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Charles Darrow

1889 - 1967

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Charles Brace Darrow (August 10, 1889 – August 28, 1967) was an American board game designer who is controversially credited as the inventor of the board game Monopoly by Parker Brothers, the game's publisher. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Darrow has received more than 423,469 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Charles Darrow is the 350th most popular inventor (up from 355th in 2019), the 7,697th most popular biography from United States (up from 8,692nd in 2019) and the 91st most popular American Inventor.

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  • 420k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.61

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.08

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Charles Darrow ranks 350 out of 426. Before him are Hary Gunarto, Didi Senft, Joy Mangano, Albrecht Berblinger, John Fitch, and Oliver Evans. After him are Robert Whitehead, Jerry Lawson, Frank J. Sprague, Edward Craven Walker, Peter Madsen, and Almon Brown Strowger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Charles Darrow ranks 243. Before him are Robert A. Taft, Miguel Mariano Gómez, Alberto Ohaco, Tom Naudé, Hans Beyer, and Emma Asson. After him are Teresa de la Parra, Thomas Hart Benton, Nezihe Muhiddin, Efrem Zimbalist, Arthur Hohl, and Lajos Asztalos. Among people deceased in 1967, Charles Darrow ranks 222. Before him are Renzo De Vecchi, Michael J. Adams, Fridrikh Ermler, Ulderico Sergo, Sergey Gorodetsky, and Halina Poświatowska. After him are Mary Garden, Marie Noël, Paul Castanet, Francis Spellman, Johan Falkberget, and James Dunn.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles Darrow ranks 7,697 out of 20,380. Before him are Charlotte Moore Sitterly (1898), Howard Valentine (1881), Metacomet (1639), Michael K. Williams (1966), Hal David (1921), and Elda Emma Anderson (1899). After him are Nils Lofgren (1951), Kenneth Lee Pike (1912), James Darren (1936), Big Van Vader (1955), Noah Hathaway (1971), and Sam Lloyd (1963).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Charles Darrow ranks 91. Before him are Hannibal Goodwin (1822), Beulah Louise Henry (1888), George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. (1859), Joy Mangano (1956), John Fitch (1743), and Oliver Evans (1755). After him are Jerry Lawson (1940), Frank J. Sprague (1857), Almon Brown Strowger (1839), George Stibitz (1904), Elizabeth Holmes (1984), and Amar Bose (1929).

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