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Claude Dornier

1884 - 1969

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Claude (Claudius) Honoré Désiré Dornier (14 May 1884 – 5 December 1969) was a German-French airplane designer and founder of Dornier GmbH. His notable designs include the 12-engine Dornier Do X flying boat, for decades the world's largest and most powerful airplane. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Claude Dornier has received more than 111,342 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Claude Dornier is the 97th most popular engineer (up from 132nd in 2019), the 1,777th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,245th in 2019) and the 13th most popular German Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Claude Dornier ranks 97 out of 323Before him are Joseph M. Juran, Henry Darcy, Immanuel Nobel, Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr., Nikolai Polikarpov, and André Courrèges. After him are Mikhail Mil, Fedor Tokarev, Charles Rolls, George Cayley, Patrick Head, and Hans Ledwinka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Claude Dornier ranks 65Before him are Drastamat Kanayan, Alexander Belyaev, Halide Edib Adıvar, Yasuji Okamura, Félix Gouin, and Maxwell Perkins. After him are Henri Cornet, Anna Vyrubova, Joseph Boxhall, Georg Lindemann, Antoine Pevsner, and Josias Braun-Blanquet. Among people deceased in 1969, Claude Dornier ranks 64Before him are Korney Chukovsky, Mikio Naruse, Markian Popov, Grażyna Bacewicz, Jiří Trnka, and Radivoj Korać. After him are Artur da Costa e Silva, Léon Brillouin, Lucien Bianchi, Ramón Grau, Vesto Slipher, and Kimon Georgiev.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Claude Dornier ranks 1,777 out of 6,142Before him are Heinrich Eberbach (1895), Ernst von Weizsäcker (1882), Ernst Busch (1900), Gertrude of Hohenberg (1225), Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1737), and Regino of Prüm (842). After him are Frederick Louis, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1778), Heinrich Geißler (1814), John Sutter (1803), Friedrich Hossbach (1894), Carl Reichenbach (1788), and Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein (1885).

Among ENGINEERS In Germany

Among engineers born in Germany, Claude Dornier ranks 13Before him are Hugo Junkers (1859), Felix Wankel (1902), Ernst Heinkel (1888), Kurt Gerstein (1905), Arthur Scherbius (1878), and Walter Dornberger (1895). After him are Erich Topp (1914), Christian Otto Mohr (1835), John A. Roebling (1806), Ferdinand Alexander Porsche (1935), Franz Reuleaux (1829), and Gustave Whitehead (1874).