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John Templeton

1912 - 2008

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Sir John Marks Templeton (29 November 1912 – 8 July 2008) was an American-born British investor, banker, fund manager, and philanthropist. In 1954, he entered the mutual fund market and created the Templeton Growth Fund, which averaged growth over 15% per year for 38 years. A pioneer of emerging market investing in the 1960s, Money magazine named him "arguably the greatest global stock picker of the century" in 1999. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Templeton is the 515th most popular businessperson (down from 418th in 2019), the 7,243rd most popular biography from United States (down from 5,018th in 2019) and the 170th most popular American Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, John Templeton ranks 515 out of 847. Before him are John Houlding, William Knox D'Arcy, Brendan Eich, Malcom McLean, Athina Onassis, and Lila Tretikov. After him are William Henry Vanderbilt, James Buchanan Duke, Jean-Dominique Senard, Guy Kawasaki, Marcus Goldman, and Piero Dusio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, John Templeton ranks 280. Before him are Maksim Tank, Wálter Guevara, Martha Mödl, Saadat Hasan Manto, Boris Chertok, and Alexander Mackendrick. After him are Frank Thomas, Tibor Berczelly, György Szűcs, Annemarie Heinrich, Willy Kaiser, and Federico Saiz. Among people deceased in 2008, John Templeton ranks 244. Before him are David Gale, Heinz Wewers, Leonard Rosenman, Wu Xueqian, Tom Lantos, and Ola Brunkert. After him are Eugenio Montejo, Kurt Furgler, William Gibson, Gábor Delneky, Halszka Osmólska, and Sergey Mergelyan.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Templeton ranks 7,245 out of 20,380. Before him are Pam Dawber (1951), Irene Guest (1900), John Myung (1967), Shannon Elizabeth (1973), Kristi Noem (1971), and Lauren Vélez (1964). After him are Edward Condon (1902), Jodi Lyn O'Keefe (1978), Chad Stahelski (1968), Dale Dye (1944), Fats Navarro (1923), and Rose Cleveland (1846).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, John Templeton ranks 170. Before him are Jerry Buss (1933), Helen Walton (1919), Jared Isaacman (1983), Teddy Mayer (1935), Brendan Eich (1961), and Malcom McLean (1913). After him are William Henry Vanderbilt (1821), James Buchanan Duke (1856), Guy Kawasaki (1954), Joe Sutter (1921), George Peabody (1795), and Robert Durst (1943).

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