1936 - Today
Joseph Sepp Blatter (born Josef Blatter; 10 March 1936) is a Swiss former football administrator who served as the eighth President of FIFA from 1998 to 2015. He has been banned from participating in FIFA activities since 2015 as a result of the FIFA corruption case made public that year, and will remain banned until 2027. From a background in business, public relations, and sports administration, Blatter became general secretary of FIFA in 1981 and was then elected president at the 51st FIFA Congress on 8 June 1998, succeeding João Havelange, who had headed the organization since 1974. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sepp Blatter has received more than 3,568,893 page views. His biography is available in 74 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 71 in 2019). Sepp Blatter is the 10th most popular businessperson (up from 14th in 2019), the 11th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 13th in 2019) and the most popular Swiss Businessperson.
Sepp Blatter is most famous for being the president of FIFA, the international governing body of soccer.
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Among businesspeople, Sepp Blatter ranks 10 out of 601. Before him are Oskar Schindler, Cecil Rhodes, John D. Rockefeller, Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos, and Ingvar Kamprad. After him are George Soros, Vince McMahon, Aristotle Onassis, Cosimo de' Medici, David Rockefeller, and Ferdinand von Zeppelin.
1908 - 1974
HPI: 79.14
Rank: 4
1853 - 1902
HPI: 78.64
Rank: 5
1839 - 1937
HPI: 77.60
Rank: 6
1930 - Present
HPI: 77.27
Rank: 7
1964 - Present
HPI: 76.68
Rank: 8
1926 - 2018
HPI: 76.23
Rank: 9
1936 - Present
HPI: 76.14
Rank: 10
1930 - Present
HPI: 75.66
Rank: 11
1945 - Present
HPI: 74.11
Rank: 12
1906 - 1975
HPI: 73.17
Rank: 13
1389 - 1464
HPI: 71.91
Rank: 14
1915 - 2017
HPI: 71.43
Rank: 15
1838 - 1917
HPI: 71.21
Rank: 16
Among people born in 1936, Sepp Blatter ranks 3. Before him are Pope Francis and Silvio Berlusconi. After him are Václav Havel, Yves Saint Laurent, Robert Redford, Mario Vargas Llosa, Ursula Andress, Amancio Ortega, Ken Loach, Andrei Chikatilo, and Valery Legasov.
1936 - Present
HPI: 89.75
Rank: 1
1936 - 2023
HPI: 76.49
Rank: 2
1936 - Present
HPI: 76.14
Rank: 3
1936 - 2011
HPI: 75.84
Rank: 4
1936 - 2008
HPI: 74.52
Rank: 5
1936 - Present
HPI: 72.95
Rank: 6
1936 - Present
HPI: 72.82
Rank: 7
1936 - Present
HPI: 70.63
Rank: 8
1936 - Present
HPI: 70.39
Rank: 9
1936 - Present
HPI: 69.54
Rank: 10
1936 - 1994
HPI: 69.53
Rank: 11
1936 - 1988
HPI: 69.45
Rank: 12
Among people born in Switzerland, Sepp Blatter ranks 11 out of 876. Before him are Carl Jung (1875), Jean Piaget (1896), Henry Dunant (1828), Ferdinand de Saussure (1857), Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746), and Jean-Paul Marat (1743). After him are Paul Klee (1879), Huldrych Zwingli (1484), Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1945), Johanna Spyri (1827), Francesco Borromini (1599), and Alberto Giacometti (1901).
1875 - 1961
HPI: 81.22
Rank: 5
1896 - 1980
HPI: 80.95
Rank: 6
1828 - 1910
HPI: 80.37
Rank: 7
1857 - 1913
HPI: 78.58
Rank: 8
1746 - 1827
HPI: 76.85
Rank: 9
1743 - 1793
HPI: 76.23
Rank: 10
1936 - Present
HPI: 76.14
Rank: 11
1879 - 1940
HPI: 75.98
Rank: 12
1484 - 1531
HPI: 74.60
Rank: 13
1945 - Present
HPI: 73.13
Rank: 14
1827 - 1901
HPI: 71.64
Rank: 15
1599 - 1667
HPI: 71.58
Rank: 16
1901 - 1966
HPI: 71.54
Rank: 17
Among businesspeople born in Switzerland, Sepp Blatter ranks 1. After him are Joan Gamper (1877), Aga Khan IV (1936), Louis Chevrolet (1878), Gianni Infantino (1970), César Ritz (1850), Peter Sauber (1943), Umberto Agnelli (1934), Daniel Peter (1836), Julius Maggi (1846), Meyer Guggenheim (1828), and Paul Sacher (1906).
1936 - Present
HPI: 76.14
Rank: 1
1877 - 1930
HPI: 66.25
Rank: 2
1936 - Present
HPI: 65.78
Rank: 3
1878 - 1941
HPI: 61.26
Rank: 4
1970 - Present
HPI: 61.22
Rank: 5
1850 - 1918
HPI: 60.08
Rank: 6
1943 - Present
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 7
1934 - 2004
HPI: 56.03
Rank: 8
1836 - 1919
HPI: 55.01
Rank: 9
1846 - 1912
HPI: 54.94
Rank: 10
1828 - 1905
HPI: 52.34
Rank: 11
1906 - 1999
HPI: 51.43
Rank: 12