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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 and a former multimedia product developer and manager at Microsoft. Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, she graduated from Duke University and started working at Microsoft in 1987. Shortly afterwards, she began dating the company's co-founder and then-CEO Bill Gates, whom she married in 1994. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Melinda Gates has received more than 6,731,316 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.

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  • 6.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.93

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 64

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Melinda Gates ranks 277 out of 847. Before 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 90. Before 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 20,380. Before 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).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Melinda Gates ranks 87. Before 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).

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