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Muhammad Yunus

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Muhammad Yunus (born 28 June 1940) is a Bangladeshi economist, entrepreneur, politician, and civil society leader, who has been serving as Chief Adviser of the Interim Government of Bangladesh since 8 August 2024. Yunus was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance. Yunus has received several other national and international honors, including the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 2010. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Muhammad Yunus has received more than 4,719,068 page views. His biography is available in 95 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 93 in 2019). Muhammad Yunus is the 28th most popular businessperson (down from 26th in 2019), the most popular biography from Bangladesh and the most popular Bangladeshi Businessperson.

Muhammad Yunus is most famous for being the founder of Grameen Bank, which is a bank that lends money to the poor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 4.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 74.28

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 95

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Muhammad Yunus ranks 28 out of 847. Before him are Ludwig Erhard, David Rockefeller, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Steve Ballmer, Amancio Ortega, and Colonel Sanders. After him are Adolf Dassler, Carlos Slim, P. T. Barnum, Jules Rimet, Liliane Bettencourt, and J. P. Morgan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Muhammad Yunus ranks 19. Before him are J. M. G. Le Clézio, Qaboos bin Said al Said, Bartholomew I of Constantinople, Frank Zappa, Wangari Maathai, and Gao Xingjian. After him are J. M. Coetzee, Carlos Slim, Joseph Brodsky, Michel Temer, Saparmurat Niyazov, and Brian De Palma.

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In Bangladesh

Among people born in Bangladesh, Muhammad Yunus ranks 1 out of 74. After him are Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (1920), Sri Chinmoy (1931), Atiśa (982), Sheikh Hasina (1947), Abdul Hamid (1944), Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858), Chandragupta I (250), William Beveridge (1879), Mohammed Shahabuddin (1949), Begum Rokeya (1880), and Zillur Rahman (1929).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Bangladesh

Among businesspeople born in Bangladesh, Muhammad Yunus ranks 1. 

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