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Ludvig Nobel

1831 - 1888

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Ludvig Immanuel Nobel ( noh-BEL; Russian: Лю́двиг Эммануи́лович Нобе́ль, romanized: Ljúdvig Emmanuílovich Nobél'; Swedish: Ludvig Emmanuel Nobel [ˈlɵ̌dːvɪɡ nʊˈbɛlː]; 27 July 1831 – 12 April 1888) was a Swedish-Russian engineer, a noted businessman and a humanitarian. One of the most prominent members of the Nobel family, he was the son of Immanuel Nobel (also an engineering pioneer) and Andriette Nobel, and the older brother of Alfred Nobel (founder of the Nobel Prize). With his brother Robert, he operated Branobel, an oil company in Baku (now in Azerbaijan) which at one point produced 50% of the world's oil. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ludvig Nobel has received more than 218,204 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Ludvig Nobel is the 248th most popular businessperson (up from 255th in 2019), the 308th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 365th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Swedish Businessperson.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

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  • 4.81

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  • 2.39

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Ludvig Nobel ranks 248 out of 601Before him are David Packard, John C. Bogle, Kirk Kerkorian, Friedrich Bayer, John Jacob Astor, and Beate Uhse-Rotermund. After him are Marc Rich, Charles Pathé, Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, Ivy Lee, Hans Riegel, and Jorge Paulo Lemann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1831, Ludvig Nobel ranks 44Before him are David Edward Hughes, Siegfried Marcus, Philip Sheridan, Ankō Itosu, Princess Charlotte of Prussia, and George Pullman. After him are Prince August, Duke of Dalarna, Daniele Comboni, Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, Wilhelm Raabe, Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola, and Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein. Among people deceased in 1888, Ludvig Nobel ranks 36Before him are Charles Cros, Philip Sheridan, Dora d'Istria, Jean-Marie Guyau, Henri Herz, and Auguste Maquet. After him are Eugène Marin Labiche, Gustave Boulanger, Matthew Arnold, Vsevolod Garshin, Josif Pančić, and Princess Marie of Prussia.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Ludvig Nobel ranks 308 out of 1,612Before him are Anita Björk (1923), Christopher Polhem (1661), Lars Magnus Ericsson (1846), Anna of Sweden (1545), Svante Nilsson (1460), and Siw Malmkvist (1936). After him are Viveca Lindfors (1920), Nicodemus Tessin the Younger (1654), Rogvolod (901), Agne Simonsson (1935), Prince August, Duke of Dalarna (1831), and Monica Zetterlund (1937).

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Sweden

Among businesspeople born in Sweden, Ludvig Nobel ranks 3Before him are Ingvar Kamprad (1926) and Ivar Kreuger (1880). After him are Stefan Persson (1947), Anders Frisk (1963), Christian von Koenigsegg (1972), Niklas Zennström (1966), and Daniel Ek (1983).