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Billy Beane

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William Lamar Beane III (born March 29, 1962) is an American former professional baseball player and current front office executive. He is currently senior advisor to owner John Fisher and minority owner of the Athletics of Major League Baseball (MLB) and formerly the executive vice president of baseball operations. He is also minority owner of soccer clubs Barnsley of the EFL League One in England and AZ Alkmaar of the Eredivisie in the Netherlands. From 1984 to 1989 he played in MLB as an outfielder for the New York Mets, Minnesota Twins, Detroit Tigers, and Oakland Athletics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2024). Billy Beane is the 627th most popular businessperson (up from 633rd in 2024), the 9,828th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,722nd in 2019) and the 218th most popular American Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Billy Beane ranks 627 out of 847. Before him are Mira Murati, Richard Bass, Shuntaro Furukawa, Zhang Yiming, Vijay Mallya, and Mark R. Hughes. After him are Marc Faber, Marina Berlusconi, Bernard Knubel, Laurent Mekies, Richard DeVos, and Oleg Tinkov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, Billy Beane ranks 396. Before him are Torsten Gütschow, Buck Angel, Massimo Bottura, Steven Brill, Bobcat Goldthwait, and Mark Haddon. After him are Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov, Liviu Dragnea, Aleksandr Dedyushko, Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson, Hatice Aslan, and Vasily Nebenzya.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Billy Beane ranks 9,830 out of 20,380. Before him are Phillip Griffiths (1938), Willie Davenport (1943), Denton Cooley (1920), Elda Emma Anderson (1899), Wallace Langham (1965), and Dudley Nichols (1895). After him are Brad Gilbert (1961), Mary Boland (1882), John Keel (1930), George Russell (1923), Edward Van Sloan (1882), and Mary K. Gaillard (1939).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Billy Beane ranks 218. Before him are Howard Lutnick (1961), Irving Kristol (1920), Bruce Buck (1946), Steve Forbes (1947), Richard Bass (1929), and Mark R. Hughes (1956). After him are Richard DeVos (1926), Erik Prince (1969), Sam Altman (1985), Jerry Sanders (1936), David Filo (1966), and Jerry Jones (1942).

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