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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 158,737 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Samuel Cunard is the 457th most popular businessperson (down from 423rd in 2019), the 346th most popular biography from Canada (up from 360th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Canadian Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Samuel Cunard ranks 457 out of 601Before him are Hermann Josef Abs, Victor Pinchuk, Mary Barra, Anders Frisk, Suleyman Kerimov, and Trip Hawkins. After him are Eli Lilly, Gregory Olsen, Isabella Beeton, Gardiner Greene Hubbard, Zhong Shanshan, and Teddy Mayer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1787, Samuel Cunard ranks 41Before him are Thomas Say, Sven Nilsson, William Etty, Edward Blore, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, and Johann Natterer. After him are François Sudre, John Richardson, Pedro Vélez, Josef Ludwig von Armansperg, José Tomás Ovalle, and Thomas Hodgskin. Among people deceased in 1865, Samuel Cunard ranks 58Before him are Nicholas Wiseman, Antonios Kriezis, Lewis Powell, Kitsos Tzavelas, Richard Cobden, and Philippe Buchez. After him are Stephen Allen Benson, Isabella Beeton, Marie-Anne Libert, Miklós Jósika, John Richardson, and Léon Jean Marie Dufour.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Samuel Cunard ranks 346 out of 1,350Before him are Victor Jory (1902), Bernard Lonergan (1904), Anna Paquin (1982), Howie Mandel (1955), Albert W. Tucker (1905), and Kenneth E. Iverson (1920). After him are Terry Jacks (1944), Dean Butler (1956), Lucile Watson (1879), Arthur Meighen (1874), Chief Dan George (1899), and Tom Thomson (1877).

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Canada

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