Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1705] – April 17, 1790) was an American polymath who was active as a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, forger and political philosopher. Among the leading intellectuals of his time, Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, a drafter and signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, and the first United States Postmaster General. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his studies of electricity, and for charting and naming the Gulf Stream current. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Benjamin Franklin has received more than 24,492,114 page views. His biography is available in 125 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 121 in 2019). Benjamin Franklin is the 60th most popular politician (up from 63rd in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from United States (up from 20th in 2019) and the 7th most popular American Politician.

Benjamin Franklin is most famous for his contributions to the founding of the United States. He helped draft the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and he invented bifocals, the lightning rod, and the Franklin stove.