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Otto Frank

1889 - 1980

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Otto Heinrich Frank (12 May 1889 – 19 August 1980) was the father of Anne Frank. He edited and published the first edition of her diary in 1947 (subsequently known in English as The Diary of a Young Girl) and advised on its later theatrical and cinematic adaptations. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Otto Frank has received more than 4,943,240 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Otto Frank is the 51st most popular businessperson (down from 36th in 2019), the 451st most popular biography from Germany (down from 333rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular German Businessperson.

Otto Frank is most famous for being the father of Anne Frank, who wrote the diary.

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  • 4.9M

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  • 66.99

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Otto Frank ranks 51 out of 847. Before him are Bernie Madoff, Rupert Murdoch, Boris Berezovsky, Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Robert Kiyosaki, and Dietrich Mateschitz. After him are Ray Kroc, Giovanni Agnelli, Rudolf Dassler, Jakob Fugger, Henri Nestlé, and Robert Bosch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Otto Frank ranks 21. Before him are Igor Sikorsky, Idris of Libya, Gabriel Marcel, Gabriela Mistral, Carl von Ossietzky, and Louise Mountbatten. After him are Han van Meegeren, Jacob L. Moreno, Risto Ryti, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Zalman Shazar, and Pitirim Sorokin. Among people deceased in 1980, Otto Frank ranks 23. Before him are Tamara de Lempicka, Marshall McLuhan, Gianni Rodari, Peter Sellers, Vladimir Vysotsky, and Alexei Kosygin. After him are Hans Asperger, Oswald Mosley, Romain Gary, Milton H. Erickson, John Bonham, and Fritz Strassmann.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Otto Frank ranks 451 out of 7,253. Before him are Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (1750), Hedwig of Silesia (1174), Johann Gottfried Galle (1812), Victoria of Baden (1862), Conradin (1252), and Wilhelm Furtwängler (1886). After him are Till Lindemann (1963), Ananda Mahidol (1925), Maria Josepha of Bavaria (1739), Roland Freisler (1893), Adam of Bremen (1100), and Rudolf Mössbauer (1929).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Germany

Among businesspeople born in Germany, Otto Frank ranks 5. Before him are Levi Strauss (1829), Ludwig Erhard (1897), Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838), and Adolf Dassler (1900). After him are Rudolf Dassler (1898), Jakob Fugger (1459), Henri Nestlé (1814), Robert Bosch (1861), Paul Reuter (1816), Bertha Benz (1849), and Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777).

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