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Sumner Redstone

1923 - 2020

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Sumner Murray Redstone (né Rothstein; May 27, 1923 – August 11, 2020) was an American billionaire businessman and media magnate. He was the founder and chairman of the second incarnation of Viacom, chairman of CBS Corporation (both companies merged in 2019, a year before Redstone's death), and the majority owner and chairman of the National Amusements theater chain. Until his death, Redstone was a majority voting shareholder of the media conglomerate ViacomCBS, the parent company of the Paramount Pictures film studio, the CBS television network, and various cable networks. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sumner Redstone has received more than 3,003,680 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Sumner Redstone is the 642nd most popular businessperson (down from 534th in 2019), the 9,966th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,324th in 2019) and the 222nd most popular American Businessperson.

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Sumner Redstone ranks 642 out of 847. Before him are Maurice Podoloff, Sean Parker, Ruja Ignatova, Herbert Austin, 1st Baron Austin, Michael O'Leary, and John Peter Zenger. After him are Horace Elgin Dodge, Gwynne Shotwell, Eliphalet Remington, Avram Glazer, John Munro Longyear, and Amy Pascal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Sumner Redstone ranks 430. Before him are James Dickey, Kenneth Lane, Vladimir Tendryakov, Mort Walker, Leonid Shamkovich, and Percy Heath. After him are Robert Craft, Augusto Magli, Ted Stevens, Valeriya Gnarovskaya, Basil Hume, and Noël Vandernotte. Among people deceased in 2020, Sumner Redstone ranks 625. Before him are Maria Janion, Jorge Llopart, Pavol Biroš, Mohamed Ben Rehaiem, Finn Christian Jagge, and Wojciech Zabłocki. After him are Beverly Pepper, Aleksandar Ivoš, Diana Serra Cary, Euphrase Kezilahabi, Dejan Dabović, and Kevin Dobson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sumner Redstone ranks 9,966 out of 20,380. Before him are Barbara Askins (1939), J. Carrol Naish (1896), Chuck Peddle (1937), Flo Rida (1979), Mavis Staples (1939), and Ollan Cassell (1937). After him are Rex Brown (1964), Robert Craft (1923), Skipp Sudduth (1956), Beverly Pepper (1922), Walter Hagen (1892), and Arthur Alexander (1940).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Sumner Redstone ranks 222. Before him are Meg Whitman (1956), Joel Glazer (1970), Michael Milken (1946), Shari Arison (1957), Billy Beane (1962), and Sean Parker (1979). After him are Horace Elgin Dodge (1868), Gwynne Shotwell (1963), Eliphalet Remington (1793), Avram Glazer (1960), John Munro Longyear (1850), and Amy Pascal (1958).

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