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Cornelis Drebbel

1572 - 1633

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Cornelis Jacobszoon Drebbel (Dutch pronunciation: [kɔrˈneːlɪ ˈʃaːkɔbzoːn ˈdrɛbəl]; 1572 – 7 November 1633) was a Dutch engineer and inventor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cornelis Drebbel has received more than 363,028 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Cornelis Drebbel is the 89th most popular inventor (up from 96th in 2019), the 113th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 124th in 2019) and the most popular Dutch Inventor.

Cornelis Drebbel is most famous for inventing the first working submarine in 1620.

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  • 62.27

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  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Cornelis Drebbel ranks 89 out of 354. Before him are Sakichi Toyoda, Bi Sheng, Franz Reichelt, Alois Senefelder, John Harrison, and Alphonse Bertillon. After him are Daniel Swarovski, Abraham-Louis Breguet, Étienne-Jules Marey, Elisha Otis, Leo Fender, and Johann Maria Farina.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1572, Cornelis Drebbel ranks 4. Before him are Johann Bayer, John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg, and John Donne. After him are Sigismund Báthory, Ben Jonson, Jane Frances de Chantal, Cyril Lucaris, Izumo no Okuni, Francis II, Duke of Lorraine, Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, and Marie Elisabeth of France. Among people deceased in 1633, Cornelis Drebbel ranks 3. Before him are Jacopo Peri and Isabella Clara Eugenia. After him are Patriarch Filaret of Moscow, Scipione Borghese, Xu Guangqi, Pieter Lastman, Catherine Henriette de Balzac d'Entragues, Lew Sapieha, Archduchess Margaret of Austria, George Herbert, and Juan Pablo Bonet.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Cornelis Drebbel ranks 113 out of 1,427. Before him are Marinus van der Lubbe (1909), Menno Simons (1496), Pier Gerlofs Donia (1480), Isabelle de Charrière (1740), Willem Janszoon (1570), and Simon van der Meer (1925). After him are Pieter Aertsen (1508), Paulus Potter (1625), Joris Ivens (1898), Gerard Kuiper (1905), Famke Janssen (1964), and Edwin van der Sar (1970).

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Among INVENTORS In Netherlands

Among inventors born in Netherlands, Cornelis Drebbel ranks 1. After him are Zacharias Janssen (1585), Lou Ottens (1926), and Boyan Slat (1994).

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