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William Boeing

1881 - 1956

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William Edward Boeing (; October 1, 1881 – September 28, 1956) was an American aviation pioneer. He founded the Pacific Airplane Company in 1916, which was renamed to Boeing a year later. The company is now the largest exporter in the United States by dollar value and among the largest aerospace manufacturers in the world. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Boeing has received more than 868,254 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). William Boeing is the 119th most popular businessperson (down from 103rd in 2019), the 1,330th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,163rd in 2019) and the 40th most popular American Businessperson.

William Boeing is most famous for founding the company, Boeing.

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, William Boeing ranks 119 out of 847. Before him are Al-Waleed bin Talal, Chung Ju-yung, Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, William Randolph Hearst, Iwasaki Yatarō, and César Ritz. After him are Madam C. J. Walker, Ivana Trump, Uli Hoeneß, François Pinault, James Mayer de Rothschild, and Hiroshi Yamauchi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, William Boeing ranks 46. Before him are Carlo Carrà, Otto Wille Kuusinen, Otto Bauer, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, Emil Ludwig, and Ludwig Binswanger. After him are Giovanni Papini, Nikolai Myaskovsky, Franz Gürtner, Victor Klemperer, Hugo Meisl, and P. G. Wodehouse. Among people deceased in 1956, William Boeing ranks 36. Before him are Daniel Swarovski, Elisabeth of Romania, August Kubizek, Juan Negrín, Marie Laurencin, and Yakub Kolas. After him are Gottfried Benn, Giovanni Papini, Jan Łukasiewicz, Mistinguett, Alfredo Ferrari, and Alben W. Barkley.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William Boeing ranks 1,330 out of 20,380. Before him are John Grisham (1955), Michael Rockefeller (1938), Mark Ruffalo (1967), J. K. Simmons (1955), Dr. Dre (1965), and Ronald Dworkin (1931). After him are Lee de Forest (1873), Jean Tatlock (1914), Raoul Walsh (1887), Eric Roberts (1956), John Updike (1932), and Fredric Brown (1906).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, William Boeing ranks 40. Before him are Roy O. Disney (1893), Solomon R. Guggenheim (1861), Ethan Allen (1738), Fred Trump (1905), Christina Onassis (1950), and William Randolph Hearst (1863). After him are Madam C. J. Walker (1867), Sam Walton (1918), Margaret Hamilton (1936), Larry Flynt (1942), Phil Knight (1938), and Asa Griggs Candler (1851).

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