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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 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 2,850,636 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Sumner Redstone is the 534th most popular businessperson (down from 362nd in 2019), the 8,342nd most popular biography from United States (down from 5,573rd in 2019) and the 193rd most popular American Businessperson.

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  • 16

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  • 1.85

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  • 3.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Sumner Redstone ranks 534 out of 601. Before him are Michael Burry, Josef Ackermann, Cyrus West Field, Joe Sutter, Ginni Rometty, and Erick Thohir. After him are Eliphalet Remington, Reid Hoffman, Mark R. Hughes, Meg Whitman, Jimmy Iovine, and Jamie Dimon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Sumner Redstone ranks 357. Before him are Joseph Keller, Vladimír Zábrodský, Armand Borel, Monica Lovinescu, Hedy Schlunegger, and Ron Flockhart. After him are Donald Nicol, John Pulman, Leonid Shamkovich, Vladimir Tendryakov, Boris Sagal, and Paavo Lonkila. Among people deceased in 2020, Sumner Redstone ranks 523. Before him are Vladimír Zábrodský, Michael Jeffery, Óscar Chávez, Arnie Robinson, György Kárpáti, and Seydou Diarra. After him are Aarón Padilla Gutiérrez, Marge Champion, John Ericson, Kristina Lugn, Olga Tass, and Edmond Baraffe.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sumner Redstone ranks 8,342 out of 18,182. Before him are Mr. Fuji (1934), Curtis Fuller (1934), Priscilla Chan (1985), Emma Smith (1804), Doug Aldrich (1964), and Ellen Albertini Dow (1913). After him are Kim Fowley (1939), Bill Smith (1924), Stephen Colbert (1964), Aileen Riggin (1906), Sheila Jordan (1928), and Common (1972).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Sumner Redstone ranks 193. Before him are Kevin Systrom (1983), James Gordon Bennett Jr. (1841), Michael Burry (1971), Cyrus West Field (1819), Joe Sutter (1921), and Ginni Rometty (1957). After him are Eliphalet Remington (1793), Reid Hoffman (1967), Mark R. Hughes (1956), Meg Whitman (1956), Jimmy Iovine (1953), and Jamie Dimon (1956).

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