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André-Jacques Garnerin

1769 - 1823

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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

Among inventors, André-Jacques Garnerin ranks 78 out of 354Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1769, André-Jacques Garnerin ranks 11Before 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 9Before 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.

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In France

Among people born in France, André-Jacques Garnerin ranks 892 out of 6,011Before 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).

Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, André-Jacques Garnerin ranks 12Before 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).