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Mohamed Al-Fayed

1929 - 2023

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Mohamed Al-Fayed (; 27 January 1929 – 30 August 2023) was an Egyptian billionaire businessman, whose residence and primary business interests were in the United Kingdom from the mid-1960s. His business interests included ownership of the Hôtel Ritz Paris, and Harrods department store and Fulham Football Club, both in London. At the time of his death in 2023, Fayed's wealth was estimated at US$2 billion by Forbes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mohamed Al-Fayed has received more than 14,374,228 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Mohamed Al-Fayed is the 38th most popular businessperson (up from 87th in 2019), the 72nd most popular biography from Egypt (up from 155th in 2019) and the most popular Egyptian Businessperson.

Mohamed al-Fayed is most famous for owning Harrods, the iconic London department store.

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  • 14M

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  • 68.96

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Mohamed Al-Fayed ranks 38 out of 847. Before him are Jules Rimet, Liliane Bettencourt, J. P. Morgan, Philip Kotler, João Havelange, and Guccio Gucci. After him are Andrew Carnegie, Soichiro Honda, Joan Gamper, Hugh Hefner, Ettore Bugatti, and J. Paul Getty.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Mohamed Al-Fayed ranks 22. Before him are Yayoi Kusama, Michael Ende, Jean Baudrillard, Frank Gehry, Oriana Fallaci, and Peter Higgs. After him are Max von Sydow, Sándor Kocsis, Christopher Plummer, Djalma Santos, Tigran Petrosian, and James Hong. Among people deceased in 2023, Mohamed Al-Fayed ranks 21. Before him are Kenzaburō Ōe, Just Fontaine, Fernando Botero, Lisa Marie Presley, Ted Kaczynski, and Louise Glück. After him are Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Paco Rabanne, Ryan O'Neal, Jacques Delors, K. Alex Müller, and Harald zur Hausen.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Mohamed Al-Fayed ranks 72 out of 642. Before him are Abdel Fattah el-Sisi (1954), Apollonius of Rhodes (-295), Ayman al-Zawahiri (1951), Den (-3000), Ptolemy VI Philometor (-184), and Mohamed Morsi (1951). After him are Fuad I of Egypt (1868), Amenhotep II (-1401), Pachomius the Great (292), Eli Cohen (1924), Saint Apollonia (110), and Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah (985).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Egypt

Among businesspeople born in Egypt, Mohamed Al-Fayed ranks 1. After him are Haim Saban (1944), Naguib Sawiris (1954), and Maryana Iskander (1975).

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