1888 - 1972
Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev (Russian: Андрей Николаевич Туполев; 10 November [O.S. 29 October] 1888 – 23 December 1972) was a Soviet aeronautical engineer known for his pioneering aircraft designs as Director of the Tupolev Design Bureau. Tupolev was an early pioneer of aeronautics in Russia and served as a protégé of Nikolay Zhukovsky. Tupolev designed or oversaw the design of more than 100 types of civilian and military aircraft in the Soviet Union over 50 years, some of which set 78 world records. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andrei Tupolev has received more than 269,786 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Andrei Tupolev is the 23rd most popular engineer (down from 21st in 2019), the 199th most popular biography from Russia (down from 188th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Russian Engineer.
Andrei Tupolev is most famous for designing and engineering the Tupolev TU-144, the first supersonic passenger jet.
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Among engineers, Andrei Tupolev ranks 23 out of 325. Before him are Jack Kilby, Fritz Todt, Willy Messerschmitt, John Demjanjuk, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, and Hans Albert Einstein. After him are José Echegaray, Hermann Oberth, Artem Mikoyan, Abram Petrovich Gannibal, William John Macquorn Rankine, and Philo of Byzantium.
1923 - 2005
HPI: 74.43
Rank: 17
1891 - 1942
HPI: 74.25
Rank: 18
1898 - 1978
HPI: 73.74
Rank: 19
1920 - 2012
HPI: 73.68
Rank: 20
1916 - 2010
HPI: 73.25
Rank: 21
1904 - 1973
HPI: 73.15
Rank: 22
1888 - 1972
HPI: 73.14
Rank: 23
1832 - 1916
HPI: 73.07
Rank: 24
1894 - 1989
HPI: 72.77
Rank: 25
1905 - 1970
HPI: 72.51
Rank: 26
1696 - 1781
HPI: 72.32
Rank: 27
1820 - 1872
HPI: 72.27
Rank: 28
280 BC - 220 BC
HPI: 72.24
Rank: 29
Among people born in 1888, Andrei Tupolev ranks 29. Before him are Roland Garros, Alexander Friedmann, Anton Makarenko, Friedrich Olbricht, Eugene O'Neill, and Frits Zernike. After him are Selman Waksman, Inge Lehmann, Maurice Chevalier, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., and Josef Albers. Among people deceased in 1972, Andrei Tupolev ranks 20. Before him are Paul Hausser, Paul-Henri Spaak, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Erhard Milch, Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Dino Buzzati. After him are Talal of Jordan, Asta Nielsen, Athenagoras I of Constantinople, Maurice Chevalier, Cristóbal Balenciaga, and Max Theiler.
1888 - 1918
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 23
1888 - 1925
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 24
1888 - 1939
HPI: 73.75
Rank: 25
1888 - 1944
HPI: 73.55
Rank: 26
1888 - 1953
HPI: 73.45
Rank: 27
1888 - 1966
HPI: 73.22
Rank: 28
1888 - 1972
HPI: 73.14
Rank: 29
1888 - 1973
HPI: 73.10
Rank: 30
1888 - 1993
HPI: 72.69
Rank: 31
1888 - 1972
HPI: 72.34
Rank: 32
1888 - 1975
HPI: 71.71
Rank: 33
1888 - 1969
HPI: 71.70
Rank: 34
1888 - 1976
HPI: 71.67
Rank: 35
1880 - 1972
HPI: 75.01
Rank: 14
1899 - 1972
HPI: 74.27
Rank: 15
1899 - 1972
HPI: 73.74
Rank: 16
1892 - 1972
HPI: 73.56
Rank: 17
1908 - 1972
HPI: 73.53
Rank: 18
1906 - 1972
HPI: 73.40
Rank: 19
1888 - 1972
HPI: 73.14
Rank: 20
1909 - 1972
HPI: 73.02
Rank: 21
1881 - 1972
HPI: 72.44
Rank: 22
1886 - 1972
HPI: 72.43
Rank: 23
1888 - 1972
HPI: 72.34
Rank: 24
1895 - 1972
HPI: 72.31
Rank: 25
1899 - 1972
HPI: 71.48
Rank: 26
Among people born in Russia, Andrei Tupolev ranks 199 out of 2,688. Before him are Alexander Herzen (1812), Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg (1599), Ilya Frank (1908), Vladimir Solovyov (1853), Pitirim Sorokin (1889), and Pafnuty Chebyshev (1821). After him are Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia (1779), Alexander Stepanovich Popov (1859), Yuri Dolgorukiy (1095), Witold Pilecki (1901), Raisa Gorbacheva (1932), and Alla Pugacheva (1949).
1812 - 1870
HPI: 73.42
Rank: 193
1599 - 1655
HPI: 73.39
Rank: 194
1908 - 1990
HPI: 73.38
Rank: 195
1853 - 1900
HPI: 73.31
Rank: 196
1889 - 1968
HPI: 73.26
Rank: 197
1821 - 1894
HPI: 73.22
Rank: 198
1888 - 1972
HPI: 73.14
Rank: 199
1779 - 1831
HPI: 73.13
Rank: 200
1859 - 1906
HPI: 73.12
Rank: 201
1095 - 1157
HPI: 73.08
Rank: 202
1901 - 1948
HPI: 73.06
Rank: 203
1932 - 1999
HPI: 73.06
Rank: 204
1949 - Present
HPI: 73.03
Rank: 205
Among engineers born in Russia, Andrei Tupolev ranks 5. Before him are Mikhail Kalashnikov (1919), Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857), Anatoly Dyatlov (1931), and Alexei Kosygin (1904). After him are Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1856), Sergey Ilyushin (1894), Nikolay Zhukovsky (1847), Viktor Belenko (1947), Mikhail Gurevich (1892), Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev (1906), and Ivan Sechenov (1829).
1919 - 2013
HPI: 79.92
Rank: 1
1857 - 1935
HPI: 77.36
Rank: 2
1931 - 1995
HPI: 76.01
Rank: 3
1904 - 1980
HPI: 74.76
Rank: 4
1888 - 1972
HPI: 73.14
Rank: 5
1856 - 1929
HPI: 71.35
Rank: 6
1894 - 1977
HPI: 70.11
Rank: 7
1847 - 1921
HPI: 69.09
Rank: 8
1947 - Present
HPI: 67.81
Rank: 9
1892 - 1976
HPI: 67.55
Rank: 10
1906 - 1989
HPI: 67.37
Rank: 11
1829 - 1905
HPI: 66.85
Rank: 12