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Samuel Cunard

1787 - 1865

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Sir Samuel Cunard, 1st Baronet (21 November 1787 – 28 April 1865), was a British-Canadian shipping magnate, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, who founded the Cunard Line, establishing the first scheduled steamship connection with North America. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Samuel Cunard has received more than 175,714 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Samuel Cunard is the 495th most popular businessperson (down from 457th in 2019), the 339th most popular biography from Canada (up from 345th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Canadian Businessperson.

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  • 180k

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  • 48.30

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Samuel Cunard ranks 495 out of 847. Before him are John Houlding, Dmitry Rybolovlev, Mansour Ojjeh, William Henry Conley, Earl Tupper, and Suleyman Kerimov. After him are Milton S. Hershey, Hermann Josef Abs, George Peabody, Will Keith Kellogg, Petr Kellner, and Samuel P. Bush.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1787, Samuel Cunard ranks 44. Before him are Joaquín Mosquera, Manuel Dorrego, François Sudre, Andrés Quintana Roo, Gaspard-Théodore-Ignace de la Fontaine, and Johann Natterer. After him are Josephine Kablick, John Richardson, Pedro Vélez, Edward Blore, Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter, and José Tomás Ovalle. Among people deceased in 1865, Samuel Cunard ranks 63. Before him are Léon Jean Marie Dufour, Otto Ludwig, Kitsos Tzavelas, Nicholas Wiseman, Lewis Powell, and Eugène Devéria. After him are Edward Everett, John Richardson, Manuel Isidoro Belzu, Isabella Beeton, Alphonse Henri d'Hautpoul, and Miklós Jósika.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Samuel Cunard ranks 339 out of 1,622. Before him are Jacques Villeneuve (1953), Jacques Plante (1929), Harriet Brooks (1876), Michael Sarrazin (1940), George London (1920), and Mary Pierce (1975). After him are George Chuvalo (1937), William Kahan (1933), Len Cariou (1939), Victor Jory (1902), Arthur Meighen (1874), and Brian Orser (1961).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Canada

Among businesspeople born in Canada, Samuel Cunard ranks 5. Before him are Elizabeth Arden (1878), Joe Weider (1919), Lawrence Stroll (1959), and Guy Laliberté (1959). After him are David Baszucki (1963), Stephen Elop (1963), Jade Raymond (1975), and Andrea Jung (1959).

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