Engineer

Alphonse Pénaud

French engineer

1850 - 1880

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Alphonse Pénaud

His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Alphonse Pénaud is the 175th most popular engineer (up from 198th in 2024), the 3,154th most popular biography from France (up from 3,379th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular French Engineer.

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Among Engineers

Among engineers, Alphonse Pénaud ranks 175 out of 389. Before him are Peter Hirsch, Alexei Tupolev, Riccardo Morandi, Gustave Whitehead, Louis Charles Breguet, and Hanns Hörbiger. After him are Dmitry Dmitrievich Maksutov, Alexander Mozhaysky, Gérard Larrousse, John Smeaton, Ma Jun, and Kerim Kerimov.

Most Popular Engineers in Wikipedia

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Peter Hirsch
1925 - 2025
HPI: 60.58
Rank: 169
Alexei Tupolev
1925 - 2001
HPI: 60.58
Rank: 170
Riccardo Morandi
1902 - 1989
HPI: 60.53
Rank: 171
Gustave Whitehead
1874 - 1927
HPI: 60.52
Rank: 172
Louis Charles Breguet
1880 - 1955
HPI: 60.46
Rank: 173
Hanns Hörbiger
1867 - 1931
HPI: 60.43
Rank: 174
Alphonse Pénaud
1850 - 1880
HPI: 60.40
Rank: 175
Dmitry Dmitrievich Maksutov
1896 - 1964
HPI: 60.40
Rank: 176
Alexander Mozhaysky
1825 - 1890
HPI: 60.37
Rank: 177
Gérard Larrousse
1940 - Present
HPI: 60.34
Rank: 178
John Smeaton
1724 - 1792
HPI: 60.31
Rank: 179
Ma Jun
200 - 265
HPI: 60.24
Rank: 180
Kerim Kerimov
1917 - 2003
HPI: 60.18
Rank: 181

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, Alphonse Pénaud ranks 56. Before him are José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior, Edward Bellamy, Charles Doolittle Walcott, Grand Duke Nicholas Konstantinovich of Russia, Jean-François Raffaëlli, and Cut Nyak Dhien. After him are Gregory VII of Constantinople, Josias von Heeringen, Augusto Righi, Andrea Carlo Ferrari, Alfred Edwards, and Victoria Benedictsson. Among people deceased in 1880, Alphonse Pénaud ranks 34. Before him are Jules Favre, Jules Antoine Lissajous, Francis de Laporte de Castelnau, Friedrich Bayer, Lucretia Mott, and Napoléon Henri Reber. After him are Sunanda Kumariratana, Robert Fortune, Princess Marie of Hesse-Kassel, Karl Friedrich Lessing, Benjamin Peirce, and Edmond Albius.

Others Born in 1850

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José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior
PAINTER
1850 - 1899
HPI: 61.06
Rank: 50
Edward Bellamy
WRITER
1850 - 1898
HPI: 60.87
Rank: 51
Charles Doolittle Walcott
POLITICIAN
1850 - 1927
HPI: 60.69
Rank: 52
Grand Duke Nicholas Konstantinovich of Russia
POLITICIAN
1850 - 1918
HPI: 60.51
Rank: 53
Jean-François Raffaëlli
PAINTER
1850 - 1924
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 54
Cut Nyak Dhien
SOCIAL ACTIVIST
1850 - 1908
HPI: 60.43
Rank: 55
Alphonse Pénaud
ENGINEER
1850 - 1880
HPI: 60.40
Rank: 56
Gregory VII of Constantinople
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1850 - 1924
HPI: 60.38
Rank: 57
Josias von Heeringen
MILITARY PERSONNEL
1850 - 1926
HPI: 60.38
Rank: 58
Augusto Righi
PHYSICIST
1850 - 1920
HPI: 60.37
Rank: 59
Andrea Carlo Ferrari
PHILOSOPHER
1850 - 1921
HPI: 60.30
Rank: 60
Alfred Edwards
BUSINESSPERSON
1850 - 1923
HPI: 60.22
Rank: 61
Victoria Benedictsson
WRITER
1850 - 1888
HPI: 60.12
Rank: 62

Others Deceased in 1880

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Jules Favre
POLITICIAN
1809 - 1880
HPI: 61.19
Rank: 28
Jules Antoine Lissajous
PHYSICIST
1822 - 1880
HPI: 61.03
Rank: 29
Francis de Laporte de Castelnau
WRITER
1810 - 1880
HPI: 60.73
Rank: 30
Friedrich Bayer
BUSINESSPERSON
1825 - 1880
HPI: 60.70
Rank: 31
Lucretia Mott
SOCIAL ACTIVIST
1793 - 1880
HPI: 60.63
Rank: 32
Napoléon Henri Reber
COMPOSER
1807 - 1880
HPI: 60.51
Rank: 33
Alphonse Pénaud
ENGINEER
1850 - 1880
HPI: 60.40
Rank: 34
Sunanda Kumariratana
COMPANION
1860 - 1880
HPI: 60.04
Rank: 35
Robert Fortune
BIOLOGIST
1812 - 1880
HPI: 59.78
Rank: 36
Princess Marie of Hesse-Kassel
POLITICIAN
1796 - 1880
HPI: 59.67
Rank: 37
Karl Friedrich Lessing
PAINTER
1808 - 1880
HPI: 59.54
Rank: 38
Benjamin Peirce
MATHEMATICIAN
1809 - 1880
HPI: 59.39
Rank: 39
Edmond Albius
BIOLOGIST
1829 - 1880
HPI: 59.32
Rank: 40