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William C. Durant

1861 - 1947

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William Crapo Durant (December 8, 1861 – March 18, 1947) was a leading pioneer of the United States automobile industry, founder of General Motors and co-founder of Chevrolet. He created a system in which a company held multiple marques – each seemingly independent, with different automobile lines – bound under a unified corporate holding company. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William C. Durant has received more than 1,246,542 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). William C. Durant is the 191st most popular businessperson (down from 150th in 2019), the 2,084th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,669th in 2019) and the 62nd most popular American Businessperson.

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  • 57.57

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, William C. Durant ranks 191 out of 847. Before him are Marissa Mayer, Walter Chrysler, Larry Silverstein, Yingluck Shinawatra, Peter Sauber, and Mukesh Ambani. After him are Roger Ailes, Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, Henry J. Heinz, Carl Laemmle, Charles Simonyi, and Morris Chang.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, William C. Durant ranks 45. Before him are Infanta Marie Anne of Portugal, Dorothea Klumpke, M. Visvesvaraya, Stanislas de Guaita, Maurice Blondel, and Jurji Zaydan. After him are Santiago Rusiñol, Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia, Meir Dizengoff, John William Godward, and Kadambini Ganguly. Among people deceased in 1947, William C. Durant ranks 66. Before him are Alfredo Casella, Władysław Raczkiewicz, Franz Xaver Schwarz, Charles Bally, Hugh Lofting, and Archduchess Louise of Austria. After him are Osami Nagano, Alice Keppel, Arthur Machen, W. I. Thomas, Ludwig Fischer, and Paul P. Harris.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William C. Durant ranks 2,084 out of 20,380. Before him are Toby Keith (1961), Richard Basehart (1914), Paul Rudd (1969), Donald Glover (1983), Veronica Lake (1922), and William Petersen (1953). After him are Richard Pryor (1940), Upton Sinclair (1878), Jennifer Lawrence (1990), Robert Lefkowitz (1943), Garry Marshall (1934), and Edwin Howard Armstrong (1890).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, William C. Durant ranks 62. Before him are Lady Bird Johnson (1912), Ted Turner (1938), Martha Stewart (1941), Marissa Mayer (1975), Walter Chrysler (1875), and Larry Silverstein (1931). After him are Roger Ailes (1940), Henry J. Heinz (1844), George Gallup (1901), Larry Fink (1952), Jesse Livermore (1877), and Steve Fossett (1944).

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