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Michele Ferrero

1925 - 2015

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Michele Ferrero (Italian pronunciation: [miˈkɛːle ferˈrɛːro]; 26 April 1925 – 14 February 2015) was an Italian billionaire businessman. He owned the chocolate manufacturer Ferrero SpA, Europe's second-largest confectionery company (at the time of his death), which he developed from the small bakery and café of his father in Alba, Piedmont. His first big success was his work with Francesco Rivella in adding vegetable oil to the traditional gianduja paste to make the popular spread Nutella. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Michele Ferrero is the 129th most popular businessperson (down from 98th in 2019), the 1,193rd most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,095th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Italian Businessperson.

Michele Ferrero is most famous for being the founder of Ferrero SpA, the largest chocolate manufacturer in the world.

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Among businesspeople, Michele Ferrero ranks 129 out of 847. Before him are Elizabeth Christ Trump, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Louis Chevrolet, Thomas Cook, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and Eusebi Güell. After him are Gianni Infantino, Max Manus, Uli Hoeneß, Ronald Wayne, Solomon R. Guggenheim, and Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Michele Ferrero ranks 80. Before him are John Pople, John Cocke, Celia Cruz, József Bozsik, Claude Lanzmann, and Alain Touraine. After him are Veljko Kadijević, Masanori Tokita, Oscar Peterson, Robert Rauschenberg, Paul Greengard, and Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen. Among people deceased in 2015, Michele Ferrero ranks 56. Before him are Boris Nemtsov, Frei Otto, Faten Hamama, Mathieu Kérékou, Diana Douglas, and James Horner. After him are Chantal Akerman, Udo Lattek, Oliver Sacks, Zhelyu Zhelev, Kenzo Ohashi, and Alfred G. Gilman.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Michele Ferrero ranks 1,193 out of 5,161. Before him are Carlo Carrà (1881), Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (1500), Agostino Casaroli (1914), Giambattista Marino (1569), Dosso Dossi (1480), and Raf Vallone (1916). After him are Antipope Nicholas V (1260), Gaius Claudius Glaber (-200), Philip I, Prince of Taranto (1278), Erasmo of Narni (1370), Giovanni Segantini (1858), and Persius (34).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Italy

Among businesspeople born in Italy, Michele Ferrero ranks 9. Before him are Guccio Gucci (1881), Ettore Bugatti (1881), Giovanni Agnelli (1866), Flavio Briatore (1950), Piero Ferrari (1945), and Massimo Moratti (1945). After him are Giovanni di Cosimo de' Medici (1421), Adriano Galliani (1944), Vincenzo Lancia (1881), Giulia Tofana (1581), Luca Cordero di Montezemolo (1947), and Marcel Bich (1914).

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