The Most Famous
INVENTORS from Iraq
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Iraqi Inventors of all time. This list of famous Iraqi Inventors is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Ismail al-Jazari (1136 - 1206)
With an HPI of 68.91, Ismail al-Jazari is the most famous Iraqi Inventor. His biography has been translated into 41 different languages on wikipedia.
Badīʿ az-Zaman Abu l-ʿIzz ibn Ismāʿīl ibn ar-Razāz al-Jazarī (1136–1206, Arabic: بَدِيعُ الزَّمانِ أَبُو العِزِّ بْنُ إسْماعِيلَ بْنِ الرَّزَّازِ الجَزَرِيّ, IPA: [ældʒæzæriː]) was a Muslim polymath: a scholar, inventor, mechanical engineer, artisan, artist and mathematician from the Artuqid Dynasty of Jazira in Mesopotamia. He is best known for writing The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices (Arabic: كتاب في معرفة الحيل الهندسية, romanized: Kitab fi ma'rifat al-hiyal al-handasiya, lit. 'Book in knowledge of engineering tricks', also known as Automata) in 1206, where he described 50 mechanical devices, along with instructions on how to construct them. He is credited with the invention of the elephant clock. He has been described as the "father of robotics" and modern day engineering.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as inventors born between 1136 and 1136. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased inventors include Ismail al-Jazari.
