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The Most Famous

ENGINEERS from Croatia

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This page contains a list of the greatest Croatian Engineers. The pantheon dataset contains 323 Engineers, 1 of which were born in Croatia. This makes Croatia the birth place of the 35th most number of Engineers behind Lithuania and Brazil.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Croatian Engineers of all time. This list of famous Croatian Engineers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Herman Potočnik (1892 - 1929)

With an HPI of 54.27, Herman Potočnik is the most famous Croatian Engineer.  His biography has been translated into 25 different languages on wikipedia.

Herman Potočnik (pseudonym Hermann Noordung; 22 December 1892 – 27 August 1929) was Austro-Hungarian Army officer, electrical engineer and astronautics theorist. He is regarded as an early theorist of modern space flight and is remembered mainly for his work concerning the long-term human habitation of space.

Pantheon has 1 people classified as engineers born between 1892 and 1892. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased engineers include Herman Potočnik.

Deceased Engineers

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