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Max Factor

1877 - 1938

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Max Factor Sr. (September 15, 1877 – August 30, 1938), born Maksymilian Faktorowicz, was a Polish-American businessman, beautician, entrepreneur and inventor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Max Factor has received more than 1,469,064 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Max Factor is the 233rd most popular businessperson (up from 238th in 2019), the 460th most popular biography from Poland (down from 453rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Businessperson.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.08

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Max Factor ranks 233 out of 847. Before him are Zeynalabdin Taghiyev, Josep Lluís Núñez, Guy de Rothschild, John Sculley, Ivar Kreuger, and Srettha Thavisin. After him are David Icke, John C. Bogle, Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, Josep Maria Bartomeu, Mineko Iwasaki, and Mike Markkula.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Max Factor ranks 58. Before him are Edmond Locard, Vladimir Minorsky, Wilhelm Adam, Jesse Livermore, Chaim Rumkowski, and Édouard Herzen. After him are Oscar Milosz, Frank Marshall, Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, Wilhelm Filchner, Henri Breuil, and Rosika Schwimmer. Among people deceased in 1938, Max Factor ranks 83. Before him are Princess Maria Antonietta of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, David Riazanov, Bernd Rosemeyer, Sholem Schwarzbard, Nikolai Krylenko, and Christen C. Raunkiær. After him are William Henry Pickering, Florence Lawrence, Gillis Grafström, George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven, Edwin Hall, and Ante Trumbić.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Max Factor ranks 460 out of 1,694. Before him are Yitzhak Sadeh (1890), Izabela Czartoryska (1746), Zygmunt Berling (1896), Hans Jeschonnek (1899), Julian Tuwim (1894), and Samuel Goldwyn (1879). After him are Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1920), Wolf Messing (1899), Gottfried Achenwall (1719), Friedrich Graf von Wrangel (1784), Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski (1734), and Paul Wegener (1874).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Poland

Among businesspeople born in Poland, Max Factor ranks 2. Before him are Helena Rubinstein (1872). After him are Jack Tramiel (1928), and Joanna Hoffman (1955).

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