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Ursula Burns

1958 - Today

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Ursula M. Burns (born September 20, 1958) is an American businesswoman. Burns was the CEO of Xerox from 2009 to 2016. Burns was the first black woman to lead a Fortune 500 company. She is also the first woman to follow another as the head of a Fortune 500 company. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2024). Ursula Burns is the 856th most popular businessperson (down from 800th in 2024), the 17,135th most popular biography from United States (down from 16,061st in 2019) and the 304th most popular American Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Ursula Burns ranks 856 out of 847. Before her are Chris Wright, Olivia Palermo, Linda Pétursdóttir, Liang Wenfeng, Alexis Ohanian, and Joel Spolsky. After her are Chris Anderson, Tom Hicks, Indu Jain, Ben Horowitz, Whitney Wolfe Herd, and Sunil Mittal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Ursula Burns ranks 767. Before her are Paul Gosar, Ramachandra Guha, Mark Overmars, Nigel Spink, Mamta Chandrakar, and Michael Steele. After her are Bill Haslam, Joe Barry Carroll, Leo Randolph, Abhijeet Bhattacharya, Nassar, and Alvin Martin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ursula Burns ranks 17,142 out of 20,380. Before her are Kevin Shields (1963), Timothy Bradley (1983), Paula Vogel (1951), Matthew Emmons (1981), Stephen Frick (1964), and Rodney Harvey (1967). After her are Ill Bill (1972), Tara Lipinski (1982), Alexandra Holden (1977), Rashad Evans (1979), Lori Chavez-DeRemer (1968), and Rebecca Sugar (1987).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Ursula Burns ranks 304. Before her are Neal Mohan (1973), Terri Irwin (1964), Chris Wright (1965), Olivia Palermo (1986), Alexis Ohanian (1983), and Joel Spolsky (1965). After her are Tom Hicks (1946), Whitney Wolfe Herd (1989), Randi Zuckerberg (1982), Julie Sweet (null), Abby Lee Miller (1965), and Sam Bankman-Fried (1992).

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