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Richard Bass

1929 - 2015

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Richard Daniel "Dick" Bass (December 21, 1929 – July 26, 2015) was an American businessman, rancher and mountaineer. He was the owner of Snowbird Ski Resort in Utah and the first man to climb the "Seven Summits", the tallest mountain on each continent. In 1985, he became the oldest person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, aged 55. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Bass has received more than 375,974 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Bass is the 542nd most popular businessperson (down from 469th in 2019), the 7,520th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,526th in 2019) and the 179th most popular American Businessperson.

Memorability Metrics

  • 380k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.84

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Richard Bass ranks 542 out of 847. Before him are David Richards, Sam Panopoulos, Jay Gould, Trip Hawkins, George Williams, and Ravil Maganov. After him are Leonid Mikhelson, Susan Kare, Yuri Milner, Kai-Fu Lee, Arianna Huffington, and Güler Sabancı.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Richard Bass ranks 392. Before him are Eberhard Jäckel, Betty Carter, Jaime Gómez, Gerald Dreyer, Igor Novikov, and Thomas Remengesau Sr.. After him are Ödön Földessy, Jerry Hardin, Win Tin, Júlia Sigmond, Yevgeniy Chazov, and Richard Rush. Among people deceased in 2015, Richard Bass ranks 339. Before him are Jacques Parizeau, Coleen Gray, Kurt Oppelt, Vladimir Kesarev, Ferenc Kiss, and Stein Eriksen. After him are Héctor Silva, Errol Brown, Andrei Eshpai, Gerrit Voorting, Eric Thompson, and Héctor Salva.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Bass ranks 7,520 out of 20,380. Before him are Schelte J. Bus (1956), Shirley Fry (1927), Charles F. Hockett (1916), Roscoe Lee Browne (1922), Jeff Perry (1955), and Ruby Bridges (1954). After him are Andy Roddick (1982), David Garrison (1952), Sonny Fortune (1939), Patricia Heaton (1958), Theodore Long (1947), and James Harden (1989).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Richard Bass ranks 179. Before him are Ben Bradlee (1921), James Smith McDonnell (1899), Joe Sutter (1921), Richard Hilton (1955), Jay Gould (1836), and Trip Hawkins (1953). After him are Susan Kare (1954), Herb Kohl (1935), Christy Walton (1949), Sherry Lansing (1944), Adam Silver (1962), and Marcus Loew (1870).

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