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Calouste Gulbenkian

1869 - 1955

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Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian (; Western Armenian: Գալուստ Սարգիս Կիւլպէնկեան, romanized: Kalousd Sarkis Giulbêngean; 23 March 1869 – 20 July 1955) was an Ottoman-born British Armenian businessman and philanthropist. He played a major role in making the petroleum reserves of the Middle East available to Western development and is credited with being the first person to exploit Iraqi oil. Following the "Red Line Agreement" (said by some accounts to have been drafted by himself), a fixed 5% of the shares of the Turkish Petroleum Company (later renamed the Iraqi Petroleum Company) were to be consistently owned by him, for which he earned the nickname "Mr. Five Per Cent". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Calouste Gulbenkian is the 92nd most popular businessperson (down from 69th in 2019), the 328th most popular biography from Türkiye (down from 267th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Turkish Businessperson.

Calouste Gulbenkian was a Turkish-born Armenian oil magnate who was the founder of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, which is a philanthropic organization. He was most famous for his oil empire, which he built in the early 20th century.

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Among businesspeople, Calouste Gulbenkian ranks 92 out of 847. Before him are Andrew Tate, Mohamed Al-Fayed, Stan Kroenke, Liliane Bettencourt, Stanley Rous, and Li Ka-shing. After him are Charles Koch, Jesse Livermore, Paul Reuter, Mukesh Ambani, Chris Gardner, and Benjamin Guggenheim.

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Among people born in 1869, Calouste Gulbenkian ranks 21. Before him are Bogd Khan, Karl Haushofer, Christian Lous Lange, Harvey Cushing, Hans Spemann, and Siegfried Wagner. After him are Karl Seitz, Felix Salten, Komitas, Rudolf Otto, Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria, and Albert Roussel. Among people deceased in 1955, Calouste Gulbenkian ranks 24. Before him are Rodolfo Graziani, Maurice Utrillo, George Enescu, Pak Hon-yong, Vasily Blokhin, and John Mott. After him are Carmen Miranda, Hermann Weyl, Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria, Prince Aloys of Liechtenstein, Michael Chekhov, and Mihály Károlyi.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Calouste Gulbenkian ranks 328 out of 1,347. Before him are Bülent Ecevit (1925), Ibn Hawqal (943), Dio Chrysostom (40), Gennadius Scholarius (1400), Theophilus of Antioch (140), and Andronikos V Palaiologos (1400). After him are Michael IV the Paphlagonian (1010), Andranik (1865), Eumenes II (-221), Libanius (314), Aristagoras (-600), and Seleucus IV Philopator (-217).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Türkiye

Among businesspeople born in Türkiye, Calouste Gulbenkian ranks 2. Before him are Aristotle Onassis (1906). After him are 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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