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Robert Mercer

1946 - Today

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Robert Leroy Mercer (born July 11, 1946) is an American hedge fund manager, computer scientist, and political donor. Mercer was an early artificial intelligence researcher and developer and is the former co-CEO of the hedge fund company Renaissance Technologies. Mercer played a controversial role in the campaign for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union, led by Dominic Cummings, with £3.9 million being spent on his data analytics and machine learning company AggregateIQ. He has also been a major funder of organizations supporting right-wing political causes in the United States, such as Breitbart News, the now-defunct Cambridge Analytica, and Donald Trump's 2016 campaign for president. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Mercer has received more than 1,277,257 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Robert Mercer is the 674th most popular businessperson (down from 559th in 2019), the 11,020th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,103rd in 2019) and the 237th most popular American Businessperson.

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  • 50.06

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Robert Mercer ranks 674 out of 847. Before him are Carl Laemmle Jr., Ken Bates, Clayton Christensen, David Filo, Éric Boullier, and Miguel de Icaza. After him are Todd Boehly, Chris Anderson, Wendi Deng Murdoch, Eben Moglen, John W. Henry, and Chai Ling.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Robert Mercer ranks 715. Before him are Vladimir Astapovsky, Kazuhiro Ninomiya, César Villanueva, Michael Clarke, Antonio Roldán, and Irene Fernandez. After him are José Claramunt, Martha Coolidge, Giovanni Bramucci, Emily de Jongh-Elhage, Hadi Dahane, and Ian Wallace.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Mercer ranks 11,020 out of 20,380. Before him are Joan Copeland (1922), David Eigenberg (1964), Studs Terkel (1912), Julie Bishop (1914), Dick Richards (1936), and Wayne Thiebaud (1920). After him are Sam Hanks (1914), Jack Jones (1938), Susan Anton (null), Leonidas Polk (1806), James L. Jones (1943), and Elliott Nugent (1896).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Robert Mercer ranks 237. Before him are Ginni Rometty (1957), Kevin Systrom (1983), Chris Hughes (1983), Carl Laemmle Jr. (1908), Clayton Christensen (1952), and David Filo (1966). After him are Todd Boehly (1973), Eben Moglen (1959), John W. Henry (1949), Herman Cain (1945), Michael Burry (1971), and Reid Hoffman (1967).

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