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Michael Milken

1946 - Today

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Michael Robert Milken (born July 4, 1946) is an American financier. He is known for his role in the development of the market for high-yield bonds ("junk bonds"), and his conviction and sentence following a guilty plea on felony charges for violating U.S. securities laws. Milken's compensation while head of the high-yield bond department at Drexel Burnham Lambert in the late 1980s exceeded $1 billion over a four-year period, a record for U.S. income at that time. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Milken has received more than 3,169,285 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Michael Milken is the 631st most popular businessperson (down from 551st in 2019), the 9,664th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,826th in 2019) and the 218th most popular American Businessperson.

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  • 16

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  • 1.83

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  • 3.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Michael Milken ranks 631 out of 847. Before him are Mo Ibrahim, Benito Archundia, Rick Scott, Henry Tate, Meg Whitman, and Joel Glazer. After him are Shari Arison, Svend Foyn, Billy Beane, Hiroshi Mikitani, Maurice Podoloff, and Sean Parker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Michael Milken ranks 664. Before him are Suzanne Ciani, Susan Lucci, Lars-Emil Johansen, Kay Redfield Jamison, Renzo Eusebi, and Petra Burka. After him are Adolfo Nef, Steven R. Nagel, Supachai Panitchpakdi, Tom Harrell, Joseph Serge Miot, and Roar Grønvold.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Michael Milken ranks 9,664 out of 20,380. Before him are Wes Borland (1975), Sam Robards (1961), Tracy Caldwell Dyson (1969), George Herriman (1880), Haskell Wexler (1922), and Wilmer Valderrama (1980). After him are Art Babbitt (1907), George Finnegan (1881), George Hearst (1820), Joe Flanigan (1967), Ed King (1949), and Jimmy Van Heusen (1913).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Michael Milken ranks 218. Before him are Linda Yaccarino (1963), Irwin M. Jacobs (1933), Abigail Johnson (1961), Rick Scott (1952), Meg Whitman (1956), and Joel Glazer (1970). After him are Shari Arison (1957), Billy Beane (1962), Sean Parker (1979), Sumner Redstone (1923), Horace Elgin Dodge (1868), and Gwynne Shotwell (1963).

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