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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 122,208 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Claude Dornier is the 121st most popular engineer (down from 95th in 2019), the 2,210th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,776th in 2019) and the 15th most popular German Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Claude Dornier ranks 121 out of 389. Before him are Sergei Khrushchev, Alexandre Darracq, Georgy Shpagin, John A. Roebling, Álvaro del Portillo, and Alexander Lippisch. After him are Herman Potočnik, Eduard Totleben, Erik Dahlbergh, Christian Otto Mohr, Georges Leclanché, and Hidesaburō Ueno.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Claude Dornier ranks 75. Before him are Antoine Pevsner, Mikhail Borodin, Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter, Jean Paulhan, Johannes Heinrich Schultz, and Werner Krauss. After him are Anna Vyrubova, Helene Deutsch, Ferdinand von Bredow, Corrado Gini, Rómulo Gallegos, and Josias Braun-Blanquet. Among people deceased in 1969, Claude Dornier ranks 73. Before him are Prince Konrad of Bavaria, Mikio Naruse, Adolfo López Mateos, Meher Baba, Léon Brillouin, and Michael Lippert. After him are John Kennedy Toole, He Long, C. N. Annadurai, Muhammad Siddiq Al-Minshawi, Rómulo Gallegos, and Thelma Ritter.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Claude Dornier ranks 2,210 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Maria Ferdinanda of Saxony (1796), Joachim Streich (1951), Prince Charles of Hesse-Kassel (1744), Horst Seehofer (1949), Fredrik Barth (1928), and Karl Ludwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1762). After him are Heinz Hoffmann (1910), Walter Ruttmann (1887), Elisabeth of Bavaria, Electress of Brandenburg (1383), Friedrich Wieck (1785), Jérôme Boateng (1988), and Sigmund Rascher (1909).

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Among ENGINEERS In Germany

Among engineers born in Germany, Claude Dornier ranks 15. Before him are Ernst Heinkel (1888), Arthur Scherbius (1878), Kurt Gerstein (1905), Walter Dornberger (1895), John A. Roebling (1806), and Alexander Lippisch (1894). After him are Christian Otto Mohr (1835), Erich Topp (1914), Gustave Whitehead (1874), Franz Reuleaux (1829), Ferdinand Alexander Porsche (1935), and Anton Flettner (1885).

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