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Robert Nobel

1829 - 1896

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Robert Hjalmar Nobel ( noh-BEL, Swedish: [nʊˈbɛlː]; 4 August 1829 – 7 August 1896) was a Swedish businessman, industrialist and investor. He was the founder of Branobel, and a pioneer in the Russian oil industry. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Nobel is the 307th most popular businessperson (down from 272nd in 2019). (down from 1,719th in 2019)

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Among businesspeople, Robert Nobel ranks 307 out of 847Before him are Daniel Peter, Lazare Ponticelli, Zeynalabdin Taghiyev, George Williams, Leonardo Del Vecchio, and Larry Silverstein. After him are Sergio Marchionne, Tadashi Yanai, Jawed Karim, Arnon Milchan, Ivar Kreuger, and Reggie Fils-Aimé.

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Among people born in 1829, Robert Nobel ranks 30Before him are Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov, Ivan Sechenov, Hon'inbō Shūsaku, Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail, Elwin Bruno Christoffel, and Maurice Joly. After him are Franz Reuleaux, Ignacio Zaragoza, Moritz Cantor, Jean-Jacques Henner, Konrad Duden, and Laurence Oliphant. Among people deceased in 1896, Robert Nobel ranks 41Before him are Napoleon Sarony, Karl Verner, Louis Gerhard De Geer, Philipp Ludwig von Seidel, Kurmangazy Sagyrbaev, and Antônio Carlos Gomes. After him are Vera Yevstafievna Popova, Charles Floquet, Luis Ricardo Falero, Jules Simon, Marcelo H. del Pilar, and Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky.

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