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Tomáš Baťa

1876 - 1932

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Tomáš Baťa (Czech pronunciation: [ˈtomaːʃ ˈbaca]) (3 April 1876 – 12 July 1932) was a Czech entrepreneur and founder of the Bata shoe company. His career was cut short when he died in a plane accident due to bad weather. Baťa's half-brother Jan Antonín Baťa took over his company, expanding it during the Great Depression. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tomáš Baťa has received more than 475,709 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Tomáš Baťa is the 163rd most popular businessperson (up from 168th in 2019), the 185th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 180th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Czech Businessperson.

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  • 480k

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  • 58.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Tomáš Baťa ranks 163 out of 847. Before him are Henry Ford II, Lorenzo Sanz, Fredrik Idestam, Malcolm Glazer, Karl Albrecht, and Johnny Kitagawa. After him are Fusajiro Yamauchi, Paul Elvstrøm, Salomon Mayer von Rothschild, Shin Kyuk-ho, Giovanni di Cosimo de' Medici, and Stanley Ho.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Tomáš Baťa ranks 48. Before him are Walter Sydney Adams, Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark, Ziya Gökalp, Ivan Bilibin, and Fevzi Çakmak. After him are Anna de Noailles, August Sander, Nicola Romeo, Natalie Clifford Barney, Hideyo Noguchi, and Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari. Among people deceased in 1932, Tomáš Baťa ranks 32. Before him are Pierre De Geyter, Franz von Hipper, Inukai Tsuyoshi, Ottokar Czernin, Kang Pan-sok, and Émile Friant. After him are John Charles Fields, Ahmed Shawqi, Guillaume Bigourdan, Alexander Grin, Johannes Schober, and Hovannes Adamian.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Tomáš Baťa ranks 185 out of 1,200. Before him are Blanche of Valois (1316), Ottokar Czernin (1872), Catherine of Bohemia (1342), Jan Patočka (1907), Carl von Rokitansky (1804), and Libuše Šafránková (1953). After him are Margaret of Bohemia, Queen of Hungary (1335), Guido Adler (1855), Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg (1800), Antonín Puč (1907), Jindřich Matyáš Thurn (1567), and Petr Fiala (1964).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Czechia

Among businesspeople born in Czechia, Tomáš Baťa ranks 3. Before him are Oskar Schindler (1908), and Ivana Trump (1949). After him are Petr Kellner (1964).

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