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Alexander Cunningham

1814 - 1893

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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

Among engineers, Alexander Cunningham ranks 113 out of 323Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1814, Alexander Cunningham ranks 23Before 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 26Before 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.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alexander Cunningham ranks 1,501 out of 7,765Before 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).

Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, Alexander Cunningham ranks 13Before 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).