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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 key role campaign for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union by donating data analytics services to Nigel Farage. 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 1,146,809 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Robert Mercer is the 559th most popular businessperson (down from 458th in 2019), the 9,122nd most popular biography from United States (down from 7,614th in 2019) and the 209th most popular American Businessperson.

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  • 16

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  • 3.17

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Robert Mercer ranks 559 out of 601. Before him are Martin Whitmarsh, Arkady Volozh, Carly Fiorina, Charles Saatchi, Micky Arison, and Billy Beane. After him are Peter Hill-Wood, Hiro Matsushita, Masaji Kiyokawa, Paul Stoddart, Chris Anderson, and Niklas Zennström.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Robert Mercer ranks 572. Before him are Hannes Swoboda, Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata, Bryan D. O'Connor, Justin Hayward, Supachai Panitchpakdi, and Joseph Serge Miot. After him are Pavao Pavličić, Reinhard Lauck, Pierfranco Vianelli, Patrick Rambaud, Valeria Bufanu, and Dave Hill.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Mercer ranks 9,122 out of 18,182. Before him are Dan Dailey (1915), Tracy Letts (1965), Norman Thagard (1943), Richard Fortus (1966), Martin Luther King III (1957), and Jon Landau (1960). After him are Aurora Snow (1981), Jack Sholder (1945), Michael Ritchie (1938), Ryan Hurst (1976), Sean Murray (1977), and Walter Winchell (1897).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Robert Mercer ranks 209. Before him are Avram Glazer (1960), Leo Burnett (1891), Michael Milken (1946), Abigail Johnson (1961), Carly Fiorina (1954), and Billy Beane (1962). After him are Donald Trump Jr. (1977), Tim Sweeney (1970), Marissa Mayer (1975), Andy Jassy (1968), Lamar Hunt (1932), and Gwynne Shotwell (1963).

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