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Louis B. Mayer

1884 - 1957

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Louis Burt Mayer (; born Lazar Meir; July 12, 1884 – October 29, 1957) was a Canadian-American film producer and co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios (MGM) in 1924. Under Mayer's management, MGM became the film industry's most prestigious movie studio, accumulating the largest concentration of leading writers, directors, and stars in Hollywood. Mayer was born in the Russian Empire and grew up poor in Saint John, New Brunswick. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis B. Mayer has received more than 2,577,302 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Louis B. Mayer is the 14th most popular producer (down from 11th in 2019), the 195th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 163rd in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Producer.

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  • 2.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.07

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PRODUCERS

Among producers, Louis B. Mayer ranks 14 out of 140. Before him are Phil Spector, Simon Cowell, David O. Selznick, Aaron Spelling, Toshio Suzuki, and Gene Roddenberry. After him are Irving Thalberg, Joel Silver, Branko Lustig, Albert R. Broccoli, William Fox, and Claude Berri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Louis B. Mayer ranks 49. Before him are Zinaida Serebriakova, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Maria Spiridonova, Empress Teimei, Hugo Schmeisser, and Princess Helen of Serbia. After him are Béla Balázs, Halide Edib Adıvar, Johan Laidoner, Gustave Garrigou, Robert J. Flaherty, and Clark L. Hull. Among people deceased in 1957, Louis B. Mayer ranks 61. Before him are Rudolf Diels, Max Amann, Giovanni Battista Caproni, Eugène Schueller, Qi Baishi, and Édouard Herriot. After him are Rezső Kasztner, Arnold van Gennep, Theodor Körner, Pedro Infante, Shoghi Effendi, and Tomitaro Makino.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Louis B. Mayer ranks 195 out of 1,365. Before him are Georgy Pyatakov (1890), Batbayan (700), Ivan Chernyakhovsky (1906), Mstislav II of Kiev (1200), Meir Dagan (1945), and Israel Gelfand (1913). After him are Georgy Dobrovolsky (1928), Wojciech Kilar (1932), Yaropolk II of Kiev (1082), Paul Muni (1895), Mykola Lysenko (1842), and Kirill Moskalenko (1902).

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Among PRODUCERS In Ukraine

Among producers born in Ukraine, Louis B. Mayer ranks 1. After him are Sam Zimbalist (1905), and Elena Andreicheva (2000).

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