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Richard Branson

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Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) is an English business magnate who co-founded the Virgin Group in 1970, and, as of 2016, controlled five companies. Branson expressed his desire to become an entrepreneur at a young age. His first business venture, at the age of 16, was a magazine called Student. In 1970, he set up a mail-order record business. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Branson is the 76th most popular businessperson (down from 72nd in 2019), the 580th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 497th in 2019) and the 4th most popular British Businessperson.

Richard Branson is most famous for founding Virgin Records, Virgin Atlantic Airways, and Virgin Mobile.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Richard Branson ranks 76 out of 847Before him are J. Paul Getty, Martin Cooper, Jakob Fugger, Sergei Diaghilev, Rupert Murdoch, and Henri Nestlé. After him are N. R. Narayana Murthy, Larry Fink, Flavio Briatore, Robert Kardashian, Bernie Ecclestone, and David Koch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Richard Branson ranks 24Before him are Ed Harris, Robbie Coltrane, Néstor Kirchner, Jody Williams, Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, and William Sadler. After him are Peter Gabriel, Richard Dean Anderson, Bill Murray, Flavio Briatore, Ron Perlman, and Zhang Yimou.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Richard Branson ranks 580 out of 8,785Before him are Thomas Cromwell (1485), John Knox (1514), Christopher Wren (1632), John Turner (1929), James Bradley (1693), and Domnall mac Ailpín (812). After him are Samuel Johnson (1709), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772), A. J. Cronin (1896), William Petty (1623), Joan of the Tower (1321), and Edward the Confessor (1003).

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United Kingdom

Among businesspeople born in United Kingdom, Richard Branson ranks 4Before him are Cecil Rhodes (1853), Frank Williams (1942), and Andrew Carnegie (1835). After him are Bernie Ecclestone (1930), Ron Dennis (1947), Stanley Rous (1895), J. Bruce Ismay (1862), David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon (1961), Brian Epstein (1934), Thomas Cook (1808), and John McAfee (1945).