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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 16,408,300 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Ray Kroc is the 27th most popular businessperson (down from 13th in 2019), the 255th most popular biography from United States (down from 143rd in 2019) and the 11th most popular American Businessperson.

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

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  • 16M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 70.05

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Ray Kroc ranks 27 out of 601. Before him are Florentino Pérez, Philip Kotler, Carlos Slim, Ludwig Erhard, Amancio Ortega, and Muhammad Yunus. After him are P. T. Barnum, Adolf Dassler, Jules Rimet, Andrew Carnegie, Steve Ballmer, and Hugh Hefner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Ray Kroc ranks 14. Before him are Georgy Malenkov, John Steinbeck, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Talcott Parsons, Halldór Laxness, and Fernand Braudel. After him are Saud of Saudi Arabia, Barbara McClintock, Eugene Wigner, Nâzım Hikmet, William Wyler, and Alfred Kastler. Among people deceased in 1984, Ray Kroc ranks 9. Before him are Yuri Andropov, Indira Gandhi, François Truffaut, Paul Dirac, Johnny Weissmuller, and Martin Niemöller. After him are Mikhail Sholokhov, Truman Capote, Ed Gein, Alfred Kastler, Julio Cortázar, and Tigran Petrosian.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ray Kroc ranks 255 out of 18,182. Before him are William Howard Taft (1857), Joe Dassin (1938), Calvin Coolidge (1872), Paul Samuelson (1915), John Cage (1912), and Rocky Marciano (1923). After him are George Westinghouse (1846), Oliver Hardy (1892), Gwyneth Paltrow (1972), John Dillinger (1903), Nina Simone (1933), and Christopher Lloyd (1938).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Ray Kroc ranks 11. Before him are Jeff Bezos (1964), Vince McMahon (1945), David Rockefeller (1915), Tim Cook (1960), Colonel Sanders (1890), and Philip Kotler (1931). After him are P. T. Barnum (1810), Steve Ballmer (1956), Hugh Hefner (1926), J. P. Morgan (1837), J. Paul Getty (1892), and Robert Kiyosaki (1947).

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