1802 - 1867
Benoît Fourneyron (31 October 1802 – 31 July 1867) was a French engineer, born in Saint-Étienne, Loire. Fourneyron made significant contributions to the development of water turbines. Benoît Fourneyron was educated at the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne, a nearby engineering school that had recently opened. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Benoît Fourneyron has received more than 44,552 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Benoît Fourneyron is the 216th most popular engineer (down from 197th in 2019), the 3,476th most popular biography from France (down from 3,067th in 2019) and the 38th most popular French Engineer.
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Among engineers, Benoît Fourneyron ranks 216 out of 323. Before him are Paul Mauser, André Waterkeyn, Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov, Anousheh Ansari, Ferdinand Mannlicher, and Emily Warren Roebling. After him are Eugene Polley, Georgy Beriev, Alexander Kemurdzhian, Arkhip Lyulka, Gioacchino Colombo, and Enrico Forlanini.
1838 - 1914
HPI: 50.32
Rank: 210
1917 - 2005
HPI: 50.30
Rank: 211
1874 - 1966
HPI: 50.12
Rank: 212
1966 - Present
HPI: 50.08
Rank: 213
1848 - 1904
HPI: 50.04
Rank: 214
1843 - 1903
HPI: 49.91
Rank: 215
1802 - 1867
HPI: 49.90
Rank: 216
1915 - 2012
HPI: 49.82
Rank: 217
1903 - 1979
HPI: 49.81
Rank: 218
1921 - 2003
HPI: 49.75
Rank: 219
1908 - 1984
HPI: 49.73
Rank: 220
1903 - 1987
HPI: 49.60
Rank: 221
1848 - 1930
HPI: 49.56
Rank: 222
Among people born in 1802, Benoît Fourneyron ranks 43. Before him are Louis Niedermeyer, Robert Chambers, Leopold Fitzinger, Adolphe d'Archiac, Adolphe Niel, and Edwin Landseer. After him are Ion Heliade Rădulescu, Louis Augustus Karl Frederick Emil, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen, Adolphe Nourrit, Nicholas Wiseman, Eugène Flachat, and Wilhelm Matthias Naeff. Among people deceased in 1867, Benoît Fourneyron ranks 41. Before him are Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied, Simon Sechter, Juan Álvarez, Alexander Petrov, Ramón Castilla, and Georgi Sava Rakovski. After him are Ignatius Brianchaninov, Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński, Karl Georg Christian von Staudt, Artur Grottger, Santiago Derqui, and Karl Ferdinand Sohn.
1802 - 1861
HPI: 50.68
Rank: 37
1802 - 1871
HPI: 50.57
Rank: 38
1802 - 1884
HPI: 50.56
Rank: 39
1802 - 1868
HPI: 50.14
Rank: 40
1802 - 1869
HPI: 49.98
Rank: 41
1802 - 1873
HPI: 49.91
Rank: 42
1802 - 1867
HPI: 49.90
Rank: 43
1802 - 1872
HPI: 49.56
Rank: 44
1802 - 1818
HPI: 49.23
Rank: 45
1802 - 1839
HPI: 49.18
Rank: 46
1802 - 1865
HPI: 48.75
Rank: 47
1802 - 1873
HPI: 48.69
Rank: 48
1802 - 1881
HPI: 46.90
Rank: 49
1782 - 1867
HPI: 51.93
Rank: 35
1788 - 1867
HPI: 51.86
Rank: 36
1790 - 1867
HPI: 51.79
Rank: 37
1799 - 1867
HPI: 51.28
Rank: 38
1797 - 1867
HPI: 51.09
Rank: 39
1821 - 1867
HPI: 50.95
Rank: 40
1802 - 1867
HPI: 49.90
Rank: 41
1807 - 1867
HPI: 49.67
Rank: 42
1807 - 1867
HPI: 49.30
Rank: 43
1798 - 1867
HPI: 48.03
Rank: 44
1837 - 1867
HPI: 47.93
Rank: 45
1809 - 1867
HPI: 47.89
Rank: 46
1805 - 1867
HPI: 47.85
Rank: 47
Among people born in France, Benoît Fourneyron ranks 3,476 out of 6,011. Before him are Édouard Deldevez (1817), Jean Desmarets (1595), Antonin Magne (1904), Jeanne Jugan (1792), Pasquier Quesnel (1634), and Andrée Brunet (1901). After him are Augustin-Alexandre Dumont (1801), Bernard Maris (1946), René Louis de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson (1694), Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke (1883), Louis Réard (1897), and Hubertine Auclert (1848).
1817 - 1897
HPI: 49.92
Rank: 3,470
1595 - 1676
HPI: 49.92
Rank: 3,471
1904 - 1983
HPI: 49.91
Rank: 3,472
1792 - 1879
HPI: 49.91
Rank: 3,473
1634 - 1719
HPI: 49.91
Rank: 3,474
1901 - 1993
HPI: 49.90
Rank: 3,475
1802 - 1867
HPI: 49.90
Rank: 3,476
1801 - 1884
HPI: 49.89
Rank: 3,477
1946 - 2015
HPI: 49.88
Rank: 3,478
1694 - 1757
HPI: 49.88
Rank: 3,479
1883 - 1963
HPI: 49.87
Rank: 3,480
1897 - 1984
HPI: 49.87
Rank: 3,481
1848 - 1914
HPI: 49.87
Rank: 3,482
Among engineers born in France, Benoît Fourneyron ranks 38. Before him are Louis Dollo (1857), Evgeny Paton (1870), Adolphe Alphand (1817), Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse (1822), Pierre-François Bouchard (1771), and Charles Renard (1847). After him are Marc René, marquis de Montalembert (1714), Eugène Belgrand (1810), Marc Isambard Brunel (1769), Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont (1798), Eugène Flachat (1802), and Marcel Deprez (1843).
1857 - 1931
HPI: 51.40
Rank: 32
1870 - 1953
HPI: 51.00
Rank: 33
1817 - 1891
HPI: 50.84
Rank: 34
1822 - 1883
HPI: 50.74
Rank: 35
1771 - 1822
HPI: 50.69
Rank: 36
1847 - 1905
HPI: 50.41
Rank: 37
1802 - 1867
HPI: 49.90
Rank: 38
1714 - 1800
HPI: 49.21
Rank: 39
1810 - 1878
HPI: 49.19
Rank: 40
1769 - 1849
HPI: 49.17
Rank: 41
1798 - 1874
HPI: 49.01
Rank: 42
1802 - 1873
HPI: 48.69
Rank: 43
1843 - 1918
HPI: 48.60
Rank: 44