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The Most Famous

INVENTORS from Singapore

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This page contains a list of the greatest Singaporean Inventors. The pantheon dataset contains 354 Inventors, 1 of which were born in Singapore. This makes Singapore the birth place of the 42nd most number of Inventors behind Indonesia and Turkey.

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

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1. Edward Craven Walker (1918 - 2000)

With an HPI of 43.31, Edward Craven Walker is the most famous Singaporean Inventor.  His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.

Edward Craven Walker (4 July 1918 – 15 August 2000) was a British inventor, who invented the psychedelic Astro lamp, also known as the lava lamp.

Pantheon has 1 people classified as inventors born between 1918 and 1918. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased inventors include Edward Craven Walker. As of April 2022, 1 new inventors have been added to Pantheon including Edward Craven Walker.

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