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Kim Dotcom

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Kim Dotcom (né Schmitz; born 21 January 1974), also known as Kimble and Kim Tim Jim Vestor, is a Finnish-German Internet entrepreneur and political activist who lives in Glenorchy, New Zealand. Dotcom rose to fame in Germany in the 1990s as a hacker and an Internet entrepreneur. He was arrested in 1994 for trafficking in stolen phone calling card numbers. He was convicted on eleven charges of computer fraud, ten charges of data espionage, and various other charges in 1998 for which he served a two-year suspended sentence. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2024). Kim Dotcom is the 610th most popular businessperson (down from 463rd in 2024), the 5,248th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,252nd in 2019) and the 56th most popular German Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Kim Dotcom ranks 610 out of 847. Before him are Sean Parker, Rick Scott, Jacqueline Mars, Dustin Moskovitz, Sheryl Sandberg, and Dwarkanath Tagore. After him are Kimbal Musk, Mike Lynch, Irving Kristol, Phạm Nhật Vượng, Tim O'Reilly, and Bruce Buck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1974, Kim Dotcom ranks 210. Before him are Ray Park, Michael Rasmussen, Hanya Yanagihara, André Ooijer, Oliver Glasner, and Iván Campo. After him are Gregory Helms, Alessandro Petacchi, Heather Donahue, Hannah Waddingham, Joseph Muscat, and Tomer Sisley.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Kim Dotcom ranks 5,251 out of 7,253. Before him are Tommy Haas (1978), Rolf-Dieter Heuer (1948), Walther von Dyck (1856), Reinhard Lauck (1946), Helmut Braselmann (1911), and Bruno Labbadia (1966). After him are Margit Schumann (1952), Christina Lathan (1958), Ivan Klasnić (1980), Walter Lassally (1926), Ursula Knab (1929), and Bernhard Langer (1957).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Germany

Among businesspeople born in Germany, Kim Dotcom ranks 56. Before him are Reinhard Mohn (1921), Ernest Oppenheimer (1880), Marcus Goldman (1821), Hermann Josef Abs (1901), Josef Neckermann (1912), and Katerina Tikhonova (1986). After him are Bernard Knubel (1872), Steve Shirley (1933), John Peter Zenger (1697), and Erica Baker (null).

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