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Aristotle Onassis

1906 - 1975

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Aristotle Socrates Onassis (, US also ; Greek: Αριστοτέλης Ωνάσης, romanized: Aristotélis Onásis, pronounced [aristoˈtelis oˈnasis]; 20 January 1906 – 15 March 1975) was a Greek and Argentine business magnate. He amassed the world's largest privately-owned shipping fleet and was one of the world's richest and most famous men. He was married to Athina Mary Livanos, had a long-standing affair with opera singer Maria Callas and was married to American former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy. Onassis was born in Smyrna in the Ottoman Empire to Greek parents and fled the city with his family to Greece in 1922 in the wake of the burning of Smyrna. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Aristotle Onassis is the 14th most popular businessperson (up from 15th in 2019), the 65th most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 78th in 2019) and the most popular Turkish Businessperson.

Aristotle Onassis was a Greek shipping magnate who became one of the world's wealthiest people. He married Jacqueline Kennedy, the widow of President John F. Kennedy, in 1968.

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Among businesspeople, Aristotle Onassis ranks 14 out of 847. Before him are George Soros, John D. Rockefeller, Jeff Bezos, Sepp Blatter, Bernie Madoff, and Vince McMahon. After him are Robert McNamara, Ingvar Kamprad, Jamsetji Tata, Florentino Pérez, Cosimo de' Medici, and Ferruccio Lamborghini.

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Among people born in 1906, Aristotle Onassis ranks 10. Before him are Maria Goeppert Mayer, Hannah Arendt, Dmitri Shostakovich, Grace Hopper, Kurt Gödel, and Samuel Beckett. After him are Ernst Chain, Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Luchino Visconti, Emmanuel Levinas, Josephine Baker, and Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten. Among people deceased in 1975, Aristotle Onassis ranks 9. Before him are Francisco Franco, Hannah Arendt, Dmitri Shostakovich, Ivo Andrić, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Umm Kulthum. After him are Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Robert Robinson, Otto Skorzeny, Josephine Baker, Gustav Ludwig Hertz, and Edward Tatum.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Aristotle Onassis ranks 65 out of 1,347. Before him are Suleiman II (1642), Mahmud II (1785), Hipparchus (-190), Margaret the Virgin (292), Saint Blaise (300), and Mahidevran (1500). After him are Mehmed V (1844), Ertuğrul (1198), Ahmed II (1643), Abdulmejid I (1823), Abdul Hamid I (1725), and Mustafa II (1664).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Türkiye

Among businesspeople born in Türkiye, Aristotle Onassis ranks 1. After him are Calouste Gulbenkian (1869), Basil Zaharoff (1849), Dieter Zetsche (1953), Uğur Şahin (1965), Salt Bae (1983), Güler Sabancı (1955), Acun Ilıcalı (1969), Selçuk Bayraktar (1979), and Fikret Orman (1967).

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