INVENTOR

David Dunbar Buick

1854 - 1929

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David Dunbar Buick (September 17, 1854 – March 5, 1929) was a Scottish-born American inventor, widely known for founding the Buick Motor Company. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Dunbar Buick has received more than 340,091 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. David Dunbar Buick is the 336th most popular inventor (down from 301st in 2019), the 3,642nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,107th in 2019) and the 55th most popular British Inventor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 340k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, David Dunbar Buick ranks 336 out of 426. Before him are Orville Gibson, Hannibal Goodwin, Beulah Louise Henry, Phil Ramone, Henri Fabre, and Giovanni Caselli. After him are Joseph Bramah, Georges Beuchat, An Wang, Jozef Murgaš, Joseph Timchenko, and John Philip Holland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, David Dunbar Buick ranks 104. Before him are Gerhard Louis De Geer, Germán Riesco, Teuku Umar, Napoleon Cybulski, Niels Neergaard, and Ivan Horbachevsky. After him are Giuseppe Veronese, Princess Marie of Saxe-Altenburg, Gottlieb Haberlandt, Heinrich Kreutz, Hermann Oldenberg, and Clorinda Matto de Turner. Among people deceased in 1929, David Dunbar Buick ranks 115. Before him are Emilie Snethlage, Rudolf Kittel, Caroline Rémy de Guebhard, Marie Hankel, Ted Wilde, and Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro. After him are Giacomo Bresadola, Jozef Murgaš, Eugenio Tosi, André Messager, Franciszek Rychnowski, and Otto Liebe.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, David Dunbar Buick ranks 3,642 out of 8,785. Before him are Mary F. Lyon (1925), John Smith (1938), Charles Wyville Thomson (1830), Sydney Greenstreet (1879), Roger Dean (1944), and George Anson, 1st Baron Anson (1697). After him are David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven (1919), William Davies Evans (1790), Roger Allam (1953), Raymond Leppard (1927), Peter Cook (1936), and Hector Boece (1465).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, David Dunbar Buick ranks 55. Before him are Rowland Hill (1795), George Graham (1673), Henry Shrapnel (1761), Alexander Bain (1810), Thomas Wedgwood (1771), and John Wilkinson (1728). After him are Joseph Bramah (1748), Robert Whitehead (1823), John Milne (1850), Isaac Pitman (1813), William Friese-Greene (1855), and Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1835).

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