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Dean Kamen

1951 - Today

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Dean Lawrence Kamen (born April 5, 1951) is an American engineer, inventor, and businessman. He is known for his invention of the Segway and iBOT, as well as founding the non-profit organization FIRST with Woodie Flowers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dean Kamen has received more than 2,203,180 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Dean Kamen is the 350th most popular inventor (down from 316th in 2019), the 8,437th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,772nd in 2019) and the 95th most popular American Inventor.

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  • 43.69

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  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Dean Kamen ranks 350 out of 354Before him are Kamil Tolon, Granville Woods, Kazimierz Prószyński, Alfred Carlton Gilbert, Karl Jatho, and Andrew Viterbi. After him are Harold Eugene Edgerton, Robin Li, Edward Craven Walker, Elizabeth Holmes, Charles Darrow, and George Beauchamp.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Dean Kamen ranks 418Before him are Mario Delpini, Phil Neal, Zeenat Aman, Geoff Lees, Trilok Gurtu, and John Abizaid. After him are Nana Patekar, Aleksey Buldakov, Andranik Eskandarian, Steve Prefontaine, Max Weinberg, and Ramón Heredia.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dean Kamen ranks 8,437 out of 18,182Before him are Mary Stuart Masterson (1966), Amy Acker (1976), Mark R. Hughes (1956), Wilmer Allison (1904), Frankie Muniz (1985), and Lawrence Tibbett (1896). After him are R. James Woolsey Jr. (1941), Abel P. Upshur (1790), George Nichols (1864), Lee Arenberg (1962), Crystal Reed (1985), and Desireé Cousteau (1956).

Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Dean Kamen ranks 95Before him are George Stibitz (1904), Dan Bricklin (1951), Patricia Bath (1942), Gary Fisher (1950), Granville Woods (1856), and Alfred Carlton Gilbert (1884). After him are Harold Eugene Edgerton (1903), Elizabeth Holmes (1984), Charles Darrow (1889), George Beauchamp (1899), Elmer Ambrose Sperry (1860), and Lewis Howard Latimer (1848).