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Albert Kahn

1860 - 1940

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Albert Kahn (3 March 1860 – 14 November 1940) was a French banker and philanthropist, known for initiating The Archives of the Planet, a vast photographical project. Spanning 22 years, it resulted in a collection of 72,000 colour photographs and 183,000 metres of film. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Albert Kahn is the 355th most popular businessperson (down from 292nd in 2019), the 3,170th most popular biography from France (down from 2,855th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular French Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Albert Kahn ranks 355 out of 847. Before him are Bertha Krupp, Louis Réard, J. C. Jacobsen, Bob Iger, Chad Hurley, and Steve Chen. After him are Edward Colston, Vicente Calderón, Paul Castellano, Karl Rapp, John Sculley, and Jack Welch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Albert Kahn ranks 81. Before him are Hugo Preuß, Edward MacDowell, William Bates, Juan Bautista Aznar-Cabañas, Johannes Thiele, and Kaarlo Castrén. After him are Henrietta Szold, Eugen Goldstein, Charles de Broqueville, Sunanda Kumariratana, Ellen Axson Wilson, and Princess Karoline Mathilde of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg. Among people deceased in 1940, Albert Kahn ranks 101. Before him are Gunnar Höckert, Gyula Kellner, Abdelhamid Ben Badis, Janusz Kusociński, Wehib Pasha, and Arthur De Greef. After him are Charles de Broqueville, Janina Lewandowska, Marcel Granet, Wilhelm Stekel, Walter Hasenclever, and Maciej Rataj.

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In France

Among people born in France, Albert Kahn ranks 3,170 out of 6,770. Before him are Yvon Douis (1935), Octave Feuillet (1821), Jeanne Villepreux-Power (1794), Beatus Rhenanus (1485), Guillaume Rondelet (1507), and Gérard Larrousse (1940). After him are John III, Duke of Brittany (1286), Michel Berger (1947), Patricia Kaas (1966), Jean, Cardinal of Lorraine (1498), Achille Richard (1794), and Charles Dullin (1885).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In France

Among businesspeople born in France, Albert Kahn ranks 22. Before him are Serge Dassault (1925), Ghislaine Maxwell (1961), Guy de Rothschild (1909), François Coty (1874), Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume (1798), and Louis Réard (1897). After him are Charles Pathé (1863), Thierry Breton (1955), Elisabeth Abegg (1882), Christophe de Margerie (1951), Frédéric Vasseur (1968), and Gaston Gallimard (1881).

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