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Clive Sinclair

1940 - 2021

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Sir Clive Marles Sinclair (30 July 1940 – 16 September 2021) was an English entrepreneur and inventor, best known for being a pioneer in the computing industry and also as the founder of several companies that developed consumer electronics in the 1970s and early 1980s. After spending several years as assistant editor of Instrument Practice, Sinclair founded Sinclair Radionics Ltd in 1961. He produced the world's first slimline electronic pocket calculator (the Sinclair Executive) in 1972. Sinclair then moved into the production of home computers in 1980 with Sinclair Research Ltd, producing the Sinclair ZX80 (the UK's first mass-market home computer for less than £100) and in the early 1980s, the ZX81, ZX Spectrum and the Sinclair QL. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Clive Sinclair has received more than 1,056,057 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Clive Sinclair is the 240th most popular inventor (down from 119th in 2019), the 2,196th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 976th in 2019) and the 36th most popular British Inventor.

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  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Clive Sinclair ranks 240 out of 426. Before him are Genrich Altshuller, L. L. Langstroth, Pavel Yablochkov, Georges Hébert, Hans von Ohain, and Tivadar Puskás. After him are Ottó Bláthy, John Kemp Starley, Thonmi Sambhota, Ray Dolby, Frank Zamboni, and Eugen Langen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Clive Sinclair ranks 223. Before him are David Koch, Wim Ruska, Manuel Ojeda, Angela Carter, Silvio Marzolini, and Ken Jenkins. After him are Aracy Balabanian, Kishin Shinoyama, Quentin Skinner, Hiroshi Katayama, Jaime Roldós Aguilera, and Larry Hankin. Among people deceased in 2021, Clive Sinclair ranks 217. Before him are Hilton Valentine, Isadore Singer, John Miles, Koichi Sugiyama, Branko Mamula, and Lars Norén. After him are Kjell Askildsen, Marc Ferro, Yury Vlasov, Roger Hunt, Louis Andriessen, and Margitta Gummel.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Clive Sinclair ranks 2,196 out of 8,785. Before him are Bob Peck (1945), George Robert Waterhouse (1810), Sherburne Wesley Burnham (1838), Paul Young (1956), William Speirs Bruce (1867), and James Stirling (1692). After him are Caroline Graham (1931), Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1874), Norman McLaren (1914), Mary Bell (1957), John Kemp Starley (1854), and Timothy Garton Ash (1955).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Clive Sinclair ranks 36. Before him are David Edward Hughes (1831), Henry Maudslay (1771), Oliver Lodge (1851), Robert Watson-Watt (1892), Alexander Parkes (1813), and Hubert Cecil Booth (1871). After him are John Kemp Starley (1854), Joseph Whitworth (1803), Abraham Darby I (1678), James Nasmyth (1808), Arthur Wynne (1871), and Frederick Scott Archer (1813).

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