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Maxwell Perkins

1884 - 1947

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William Maxwell Evarts "Max" Perkins (September 20, 1884 – June 17, 1947) was an American book editor, best remembered for discovering authors Ernest Hemingway, F. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maxwell Perkins has received more than 1,086,122 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Maxwell Perkins is the 362nd most popular businessperson (down from 197th in 2019), the 4,177th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,164th in 2019) and the 110th most popular American Businessperson.

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  • 52.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.98

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Maxwell Perkins ranks 362 out of 847. Before him are Siegfried Bing, Uğur Şahin, Allen Klein, Karl Wittgenstein, Emil Rathenau, and John D. Rockefeller III. After him are Nino Cerruti, Thomas Blake Glover, Gustav Wiederkehr, Mikhail Fridman, Satya Nadella, and Mark Thatcher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Maxwell Perkins ranks 106. Before him are George David Birkhoff, Félix Éboué, Santiago Casares Quiroga, Henri Queuille, Sekula Drljević, and Bernhard Goetzke. After him are Harrison Ford, Solomon Lefschetz, Marcel Granet, Rickard Sandler, Maciej Rataj, and Jaan Anvelt. Among people deceased in 1947, Maxwell Perkins ranks 121. Before him are Elias Katz, Georg Kolbe, Stepan Petrichenko, Princess Maria Cristina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Gyula Károlyi, and Willa Cather. After him are Marc Mitscher, Phraya Phahonphonphayuhasena, Rosalia Zemlyachka, Giuseppe Volpi, Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller, and Felix Timmermans.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Maxwell Perkins ranks 4,177 out of 20,380. Before him are George Andrew Reisner (1867), Kellyanne Conway (1967), Rob Marshall (1960), Stan Winston (1946), Moses Gunn (1929), and Douglas Preston (1956). After him are Marc Mitscher (1887), Mike Porcaro (1955), Stanley Clarke (1951), Don Adams (1923), Joe Walsh (1947), and Jackie Earle Haley (1961).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Maxwell Perkins ranks 110. Before him are Chris Gardner (1954), Arthur D. Levinson (1950), Arnold Rothstein (1882), Charles Geschke (1939), Allen Klein (1931), and John D. Rockefeller III (1906). After him are Tommy Mottola (1949), Ray Dalio (1949), Cyrus West Field (1819), Franklin Clarence Mars (1883), Andrew Tate (1986), and Reed Hastings (1960).

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