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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 2,423,627 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Louis B. Mayer is the 11th most popular producer (up from 13th in 2019), the 164th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 168th in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Producer.

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  • 38

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PRODUCERS

Among producers, Louis B. Mayer ranks 11 out of 89. Before him are Phil Spector, René Angélil, Rick Rubin, Jerry Bruckheimer, David O. Selznick, and Simon Cowell. After him are Albert R. Broccoli, Joel Silver, Gene Roddenberry, Aaron Spelling, William Fox, and Samuel Goldwyn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Louis B. Mayer ranks 43. Before him are Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Étienne Gilson, Petru Groza, Robert J. Flaherty, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, and Empress Teimei. After him are Hugo Gernsback, Antonín Zápotocký, Zinaida Serebriakova, Prince Adalbert of Prussia, Hugo Schmeisser, and Maria Spiridonova. Among people deceased in 1957, Louis B. Mayer ranks 51. Before him are Max Ophüls, Rudolf Diels, Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia, Max Amann, Carl Clauberg, and Édouard Herriot. After him are Mamoru Shigemitsu, Antonín Zápotocký, Giovanni Battista Caproni, Qi Baishi, Moša Pijade, and Sacha Guitry.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Louis B. Mayer ranks 164 out of 1,083. Before him are Georgy Pyatakov (1890), Shvarn (1230), Grigory Kulik (1890), Jan Łukasiewicz (1878), Richard von Mises (1883), and Semion Mogilevich (1946). After him are Leonid Kogan (1924), Pavel Batitsky (1910), Valentina Matviyenko (1949), Sergey Gorshkov (1910), Ivan Chernyakhovsky (1906), and Marina Mniszech (1588).

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Among PRODUCERS In Ukraine

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

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