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Melinda Gates

1964 - Today

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Melinda French Gates (born Melinda Ann French; August 15, 1964) is an American philanthropist, former multimedia product developer and manager at Microsoft, and the ex-wife of its co-founder and billionaire Bill Gates. French Gates has consistently been ranked as one of the world's most powerful women by Forbes magazine.In 2000, she and her then-husband Bill Gates co-founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's largest private charitable organization as of 2015. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Melinda Gates has received more than 6,686,856 page views. Her biography is available in 64 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Melinda Gates is the 277th most popular businessperson (down from 160th in 2019), the 3,072nd most popular biography from United States (down from 1,781st in 2019) and the 87th most popular American Businessperson.

Memorability Metrics

  • 6.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.70

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 64

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Melinda Gates by language

Over the past year Melinda Gates has had the most page views in the with 50,957 views, followed by French (34,960), and Spanish (32,038). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Eastern Punjabi (487.61%), Simple English (143.59%), and Swahili (110.73%)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Melinda Gates ranks 277 out of 847Before her are Pavel Tretyakov, Robert Nobel, Theo Albrecht, Friedrich Bayer, Madame Clicquot Ponsardin, and Herbert Hainer. After her are Hetty Green, Arkady Rotenberg, Leonardo Del Vecchio, Mino Raiola, Alfred P. Sloan, and Erin Brockovich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1964, Melinda Gates ranks 90Before her are Mark Dacascos, Michael Rummenigge, Vincent Perez, Calista Flockhart, Txiki Begiristain, and Jean-Marc Bosman. After her are Oleh Protasov, Mary-Louise Parker, Doro, Rosen Plevneliev, Christian Louboutin, and Branco.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Melinda Gates ranks 3,072 out of 20,380Before her are Mortimer J. Adler (1902), Tiny Tim (1932), Suzanne Pleshette (1937), Debra Paget (1933), R. Budd Dwyer (1939), and Bob Dole (1923). After her are Florence Owens Thompson (1903), John Stockton (1962), Tom Savini (1946), Jackie Stallone (1921), Walton Walker (1889), and Lisa Niemi (1956).

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Melinda Gates ranks 87Before her are Rex Tillerson (1952), Charles Koch (1935), King C. Gillette (1855), Ivy Lee (1877), Bob Iger (1951), and Jack Welch (1935). After her are Hetty Green (1834), Alfred P. Sloan (1875), Erin Brockovich (1960), John DeLorean (1925), Douglas Tompkins (1943), and Paul Castellano (1915).