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Earl Tupper

1907 - 1983

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Earl Silas Tupper (July 28, 1907 – October 3, 1983) was an American businessman and inventor, best known as the inventor of Tupperware, an airtight plastic container for storing food, and for founding the related home products company that bears his name, Tupperware Plastics Company. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Earl Tupper is the 547th most popular businessperson (down from 493rd in 2019), the 7,839th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,442nd in 2019) and the 183rd most popular American Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Earl Tupper ranks 547 out of 847. Before him are Richard Hilton, Hermann Josef Abs, Arianna Huffington, Claire Williams, Andrew Planche, and Gardiner Greene Hubbard. After him are Bob Lazar, Jay Gould, Boris Hagelin, Salt Bae, Masaji Kiyokawa, and Neil Aspinall.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Earl Tupper ranks 303. Before him are Dionisio Mejía, Policarpo Ribeiro de Oliveira, Les Clark, Frank Séchehaye, Crisant Bosch, and László Rajcsányi. After him are Warren E. Burger, John King Fairbank, Albert Ammons, Edward James, Ethel Lackie, and Kenneth Nichols. Among people deceased in 1983, Earl Tupper ranks 200. Before him are Paolo Pedretti, Bo Ekelund, Sabino Bilbao, Slim Pickens, Edward Lawry Norton, and Mordecai Kaplan. After him are Nikolaus Pevsner, Boris Hagelin, John Bodkin Adams, Franco Giorgetti, Gyula Lázár, and Bronisław Kaper.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Earl Tupper ranks 7,841 out of 20,380. Before him are Darleane C. Hoffman (1926), Gardiner Greene Hubbard (1822), Larry Graham (1946), John Frederick Kensett (1816), Katherine Sophie Dreier (1877), and Verna Bloom (1938). After him are Bob Lazar (1959), Candace Bushnell (1958), Frederick Terman (1900), Jan Henne (1947), Jerry Lucas (1940), and Jim Hutton (1934).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Earl Tupper ranks 183. Before him are Muhtar Kent (1952), Mario Segale (1934), Gene Haas (1952), Gilbert Kaplan (1941), Richard Hilton (1955), and Gardiner Greene Hubbard (1822). After him are Bob Lazar (1959), Jay Gould (1836), Jamie Dimon (1956), James Smith McDonnell (1899), Milton S. Hershey (1857), and Chuck Feeney (1931).

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