1811 - 1861
Elisha Graves Otis (August 3, 1811 – April 8, 1861) was an American industrialist and founder of the Otis Elevator Company. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elisha Otis has received more than 813,892 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Elisha Otis is the 93rd most popular inventor (up from 106th in 2019), the 1,047th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,176th in 2019) and the 21st most popular American Inventor.
Elisha Otis invented the elevator in 1853.
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Among inventors, Elisha Otis ranks 93 out of 354. Before him are John Harrison, Alphonse Bertillon, Cornelis Drebbel, Daniel Swarovski, Abraham-Louis Breguet, and Étienne-Jules Marey. After him are Leo Fender, Johann Maria Farina, Wolfgang von Kempelen, Bob Kahn, Charles-Émile Reynaud, and Edmund Cartwright.
1693 - 1776
HPI: 62.34
Rank: 87
1853 - 1914
HPI: 62.31
Rank: 88
1572 - 1633
HPI: 62.27
Rank: 89
1862 - 1956
HPI: 61.97
Rank: 90
1747 - 1823
HPI: 61.91
Rank: 91
1830 - 1904
HPI: 61.88
Rank: 92
1811 - 1861
HPI: 61.83
Rank: 93
1909 - 1991
HPI: 61.63
Rank: 94
1685 - 1766
HPI: 61.59
Rank: 95
1734 - 1804
HPI: 61.57
Rank: 96
1938 - Present
HPI: 61.53
Rank: 97
1844 - 1918
HPI: 61.46
Rank: 98
1743 - 1823
HPI: 61.45
Rank: 99
Among people born in 1811, Elisha Otis ranks 15. Before him are Harriet Beecher Stowe, Isaac Singer, Louis Blanc, Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Vissarion Belinsky, and Ambroise Thomas. After him are François Achille Bazaine, Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern, Zeng Guofan, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Jón Sigurðsson, and Aristide Cavaillé-Coll. Among people deceased in 1861, Elisha Otis ranks 13. Before him are Friedrich Carl von Savigny, Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Pedro V of Portugal, Lola Montez, Pavel Jozef Šafárik, and Eugène Scribe. After him are Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, Ranavalona I, Henri Murger, Lars Levi Laestadius, and Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska.
1811 - 1896
HPI: 66.18
Rank: 9
1811 - 1875
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 10
1811 - 1882
HPI: 64.43
Rank: 11
1811 - 1890
HPI: 63.31
Rank: 12
1811 - 1848
HPI: 62.49
Rank: 13
1811 - 1896
HPI: 62.09
Rank: 14
1811 - 1861
HPI: 61.83
Rank: 15
1811 - 1888
HPI: 61.15
Rank: 16
1811 - 1885
HPI: 60.30
Rank: 17
1811 - 1872
HPI: 59.34
Rank: 18
1811 - 1888
HPI: 58.98
Rank: 19
1811 - 1879
HPI: 57.95
Rank: 20
1811 - 1899
HPI: 57.92
Rank: 21
1779 - 1861
HPI: 68.56
Rank: 7
1786 - 1861
HPI: 67.54
Rank: 8
1837 - 1861
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 9
1821 - 1861
HPI: 63.19
Rank: 10
1795 - 1861
HPI: 62.80
Rank: 11
1791 - 1861
HPI: 61.91
Rank: 12
1811 - 1861
HPI: 61.83
Rank: 13
1797 - 1861
HPI: 61.74
Rank: 14
1770 - 1861
HPI: 61.42
Rank: 15
1788 - 1861
HPI: 60.75
Rank: 16
1822 - 1861
HPI: 59.64
Rank: 17
1800 - 1861
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 18
1834 - 1861
HPI: 58.56
Rank: 19
Among people born in United States, Elisha Otis ranks 1,047 out of 18,182. Before him are Harry Markowitz (1927), Clifford D. Simak (1904), John Vincent Atanasoff (1903), Gary Sinise (1955), Melvin Schwartz (1932), and Anjelica Huston (1951). After him are Michelle Obama (1964), Jerome Karle (1918), Harvey Milk (1930), Burt Young (1940), Ellen DeGeneres (1958), and John Updike (1932).
1927 - 2023
HPI: 61.89
Rank: 1,041
1904 - 1988
HPI: 61.88
Rank: 1,042
1903 - 1995
HPI: 61.87
Rank: 1,043
1955 - Present
HPI: 61.86
Rank: 1,044
1932 - 2006
HPI: 61.84
Rank: 1,045
1951 - Present
HPI: 61.83
Rank: 1,046
1811 - 1861
HPI: 61.83
Rank: 1,047
1964 - Present
HPI: 61.82
Rank: 1,048
1918 - 2013
HPI: 61.82
Rank: 1,049
1930 - 1978
HPI: 61.81
Rank: 1,050
1940 - 2023
HPI: 61.80
Rank: 1,051
1958 - Present
HPI: 61.80
Rank: 1,052
1932 - 2009
HPI: 61.79
Rank: 1,053
Among inventors born in United States, Elisha Otis ranks 21. Before him are John Browning (1855), Jimmy Wales (1966), Josephine Cochrane (1839), Les Paul (1915), George Eastman (1854), and Ray Tomlinson (1941). After him are Leo Fender (1909), Bob Kahn (1938), Robert Noyce (1927), Jacque Fresco (1916), Percy Spencer (1894), and Elias Howe (1819).
1855 - 1926
HPI: 65.00
Rank: 15
1966 - Present
HPI: 64.94
Rank: 16
1839 - 1913
HPI: 64.67
Rank: 17
1915 - 2009
HPI: 64.24
Rank: 18
1854 - 1932
HPI: 64.15
Rank: 19
1941 - 2016
HPI: 62.59
Rank: 20
1811 - 1861
HPI: 61.83
Rank: 21
1909 - 1991
HPI: 61.63
Rank: 22
1938 - Present
HPI: 61.53
Rank: 23
1927 - 1990
HPI: 61.06
Rank: 24
1916 - 2017
HPI: 60.59
Rank: 25
1894 - 1970
HPI: 60.05
Rank: 26
1819 - 1867
HPI: 59.57
Rank: 27