1940 - Today
Muhammad Yunus (born 28 June 1940) is a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, banker, economist and civil society leader who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance. These loans are given to entrepreneurs that are too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans. Yunus and the Grameen Bank were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for their efforts through microcredit to create economic and social development from below". Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Muhammad Yunus has received more than 2,753,048 page views. His biography is available in 93 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 91 in 2019). Muhammad Yunus is the 26th most popular businessperson (down from 18th 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.
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Among businesspeople, Muhammad Yunus ranks 26 out of 601. Before him are Bernard Arnault, Florentino Pérez, Philip Kotler, Carlos Slim, Ludwig Erhard, and Amancio Ortega. After him are Ray Kroc, P. T. Barnum, Adolf Dassler, Jules Rimet, Andrew Carnegie, and Steve Ballmer.
1949 - Present
HPI: 70.66
Rank: 20
1947 - Present
HPI: 70.61
Rank: 21
1931 - Present
HPI: 70.50
Rank: 22
1940 - Present
HPI: 70.48
Rank: 23
1897 - 1977
HPI: 70.45
Rank: 24
1936 - Present
HPI: 70.39
Rank: 25
1940 - Present
HPI: 70.36
Rank: 26
1902 - 1984
HPI: 70.05
Rank: 27
1810 - 1891
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 28
1900 - 1978
HPI: 69.61
Rank: 29
1873 - 1956
HPI: 69.21
Rank: 30
1835 - 1919
HPI: 69.04
Rank: 31
1956 - Present
HPI: 68.65
Rank: 32
Among people born in 1940, Muhammad Yunus ranks 16. Before him are Ringo Starr, Michael Gambon, Bartholomew I of Constantinople, Burhanuddin Rabbani, Frank Zappa, and Carlos Slim. After him are Qaboos bin Said al Said, Joachim Gauck, J. M. Coetzee, Wangari Maathai, Martin Sheen, and Julie Christie.
1940 - Present
HPI: 72.39
Rank: 10
1940 - 2023
HPI: 71.82
Rank: 11
1940 - Present
HPI: 71.63
Rank: 12
1940 - 2011
HPI: 71.27
Rank: 13
1940 - 1993
HPI: 71.19
Rank: 14
1940 - Present
HPI: 70.48
Rank: 15
1940 - Present
HPI: 70.36
Rank: 16
1940 - 2020
HPI: 70.24
Rank: 17
1940 - Present
HPI: 70.12
Rank: 18
1940 - Present
HPI: 69.57
Rank: 19
1940 - 2011
HPI: 69.32
Rank: 20
1940 - Present
HPI: 69.27
Rank: 21
1940 - Present
HPI: 69.06
Rank: 22
Among people born in Bangladesh, Muhammad Yunus ranks 1 out of 57. After him are Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (1920), Atiśa (982), Abdul Hamid (1944), Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858), Sheikh Hasina (1947), William Beveridge (1879), Chandragupta I (250), Sri Chinmoy (1931), Zillur Rahman (1929), Ziaur Rahman (1936), and Meghnad Saha (1893).
1940 - Present
HPI: 70.36
Rank: 1
1920 - 1975
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 2
982 - 1054
HPI: 63.28
Rank: 3
1944 - Present
HPI: 62.16
Rank: 4
1858 - 1937
HPI: 61.40
Rank: 5
1947 - Present
HPI: 59.34
Rank: 6
1879 - 1963
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 7
250 - 335
HPI: 57.85
Rank: 8
1931 - 2007
HPI: 57.15
Rank: 9
1929 - 2013
HPI: 56.70
Rank: 10
1936 - 1981
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 11
1893 - 1956
HPI: 53.59
Rank: 12
Among businesspeople born in Bangladesh, Muhammad Yunus ranks 1.