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Ernest Goüin

1815 - 1885

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Ernest Goüin (French pronunciation: [go.ɥɛ̃]; 22 July 1815 in Tours – 24 March 1885 in Paris) was a French civil engineer and industrialist. In 1846 he founded Ernest Goüin & Cie. (after 1871 Société de Construction des Batignolles); the company initially built locomotives, and diversified into bridge building and railway construction projects. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ernest Goüin has received more than 20,927 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Ernest Goüin is the 245th most popular engineer (down from 232nd in 2019), the 3,856th most popular biography from France (down from 3,437th in 2019) and the 47th most popular French Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Ernest Goüin ranks 245 out of 323. Before him are Verghese Kurien, Jean-Augustin Barral, Percy Hobart, Hendrik Wade Bode, Antoine Nicolas Duchesne, and Sherif Ismail. After him are Georgy Langemak, Mal Evans, Oskar von Miller, Robert Mallet, Peter Chen, and Gerhard Fieseler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1815, Ernest Goüin ranks 58. Before him are Eduard August von Regel, Aleksandr Baryatinsky, Seru Epenisa Cakobau, Warren De la Rue, John McDouall Stuart, and Ferdinando Petruccelli della Gattina. After him are Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov, Adolf Friedrich von Schack, Emanuel Geibel, Ludvig Holstein-Holsteinborg, James B. Francis, and Halfdan Kjerulf. Among people deceased in 1885, Ernest Goüin ranks 57. Before him are Friedrich Kiel, Ernst Falkbeer, Irvin McDowell, Justo Rufino Barrios, Gaudenzio Marconi, and Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold. After him are Julius Benedict, Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, Andrea Maffei, C. A. Rosetti, Juan Bautista Topete, and Bernhard Horwitz.

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In France

Among people born in France, Ernest Goüin ranks 3,856 out of 6,011. Before him are Philippe Mexès (1982), Medhi Benatia (1987), Bertrand Cantat (1964), Julie Dreyfus (1966), Jean François de Saint-Lambert (1716), and Catherine Millet (1948). After him are Georges Balandier (1920), Benjamin Mendy (1994), Isaac Oliver (1556), Mady Mesplé (1931), Nicolas Hulot (1955), and Esther Duflo (1972).

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Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Ernest Goüin ranks 47. Before him are Marc Isambard Brunel (1769), Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont (1798), Eugène Flachat (1802), Marcel Deprez (1843), Jean-Augustin Barral (1819), and Antoine Nicolas Duchesne (1747). After him are Louis Vicat (null), Louis Pouzin (1931), Fulgence Bienvenüe (1852), Émile Lemoine (1840), Robert Esnault-Pelterie (1881), and Albert Auguste Perdonnet (1801).

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