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Peter Lynch

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Peter Lynch (born January 19, 1944) is an American investor, mutual fund manager, author and philanthropist. As the manager of the Magellan Fund at Fidelity Investments between 1977 and 1990, Lynch averaged a 29.2% annual return, consistently outperforming S&P 500 stock market index and making it the best-performing mutual fund in the world. During his 13-year tenure, assets under management increased from US$18 million to $14 billion. A proponent of value investing, Lynch wrote and co-authored a number of books and papers on investing strategies, including One Up on Wall Street, published by Simon & Schuster in 1989, which sold over one million copies. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2024). Peter Lynch is the 400th most popular businessperson (up from 432nd in 2024), the 5,038th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,274th in 2019) and the 125th most popular American Businessperson.

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Among businesspeople, Peter Lynch ranks 400 out of 847. Before him are Silvio Santos, Rina Zaripova, Robert Mercer, Steve Jackson, Ida Straus, and Howard Schultz. After him are Edwin Drake, Roy E. Disney, John Cockerill, Elisabeth Abegg, Mikhail Prokhorov, and Gerard Philips.

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Among people born in 1944, Peter Lynch ranks 365. Before him are Yang Song-guk, Susan Howard, Peter Jason, Jim Gray, Ard Schenk, and Kevin Ayers. After him are Leonard Peltier, John Flanagan, Džemaludin Mušović, Glen Cook, Robert Mueller, and Joseph Benz.

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Among people born in United States, Peter Lynch ranks 5,038 out of 20,380. Before him are Randall Collins (1941), Dorothy Gibson (1889), Ashley Johnson (1983), Arnold Palmer (1929), David Silverman (1957), and Steve Zahn (1967). After him are Michael S. Hart (1947), Cat Power (1972), Albert Brooks (1947), Alexander H. Stephens (1812), Margaret Sullavan (1909), and Peggy Whitson (1960).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Peter Lynch ranks 125. Before him are Erin Brockovich (1960), Arnold Rothstein (1882), Douglas Tompkins (1943), Sylvia Beach (1887), Robert Mercer (1946), and Howard Schultz (1953). After him are Edwin Drake (1819), Roy E. Disney (1930), Allen Klein (1931), Alan Lomax (1915), Robert Monroe (1915), and John Elkann (1976).

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