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William Boeing

1881 - 1956

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William Edward Boeing (; October 1, 1881 – September 28, 1956) was an American aviation pioneer. He founded the Pacific Airplane Company in 1916, which was renamed to Boeing a year later. The company is now the largest exporter in the United States by dollar value and among the largest aerospace manufacturers in the world. Boeing's first design was the Boeing Model 1 (or B & W Seaplane), which first flew in June 1916, a month before the company was founded. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William Boeing is the 24th most popular businessperson (up from 119th in 2019), the 291st most popular biography from United States (up from 1,330th in 2019) and the 11th most popular American Businessperson.

William Boeing is most famous for founding the company, Boeing.

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Among businesspeople, William Boeing ranks 24 out of 847. Before him are Florentino Pérez, Cosimo de' Medici, Ferruccio Lamborghini, Bernard Arnault, Tim Cook, and Fred Trump. After him are Jeffrey Epstein, Estée Lauder, Steve Ballmer, Lee Byung-chul, Amancio Ortega, and Ferdinand von Zeppelin.

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Among people born in 1881, William Boeing ranks 13. Before him are Alexander Kerensky, Roger Martin du Gard, Lu Xun, Cecil B. DeMille, Anna Pavlova, and Enver Pasha. After him are Kliment Voroshilov, Walther von Brauchitsch, Hans Kelsen, Clinton Davisson, Guccio Gucci, and Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax. Among people deceased in 1956, William Boeing ranks 5. Before him are Bertolt Brecht, Irène Joliot-Curie, B. R. Ambedkar, and Jackson Pollock. After him are Frederick Soddy, Konstantin von Neurath, Pietro Badoglio, Jules Rimet, Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, and Emil Nolde.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William Boeing ranks 291 out of 20,380. Before him are Carl Sagan (1934), John Travolta (1954), Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803), Barry Barish (1936), Tony Curtis (1925), and Val Kilmer (1959). After him are Jerome Powell (1953), Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. (1934), Ben Roy Mottelson (1926), Gwyneth Paltrow (1972), Jeffrey Epstein (1953), and Pete Conrad (1930).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, William Boeing ranks 11. Before him are Jeff Bezos (1964), Bernie Madoff (1938), Vince McMahon (1945), Robert McNamara (1916), Tim Cook (1960), and Fred Trump (1905). After him are Jeffrey Epstein (1953), Estée Lauder (1906), Steve Ballmer (1956), P. T. Barnum (1810), Margaret Hamilton (1936), and Linda McMahon (1948).

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