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Howard Schultz

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Howard D. Schultz (born July 19, 1953) is an American businessman and author who was the chairman and chief executive officer of Starbucks from 1986 to 2000, from 2008 to 2017, and interim CEO from 2022 to 2023. Schultz owned the Seattle SuperSonics basketball team from 2001 to 2006. Schultz began working at Starbucks in 1982. He later left and opened Il Giornale, a specialty coffeeshop that merged with Starbucks during the late 1980s. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Howard Schultz is the 398th most popular businessperson (down from 254th in 2019), the 4,996th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,770th in 2019) and the 124th most popular American Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Howard Schultz ranks 398 out of 847. Before him are Thomas Blake Glover, Silvio Santos, Rina Zaripova, Robert Mercer, Steve Jackson, and Ida Straus. After him are Peter Lynch, Edwin Drake, Roy E. Disney, John Cockerill, Elisabeth Abegg, and Mikhail Prokhorov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Howard Schultz ranks 207. Before him are Jane Badler, Zoran Janković, Carole André, Steven Zaillian, Meng Hongwei, and Dieter Hoeneß. After him are Graeme Souness, Marlene Dumas, Artūras Paulauskas, Brigi Rafini, Tōru Furuya, and Pat Benatar.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Howard Schultz ranks 4,996 out of 20,380. Before him are Kelly Rutherford (1968), Maurice Karnaugh (1924), Lena Horne (1917), Evan Williams (1972), Leona Woods (1919), and Kevin Young (1966). After him are Cameron Boyce (1999), Sasha Alexander (1973), Billy Herrington (1969), L. Q. Jones (1927), Kevin Nash (1959), and Roscoe Tanner (1951).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Howard Schultz ranks 124. Before him are Timothy Dexter (1747), Erin Brockovich (1960), Arnold Rothstein (1882), Douglas Tompkins (1943), Sylvia Beach (1887), and Robert Mercer (1946). After him are Peter Lynch (1944), Edwin Drake (1819), Roy E. Disney (1930), Allen Klein (1931), Alan Lomax (1915), and Robert Monroe (1915).

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