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Clyde Cessna

1879 - 1954

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Clyde Vernon Cessna (; December 5, 1879 – November 20, 1954) was an American aircraft designer, aviator, and early aviation entrepreneur. He is best known as the principal founder of the Cessna Aircraft Corporation, which he started in 1927 in Wichita, Kansas. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Clyde Cessna is the 324th most popular businessperson (up from 615th in 2019), the 3,908th most popular biography from United States (up from 9,254th in 2019) and the 106th most popular American Businessperson.

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Among businesspeople, Clyde Cessna ranks 324 out of 847. Before her are Guy de Rothschild, Johnny Kitagawa, Stefan Persson, Jorge Paulo Lemann, Isabella Beeton, and Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller. After her are Julius Maggi, James Gordon Bennett Jr., Max Factor, Zhong Shanshan, Mike Markkula, and François Coty.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Clyde Cessna ranks 101. Before her are Vanessa Bell, Edwin Montagu, Adolf Wiklund, Carlos Chagas, Patrick Pearse, and Oskar Barnack. After her are Osman Aqçoqraqlı, Bernhard Kellermann, Adaviye Efendiyeva, Yevgenia Bosch, Petar Živković, and Princess Marie Louise of Hanover. Among people deceased in 1954, Clyde Cessna ranks 65. Before her are Princess Maria Ludwiga Theresia of Bavaria, William Hoyt, Onofre Marimón, Claude Cahun, Herms Niel, and Wilhelm Brückner. After her are Sait Faik Abasıyanık, Pat McDonald, Henri Laurens, Hugo Eckener, Frans G. Bengtsson, and Robert H. Jackson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Clyde Cessna ranks 3,908 out of 20,380. Before her are Augustine Washington (1694), James Michael Harvey (1949), Screamin' Jay Hawkins (1929), Jeff Buckley (1966), Christopher Connelly (1941), and Elgin Baylor (1934). After her are James B. Donovan (1916), Walter Cronkite (1916), Nadia Cassini (1949), Maureen Connolly (1934), Richard Carlson (1912), and Suzanne Somers (1946).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Clyde Cessna ranks 106. Before her are John C. Bogle (1929), Katharine Graham (1917), Larry Silverstein (1931), Reggie Fils-Aimé (1961), Eric Schmidt (1955), and Johnny Kitagawa (1931). After her are James Gordon Bennett Jr. (1841), Mike Markkula (1942), Carl Laemmle Jr. (1908), Linda Yaccarino (1963), Bob Iger (1951), and Chad Hurley (1977).

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