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Alfred P. Sloan

1875 - 1966

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Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. ( SLOHN; May 23, 1875 – February 17, 1966) was an American business executive in the automotive industry. He was a longtime president, chairman and CEO of General Motors Corporation. First as a senior executive and later as the head of the company, Sloan presided over the growth of General Motors (GM) into one of the largest corporations in the world. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alfred P. Sloan is the 434th most popular businessperson (down from 282nd in 2019), the 5,619th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,153rd in 2019) and the 141st most popular American Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Alfred P. Sloan ranks 434 out of 847Before him are Haim Saban, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., Li Ning, Gaston Gallimard, Wang Jianlin, and Armand Hammer. After him are Naguib Sawiris, Aliko Dangote, David Sarnoff, Lisa Su, Jakob Nielsen, and S. Robson Walton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1875, Alfred P. Sloan ranks 124Before him are Friedrich von Huene, Mammad Hasan Hajinski, Alexander Goldenweiser, Fritz Manteuffel, Uemura Shōen, and László Berti. After him are Beppo Levi, Archibald Reiss, Juho Sunila, Herman Georges Berger, Charles D. B. King, and Ramiro de Maeztu. Among people deceased in 1966, Alfred P. Sloan ranks 135Before him are Hans Hofmann, Dirk Brouwer, Seán T. O'Kelly, Jan Kiepura, Hedda Hopper, and Stylianos Gonatas. After him are Christian Herter, Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov, Gʻafur Gʻulom, Zoltán Ozoray Schenker, Eva Justin, and Robert Charpentier.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alfred P. Sloan ranks 5,619 out of 20,380Before him are Clem Burke (1954), Budd Boetticher (1916), Alice Paul (1885), Kid Ory (1886), Barbara Hale (1922), and Joel McCrea (1905). After him are Karen Nyberg (1969), Nelson A. Miles (1839), A. C. Green (1963), Lysander Spooner (1808), Tom Mix (1880), and Ed Roberts (1941).

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Alfred P. Sloan ranks 141Before him are David Geffen (1943), John Munro Longyear (1850), Clayton Christensen (1952), William R. Orthwein (1881), Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. (1951), and Armand Hammer (1898). After him are S. Robson Walton (1944), Mark Cuban (1958), Charles Yerkes (1837), John Bryson (1943), John D. Rockefeller III (1906), and Maxwell Perkins (1884).