1850 - 1880
Alphonse Pénaud (31 May 1850 – 22 October 1880), was a 19th-century French pioneer of aviation design and engineering. He was the originator of the use of twisted rubber to power model aircraft, and his 1871 model airplane, which he called the Planophore, was the first aerodynamically stable flying model. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alphonse Pénaud has received more than 84,644 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Alphonse Pénaud is the 171st most popular engineer (up from 173rd in 2019), the 2,984th most popular biography from France (down from 2,802nd in 2019) and the 28th most popular French Engineer.
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Among engineers, Alphonse Pénaud ranks 171 out of 323. Before him are Louis Charles Breguet, Émile Levassor, Rory Byrne, Kelly Johnson, Arthur Morin, and Béla Barényi. After him are Robert Maillart, Pierre-Paul Riquet, Alfred Neubauer, Henryk Dembiński, Hugo Eckener, and Dmitry Dmitrievich Maksutov.
1880 - 1955
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 165
1843 - 1897
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 166
1944 - Present
HPI: 52.25
Rank: 167
1910 - 1990
HPI: 52.23
Rank: 168
1795 - 1880
HPI: 52.23
Rank: 169
1907 - 1997
HPI: 52.21
Rank: 170
1850 - 1880
HPI: 52.16
Rank: 171
1872 - 1940
HPI: 52.12
Rank: 172
1609 - 1680
HPI: 52.03
Rank: 173
1891 - 1980
HPI: 52.01
Rank: 174
1791 - 1864
HPI: 51.99
Rank: 175
1868 - 1954
HPI: 51.96
Rank: 176
1896 - 1964
HPI: 51.94
Rank: 177
Among people born in 1850, Alphonse Pénaud ranks 56. Before him are Princess Therese of Bavaria, Xaver Scharwenka, Enrico Cecchetti, David Schwarz, Victoria Benedictsson, and Wilhelm Roux. After him are Kiyoura Keigo, Ernest von Koerber, Josias von Heeringen, Alfred Edwards, Aleksander Gierymski, and Charles Doolittle Walcott. Among people deceased in 1880, Alphonse Pénaud ranks 32. Before him are Raden Saleh, Robert Fortune, Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, Jules Antoine Lissajous, Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias, and Arthur Morin. After him are Karl Friedrich Lessing, Peter Wilhelm Lund, August Karl von Goeben, Lucretia Mott, Edwin Drake, and Francis de Laporte de Castelnau.
1850 - 1925
HPI: 52.42
Rank: 50
1850 - 1924
HPI: 52.42
Rank: 51
1850 - 1928
HPI: 52.42
Rank: 52
1850 - 1897
HPI: 52.40
Rank: 53
1850 - 1888
HPI: 52.28
Rank: 54
1850 - 1924
HPI: 52.19
Rank: 55
1850 - 1880
HPI: 52.16
Rank: 56
1850 - 1942
HPI: 52.00
Rank: 57
1850 - 1919
HPI: 51.91
Rank: 58
1850 - 1926
HPI: 51.58
Rank: 59
1850 - 1923
HPI: 51.10
Rank: 60
1850 - 1901
HPI: 50.76
Rank: 61
1850 - 1927
HPI: 50.61
Rank: 62
1811 - 1880
HPI: 53.31
Rank: 26
1812 - 1880
HPI: 53.22
Rank: 27
1816 - 1880
HPI: 52.97
Rank: 28
1822 - 1880
HPI: 52.28
Rank: 29
1803 - 1880
HPI: 52.26
Rank: 30
1795 - 1880
HPI: 52.23
Rank: 31
1850 - 1880
HPI: 52.16
Rank: 32
1808 - 1880
HPI: 51.92
Rank: 33
1801 - 1880
HPI: 51.89
Rank: 34
1816 - 1880
HPI: 51.52
Rank: 35
1793 - 1880
HPI: 51.06
Rank: 36
1819 - 1880
HPI: 50.80
Rank: 37
1810 - 1880
HPI: 50.16
Rank: 38
Among people born in France, Alphonse Pénaud ranks 2,984 out of 6,011. Before him are Léon Brunschvicg (1869), Jean-Luc Ponty (1942), José Giovanni (1923), Peter Chanel (1803), Michel Blavet (1700), and Didier Auriol (1958). After him are Nicolas de Grigny (1672), Camille Guérin (1872), Charles Angrand (1854), Gérard Blain (1930), Zino Francescatti (1902), and Déodat de Séverac (1872).
1869 - 1944
HPI: 52.19
Rank: 2,978
1942 - Present
HPI: 52.18
Rank: 2,979
1923 - 2004
HPI: 52.18
Rank: 2,980
1803 - 1841
HPI: 52.17
Rank: 2,981
1700 - 1768
HPI: 52.17
Rank: 2,982
1958 - Present
HPI: 52.17
Rank: 2,983
1850 - 1880
HPI: 52.16
Rank: 2,984
1672 - 1703
HPI: 52.16
Rank: 2,985
1872 - 1961
HPI: 52.15
Rank: 2,986
1854 - 1926
HPI: 52.15
Rank: 2,987
1930 - 2000
HPI: 52.15
Rank: 2,988
1902 - 1991
HPI: 52.14
Rank: 2,989
1872 - 1921
HPI: 52.14
Rank: 2,990
Among engineers born in France, Alphonse Pénaud ranks 28. Before him are Gérard Larrousse (1940), Pierre-Émile Martin (1824), Antoine de Chézy (1718), Louis Charles Breguet (1880), Émile Levassor (1843), and Arthur Morin (1795). After him are Pierre-Paul Riquet (1609), Pierre Charles L'Enfant (1754), Michel Chevalier (1806), Louis Dollo (1857), Evgeny Paton (1870), and Adolphe Alphand (1817).
1940 - Present
HPI: 52.75
Rank: 22
1824 - 1915
HPI: 52.70
Rank: 23
1718 - 1798
HPI: 52.66
Rank: 24
1880 - 1955
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 25
1843 - 1897
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 26
1795 - 1880
HPI: 52.23
Rank: 27
1850 - 1880
HPI: 52.16
Rank: 28
1609 - 1680
HPI: 52.03
Rank: 29
1754 - 1825
HPI: 51.88
Rank: 30
1806 - 1879
HPI: 51.51
Rank: 31
1857 - 1931
HPI: 51.40
Rank: 32
1870 - 1953
HPI: 51.00
Rank: 33
1817 - 1891
HPI: 50.84
Rank: 34