1814 - 1893
Major General Sir Alexander Cunningham (23 January 1814 – 28 November 1893) was a British Army engineer with the Bengal Engineer Group who later took an interest in the history and archaeology of India. In 1861, he was appointed to the newly created position of archaeological surveyor to the government of India; and he founded and organised what later became the Archaeological Survey of India. He wrote numerous books and monographs and made extensive collections of artefacts. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Cunningham has received more than 497,115 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Alexander Cunningham is the 113th most popular engineer (up from 149th in 2019), the 1,501st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,865th in 2019) and the 13th most popular British Engineer.
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Among engineers, Alexander Cunningham ranks 113 out of 323. Before him are Eupalinos, Christian Otto Mohr, Adrian Newey, Pedro Navarro, Count of Oliveto, Viktor Kaplan, and Pierre Clostermann. After him are François Laurent d'Arlandes, Alexander Lodygin, Robert Stephenson, Álvaro del Portillo, Hertha Ayrton, and John A. Roebling.
600 BC - 600 BC
HPI: 55.86
Rank: 107
1835 - 1918
HPI: 55.82
Rank: 108
1958 - Present
HPI: 55.77
Rank: 109
1460 - 1528
HPI: 55.77
Rank: 110
1876 - 1934
HPI: 55.71
Rank: 111
1921 - 2006
HPI: 55.69
Rank: 112
1814 - 1893
HPI: 55.59
Rank: 113
1742 - 1809
HPI: 55.56
Rank: 114
1847 - 1923
HPI: 55.47
Rank: 115
1803 - 1859
HPI: 55.44
Rank: 116
1914 - 1994
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 117
1854 - 1923
HPI: 55.23
Rank: 118
1806 - 1869
HPI: 55.18
Rank: 119
Among people born in 1814, Alexander Cunningham ranks 23. Before him are Juan Prim, 1st Count of Reus, Princess Marie Luise Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel, Pierre-Jules Hetzel, Sheridan Le Fanu, Eugène Charles Catalan, and Heinrich Geißler. After him are Rasoherina, Ivan Mažuranić, Henri Tresca, Théodolinde de Beauharnais, Ernst Curtius, and August Grisebach. Among people deceased in 1893, Alexander Cunningham ranks 26. Before him are P. G. T. Beauregard, Leland Stanford, Abner Doubleday, Princess Margherita of Bourbon-Parma, George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, and Ferenc Erkel. After him are Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, José Zorrilla, Ford Madox Brown, Jacob Moleschott, Robert Cornelius, and Rudolf Wolf.
1814 - 1870
HPI: 58.39
Rank: 17
1814 - 1895
HPI: 57.17
Rank: 18
1814 - 1886
HPI: 57.15
Rank: 19
1814 - 1873
HPI: 56.99
Rank: 20
1814 - 1894
HPI: 56.67
Rank: 21
1814 - 1879
HPI: 56.57
Rank: 22
1814 - 1893
HPI: 55.59
Rank: 23
1814 - 1868
HPI: 55.24
Rank: 24
1814 - 1890
HPI: 55.22
Rank: 25
1814 - 1885
HPI: 55.20
Rank: 26
1814 - 1857
HPI: 55.17
Rank: 27
1814 - 1896
HPI: 55.16
Rank: 28
1814 - 1879
HPI: 55.14
Rank: 29
1818 - 1893
HPI: 57.08
Rank: 20
1824 - 1893
HPI: 57.01
Rank: 21
1819 - 1893
HPI: 56.93
Rank: 22
1847 - 1893
HPI: 56.73
Rank: 23
1831 - 1893
HPI: 56.12
Rank: 24
1810 - 1893
HPI: 55.67
Rank: 25
1814 - 1893
HPI: 55.59
Rank: 26
1806 - 1893
HPI: 55.07
Rank: 27
1817 - 1893
HPI: 54.78
Rank: 28
1821 - 1893
HPI: 54.54
Rank: 29
1822 - 1893
HPI: 53.87
Rank: 30
1809 - 1893
HPI: 53.71
Rank: 31
1816 - 1893
HPI: 53.67
Rank: 32
Among people born in United Kingdom, Alexander Cunningham ranks 1,501 out of 7,765. Before him are Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773), Gareth Bale (1989), Norman Davies (1939), Alan Baker (1939), David Edward Hughes (1831), and Sister Nivedita (1867). After him are Ciarán Hinds (1953), Dick Taylor (1943), John Martin (1789), Sidney Paget (1860), Bill Ward (1948), and Lord William Bentinck (1774).
1773 - 1843
HPI: 55.65
Rank: 1,495
1989 - Present
HPI: 55.65
Rank: 1,496
1939 - Present
HPI: 55.64
Rank: 1,497
1939 - 2018
HPI: 55.63
Rank: 1,498
1831 - 1900
HPI: 55.60
Rank: 1,499
1867 - 1911
HPI: 55.59
Rank: 1,500
1814 - 1893
HPI: 55.59
Rank: 1,501
1953 - Present
HPI: 55.59
Rank: 1,502
1943 - Present
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 1,503
1789 - 1854
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 1,504
1860 - 1908
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 1,505
1948 - Present
HPI: 55.57
Rank: 1,506
1774 - 1839
HPI: 55.57
Rank: 1,507
Among engineers born in United Kingdom, Alexander Cunningham ranks 13. Before him are Ross Brawn (1954), Henry Royce (1863), Charles Rolls (1877), George Cayley (1773), Patrick Head (1946), and Adrian Newey (1958). After him are Robert Stephenson (1803), Hertha Ayrton (1854), John Loudon McAdam (1756), John Bagot Glubb (1897), John Smeaton (1724), and William Playfair (1759).
1954 - Present
HPI: 58.59
Rank: 7
1863 - 1933
HPI: 58.57
Rank: 8
1877 - 1910
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 9
1773 - 1857
HPI: 56.24
Rank: 10
1946 - Present
HPI: 56.16
Rank: 11
1958 - Present
HPI: 55.77
Rank: 12
1814 - 1893
HPI: 55.59
Rank: 13
1803 - 1859
HPI: 55.44
Rank: 14
1854 - 1923
HPI: 55.23
Rank: 15
1756 - 1836
HPI: 53.21
Rank: 16
1897 - 1986
HPI: 52.90
Rank: 17
1724 - 1792
HPI: 51.91
Rank: 18
1759 - 1823
HPI: 51.17
Rank: 19