Havelange, Guccio Gucci, Mohamed Al-Fayed, and Andrew Carnegie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Liliane Bettencourt ranks 17. Before her are Thomas Kuhn, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Erich Hartmann, Gérard Philipe, Ava Gardner, and Erving Goffman. After her are Emil Zátopek, Hiroo Onoda, Aage Bohr, Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Kerouac, and Imre Lakatos. Among people deceased in 2017, Liliane Bettencourt ranks 15. Before her are Ali Abdullah Saleh, David Rockefeller, Jalal Talabani, Raymond Kopa, Chuck Berry, and Zbigniew Brzezinski. After her are Jerry Lewis, Jeanne Moreau, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Mireille Darc, John Hurt, and Hugh Hefner.

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In France

Among people born in France, Liliane Bettencourt ranks 398 out of 6,770. Before her are Ernest Renan (1823), Paul Éluard (1895), James I of Aragon (1208), Gustave Moreau (1826), Dagobert I (611), and Pierre Laval (1883). After her are Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805), Camille Desmoulins (1760), Gaspard Monge (1746), Robert I of France (860), Pierre Bayle (1647), and Patrice de MacMahon (1808).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In France

Among businesspeople born in France, Liliane Bettencourt ranks 4. Before her are Pierre de Coubertin (1863), Bernard Arnault (1949), and Jules Rimet (1873). After her are Louis Vuitton (1821), Christophe Plantin (1520), François Pinault (1936), Armand Peugeot (1849), Eugène Schueller (1881), Françoise Bettencourt Meyers (1953), Pierre Bergé (1930), and Louis Réard (1897).

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