INVENTOR

Cornelis Drebbel

1572 - 1633

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Cornelis Jacobszoon Drebbel (Dutch pronunciation: [kɔrˈneːlɪ ˈɕaːkɔpsoːn 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 396,177 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Cornelis Drebbel is the 64th most popular inventor (up from 89th in 2019), the 88th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 113th in 2019) and the most popular Dutch Inventor.

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

Memorability Metrics

  • 400k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 70.07

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Cornelis Drebbel ranks 64 out of 426. Before him are Charles Goodyear, Henry Fox Talbot, Louis Blériot, Adam Opel, Alberto Santos-Dumont, and Isaac Singer. After him are John Browning, Étienne Lenoir, John Deere, Jacques Piccard, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, and Oleg Antonov.

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Contemporaries

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

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Cornelis Drebbel ranks 88 out of 1,646. Before him are Bernard Mandeville (1670), Edsger W. Dijkstra (1930), Saskia van Uylenburgh (1612), Willebrord Snellius (1580), Jan Oort (1900), and Lucas van Leyden (1494). After him are Gerard Kuiper (1905), Gerard van Honthorst (1592), Martinus J. G. Veltman (1931), Sophia of Hanover (1630), William IV, Prince of Orange (1711), and Menno Simons (1496).

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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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