1895 - 1983
Richard Buckminster Fuller (; July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American architect, systems theorist, writer, designer, inventor, philosopher, and futurist. He styled his name as R. Buckminster Fuller in his writings, publishing more than 30 books and coining or popularizing such terms as "Spaceship Earth", "Dymaxion" (e.g., Dymaxion house, Dymaxion car, Dymaxion map), "ephemeralization", "synergetics", and "tensegrity". Fuller developed numerous inventions, mainly architectural designs, and popularized the widely known geodesic dome; carbon molecules known as fullerenes were later named by scientists for their structural and mathematical resemblance to geodesic spheres. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Buckminster Fuller has received more than 4,035,341 page views. His biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 64 in 2019). Buckminster Fuller is the 65th most popular architect (down from 46th in 2019), the 749th most popular biography from United States (down from 545th in 2019) and the 5th most popular American Architect.
Buckminster fuller is most famous for his geodesic dome.
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Among architects, Buckminster Fuller ranks 65 out of 424. Before him are Aldo Rossi, Arnolfo di Cambio, Philip Johnson, Ricardo Bofill, Jean Nouvel, and Senenmut. After him are Charles Garnier, Hector Guimard, Minoru Yamasaki, Peter Zumthor, Erich Mendelsohn, and Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach.
1931 - 1997
HPI: 64.66
Rank: 59
1240 - 1302
HPI: 64.39
Rank: 60
1906 - 2005
HPI: 64.36
Rank: 61
1939 - 2022
HPI: 64.30
Rank: 62
1945 - Present
HPI: 64.30
Rank: 63
1600 BC - 1463 BC
HPI: 64.18
Rank: 64
1895 - 1983
HPI: 64.04
Rank: 65
1825 - 1898
HPI: 63.77
Rank: 66
1867 - 1942
HPI: 63.73
Rank: 67
1912 - 1986
HPI: 63.53
Rank: 68
1943 - Present
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 69
1887 - 1953
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 70
1656 - 1723
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 71
Among people born in 1895, Buckminster Fuller ranks 48. Before him are Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia, Cristóbal Balenciaga, Jürgen Stroop, Vasily Blokhin, Albert Göring, and Artturi Ilmari Virtanen. After him are Dorothea Lange, Lij Iyasu of Ethiopia, Augusto César Sandino, Richard Walther Darré, Stanley Rous, and William Giauque. Among people deceased in 1983, Buckminster Fuller ranks 21. Before him are Arthur Koestler, Raymond Aron, Albert Claude, Gloria Swanson, George Cukor, and Gerhard Barkhorn. After him are Alfred Tarski, John Fante, Anna Seghers, George Balanchine, Aleksandar Ranković, and Muddy Waters.
1895 - 1970
HPI: 65.03
Rank: 42
1895 - 1972
HPI: 64.82
Rank: 43
1895 - 1952
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 44
1895 - 1955
HPI: 64.34
Rank: 45
1895 - 1966
HPI: 64.29
Rank: 46
1895 - 1973
HPI: 64.28
Rank: 47
1895 - 1983
HPI: 64.04
Rank: 48
1895 - 1965
HPI: 63.53
Rank: 49
1895 - 1935
HPI: 63.21
Rank: 50
1895 - 1934
HPI: 63.03
Rank: 51
1895 - 1953
HPI: 62.98
Rank: 52
1895 - 1986
HPI: 62.56
Rank: 53
1895 - 1982
HPI: 62.45
Rank: 54
1905 - 1983
HPI: 65.01
Rank: 15
1905 - 1983
HPI: 64.74
Rank: 16
1899 - 1983
HPI: 64.37
Rank: 17
1899 - 1983
HPI: 64.16
Rank: 18
1899 - 1983
HPI: 64.13
Rank: 19
1919 - 1983
HPI: 64.10
Rank: 20
1895 - 1983
HPI: 64.04
Rank: 21
1901 - 1983
HPI: 63.98
Rank: 22
1909 - 1983
HPI: 62.73
Rank: 23
1900 - 1983
HPI: 62.11
Rank: 24
1904 - 1983
HPI: 61.88
Rank: 25
1909 - 1983
HPI: 61.63
Rank: 26
1913 - 1983
HPI: 61.61
Rank: 27
Among people born in United States, Buckminster Fuller ranks 749 out of 18,182. Before him are Irving Fisher (1867), Ryan O'Neal (1941), Tippi Hedren (1930), Edward Norton (1969), Burgess Meredith (1907), and Alice Cooper (1948). After him are Mark Hamill (1951), Marvin Gaye (1939), Tobin Bell (1942), H. L. Mencken (1880), Stanley B. Prusiner (1942), and John Searle (1932).
1867 - 1947
HPI: 64.09
Rank: 743
1941 - 2023
HPI: 64.08
Rank: 744
1930 - Present
HPI: 64.08
Rank: 745
1969 - Present
HPI: 64.07
Rank: 746
1907 - 1997
HPI: 64.05
Rank: 747
1948 - Present
HPI: 64.04
Rank: 748
1895 - 1983
HPI: 64.04
Rank: 749
1951 - Present
HPI: 64.04
Rank: 750
1939 - 1984
HPI: 64.03
Rank: 751
1942 - Present
HPI: 64.02
Rank: 752
1880 - 1956
HPI: 64.02
Rank: 753
1942 - Present
HPI: 64.01
Rank: 754
1932 - Present
HPI: 63.99
Rank: 755
Among architects born in United States, Buckminster Fuller ranks 5. Before him are Frank Lloyd Wright (1867), Louis Sullivan (1856), Richard Meier (1934), and Philip Johnson (1906). After him are Minoru Yamasaki (1912), Robert Venturi (1925), Peter Eisenman (1932), Charles Eames (1907), Kevin A. Lynch (1918), William Le Baron Jenney (1832), and Adrian Smith (1944).
1867 - 1959
HPI: 74.51
Rank: 1
1856 - 1924
HPI: 72.44
Rank: 2
1934 - Present
HPI: 65.65
Rank: 3
1906 - 2005
HPI: 64.36
Rank: 4
1895 - 1983
HPI: 64.04
Rank: 5
1912 - 1986
HPI: 63.53
Rank: 6
1925 - 2018
HPI: 63.22
Rank: 7
1932 - Present
HPI: 61.67
Rank: 8
1907 - 1978
HPI: 58.57
Rank: 9
1918 - 1984
HPI: 56.65
Rank: 10
1832 - 1907
HPI: 55.44
Rank: 11
1944 - Present
HPI: 55.11
Rank: 12