The Most Famous

Inventors from Spain

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This page contains a list of the greatest Spanish Inventors. The pantheon dataset contains 426 Inventors, 4 of which were born in Spain. This makes Spain the birth place of the 18th most number of Inventors behind Slovakia and Croatia.

Top 4 Spanish Inventors

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

  1. #1
    Photo of Abbas ibn Firnas

    Abbas ibn Firnas

    810 - 887

    HPI 75.2753 langs

    Abbas ibn Firnas is most famous for inventing the world's first flying machine.

  2. #3
    Photo of Narcís Monturiol

    Narcís Monturiol

    1819 - 1885

    HPI 61.3126 langs

    Spanish submarine pioneer (1819-1885)

Overlapping Lives

Which Inventors were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 3 most globally memorable Inventors since 1700.

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