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Peter Lynch

1944 - Today

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Peter Lynch (born January 19, 1944) is an American investor, mutual fund manager, author and philanthropist. As the manager of the Magellan Fund at Fidelity Investments between 1977 and 1990, Lynch averaged a 29.2% annual return, consistently more than double the S&P 500 stock market index and making it the best-performing mutual fund in the world. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Lynch has received more than 2,003,206 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Lynch is the 432nd most popular businessperson, the 5,275th most popular biography from United States and the 133rd most popular American Businessperson.

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  • 2.0M

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  • 56.96

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Peter Lynch ranks 432 out of 847Before him are Guy Laliberté, Angus Ogilvy, Ernest Oppenheimer, Eli Lilly, Suge Knight, and Vicente Calderón. After him are Jawed Karim, Azim Premji, N. R. Narayana Murthy, Elisabeth Abegg, James Buchanan Duke, and J. R. D. Tata.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Peter Lynch ranks 402Before him are Haruhiko Kuroda, Nicky Hopkins, Tony Visconti, Willeke van Ammelrooy, Abaz Arslanagić, and Pedro de Felipe. After him are Yoshio Kikugawa, Sandra Bem, Leonard Peltier, Pat Martino, Francis Lee, and Ulli Lommel.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Peter Lynch ranks 5,275 out of 20,380Before him are Toni Braxton (1967), Jon Brion (1963), Ronnie Radke (1983), Erik Olin Wright (1947), Vanessa Hudgens (1988), and William Windom (1923). After him are Virginia Grey (1917), Russell Banks (1940), Sacheen Littlefeather (1946), Garrett Hardin (1915), Eric Dane (1972), and Nate Archibald (1948).

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Peter Lynch ranks 133Before him are John Templeton (1912), John Elkann (1976), Jim Walton (1948), Vincent J. McMahon (1914), Eli Lilly (1838), and Suge Knight (1965). After him are James Buchanan Duke (1856), Muhtar Kent (1952), Michael Dell (1965), Henry Clay Frick (1849), Alan Lomax (1915), and Robert Durst (1943).