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King C. Gillette

1855 - 1932

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King Camp Gillette (January 5, 1855 – July 9, 1932) was an American businessman who invented a bestselling safety razor. Gillette's innovation was the thin, inexpensive, disposable blade of stamped steel. Gillette is often erroneously credited with inventing the so-called razor and blades business model in which razors are sold cheaply to increase the market for blades. However, Gillette Safety Razor Company adopted the business model from its competitors. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. King C. Gillette is the 60th most popular businessperson (up from 265th in 2019), the 648th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,913th in 2019) and the 28th most popular American Businessperson.

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Among businesspeople, King C. Gillette ranks 60 out of 847. Before him are Levi Strauss, Hugh Hefner, Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Ettore Bugatti, Larry Ellison, and Donald Trump Jr.. After him are Bill Hewlett, Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, Rudolf Dassler, Boris Berezovsky, Soichiro Honda, and Giovanni Agnelli.

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Among people born in 1855, King C. Gillette ranks 3. Before him are Archduchess Sophie of Austria, and Ferdinand Tönnies. After him are Andrew Mellon, Émile Verhaeren, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Otto Liman von Sanders, John Browning, Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri, Percival Lowell, Ernest Chausson, and Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin. Among people deceased in 1932, King C. Gillette ranks 10. Before him are Sophia of Prussia, Eduard Bernstein, Aristide Briand, Ronald Ross, Giuseppe Peano, and Manuel II of Portugal. After him are Paul Doumer, Augusta, Lady Gregory, Gustav Meyrink, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Alberto Santos-Dumont, and Max Wolf.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, King C. Gillette ranks 648 out of 20,380. Before him are Stephen Lang (1952), Martin Lewis Perl (1927), Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (1915), Dave Bautista (1969), Tiny Tim (1932), and Goldie Hawn (1945). After him are Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804), David Carradine (1936), Gordon Allport (1897), Dian Fossey (1932), Lucy Webb Hayes (1831), and William Lipscomb (1919).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, King C. Gillette ranks 28. Before him are David Rockefeller (1915), Melinda Gates (1964), J. P. Morgan (1837), Hugh Hefner (1926), Larry Ellison (1944), and Donald Trump Jr. (1977). After him are Bill Hewlett (1913), J. Paul Getty (1892), Martin Cooper (1928), Larry Fink (1952), Robert Kardashian (1944), and David Koch (1940).

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