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Edwin Drake

1819 - 1880

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Edwin Laurentine Drake (* 29. März 1819 in Greenville, Greene County, New York; † 8. November 1880 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), auch Colonel Drake genannt, war der erste US-Amerikaner, der erfolgreich nach Erdöl bohrte. Er bohrte im Auftrag des amerikanischen Industriellen George Henry Bissell und stieß nahe Titusville in Pennsylvania am 27. Mehr auf Wikipedia lesen

His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Edwin Drake is the 401st most popular unternehmer (down from 332nd in 2024), the 5,047th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,754th in 2019) and the 126th most popular American Unternehmer.

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Among Unternehmers

Among unternehmers, Edwin Drake ranks 401 out of 847. Before him are Rina Zaripova, Robert Mercer, Steve Jackson, Ida Straus, Howard Schultz, and Peter Lynch. After him are Roy E. Disney, John Cockerill, Elisabeth Abegg, Mikhail Prokhorov, Gerard Philips, and Christophe de Margerie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, Edwin Drake ranks 64. Before him are Frederick William, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Panteleimon Kulish, Charles Kingsley, Venceslaus Ulricus Hammershaimb, Butrus al-Bustani, and Marthinus Wessel Pretorius. After him are Théodore Gouvy, James Russell Lowell, Władysław Taczanowski, Nicolae Bălcescu, Lucile Grahn, and Abe Masahiro. Among people deceased in 1880, Edwin Drake ranks 43. Before him are Princess Marie of Hesse-Kassel, Karl Friedrich Lessing, Benjamin Peirce, Edmond Albius, Arthur Morin, and Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra. After him are Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès, Manuel Montt, Nikolay Zinin, Peter Wilhelm Lund, Nils Johan Andersson, and Christian August Friedrich Peters.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edwin Drake ranks 5,047 out of 20,380. Before him are Albert Brooks (1947), Alexander H. Stephens (1812), Margaret Sullavan (1909), Peggy Whitson (1960), Susan Brownmiller (1935), and Walter Bedell Smith (1895). After him are Steve James (1952), Roy E. Disney (1930), Ellen Swallow Richards (1842), Don Adams (1923), Gerard K. O'Neill (1927), and Eve Arnold (1912).

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Among Unternehmers In United States

Among unternehmers born in United States, Edwin Drake ranks 126. Before him are Arnold Rothstein (1882), Douglas Tompkins (1943), Sylvia Beach (1887), Robert Mercer (1946), Howard Schultz (1953), and Peter Lynch (1944). After him are Roy E. Disney (1930), Allen Klein (1931), Alan Lomax (1915), Robert Monroe (1915), John Elkann (1976), and Reed Hastings (1960).

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