1837 - 1895
Adam Opel (9 May 1837 – 8 September 1895) was a German entrepreneur who founded the automobile company Adam Opel AG. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adam Opel has received more than 285,440 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 37 in 2019). Adam Opel is the 56th most popular inventor, the 482nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 443rd in 2019) and the 11th most popular German Inventor.
Adam Opel AG is a German automobile manufacturer headquartered in Rüsselsheim, Hesse, Germany. It was founded in 1862 by Adam Opel.
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Among inventors, Adam Opel ranks 56 out of 354. Before him are Hans Lippershey, John Boyd Dunlop, Emile Berliner, Wilhelm Maybach, Frank Whittle, and Isaac Singer. After him are John Deere, Louis Blériot, Douglas Engelbart, Henry Fox Talbot, Louis Renault, and John Browning.
1570 - 1619
HPI: 67.25
Rank: 50
1840 - 1921
HPI: 66.90
Rank: 51
1851 - 1929
HPI: 66.44
Rank: 52
1846 - 1929
HPI: 66.32
Rank: 53
1907 - 1996
HPI: 66.20
Rank: 54
1811 - 1875
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 55
1837 - 1895
HPI: 66.10
Rank: 56
1804 - 1886
HPI: 65.61
Rank: 57
1872 - 1936
HPI: 65.55
Rank: 58
1925 - 2013
HPI: 65.53
Rank: 59
1800 - 1877
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 60
1877 - 1944
HPI: 65.34
Rank: 61
1855 - 1926
HPI: 65.00
Rank: 62
Among people born in 1837, Adam Opel ranks 10. Before him are Grover Cleveland, J. P. Morgan, Mily Balakirev, Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī, Fredrik Bajer, and Cosima Wagner. After him are Marie François Sadi Carnot, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Pedro V of Portugal, Paul Morphy, Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders, and Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse. Among people deceased in 1895, Adam Opel ranks 9. Before him are Alexandre Dumas fils, Berthe Morisot, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Thomas Henry Huxley, Empress Myeongseong, and Julius Lothar Meyer. After him are José Martí, Isma'il Pasha, Friedrich Miescher, Franz von Suppé, Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen, and Arthur Cayley.
1837 - 1908
HPI: 69.25
Rank: 4
1837 - 1913
HPI: 68.35
Rank: 5
1837 - 1910
HPI: 68.29
Rank: 6
1837 - 1897
HPI: 68.14
Rank: 7
1837 - 1922
HPI: 68.04
Rank: 8
1837 - 1930
HPI: 67.52
Rank: 9
1837 - 1895
HPI: 66.10
Rank: 10
1837 - 1894
HPI: 65.37
Rank: 11
1837 - 1913
HPI: 65.06
Rank: 12
1837 - 1861
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 13
1837 - 1884
HPI: 64.38
Rank: 14
1837 - 1905
HPI: 64.19
Rank: 15
1837 - 1892
HPI: 64.07
Rank: 16
1824 - 1895
HPI: 75.75
Rank: 3
1841 - 1895
HPI: 71.95
Rank: 4
1836 - 1895
HPI: 70.11
Rank: 5
1825 - 1895
HPI: 69.97
Rank: 6
1851 - 1895
HPI: 67.55
Rank: 7
1830 - 1895
HPI: 66.87
Rank: 8
1837 - 1895
HPI: 66.10
Rank: 9
1853 - 1895
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 10
1830 - 1895
HPI: 65.63
Rank: 11
1844 - 1895
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 12
1819 - 1895
HPI: 64.17
Rank: 13
1817 - 1895
HPI: 63.66
Rank: 14
1821 - 1895
HPI: 61.70
Rank: 15
Among people born in Germany, Adam Opel ranks 482 out of 6,142. Before him are Adolf Galland (1912), Johann Bayer (1572), Richard von Weizsäcker (1920), Adolf Windaus (1876), Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia (1892), and Sophia of Nassau (1836). After him are Caroline Augusta of Bavaria (1792), Conradin (1252), Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732), Lucas Cranach the Younger (1515), Dieter Bohlen (1954), and John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg (1572).
1912 - 1996
HPI: 66.15
Rank: 476
1572 - 1625
HPI: 66.15
Rank: 477
1920 - 2015
HPI: 66.12
Rank: 478
1876 - 1959
HPI: 66.11
Rank: 479
1892 - 1980
HPI: 66.10
Rank: 480
1836 - 1913
HPI: 66.10
Rank: 481
1837 - 1895
HPI: 66.10
Rank: 482
1792 - 1873
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 483
1252 - 1268
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 484
1732 - 1795
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 485
1515 - 1586
HPI: 66.06
Rank: 486
1954 - Present
HPI: 66.06
Rank: 487
1572 - 1619
HPI: 66.01
Rank: 488
Among inventors born in Germany, Adam Opel ranks 11. Before him are Werner von Siemens (1816), Konrad Zuse (1910), Karl Drais (1785), Hans Lippershey (1570), Emile Berliner (1851), and Wilhelm Maybach (1846). After him are Joseph Pilates (1883), Johann Philipp Reis (1834), Theobald Boehm (1794), Alfred Krupp (1812), Hugo Schmeisser (1884), and Johann Jacob Schweppe (1740).
1816 - 1892
HPI: 70.93
Rank: 5
1910 - 1995
HPI: 68.82
Rank: 6
1785 - 1851
HPI: 68.05
Rank: 7
1570 - 1619
HPI: 67.25
Rank: 8
1851 - 1929
HPI: 66.44
Rank: 9
1846 - 1929
HPI: 66.32
Rank: 10
1837 - 1895
HPI: 66.10
Rank: 11
1883 - 1967
HPI: 60.56
Rank: 12
1834 - 1874
HPI: 59.96
Rank: 13
1794 - 1881
HPI: 59.79
Rank: 14
1812 - 1887
HPI: 59.54
Rank: 15
1884 - 1953
HPI: 58.55
Rank: 16
1740 - 1821
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 17