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Bill Hewlett

1913 - 2001

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William Redington Hewlett ( HEW-lit; May 20, 1913 – January 12, 2001) was an American engineer and the co-founder, with David Packard, of the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bill Hewlett is the 61st most popular businessperson (up from 240th in 2019), the 663rd most popular biography from United States (up from 2,605th in 2019) and the 29th most popular American Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Bill Hewlett ranks 61 out of 847Before him are Hugh Hefner, Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Ettore Bugatti, Larry Ellison, Donald Trump Jr., and King C. Gillette. After him are Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, Rudolf Dassler, Boris Berezovsky, Soichiro Honda, Giovanni Agnelli, and Otto Frank.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Bill Hewlett ranks 25Before him are Ramón Mercader, Makarios III, Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona, Stanford Moore, Benjamin Britten, and Sabiha Gökçen. After him are Silvio Piola, Paul Erdős, Roger Garaudy, Kenzō Tange, Lon Nol, and Carmen Amaya. Among people deceased in 2001, Bill Hewlett ranks 16Before him are Léopold Sédar Senghor, Clifford Shull, Jorge Amado, G. E. M. Anscombe, Christiaan Barnard, and Sabiha Gökçen. After him are Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary, Claude Shannon, Laurent-Désiré Kabila, Iannis Xenakis, Alberto Korda, and Gilbert Bécaud.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bill Hewlett ranks 663 out of 20,380Before him are Paul Berg (1926), Christian B. Anfinsen (1916), Dave Grohl (1969), Arthur Leonard Schawlow (1921), Chuck Jones (1912), and Clyde Tombaugh (1906). After him are George Herbert Mead (1863), Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834), Tennessee Williams (1911), Angela Davis (1944), Edwin Stanton (1814), and Burton Richter (1931).

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Bill Hewlett ranks 29Before him are Melinda Gates (1964), J. P. Morgan (1837), Hugh Hefner (1926), Larry Ellison (1944), Donald Trump Jr. (1977), and King C. Gillette (1855). After him are J. Paul Getty (1892), Martin Cooper (1928), Larry Fink (1952), Robert Kardashian (1944), David Koch (1940), and Ray Kroc (1902).