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Charles Rolls

1877 - 1910

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Charles Stewart Rolls (27 August 1877 – 12 July 1910) was a British motoring and aviation pioneer. With Henry Royce, he co-founded the Rolls-Royce car manufacturing firm. He was the first Briton to be killed in an aeronautical accident with a powered aircraft, when the tail of his Wright Flyer broke off during a flying display in Bournemouth. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Rolls has received more than 598,116 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Charles Rolls is the 91st most popular engineer (up from 98th in 2019), the 1,251st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,382nd in 2019) and the 8th most popular British Engineer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 600k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.81

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.02

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Charles Rolls by language

Over the past year Charles Rolls has had the most page views in the with 81,657 views, followed by Spanish (6,102), and Persian (6,042). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Uzbek (977.78%), Malagasy (101.50%), and West Frisian (76.26%)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Charles Rolls ranks 91 out of 389. Before him are Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev, Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr., Viktor Bryukhanov, Nicola Romeo, Fedor Tokarev, and Yuri Kondratyuk. After him are Alexander Cunningham, Karl von Terzaghi, Valdemar Poulsen, Ivan Sechenov, Hans Ledwinka, and George Cayley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Charles Rolls ranks 47. Before him are Vasil Kolarov, Otto Gross, Sadao Araki, Raymond Roussel, Edmund Landau, and Petar Kočić. After him are Pavel Bermondt-Avalov, Isabelle Eberhardt, Herbert Pitman, Garrett Morgan, Edmond Locard, and Vladimir Minorsky. Among people deceased in 1910, Charles Rolls ranks 40. Before him are Auguste Charlois, Alexander Agassiz, Henri-Edmond Cross, Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres, Boutros Ghali, and Andreas Achenbach. After him are Eliza Orzeszkowa, Osman Hamdi Bey, Reginald Doherty, Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Alençon, Maria Konopnicka, and Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Rolls ranks 1,251 out of 8,785. Before him are Frank Lampard (1978), Alan Shearer (1970), Michael Scot (1175), Thomas Reid (1710), Martin Lowry (1874), and Mike Hailwood (1940). After him are Robert Adam (1728), Frank Williams (1942), Katharine, Duchess of Kent (1933), Thomas Simpson (1710), Keith O'Brien (1938), and Desmond Morris (1928).

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Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, Charles Rolls ranks 8. Before him are John Ambrose Fleming (1849), Godfrey Hounsfield (1919), Charles George Gordon (1833), Colin Chapman (1928), Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806), and Henry Royce (1863). After him are Alexander Cunningham (1814), George Cayley (1773), Hertha Ayrton (1854), Adrian Newey (1958), Robert Stephenson (1803), and John Bagot Glubb (1897).

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