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Sheldon Adelson

1933 - 2021

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Sheldon Gary Adelson (August 4, 1933 – January 11, 2021) was an American businessman, investor, political donor, and philanthropist. He was the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Las Vegas Sands Corporation, which owns the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, and the parent company of Venetian Macao Limited, which operated The Venetian Las Vegas and the Sands Expo and Convention Center before selling the properties in early 2022. He owned the Israeli daily newspaper Israel Hayom, the Israeli weekly newspaper Makor Rishon, and the American daily newspaper the Las Vegas Review-Journal.Adelson created the Adelson Foundation in 2007, a private charity focusing on healthcare and support of Israel and the Jewish people. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sheldon Adelson has received more than 4,858,727 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia. Sheldon Adelson is the 225th most popular businessperson (down from 190th in 2019), the 2,507th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,104th in 2019) and the 69th most popular American Businessperson.

Memorability Metrics

  • 4.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.25

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Sheldon Adelsons by language

Over the past year Sheldon Adelson has had the most page views in the with 512,626 views, followed by Hebrew (79,741), and German (18,270). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Southern Azerbaijani (138.62%), Hebrew (133.87%), and Swedish (80.72%)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Sheldon Adelson ranks 225 out of 847. Before him are John Jacob Astor, Jesse Livermore, Andrew Grove, Karl Baedeker, Karl Rapp, and Steve Fossett. After him are Vagit Alekperov, Zeynalabdin Taghiyev, Josep Lluís Núñez, Guy de Rothschild, John Sculley, and Ivar Kreuger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Sheldon Adelson ranks 134. Before him are György Konrád, Emanuel Ungaro, Ko Un, Joachim Kroll, Lubomyr Husar, and Vera Krepkina. After him are Julie Newmar, Luis Bacalov, Dianne Feinstein, Hannelore Kohl, Mátyás Szűrös, and Vassilis Vassilikos. Among people deceased in 2021, Sheldon Adelson ranks 140. Before him are Dündar Ali Osman, Willy van der Kuijlen, Enrique Bolaños, Nino Castelnuovo, Yegor Ligachyov, and George Segal. After him are Jovan Divjak, Dusty Hill, Stephen Sondheim, Robert Downey Sr., Vladimir Shatalov, and Ned Beatty.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sheldon Adelson ranks 2,507 out of 20,380. Before him are Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915), Thomas R. Marshall (1854), James Baker (1930), Steve Fossett (1944), Ernest Guiraud (1837), and Drew Weissman (1959). After him are Julie Newmar (1933), Raymond Leo Burke (1948), Edward Witten (1951), Matt Cameron (1962), John McTiernan (1951), and Lady Randolph Churchill (1854).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Sheldon Adelson ranks 69. Before him are Roger Ailes (1940), Henry J. Heinz (1844), George Gallup (1901), Larry Fink (1952), Jesse Livermore (1877), and Steve Fossett (1944). After him are John Sculley (1939), John C. Bogle (1929), Mike Markkula (1942), Bill Hewlett (1913), Henry Flagler (1830), and Kirk Kerkorian (1917).

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