1823 - 1883
Sir Carl Wilhelm Siemens (4 April 1823 – 19 November 1883), anglicised to Charles William Siemens, was a German-British electrical engineer and businessman. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Wilhelm Siemens has received more than 198,402 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Wilhelm Siemens is the 234th most popular inventor (down from 203rd in 2019), the 2,797th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,391st in 2019) and the 33rd most popular German Inventor.
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Among inventors, Carl Wilhelm Siemens ranks 234 out of 354. Before him are Lillian Moller Gilbreth, Ottomar Anschütz, Elihu Thomson, Lucien Olivier, Artur Fischer, and Genrich Altshuller. After him are Alphonse Beau de Rochas, Eugen Langen, Fritz von Opel, Léon Gaumont, David Schwarz, and James Dyson.
1878 - 1972
HPI: 52.84
Rank: 228
1846 - 1907
HPI: 52.83
Rank: 229
1853 - 1937
HPI: 52.77
Rank: 230
1838 - 1883
HPI: 52.75
Rank: 231
1919 - 2016
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 232
1926 - 1998
HPI: 52.58
Rank: 233
1823 - 1883
HPI: 52.55
Rank: 234
1815 - 1893
HPI: 52.52
Rank: 235
1833 - 1895
HPI: 52.52
Rank: 236
1899 - 1971
HPI: 52.47
Rank: 237
1864 - 1946
HPI: 52.43
Rank: 238
1850 - 1897
HPI: 52.40
Rank: 239
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.34
Rank: 240
Among people born in 1823, Carl Wilhelm Siemens ranks 35. Before him are Archduke Leopold Ludwig of Austria, Kurmangazy Sagyrbaev, Katsu Kaishū, Sophie Gengembre Anderson, Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, and Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach. After him are Imre Madách, Marietta Alboni, Sophie Adlersparre, Enrico Betti, Giuseppe Fiorelli, and Schuyler Colfax. Among people deceased in 1883, Carl Wilhelm Siemens ranks 43. Before him are Napoleon Orda, Dục Đức, Auguste Clésinger, Jenny Longuet, Lucien Olivier, and Gustave Aimard. After him are Reinhart Dozy, Hiệp Hòa, Robert Volkmann, Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse, Mahmud Nedim Pasha, and Francesco de Sanctis.
1823 - 1898
HPI: 55.32
Rank: 29
1823 - 1896
HPI: 54.62
Rank: 30
1823 - 1899
HPI: 54.32
Rank: 31
1823 - 1903
HPI: 53.97
Rank: 32
1823 - 1889
HPI: 53.63
Rank: 33
1823 - 1889
HPI: 52.82
Rank: 34
1823 - 1883
HPI: 52.55
Rank: 35
1823 - 1864
HPI: 52.31
Rank: 36
1823 - 1894
HPI: 51.98
Rank: 37
1823 - 1895
HPI: 51.90
Rank: 38
1823 - 1892
HPI: 51.83
Rank: 39
1823 - 1896
HPI: 51.71
Rank: 40
1823 - 1885
HPI: 51.45
Rank: 41
1807 - 1883
HPI: 53.21
Rank: 37
1852 - 1883
HPI: 53.13
Rank: 38
1814 - 1883
HPI: 52.91
Rank: 39
1844 - 1883
HPI: 52.88
Rank: 40
1838 - 1883
HPI: 52.75
Rank: 41
1818 - 1883
HPI: 52.70
Rank: 42
1823 - 1883
HPI: 52.55
Rank: 43
1820 - 1883
HPI: 52.04
Rank: 44
1847 - 1883
HPI: 51.45
Rank: 45
1815 - 1883
HPI: 51.32
Rank: 46
1822 - 1883
HPI: 50.74
Rank: 47
1818 - 1883
HPI: 50.48
Rank: 48
1817 - 1883
HPI: 50.22
Rank: 49
Among people born in Germany, Carl Wilhelm Siemens ranks 2,797 out of 6,142. Before him are Walter Andreas Schwarz (1913), Rosemarie Ackermann (1952), Albert of Aix (1060), Fritz Busch (1890), Eugen Meindl (1892), and Peter Lely (1618). After him are Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow (1782), Christoph Bernhard von Galen (1606), Alfred Andersch (1914), Malwida von Meysenbug (1816), Albert O. Hirschman (1915), and Duke Eugen of Württemberg (1758).
1913 - 1992
HPI: 52.56
Rank: 2,791
1952 - Present
HPI: 52.56
Rank: 2,792
1060 - 1120
HPI: 52.56
Rank: 2,793
1890 - 1951
HPI: 52.56
Rank: 2,794
1892 - 1951
HPI: 52.55
Rank: 2,795
1618 - 1680
HPI: 52.55
Rank: 2,796
1823 - 1883
HPI: 52.55
Rank: 2,797
1782 - 1834
HPI: 52.54
Rank: 2,798
1606 - 1678
HPI: 52.54
Rank: 2,799
1914 - 1980
HPI: 52.54
Rank: 2,800
1816 - 1903
HPI: 52.53
Rank: 2,801
1915 - 2012
HPI: 52.53
Rank: 2,802
1758 - 1822
HPI: 52.53
Rank: 2,803
Among inventors born in Germany, Carl Wilhelm Siemens ranks 33. Before him are Hans von Ohain (1911), Helmut Gröttrup (1916), Max Skladanowsky (1863), Henrich Focke (1890), Ricardo Wolf (1887), and Artur Fischer (1919). After him are Eugen Langen (1833), Fritz von Opel (1899), Ottmar Mergenthaler (1854), Adolf Martens (1850), Franz Xaver Gabelsberger (1789), and Walter Bruch (1908).
1911 - 1998
HPI: 53.95
Rank: 27
1916 - 1981
HPI: 53.90
Rank: 28
1863 - 1939
HPI: 53.79
Rank: 29
1890 - 1979
HPI: 53.14
Rank: 30
1887 - 1981
HPI: 52.96
Rank: 31
1919 - 2016
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 32
1823 - 1883
HPI: 52.55
Rank: 33
1833 - 1895
HPI: 52.52
Rank: 34
1899 - 1971
HPI: 52.47
Rank: 35
1854 - 1899
HPI: 52.02
Rank: 36
1850 - 1914
HPI: 49.94
Rank: 37
1789 - 1849
HPI: 49.43
Rank: 38
1908 - 1990
HPI: 48.47
Rank: 39