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Paul Sacher

1906 - 1999

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Paul Sacher (28 April 1906 – 26 May 1999) was a Swiss conductor, patron and billionaire businessman. At the time of his death Sacher was majority shareholder of pharmaceutical company Hoffmann-La Roche and was considered the third richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of US$13 billion. He founded and conducted the Basler Kammerorchester (1926–1987). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Sacher has received more than 111,203 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Paul Sacher is the 351st most popular businessperson (down from 332nd in 2019), the 324th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 302nd in 2019) and the 12th most popular Swiss Businessperson.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.81

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  • 2.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Paul Sacher ranks 351 out of 847. Before him are Thierry Breton, Akshata Murty, Arnold Rothstein, Lee Shau-kee, Charles Geschke, and J. C. Jacobsen. After him are Wang Jianlin, Gennady Timchenko, Haim Saban, Oleg Deripaska, Siegfried Bing, and Uğur Şahin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Paul Sacher ranks 176. Before him are Fazıl Küçük, Mario Soldati, Flávio Costa, Buddhadasa, Nazim al-Qudsi, and Sergei Gerasimov. After him are Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari, Ulanhu, Nils Axelsson, Jerzy Giedroyc, Jan Werich, and R. K. Narayan. Among people deceased in 1999, Paul Sacher ranks 124. Before him are Fritz Fischer, Horst Frank, Grover Washington Jr., Mario Soldati, Flávio Costa, and Reiner Klimke. After him are Theodore Hall, Carlos Romero, Milt Jackson, Oswaldo Guayasamín, Jacques Lecoq, and Riccardo Freda.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Paul Sacher ranks 324 out of 1,015. Before him are Paul Wild (1925), Jakob II Bernoulli (1759), Maurice Bavaud (1916), Pierre Musy (1910), Gustave Ador (1845), and Salomon Gessner (1730). After him are Luigi Taveri (1929), Hans-Rudolf Merz (1942), Moritz Leuenberger (1946), Johann Kaspar Bluntschli (1808), Marc Surer (1951), and Louis Niedermeyer (1802).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Switzerland

Among businesspeople born in Switzerland, Paul Sacher ranks 12. Before him are César Ritz (1850), Peter Sauber (1943), Julius Maggi (1846), Meyer Guggenheim (1828), Umberto Agnelli (1934), and Daniel Peter (1836). After him are Gustav Wiederkehr (1905), Walter Wild (1872), Marc Faber (1946), Josef Ackermann (1948), Bob Lutz (1932), and Esther Dyson (1951).

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