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Cecil Rhodes

1853 - 1902

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Cecil John Rhodes ( SES-əl ROHDZ; 5 July 1853 – 26 March 1902) was an English mining magnate and politician in southern Africa who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896. He and his British South Africa Company founded the southern African territory of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe and Zambia), which the company named after him in 1895. He also devoted much effort to realising his vision of a Cape to Cairo Railway through British territory. Rhodes set up the Rhodes Scholarship, which is funded by his estate. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Cecil Rhodes is the 3rd most popular businessperson (down from 1st in 2019), the 76th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 47th in 2019) and the most popular British Businessperson.

Cecil Rhodes is most famous for being a British imperialist who was the founder of Rhodesia.

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Among businesspeople, Cecil Rhodes ranks 3 out of 847. Before him are Ivana Trump, and Howard Hughes. After him are Pierre de Coubertin, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Oskar Schindler, George Soros, John D. Rockefeller, Jeff Bezos, Sepp Blatter, and Bernie Madoff.

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Among people born in 1853, Cecil Rhodes ranks 2. Before him is Vincent van Gogh. After him are Hendrik Lorentz, Wilhelm Ostwald, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Albrecht Kossel, Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, Chulalongkorn, Carl Larsson, José Martí, Aleksei Brusilov, and Vladimir Solovyov. Among people deceased in 1902, Cecil Rhodes ranks 2. Before him is Émile Zola. After him are Swami Vivekananda, Rudolf Virchow, Samuel Butler, Levi Strauss, Maria Goretti, Marie Henriette of Austria, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Albert of Saxony, Francis, Duke of Cádiz, and Ion Ivanovici.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Cecil Rhodes ranks 76 out of 8,785. Before him are Edward the Black Prince (1330), Robert Hooke (1635), Lord Byron (1788), D. H. Lawrence (1885), John Maynard Keynes (1883), and Daniel Defoe (1660). After him are Bertrand Russell (1872), Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869), Harold Harefoot (1016), Owen Willans Richardson (1879), William Ewart Gladstone (1809), and Empress Matilda (1102).

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Among businesspeople born in United Kingdom, Cecil Rhodes ranks 1. After him are Frank Williams (1942), Andrew Carnegie (1835), Richard Branson (1950), Bernie Ecclestone (1930), Ron Dennis (1947), Stanley Rous (1895), J. Bruce Ismay (1862), David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon (1961), Brian Epstein (1934), Thomas Cook (1808), and John McAfee (1945).

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