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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 604,597 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Rolls is the 100th most popular engineer (up from 102nd in 2019), the 1,386th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,354th in 2019) and the 9th most popular British Engineer.

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  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.86

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among engineers, Charles Rolls ranks 100 out of 323. Before him are Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr., Nikolai Polikarpov, André Courrèges, Claude Dornier, Mikhail Mil, and Fedor Tokarev. After him are George Cayley, Patrick Head, Hans Ledwinka, Nicola Romeo, Erich Topp, and Moshe Arens.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Charles Rolls ranks 50. Before him are Raymond Roussel, Sadao Araki, Vasil Kolarov, Jesse Livermore, Chaim Rumkowski, and Herbert Pitman. After him are Petar Kočić, Pavel Bermondt-Avalov, James Montgomery Flagg, Edmond Locard, Wilhelm Adam, and Frank Marshall. Among people deceased in 1910, Charles Rolls ranks 37. Before him are William Huggins, Mikhail Vrubel, Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres, Henri-Edmond Cross, Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Alençon, and Andreas Achenbach. After him are Eliza Orzeszkowa, Maria Konopnicka, Osman Hamdi Bey, Boutros Ghali, Auguste Charlois, and Winslow Homer.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Rolls ranks 1,386 out of 7,765. Before him are Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837), Martin Gore (1961), Anthony Blunt (1907), Herbert Pitman (1877), Beau Brummell (1778), and John Wilkins (1614). After him are Thomas Wyatt (1503), Ed Miliband (1969), Piers Courage (1942), Emily Watson (1967), Victor McLaglen (1886), and George Cayley (1773).

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Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, Charles Rolls ranks 9. Before him are William John Macquorn Rankine (1820), Charles George Gordon (1833), Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806), Colin Chapman (1928), Ross Brawn (1954), and Henry Royce (1863). After him are George Cayley (1773), Patrick Head (1946), Adrian Newey (1958), Alexander Cunningham (1814), Robert Stephenson (1803), and Hertha Ayrton (1854).

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