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Levi Strauss

1829 - 1902

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Levi Strauss ( LEE-vy STROWSS; born Löb Strauß, German: [løːp ˈʃtʁaʊs]; February 26, 1829 – September 26, 1902) was a German-born American businessman who founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans. His firm of Levi Strauss & Co. (Levi's) began in 1853 in San Francisco, California. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Levi Strauss is the 54th most popular businessperson (down from 17th in 2019), the 427th most popular biography from Germany (down from 150th in 2019) and the 5th most popular German Businessperson.

Levi Strauss is most famous for inventing the blue jeans.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Levi Strauss ranks 54 out of 847. Before him are Adolf Dassler, João Havelange, Joan Gamper, J. P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and Aga Khan IV. After him are Hugh Hefner, Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Ettore Bugatti, Larry Ellison, Donald Trump Jr., and King C. Gillette.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1829, Levi Strauss ranks 6. Before him are Oscar II of Sweden, August Kekulé, Auguste Beernaert, Geronimo, and Anton Rubinstein. After him are Chester A. Arthur, Asaph Hall, John Everett Millais, Philip Sclater, Theodor Billroth, and Alfred Brehm. Among people deceased in 1902, Levi Strauss ranks 6. Before him are Émile Zola, Cecil Rhodes, Swami Vivekananda, Rudolf Virchow, and Samuel Butler. After him are Maria Goretti, Marie Henriette of Austria, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Albert of Saxony, Francis, Duke of Cádiz, and Ion Ivanovici.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Levi Strauss ranks 427 out of 7,253. Before him are Karen Horney (1885), Christian III of Denmark (1503), Friedrich Carl von Savigny (1779), Emil Nolde (1867), Gerd Binnig (1947), and Otto Dix (1891). After him are Manfred Eigen (1927), Sepp Maier (1944), Ernst Abbe (1840), Otto Loewi (1873), Otto Lilienthal (1848), and Leo von Caprivi (1831).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Germany

Among businesspeople born in Germany, Levi Strauss ranks 5. Before him are Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838), Ludwig Erhard (1897), Bertha Benz (1849), and Adolf Dassler (1900). After him are Rudolf Dassler (1898), Otto Frank (1889), Robert Bosch (1861), Jakob Fugger (1459), Henri Nestlé (1814), Paul Reuter (1816), and Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777).

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