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Samuel Cunard

1787 - 1865

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Sir Samuel Cunard, 1st Baronet (21 November 1787 – 28 April 1865), was a British-Canadian shipping magnate, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, who founded the Cunard Line, establishing the first scheduled steamship connection with North America. He was the son of a master carpenter and timber merchant who had fled the American Revolution and settled in Halifax. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Samuel Cunard is the 494th most popular businessperson (up from 495th in 2019), the 359th most popular biography from Canada (down from 340th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Canadian Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Samuel Cunard ranks 494 out of 847. Before him are Vladimir Lisin, Ernest Oppenheimer, Sherry Lansing, Azim Premji, Mohammed bin Hammam, and J. R. D. Tata. After him are Anders Frisk, Mike Lindell, Carl Icahn, Petr Kellner, Gregory Olsen, and Astor family.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1787, Samuel Cunard ranks 48. Before him are Manuel Dorrego, Sven Nilsson, Pedro Vélez, Gaspard-Théodore-Ignace de la Fontaine, Johann Natterer, and Andrés Quintana Roo. After him are Josephine Kablick, Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter, Edward Blore, José Tomás Ovalle, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, and Thomas Hodgskin. Among people deceased in 1865, Samuel Cunard ranks 66. Before him are Antonios Kriezis, Marie-Anne Libert, Kitsos Tzavelas, Stephen Allen Benson, Edward Everett, and Philippe Buchez. After him are Lewis Powell, Nicholas Wiseman, Manuel Isidoro Belzu, Hugh Falconer, William Henry Smyth, and José María Pérez de Urdininea.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Samuel Cunard ranks 359 out of 1,622. Before him are August Schellenberg (1936), Naomi Klein (1970), Linda Thorson (1947), Natalya Neidhart (1982), Émile Nelligan (1879), and Duncan McNaughton (1910). After him are Mary Pierce (1975), Harold Innis (1894), Lothaire Bluteau (1957), Doug Rogers (1941), David Suzuki (1936), and Sami Zayn (1984).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Canada

Among businesspeople born in Canada, Samuel Cunard ranks 6. Before him are Elizabeth Arden (1878), Joe Weider (1919), Lawrence Stroll (1959), David Baszucki (1963), and Guy Laliberté (1959). After him are Stephen Elop (1963), Andrea Jung (1959), and Jade Raymond (1975).

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