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Ray Kroc

1902 - 1984

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Raymond Albert Kroc (October 5, 1902 – January 14, 1984) was an American businessman. He purchased the fast food company McDonald's in 1961 from the McDonald brothers and was its CEO from 1967 to 1973. Kroc is credited with the global expansion of McDonald's, turning it into the most successful fast food corporation in the world by revenue.Kroc was born in Oak Park, Illinois, and worked a variety of jobs, including as a paper cup salesman and a musician, before eventually becoming a milkshake mixer salesman. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ray Kroc has received more than 16,217,071 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Ray Kroc is the 52nd most popular businessperson (down from 27th in 2019), the 495th most popular biography from United States (down from 255th in 2019) and the 20th most popular American Businessperson.

Ray Kroc is most famous for his role in the introduction of the McDonald's fast food restaurant chain.

Memorability Metrics

  • 16M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.95

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Ray Krocs by language

Over the past year Ray Kroc has had the most page views in the with 1,777,492 views, followed by Russian (176,497), and Spanish (144,413). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Greek (328.93%), Uzbek (222.17%), and Simple English (120.34%)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Ray Kroc ranks 52 out of 847. Before him are Rupert Murdoch, Boris Berezovsky, Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Robert Kiyosaki, Dietrich Mateschitz, and Otto Frank. After him are Giovanni Agnelli, Rudolf Dassler, Jakob Fugger, Henri Nestlé, Robert Bosch, and Martin Cooper.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Ray Kroc ranks 22. Before him are Nâzım Hikmet, Alfred Kastler, Kurt Alder, Barbara McClintock, Walter Houser Brattain, and Arne Tiselius. After him are William Wyler, Josemaría Escrivá, Arne Jacobsen, Meyer Lansky, Mikhail Suslov, and Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque. Among people deceased in 1984, Ray Kroc ranks 15. Before him are Mohamed Naguib, Julio Cortázar, Martin Niemöller, Alfred Kastler, Tigran Petrosian, and Ed Gein. After him are Stanislaw Ulam, Martin Ryle, Carl Ferdinand Cori, Karl Wolff, Irwin Shaw, and Sam Peckinpah.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ray Kroc ranks 495 out of 20,380. Before him are Robert Kiyosaki (1947), Dian Fossey (1932), Faye Dunaway (1941), Reese Witherspoon (1976), James Coburn (1928), and Eugene O'Neill (1888). After him are Patricia Highsmith (1921), George R. R. Martin (1948), Richard E. Byrd (1888), Francis Fukuyama (1952), Bill Murray (1950), and Talia Shire (1946).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Ray Kroc ranks 20. Before him are J. P. Morgan (1837), Philip Kotler (1931), Hugh Hefner (1926), J. Paul Getty (1892), Bernie Madoff (1938), and Robert Kiyosaki (1947). After him are Martin Cooper (1928), Ronald Wayne (1934), Robert Kardashian (1944), Stan Kroenke (1947), Robert McNamara (1916), and Kris Jenner (1955).

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