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Michele Ferrero

1925 - 2015

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Michele Ferrero (Italian pronunciation: [miˈkɛːle ferˈrɛːro]; 26 April 1925 – 14 February 2015) was an Italian billionaire businessman. He owned the chocolate manufacturer Ferrero SpA, Europe's second-largest confectionery company (at the time of his death), which he developed from the small bakery and café of his father in Alba, Piedmont. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michele Ferrero has received more than 850,639 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Michele Ferrero is the 98th most popular businessperson (down from 96th in 2019), the 1,095th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,028th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Italian Businessperson.

Michele Ferrero is most famous for being the founder of Ferrero SpA, the largest chocolate manufacturer in the world.

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  • 850k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.08

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Michele Ferrero ranks 98 out of 847. Before him are Paul Allen, Gordon Moore, Eusebi Güell, Bertha Benz, Nathan Mayer Rothschild, and Mikhail Khodorkovsky. After him are Ferdinand Piëch, Charlie Munger, Louis Chevrolet, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Christophe Plantin, and Roy O. Disney.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Michele Ferrero ranks 68. Before him are József Bozsik, Oliver Smithies, Jean Tinguely, Celia Cruz, Hildegard Knef, and David Elazar. After him are William Styron, Moshe Arens, Leo Esaki, Veljko Kadijević, Robert Rauschenberg, and Dick Van Dyke. Among people deceased in 2015, Michele Ferrero ranks 53. Before him are René Girard, James Horner, Fatema Mernissi, Yves Chauvin, Benedict Anderson, and Mathieu Kérékou. After him are Richard F. Heck, Assia Djebar, Pierre Brice, Louis Jourdan, Marshall Rosenberg, and Francesco Rosi.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Michele Ferrero ranks 1,095 out of 5,161. Before him are Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli (1856), Gino Bartali (1914), Marcello Gandini (1938), Olympia Mancini, Countess of Soissons (1638), Hippolytus of Rome (170), and Marcus Atilius Regulus (-299). After him are Lucius Aelius (101), Chiara Lubich (1920), Giovanni Paolo Panini (1691), Ascanio Sobrero (1812), Archduke Rudolf of Austria (1788), and Pietro Parolin (1955).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Italy

Among businesspeople born in Italy, Michele Ferrero ranks 7. Before him are Ferruccio Lamborghini (1916), Cosimo de' Medici (1389), Guccio Gucci (1881), Ettore Bugatti (1881), Giovanni Agnelli (1866), and Flavio Briatore (1950). After him are Piero Ferrari (1945), Massimo Moratti (1945), Vincenzo Lancia (1881), Giovanni di Cosimo de' Medici (1421), Luca Cordero di Montezemolo (1947), and Adriano Galliani (1944).

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