1884 - 1969
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, Claude Dornier ranks 97 out of 323. Before 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.
1904 - 2008
HPI: 56.97
Rank: 91
1803 - 1858
HPI: 56.92
Rank: 92
1801 - 1872
HPI: 56.87
Rank: 93
1868 - 1924
HPI: 56.86
Rank: 94
1892 - 1944
HPI: 56.81
Rank: 95
1923 - 2016
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 96
1884 - 1969
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 97
1909 - 1970
HPI: 56.39
Rank: 98
1871 - 1968
HPI: 56.35
Rank: 99
1877 - 1910
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 100
1773 - 1857
HPI: 56.24
Rank: 101
1946 - Present
HPI: 56.16
Rank: 102
1878 - 1967
HPI: 56.12
Rank: 103
Among people born in 1884, Claude Dornier ranks 65. Before 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 64. Before 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.
1884 - 1956
HPI: 57.22
Rank: 59
1884 - 1942
HPI: 57.18
Rank: 60
1884 - 1964
HPI: 56.82
Rank: 61
1884 - 1966
HPI: 56.81
Rank: 62
1884 - 1977
HPI: 56.75
Rank: 63
1884 - 1947
HPI: 56.66
Rank: 64
1884 - 1969
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 65
1884 - 1941
HPI: 56.48
Rank: 66
1884 - 1964
HPI: 56.31
Rank: 67
1884 - 1967
HPI: 56.21
Rank: 68
1884 - 1963
HPI: 55.97
Rank: 69
1884 - 1962
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 70
1884 - 1980
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 71
1882 - 1969
HPI: 57.36
Rank: 58
1905 - 1969
HPI: 57.17
Rank: 59
1902 - 1969
HPI: 57.03
Rank: 60
1909 - 1969
HPI: 56.94
Rank: 61
1912 - 1969
HPI: 56.92
Rank: 62
1938 - 1969
HPI: 56.74
Rank: 63
1884 - 1969
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 64
1899 - 1969
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 65
1889 - 1969
HPI: 56.31
Rank: 66
1934 - 1969
HPI: 56.12
Rank: 67
1881 - 1969
HPI: 55.80
Rank: 68
1875 - 1969
HPI: 55.70
Rank: 69
1882 - 1969
HPI: 55.70
Rank: 70
Among people born in Germany, Claude Dornier ranks 1,777 out of 6,142. Before 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).
1895 - 1992
HPI: 56.60
Rank: 1,771
1882 - 1951
HPI: 56.60
Rank: 1,772
1900 - 1980
HPI: 56.59
Rank: 1,773
1225 - 1281
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 1,774
1737 - 1815
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 1,775
842 - 915
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 1,776
1884 - 1969
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 1,777
1778 - 1819
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 1,778
1814 - 1879
HPI: 56.57
Rank: 1,779
1803 - 1880
HPI: 56.57
Rank: 1,780
1894 - 1980
HPI: 56.56
Rank: 1,781
1788 - 1869
HPI: 56.56
Rank: 1,782
1885 - 1970
HPI: 56.55
Rank: 1,783
Among engineers born in Germany, Claude Dornier ranks 13. Before 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).
1859 - 1935
HPI: 63.80
Rank: 7
1902 - 1988
HPI: 62.19
Rank: 8
1888 - 1958
HPI: 60.92
Rank: 9
1905 - 1945
HPI: 60.19
Rank: 10
1878 - 1929
HPI: 59.99
Rank: 11
1895 - 1980
HPI: 59.93
Rank: 12
1884 - 1969
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 13
1914 - 2005
HPI: 55.90
Rank: 14
1835 - 1918
HPI: 55.82
Rank: 15
1806 - 1869
HPI: 55.18
Rank: 16
1935 - 2012
HPI: 54.96
Rank: 17
1829 - 1905
HPI: 54.84
Rank: 18
1874 - 1927
HPI: 54.59
Rank: 19