1769 - 1823
André-Jacques Garnerin (31 January 1769 – 18 August 1823) was a French balloonist and the inventor of the frameless parachute. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of André-Jacques Garnerin has received more than 135,968 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia. André-Jacques Garnerin is the 78th most popular inventor (up from 105th in 2019), the 892nd most popular biography from France (up from 1,181st in 2019) and the 12th most popular French Inventor.
André-Jacques Garnerin was a French inventor and pioneer in the field of aeronautics. He is most famous for making the first parachute jump from a hot air balloon on October 22, 1797.
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Among inventors, André-Jacques Garnerin ranks 78 out of 354. Before him are Jacques Piccard, Thomas Savery, Richard Arkwright, Kōnosuke Matsushita, Alexander Stepanovich Popov, and James Hargreaves. After him are Claude Chappe, Henry Bessemer, Momofuku Ando, Ray Tomlinson, Sakichi Toyoda, and Bi Sheng.
1922 - 2008
HPI: 63.82
Rank: 72
1650 - 1715
HPI: 63.70
Rank: 73
1732 - 1792
HPI: 63.63
Rank: 74
1894 - 1989
HPI: 63.26
Rank: 75
1859 - 1906
HPI: 63.10
Rank: 76
1720 - 1778
HPI: 63.04
Rank: 77
1769 - 1823
HPI: 62.99
Rank: 78
1763 - 1805
HPI: 62.89
Rank: 79
1813 - 1898
HPI: 62.68
Rank: 80
1910 - 2007
HPI: 62.67
Rank: 81
1941 - 2016
HPI: 62.59
Rank: 82
1867 - 1930
HPI: 62.56
Rank: 83
990 - 1052
HPI: 62.41
Rank: 84
Among people born in 1769, André-Jacques Garnerin ranks 11. Before him are Michel Ney, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Jean Lannes, Jean-de-Dieu Soult, Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Ivan Krylov. After him are William Smith, Thomas Lawrence, Ivan Kotliarevsky, Barthélemy Catherine Joubert, Józef Elsner, and Ernst Moritz Arndt. Among people deceased in 1823, André-Jacques Garnerin ranks 9. Before him are Pope Pius VII, Louis-Nicolas Davout, Lazare Carnot, Jacques Charles, Giovanni Battista Belzoni, and Ann Radcliffe. After him are Charles François Dumouriez, Abraham-Louis Breguet, Edmund Cartwright, Rafael del Riego, Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, and Karl Leonhard Reinhold.
1769 - 1815
HPI: 71.21
Rank: 5
1769 - 1852
HPI: 70.65
Rank: 6
1769 - 1809
HPI: 68.16
Rank: 7
1769 - 1851
HPI: 66.50
Rank: 8
1769 - 1824
HPI: 66.04
Rank: 9
1769 - 1844
HPI: 64.73
Rank: 10
1769 - 1823
HPI: 62.99
Rank: 11
1769 - 1839
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 12
1769 - 1830
HPI: 58.26
Rank: 13
1769 - 1838
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 14
1769 - 1799
HPI: 58.19
Rank: 15
1769 - 1854
HPI: 57.59
Rank: 16
1769 - 1860
HPI: 56.24
Rank: 17
1742 - 1823
HPI: 75.45
Rank: 3
1770 - 1823
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 4
1753 - 1823
HPI: 65.70
Rank: 5
1763 - 1823
HPI: 65.64
Rank: 6
1778 - 1823
HPI: 64.05
Rank: 7
1764 - 1823
HPI: 63.21
Rank: 8
1769 - 1823
HPI: 62.99
Rank: 9
1739 - 1823
HPI: 62.89
Rank: 10
1747 - 1823
HPI: 61.91
Rank: 11
1743 - 1823
HPI: 61.45
Rank: 12
1784 - 1823
HPI: 59.57
Rank: 13
1758 - 1823
HPI: 57.37
Rank: 14
1757 - 1823
HPI: 57.29
Rank: 15
Among people born in France, André-Jacques Garnerin ranks 892 out of 6,011. Before him are Edmond de Goncourt (1822), Odo the Great (650), Philip II, Duke of Savoy (1438), Joan the Lame (1293), Georges Couthon (1755), and Jean-Paul Gaultier (1952). After him are Jacques MacDonald (1765), Louis Desaix (1768), Inessa Armand (1874), Bruno Latour (1947), Beatrice I, Countess of Burgundy (1143), and Auguste Mariette (1821).
1822 - 1896
HPI: 63.04
Rank: 886
650 - 735
HPI: 63.04
Rank: 887
1438 - 1497
HPI: 63.03
Rank: 888
1293 - 1349
HPI: 63.03
Rank: 889
1755 - 1794
HPI: 63.02
Rank: 890
1952 - Present
HPI: 63.01
Rank: 891
1769 - 1823
HPI: 62.99
Rank: 892
1765 - 1840
HPI: 62.97
Rank: 893
1768 - 1800
HPI: 62.97
Rank: 894
1874 - 1920
HPI: 62.97
Rank: 895
1947 - 2022
HPI: 62.95
Rank: 896
1143 - 1184
HPI: 62.95
Rank: 897
1821 - 1881
HPI: 62.95
Rank: 898
Among inventors born in France, André-Jacques Garnerin ranks 12. Before him are Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752), Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (1725), Nicolas Appert (1749), Louis Blériot (1872), Louis Renault (1877), and Jacques de Vaucanson (1709). After him are Claude Chappe (1763), Alphonse Bertillon (1853), Étienne-Jules Marey (1830), Charles-Émile Reynaud (1844), André Michelin (1853), and Clément Ader (1841).
1752 - 1834
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 6
1725 - 1804
HPI: 68.84
Rank: 7
1749 - 1841
HPI: 68.60
Rank: 8
1872 - 1936
HPI: 65.55
Rank: 9
1877 - 1944
HPI: 65.34
Rank: 10
1709 - 1782
HPI: 64.00
Rank: 11
1769 - 1823
HPI: 62.99
Rank: 12
1763 - 1805
HPI: 62.89
Rank: 13
1853 - 1914
HPI: 62.31
Rank: 14
1830 - 1904
HPI: 61.88
Rank: 15
1844 - 1918
HPI: 61.46
Rank: 16
1853 - 1931
HPI: 60.26
Rank: 17
1841 - 1925
HPI: 59.41
Rank: 18