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Béla Barényi

1907 - 1997

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Béla Barényi (1 March 1907, Hirtenberg, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy – 30 May 1997, Böblingen, Germany) was an ethnic Hungarian engineer from Austria-Hungary, who was a prolific inventor, sometimes even compared to Thomas Edison. Barényi made numerous crash protection inventions, and is therefore regarded as the father of passive safety in automotive design. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Béla Barényi has received more than 178,507 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Béla Barényi is the 200th most popular engineer (down from 168th in 2019), the 657th most popular biography from Austria (down from 575th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Austrian Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Béla Barényi ranks 200 out of 389. Before him are Eugen Sänger, Alexander Lodygin, Franz Grashof, Émile Levassor, Alphonse Pénaud, and Walter Hohmann. After him are Evgeny Paton, Vladimir Petlyakov, Bassel al-Assad, Mikhail Koshkin, Alexey Sudayev, and Arthur Morin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Béla Barényi ranks 172. Before him are Gunnar Ekelöf, Annabella, Jean Carzou, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, Géza von Radványi, and Sergei Shtemenko. After him are Nicanor Zabaleta, Petro Grigorenko, Janusz Kusociński, Sándor Veress, Abraham Joshua Heschel, and Amedeo Nazzari. Among people deceased in 1997, Béla Barényi ranks 140. Before him are Antoine Cuissard, Hans Bauer, Giorgio Strehler, Jan P. Syse, Seni Pramoj, and Jarl Kulle. After him are Witness Lee, Joan Coromines, William Martínez, Tomoyuki Tanaka, Georges Marchal, and Aurelio González.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Béla Barényi ranks 657 out of 1,424. Before him are Magda Frank (1914), Hilde Holger (1905), Marko Arnautović (1989), László Almásy (1895), Victor Papanek (1923), and Hermann Bondi (1919). After him are Emil von Reznicek (1860), Fritz Machlup (1902), Hans Hermann Groër (1919), Saint Sturm (704), Friedrich Cerha (1926), and Richard Tauber (1891).

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Among ENGINEERS In Austria

Among engineers born in Austria, Béla Barényi ranks 8. Before him are Alexander Wienerberger (1891), Hans Ledwinka (1878), Viktor Kaplan (1876), Carlo Abarth (1908), Aurel Vlaicu (1882), and Hanns Hörbiger (1867). After him are Erwin Komenda (1904), and Hans Moravec (1948).

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