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Robert Ripley

1890 - 1949

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LeRoy Robert Ripley (February 22, 1890 – May 27, 1949) was an American cartoonist, entrepreneur, and amateur anthropologist, who is known for creating the Ripley's Believe It or Not! newspaper panel series, television show, and radio show, which feature odd facts from around the world. Subjects covered in Ripley's cartoons and text ranged from sports feats to little-known facts about unusual and exotic sites. He also included items submitted by readers, who supplied photographs of a wide variety of small-town American trivia ranging from unusually shaped vegetables to oddly marked domestic animals, all documented by photographs and then depicted by his drawings. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Ripley is the 588th most popular businessperson (up from 600th in 2019), the 9,036th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,980th in 2019) and the 199th most popular American Businessperson.

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Among businesspeople, Robert Ripley ranks 588 out of 847. Before him are Kai-Fu Lee, Güler Sabancı, Hiro Matsushita, Josef Neckermann, Ginni Rometty, and Yuri Milner. After him are Laurene Powell Jobs, Samuel P. Bush, Henry Clay Frick, Carly Fiorina, Shane McMahon, and Katerina Tikhonova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Robert Ripley ranks 217. Before him are Angelo Zorzi, Karl Patterson Schmidt, Konstantinos Georgakopoulos, Béla Las-Torres, Arthur O'Hara Wood, and Stratis Myrivilis. After him are Edward Arnold, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Stanley Holloway, Verna Felton, Néstor Guillén, and Colin Carruthers. Among people deceased in 1949, Robert Ripley ranks 166. Before him are Ivar Lykke, Georges Trombert, Karolina Widerström, William Henry Dean, Léon Frapié, and J. Searle Dawley. After him are Alexander Drankov, Linda Arvidson, Bill Robinson, Jack Lovelock, John Neville Keynes, and Gregory Mathews.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Ripley ranks 9,038 out of 20,380. Before him are Ronda Rousey (1987), Tim Holt (1919), James Marshall (1967), Robert Alda (1914), Kelly Rowland (1981), and Richard Tyson (1956). After him are John Ashcroft (1942), Dana DeArmond (1979), Pauline Oliveros (1932), Jerrie Cobb (1931), Daniel Chester French (1850), and Damien Sandow (1982).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Robert Ripley ranks 199. Before him are Mary Barra (1961), Adam Silver (1962), Ron Woodroof (1950), Eben Moglen (1959), Marc Randolph (1958), and Ginni Rometty (1957). After him are Laurene Powell Jobs (1963), Samuel P. Bush (1863), Henry Clay Frick (1849), Carly Fiorina (1954), Shane McMahon (1970), and Leo Burnett (1891).

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