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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 254,222 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Dan Bricklin is the 339th most popular inventor (down from 306th in 2019), the 7,495th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,378th in 2019) and the 90th most popular American Inventor.

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  • 250k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.08

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Dan Bricklin ranks 339 out of 354. Before him are Amar Bose, George Graham, George Stibitz, Hary Gunarto, Bill Atkinson, and John Shepherd-Barron. After him are Arthur Wynne, Patricia Bath, Yvonne Brill, Gary Fisher, Kamil Tolon, and Granville Woods.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Dan Bricklin ranks 371. Before him are Gregory Isaacs, Tonie Marshall, Gianpiero Marini, Abdelkader Taleb Omar, Brad Fiedel, and Jan Krzysztof Bielecki. After him are Horace Andy, Jóannes Eidesgaard, Kazuo Saito, Irina Alfyorova, Francesco De Gregori, and Björn Andersson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dan Bricklin ranks 7,495 out of 18,182. Before him are James Parrott (1897), Lee Ranaldo (1956), John F. Reynolds (1820), Amy Pascal (1958), Hank Mann (1888), and Tracy McGrady (1979). After him are Amy Lowell (1874), Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. (1867), David Ayer (1968), Beau Biden (1969), John Marin (1870), and Brandon Routh (1979).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Dan Bricklin ranks 90. Before him are Margaret E. Knight (1838), Ken Olsen (1926), Joseph Engelberger (1925), Frank Piasecki (1919), Amar Bose (1929), and George Stibitz (1904). After him are Patricia Bath (1942), Gary Fisher (1950), Granville Woods (1856), Alfred Carlton Gilbert (1884), Dean Kamen (1951), and Harold Eugene Edgerton (1903).

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