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Richard Branson

1950 - Today

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Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) is an English business magnate who co-founded the Virgin Group in 1970, and as of 2016 controlled 5 companies remaining of once more than 400. Branson expressed his desire to become an entrepreneur at a young age. His first business venture, at the age of 16, was a magazine called Student. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Branson has received more than 19,312,924 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Richard Branson is the 72nd most popular businessperson (down from 55th in 2019), the 497th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 416th in 2019) and the 6th most popular British Businessperson.

Richard Branson is most famous for founding Virgin Records, Virgin Atlantic Airways, and Virgin Mobile.

Memorability Metrics

  • 19M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 69.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 66

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Richard Branson ranks 72 out of 847. Before him are Kiichiro Toyoda, Sung Jae-gi, Lee Byung-chul, Calouste Gulbenkian, Bernie Ecclestone, and J. Bruce Ismay. After him are Stan Kroenke, Stanley Rous, Jack Ma, Robert McNamara, Kris Jenner, and Louis Vuitton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Richard Branson ranks 24. Before him are Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Anne, Princess Royal, Gilles Villeneuve, Joe Hisaishi, Néstor Kirchner, and Mithun Chakraborty. After him are Zhang Yimou, Peter Gabriel, Ron Perlman, Richard Dean Anderson, Randy Quaid, and William Hurt.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Richard Branson ranks 497 out of 8,785. Before him are James Callaghan (1912), Thomas Carlyle (1795), J. Bruce Ismay (1862), Henry Hudson (1570), Trevor Howard (1913), and James I of Scotland (1394). After him are James IV of Scotland (1473), John Couch Adams (1819), Patrick Stewart (1940), Ian McEwan (1948), William Stanley Jevons (1835), and Gordon Brown (1951).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United Kingdom

Among businesspeople born in United Kingdom, Richard Branson ranks 6. Before him are Cecil Rhodes (1853), Andrew Carnegie (1835), Thomas Cook (1808), Bernie Ecclestone (1930), and J. Bruce Ismay (1862). After him are Stanley Rous (1895), Brian Epstein (1934), John McAfee (1945), Thomas Lipton (1848), Ron Dennis (1947), and Frank Williams (1942).

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