1891 - 1955
Alexander Wienerberger (December 8, 1891 – January 5, 1955) was an Austrian chemical engineer and right wing nationalist, who worked for 19 years in the chemical industry of the Soviet Union. While he worked in Kharkiv, he created a series of photographs of the Holodomor of 1932–1933, which serves as photographic evidence of the mass starvation of the Soviet Ukrainian people at that time. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Wienerberger has received more than 33,949 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Wienerberger is the 40th most popular engineer (up from 57th in 2019), the 235th most popular biography from Austria (up from 282nd in 2019) and the most popular Austrian Engineer.
Alexander Wienerberger is most famous for being the founder of the company that bears his name, Wienerberger. He started the company in 1885, and it is now one of the world's leading producers of building materials.
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Among engineers, Alexander Wienerberger ranks 40 out of 323. Before him are Felix Wankel, Pavel Sukhoi, Howard H. Aiken, Godfrey Hounsfield, Anthony Fokker, and John Ambrose Fleming. After him are Ildefons Cerdà, Edward A. Murphy Jr., Sergey Ilyushin, Ernst Heinkel, Emil Škoda, and Banū Mūsā.
1902 - 1988
HPI: 62.19
Rank: 34
1895 - 1975
HPI: 62.14
Rank: 35
1900 - 1973
HPI: 62.11
Rank: 36
1919 - 2004
HPI: 61.81
Rank: 37
1890 - 1939
HPI: 61.45
Rank: 38
1849 - 1945
HPI: 61.41
Rank: 39
1891 - 1955
HPI: 61.41
Rank: 40
1815 - 1876
HPI: 61.18
Rank: 41
1918 - 1990
HPI: 61.18
Rank: 42
1894 - 1977
HPI: 61.11
Rank: 43
1888 - 1958
HPI: 60.92
Rank: 44
1839 - 1900
HPI: 60.59
Rank: 45
900 - 873
HPI: 60.50
Rank: 46
Among people born in 1891, Alexander Wienerberger ranks 32. Before him are Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia, Edward Bernays, Fumimaro Konoe, Osip Mandelstam, Ole Kirk Christiansen, and Frank Costello. After him are Michael Chekhov, Pier Luigi Nervi, Cole Porter, Hans Reichenbach, Max Amann, and Otto Rasch. Among people deceased in 1955, Alexander Wienerberger ranks 32. Before him are Pak Hon-yong, John Mott, Cordell Hull, Leonid Govorov, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, and Mammad Amin Rasulzadeh. After him are Michael Chekhov, Mihály Károlyi, Yves Tanguy, Garegin Nzhdeh, Rodolphe Seeldrayers, and Princess Clémentine of Belgium.
1891 - 1942
HPI: 65.56
Rank: 26
1891 - 1995
HPI: 64.51
Rank: 27
1891 - 1945
HPI: 64.07
Rank: 28
1891 - 1938
HPI: 64.03
Rank: 29
1891 - 1958
HPI: 62.47
Rank: 30
1891 - 1973
HPI: 61.80
Rank: 31
1891 - 1955
HPI: 61.41
Rank: 32
1891 - 1955
HPI: 61.32
Rank: 33
1891 - 1979
HPI: 61.20
Rank: 34
1891 - 1964
HPI: 60.58
Rank: 35
1891 - 1953
HPI: 60.07
Rank: 36
1891 - 1957
HPI: 59.68
Rank: 37
1891 - 1948
HPI: 59.63
Rank: 38
1900 - 1955
HPI: 62.96
Rank: 26
1865 - 1955
HPI: 62.09
Rank: 27
1871 - 1955
HPI: 61.64
Rank: 28
1897 - 1955
HPI: 61.57
Rank: 29
1881 - 1955
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 30
1884 - 1955
HPI: 61.45
Rank: 31
1891 - 1955
HPI: 61.41
Rank: 32
1891 - 1955
HPI: 61.32
Rank: 33
1875 - 1955
HPI: 61.29
Rank: 34
1900 - 1955
HPI: 61.27
Rank: 35
1886 - 1955
HPI: 60.82
Rank: 36
1876 - 1955
HPI: 60.23
Rank: 37
1872 - 1955
HPI: 60.20
Rank: 38
Among people born in Austria, Alexander Wienerberger ranks 235 out of 1,237. Before him are Franz Xaver Süssmayr (1766), Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma (1893), Otto Rank (1884), Roland Ratzenberger (1960), Falco (1957), and Klaus Ebner (1964). After him are Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria (1892), Bruno Kreisky (1911), Karl Seitz (1869), Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria (1762), Paul Lazarsfeld (1901), and Walter Nowotny (1920).
1766 - 1803
HPI: 61.72
Rank: 229
1893 - 1970
HPI: 61.67
Rank: 230
1884 - 1939
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 231
1960 - 1994
HPI: 61.50
Rank: 232
1957 - 1998
HPI: 61.47
Rank: 233
1964 - Present
HPI: 61.44
Rank: 234
1891 - 1955
HPI: 61.41
Rank: 235
1892 - 1930
HPI: 61.40
Rank: 236
1911 - 1990
HPI: 61.38
Rank: 237
1869 - 1950
HPI: 61.32
Rank: 238
1762 - 1770
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 239
1901 - 1976
HPI: 61.25
Rank: 240
1920 - 1944
HPI: 61.24
Rank: 241
Among engineers born in Austria, Alexander Wienerberger ranks 1. After him are Hans Ledwinka (1878), Viktor Kaplan (1876), Aurel Vlaicu (1882), Carlo Abarth (1908), Béla Barényi (1907), and Hans Moravec (1948).
1891 - 1955
HPI: 61.41
Rank: 1
1878 - 1967
HPI: 56.12
Rank: 2
1876 - 1934
HPI: 55.71
Rank: 3
1882 - 1913
HPI: 54.66
Rank: 4
1908 - 1979
HPI: 54.58
Rank: 5
1907 - 1997
HPI: 52.21
Rank: 6
1948 - Present
HPI: 47.27
Rank: 7