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Hugh Hefner

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Hugh Hefner

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Also known as Hef, Hugh Marston Hefner, Hugh M. Hefner

American businessman and magazine publisher (1926–2017)

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Hugh Hefner was a figure active in his work period from 1953 until 2017. He is associated with the official website playboyenterprises.com. His notable works include New Bedside Playboy, Playmate Book, 50 Years of Playboy Cartoons, Little Annie Fanny Volume 1: 1962 - 1970, and Femlin. He has seven works listed in the Open Library and five works in Crossref.

Hefner was recognized in the Hollywood Walk Of Fame collection. He had four children. He was born on April 9, 1926, and died on September 27, 2017. His social media presence included 1,280,283 followers. He is referenced by 819 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 22 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
7

Top works

  • New Bedside Playboy
  • Playmate Book
  • 50 Years of Playboy Cartoons
  • Little Annie Fanny Volume 1 : 1962 - 1970
  • Femlin

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Group
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1997
Active to
2002
britishenglishindie popuk

Discography

Official siteDiscogsStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
36
Total plays
66

Hugh Marston Hefner (April 9, 1926 – September 27, 2017) was an American publisher and playboy. He was best known as the editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine, which he founded in 1953, and as chief creative officer of Playboy Enterprises, the publishing group that operates the magazine. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Hugh+Hefner">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · Hugh Hefner

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. ROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions

    · 2016 · cited 15,459x

  2. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    · 2018 · cited 10,997x

  3. The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans

    · 2020 · cited 9,181x

  4. Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans

    · 2016 · cited 9,061x

  5. From local explanations to global understanding with explainable AI for trees

    · 2020 · cited 8,664x

via Crossref · CC0

~20 min read

Encyclopedic overview

Hugh Marston Hefner (April 9, 1926 – September 27, 2017) was an American magazine publisher and businessman. He was the founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine, a publication with revealing photographs, quality articles and fiction, and lengthy interviews with politicians, musicians, artists, and writers. Hefner extended the Playboy brand into a world network of Playboy Clubs. He also resided in luxury mansions where Playboy Playmates shared his partying lifestyle, fueling media interest.

Early life and education

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hugh Hefner” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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