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The Most Famous

INVENTORS from Denmark

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This page contains a list of the greatest Danish Inventors. The pantheon dataset contains 354 Inventors, 1 of which were born in Denmark. This makes Denmark the birth place of the 38th most number of Inventors behind Georgia and Lithuania.

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

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1. Jacob Ellehammer (1871 - 1946)

With an HPI of 47.79, Jacob Ellehammer is the most famous Danish Inventor.  His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.

Jacob Christian Hansen-Ellehammer (14 June 1871 – 20 May 1946) was a Danish watchmaker and inventor born in Bakkebølle, Denmark. He is remembered chiefly for his contributions to powered flight.

Pantheon has 1 people classified as inventors born between 1871 and 1871. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased inventors include Jacob Ellehammer.

Deceased Inventors

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