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Paul Elvstrøm

1928 - 2016

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Paul Bert Elvstrøm (25 February 1928 – 7 December 2016) was a Danish yachtsman and the founder of Elvstrøm Sails. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Elvstrøm has received more than 127,546 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Paul Elvstrøm is the 165th most popular businessperson (up from 259th in 2019), the 160th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 229th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Danish Businessperson.

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  • 130k

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  • 58.63

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Paul Elvstrøm ranks 165 out of 847. Before him are Fredrik Idestam, Malcolm Glazer, Karl Albrecht, Johnny Kitagawa, Tomáš Baťa, and Fusajiro Yamauchi. After him are Salomon Mayer von Rothschild, Shin Kyuk-ho, Giovanni di Cosimo de' Medici, Stanley Ho, Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, and Jack Daniel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Paul Elvstrøm ranks 113. Before him are Fats Domino, Takeshi Inoue, Malcolm Glazer, Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, Djivan Gasparyan, and Al Lettieri. After him are John Stewart Bell, Daisaku Ikeda, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Edward Albee, Hannah Pick-Goslar, and Natalie Zemon Davis. Among people deceased in 2016, Paul Elvstrøm ranks 95. Before him are Meir Dagan, Yasuo Takamori, David Hamilton, Seymour Papert, André Courrèges, and Maria Teresa de Filippis. After him are Andrei Karlov, Edward Albee, Anisa Makhlouf, Black, Peter Naur, and Jorge Batlle.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Paul Elvstrøm ranks 160 out of 1,032. Before him are Princess Caroline-Mathilde of Denmark (1912), Torben Ulrich (1928), Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark (1968), Verner Panton (1926), Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt (1659), and Rasmus Bartholin (1625). After him are Haakon III of Norway (1182), Adam Oehlenschläger (1779), Bent Larsen (1935), Preben Elkjær (1957), Princess Frederica Amalia of Denmark (1649), and Aksel Sandemose (1899).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Denmark

Among businesspeople born in Denmark, Paul Elvstrøm ranks 2. Before him are Ole Kirk Christiansen (1891). After him are Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller (1913), J. C. Jacobsen (1811), Jakob Nielsen (1957), Anders Hejlsberg (1960), and Janus Friis (1976).

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