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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Béla Barényi has received more than 163,838 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Béla Barényi is the 170th most popular engineer, the 577th most popular biography from Austria and the 6th most popular Austrian Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Béla Barényi ranks 170 out of 323Before him are Anton Flettner, Louis Charles Breguet, Émile Levassor, Rory Byrne, Kelly Johnson, and Arthur Morin. After him are Alphonse Pénaud, Robert Maillart, Pierre-Paul Riquet, Alfred Neubauer, Henryk Dembiński, and Hugo Eckener.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Béla Barényi ranks 148Before him are Mihail Sebastian, Helmut Walcha, L. Sprague de Camp, Ita Rina, Géza von Radványi, and Roberto Cherro. After him are Miguel Torga, James A. Michener, James M. Gavin, Philip Arthur Fisher, Jean Carzou, and Roman Rudenko. Among people deceased in 1997, Béla Barényi ranks 124Before him are Saw Maung, Lev Kopelev, Colonel Tom Parker, Lam Ching-ying, Maria Prymachenko, and Juzo Itami. After him are James A. Michener, King Hu, Giorgio Strehler, Ella Maillart, Brian Keith, and Anatoliy Banishevskiy.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Béla Barényi ranks 577 out of 1,237Before him are Ingrid Haebler (1926), Erich Fried (1921), Maria Wodzińska (1819), Michael Mayr (1864), Augustín Malár (1894), and Hermann Bondi (1919). After him are Georg Rafael Donner (1693), Emma Eckstein (1865), Albert Apponyi (1846), Anton Zeilinger (1945), Nathan Birnbaum (1864), and Konstantin Jireček (1854).

Among ENGINEERS In Austria

Among engineers born in Austria, Béla Barényi ranks 6Before him are Alexander Wienerberger (1891), Hans Ledwinka (1878), Viktor Kaplan (1876), Aurel Vlaicu (1882), and Carlo Abarth (1908). After him are Hans Moravec (1948).