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Steve Fossett

1944 - 2007

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James Stephen Fossett (April 22, 1944 – September 3, 2007) was an American businessman and a record-setting aviator, sailor, and adventurer. He was the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon and in a fixed-wing aircraft. He made his fortune in the financial services industry and held world records for five nonstop circumnavigations of the Earth: as a long-distance solo balloonist, as a sailor, and as a solo flight fixed-wing aircraft pilot. A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Explorers Club, Fossett set more than one hundred records in five different sports, sixty of which still stood at the time of his death. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Steve Fossett is the 247th most popular businessperson (down from 224th in 2019), the 2,956th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,504th in 2019) and the 83rd most popular American Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Steve Fossett ranks 247 out of 847. Before him are Vidal Sassoon, Malcolm Glazer, Karl Baedeker, Johns Hopkins, Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, and Lee Shau-kee. After him are Hans Wilsdorf, Vagit Alekperov, David Icke, Shibusawa Eiichi, George Gallup, and Terry Gou.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Steve Fossett ranks 215. Before him are Igor Mitoraj, Michel Polnareff, Jim Abrahams, Bernard Tschumi, Rocky Johnson, and Péter Eötvös. After him are Patrick Sercu, Mordechai Spiegler, Phillip Allen Sharp, Terry Cooper, Sergei Belov, and Jerry Springer. Among people deceased in 2007, Steve Fossett ranks 116. Before him are Michel Lotito, Wally Schirra, Gordon Scott, Karel Svoboda, Maurice Papon, and Mika Špiljak. After him are Jean-Pierre Vernant, Ulrich Mühe, Colin McRae, Maria Gripe, Lothar-Günther Buchheim, and Tikhon Khrennikov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Steve Fossett ranks 2,956 out of 20,380. Before him are Audre Lorde (1934), Richie Sambora (1959), Harold Eugene Edgerton (1903), Jim Rogers (1942), Gabe Newell (1962), and Jim Davis (1909). After him are Charlie Baker (1956), GZA (1966), Mervyn LeRoy (1900), Tony Sirico (1942), Mike Troy (1940), and Ralph Waite (1928).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Steve Fossett ranks 83. Before him are Stockton Rush (1962), Arthur D. Levinson (1950), Rex Tillerson (1952), Lawrence Roberts (1937), Malcolm Glazer (1928), and Johns Hopkins (1795). After him are George Gallup (1901), Ray Dalio (1949), William C. Durant (1861), Alice Walton (1949), Edsel Ford (1893), and Asa Griggs Candler (1851).

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