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Jamsetji Tata

1839 - 1904

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Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata (3 March 1839 – 19 May 1904) was an Indian industrialist and philanthropist who founded the Tata Group, India's largest conglomerate. He established the city of Jamshedpur. Born into a Zoroastrian Parsi family in Navsari, his family came from Persia (Iran), finding refuge in India. Despite coming from a family of priests, Tata broke tradition to become the first businessman in his family, establishing an export trading firm in Mumbai. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jamsetji Tata is the 17th most popular businessperson (up from 198th in 2019), the 29th most popular biography from India (up from 220th in 2019) and the most popular Indian Businessperson.

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Among businesspeople, Jamsetji Tata ranks 17 out of 847. Before him are Sepp Blatter, Bernie Madoff, Vince McMahon, Aristotle Onassis, Robert McNamara, and Ingvar Kamprad. After him are Florentino Pérez, Cosimo de' Medici, Ferruccio Lamborghini, Bernard Arnault, Tim Cook, and Fred Trump.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1839, Jamsetji Tata ranks 5. Before him are Paul Cézanne, John D. Rockefeller, Sully Prudhomme, and Modest Mussorgsky. After him are Alfred Sisley, Charles Sanders Peirce, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Carol I of Romania, George Armstrong Custer, Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria, and Nikolay Przhevalsky. Among people deceased in 1904, Jamsetji Tata ranks 4. Before him are Anton Chekhov, Antonín Dvořák, and Theodor Herzl. After him are Murad V, Isabella II of Spain, Niels Ryberg Finsen, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, Friedrich Ratzel, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Henry Morton Stanley, and Eadweard Muybridge.

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In India

Among people born in India, Jamsetji Tata ranks 29 out of 1,861. Before him are Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (1924), Shah Rukh Khan (1965), Rudyard Kipling (1865), Kocheril R. Narayanan (1921), Razia Sultana (1205), and Jawaharlal Nehru (1889). After him are Vivien Leigh (1913), Ānanda (-600), Brahmagupta (598), Rani of Jhansi (1828), Padmasambhava (717), and A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In India

Among businesspeople born in India, Jamsetji Tata ranks 1. After him are N. R. Narayana Murthy (1946), Lakshmi Mittal (1950), Ratan Tata (1937), Chandrashekhar Agashe (1888), Ajay Banga (1959), Dhirubhai Ambani (1932), Sundar Pichai (1972), Satya Nadella (1967), Arvind Krishna (1962), Akshata Murty (1980), and Azim Premji (1945).

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