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Dan Bricklin

1951 - Today

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Daniel Singer Bricklin (born July 16, 1951) is an American businessman and engineer who is the co-creator, with Bob Frankston, of VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet program. He also founded Software Garden, Inc., of which he is currently president, and Trellix, which he left in 2004. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dan Bricklin has received more than 272,731 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Dan Bricklin is the 308th most popular inventor (up from 339th in 2019), the 5,947th most popular biography from United States (up from 7,480th in 2019) and the 75th most popular American Inventor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 270k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.04

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Dan Bricklin ranks 308 out of 426. Before him are Max Valier, André Blondel, Marion Donovan, Alexander Bain, Paul von Jankó, and David Bushnell. After him are Ken Olsen, Jack Northrop, Wilson Greatbatch, Joseph Engelberger, Roland Moreno, and Peter Carl Goldmark.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Dan Bricklin ranks 300. Before him are Fyodor Konyukhov, Greg Bear, Marie-Anne Chazel, Alicia Giménez Bartlett, Phyllis Smith, and Ivano Bordon. After him are Luis Llosa, Patrick Bergin, François Bracci, Cassandra Peterson, Mark Isham, and Richard Thomas.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dan Bricklin ranks 5,947 out of 20,380. Before him are Harold Brown (1927), Emma Roberts (1991), Lola Albright (1924), Jeanne Eagels (1890), Dooley Wilson (1886), and Eva Cassidy (1963). After him are Veronica Hart (1956), Helen Thomas (1920), Scott Columbus (1956), Richard Harrison (1936), Jamie Hyneman (1956), and Michael B. Jordan (1987).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Dan Bricklin ranks 75. Before him are George Devol (1912), Jacob Perkins (1766), Lester Allan Pelton (1829), Henry M. Leland (1843), Marion Donovan (1917), and David Bushnell (1742). After him are Ken Olsen (1926), Jack Northrop (1895), Wilson Greatbatch (1919), Joseph Engelberger (1925), Tabitha Babbitt (1779), and Patricia Bath (1942).

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