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Sepp Blatter

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Joseph Sepp Blatter (born Josef Blatter; 10 March 1936) is a Swiss former football administrator who served as the eighth president of FIFA from 1998 to 2015. He has been banned from participating in FIFA activities since 2015 as a result of the FIFA corruption case made public that year, and will remain banned until 2027. From a background in business, public relations, and sports administration, Blatter became general secretary of FIFA in 1981 and was then elected president at the 51st FIFA Congress on 8 June 1998, succeeding João Havelange, who had headed the organization since 1974.[1][2] Blatter was re-elected in 2002, 2007, 2011, and 2015. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sepp Blatter is the 11th most popular businessperson (down from 7th in 2019), the 11th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 10th in 2019) and the most popular Swiss Businessperson.

Sepp Blatter is most famous for being the president of FIFA, the international governing body of soccer.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Sepp Blatter ranks 11 out of 847. Before him are Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Oskar Schindler, George Soros, John D. Rockefeller, and Jeff Bezos. After him are Bernie Madoff, Vince McMahon, Aristotle Onassis, Robert McNamara, Ingvar Kamprad, and Jamsetji Tata.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Sepp Blatter ranks 4. Before him are Pope Francis, Silvio Berlusconi, and Václav Havel. After him are Mario Vargas Llosa, Yves Saint Laurent, Robert Redford, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Barry Barish, Amancio Ortega, Mikhail Tal, and Ismail Kadare.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Sepp Blatter ranks 11 out of 1,015. Before him are Paracelsus (1493), Henry Dunant (1828), Jean Piaget (1896), Ferdinand de Saussure (1857), Jacob Bernoulli (1654), and Huldrych Zwingli (1484). After him are Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746), Paul Klee (1879), Charles Édouard Guillaume (1861), Charles Albert Gobat (1843), Jean-Paul Marat (1743), and K. Alex Müller (1927).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Switzerland

Among businesspeople born in Switzerland, Sepp Blatter ranks 1. After him are Joan Gamper (1877), Aga Khan IV (1936), Louis Chevrolet (1878), Gianni Infantino (1970), César Ritz (1850), Peter Sauber (1943), Meyer Guggenheim (1828), Umberto Agnelli (1934), Daniel Peter (1836), Julius Maggi (1846), and Paul Sacher (1906).

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