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Vidal Sassoon

1928 - 2012

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Vidal Sassoon (17 January 1928 – 9 May 2012) was a British hairstylist and businessman. He was noted for repopularising a simple, close-cut geometric hairstyle called the five-point cut, worn by famous fashion designers including Mary Quant and film stars such as Mia Farrow, Goldie Hawn, Cameron Diaz, Nastassja Kinski and Helen Mirren. His early life was one of extreme poverty, with seven years of his childhood spent in an orphanage. He quit school at age 14, soon holding various jobs in London during World War II. Although he hoped to become a professional football player, he became an apprentice hairdresser at the suggestion of his mother. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vidal Sassoon has received more than 2,011,305 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Vidal Sassoon is the 204th most popular businessperson (up from 214th in 2019), the 1,391st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,449th in 2019) and the 13th most popular British Businessperson.

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  • 2.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Vidal Sassoon ranks 204 out of 847. Before him are Jamsetji Tata, Dieter Schwarz, Stavros Niarchos, Friedrich Krupp, Friedrich Alfred Krupp, and Terry Gou. After him are Hans Wilsdorf, George Gallup, Adriano Galliani, Louis Réard, Rosalía Mera, and Edoardo Agnelli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Vidal Sassoon ranks 140. Before him are Cy Twombly, James Randi, Victor Stănculescu, Joseph Kittinger, Ulric Neisser, and Einojuhani Rautavaara. After him are Gustavo Gutiérrez, Henry Silva, Otto F. Kernberg, Anne Sexton, Petr Ginz, and Shulamit Aloni. Among people deceased in 2012, Vidal Sassoon ranks 96. Before him are Estanislau Basora, Marcos Alonso, Giorgio Chinaglia, Tonino Guerra, Ulric Neisser, and Manuel Fraga. After him are Włodzimierz Smolarek, Alfred Schmidt, Lina Romay, Andy Williams, Nora Ephron, and Carlo Maria Martini.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Vidal Sassoon ranks 1,391 out of 8,785. Before him are Beau Brummell (1778), Peter Mansfield (1933), John Bowring (1792), Hannah Chaplin (1865), Peter Mayhew (1944), and Adrian Newey (1958). After him are Victor McLaglen (1886), Pattie Boyd (1944), Edward Frankland (1825), Jimmy Greaves (1940), William Aiton (1731), and Paul Gascoigne (1967).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United Kingdom

Among businesspeople born in United Kingdom, Vidal Sassoon ranks 13. Before him are Stanley Rous (1895), Brian Epstein (1934), John McAfee (1945), Thomas Lipton (1848), Ron Dennis (1947), and Frank Williams (1942). After him are David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon (1961), David Icke (1952), John Cockerill (1790), Edward Cave (1691), Alfred Edwards (1850), and B. C. Forbes (1880).

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