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Owen D. Young

1874 - 1962

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Owen D. Young (October 27, 1874 – July 11, 1962) was an American industrialist, businessman, lawyer and diplomat at the Second Reparations Conference (SRC) in 1929, as a member of the German Reparations International Commission. He is known for the plan to settle Germany's World War I reparations, known as the Young Plan and for the creation of the Radio Corporation of America. Young founded RCA as a subsidiary of General Electric in 1919; he became its first chairman and continued in that position until 1929. RCA was separated into as another traded company in 1932. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2024). Owen D. Young is the 173rd most popular businessperson (up from 572nd in 2024), the 2,055th most popular biography from United States (up from 8,372nd in 2019) and the 62nd most popular American Businessperson.

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Among Businesspeople

Among businesspeople, Owen D. Young ranks 173 out of 847. Before him are Chandrashekhar Agashe, Yingluck Shinawatra, Johann Friedrich Böttger, Madam C. J. Walker, Basil Zaharoff, and Josep Maria Bartomeu. After him are Phil Knight, Karl Albrecht, Bernard Baruch, Alisher Usmanov, Amschel Mayer Rothschild, and Sheldon Adelson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Owen D. Young ranks 50. Before him are Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine, Princess Elisabeth Marie of Bavaria, Auguste Perret, André-Louis Debierne, Reginald Johnston, and Otto Mueller. After him are Serge Koussevitzky, Theodore Lyman IV, Ellery Harding Clark, Henri Farman, Marguerite Long, and Prince Jean, Duke of Guise. Among people deceased in 1962, Owen D. Young ranks 46. Before him are Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Eiji Yoshikawa, Leonardo De Lorenzo, M. Visvesvaraya, Gianna Beretta Molla, and André Lhote. After him are Aleksei Antonov, Princess Helen of Serbia, Natalia Sedova, Hu Shih, Frank Borzage, and Thomas Mitchell.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Owen D. Young ranks 2,055 out of 20,380. Before him are Jackie Coogan (1914), David Keith (1954), Katharine Ross (1940), Carol Gilligan (1936), Scarlett Johansson (1984), and Billy Crystal (1948). After him are Bob Newhart (1929), Saul Kripke (1940), Barnett Newman (1905), Wade Williams (1961), Rose Kennedy (1890), and William Styron (1925).

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Among Businesspeople In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Owen D. Young ranks 62. Before him are Martha Stewart (1941), Larry Flynt (1942), Cyrus West Field (1819), Harvey S. Firestone (1868), Ethan Allen (1738), and Madam C. J. Walker (1867). After him are Phil Knight (1938), Bernard Baruch (1870), Sheldon Adelson (1933), Walter Chrysler (1875), Lady Bird Johnson (1912), and Henry Ford II (1917).

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