1881 - 1957
Ernst Gräfenberg (26 September 1881 – 28 October 1957) was a German-born physician and scientist. He is known for developing the intra-uterine device (IUD), and for his studies of the role of the woman's urethra in orgasm. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ernst Gräfenberg has received more than 435,545 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Ernst Gräfenberg is the 259th most popular physician (down from 152nd in 2019), the 1,839th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,040th in 2019) and the 40th most popular German Physician.
Ernst Gräfenberg is most famous for his discovery of the G-spot, which is a sensitive area on the front wall of the vagina, about one to two inches in from the opening.
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Among physicians, Ernst Gräfenberg ranks 259 out of 502. Before him are Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi, Aëtius of Amida, Robert Darwin, John Harvey Kellogg, Caspar Friedrich Wolff, and Thomas Sydenham. After him are Édouard Séguin, Pierre Paul Émile Roux, Guillaume Dupuytren, Saint Fabiola, Podalirius, and Caesarius of Nazianzus.
1162 - 1231
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 253
502 - 575
HPI: 56.43
Rank: 254
1766 - 1848
HPI: 56.41
Rank: 255
1852 - 1943
HPI: 56.39
Rank: 256
1735 - 1794
HPI: 56.35
Rank: 257
1624 - 1689
HPI: 56.33
Rank: 258
1881 - 1957
HPI: 56.30
Rank: 259
1812 - 1880
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 260
1853 - 1933
HPI: 56.23
Rank: 261
1777 - 1835
HPI: 56.22
Rank: 262
400 - 399
HPI: 56.09
Rank: 263
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 264
330 - 368
HPI: 55.94
Rank: 265
Among people born in 1881, Ernst Gräfenberg ranks 64. Before him are Franz Gürtner, Ulrich von Hassell, Artur Phleps, Max Pechstein, Otozō Yamada, and Muhammad VIII al-Amin. After him are Curt Sachs, Ramón Grau, Kim Kyu-sik, King Oliver, Augustin Bea, and H. H. Kung. Among people deceased in 1957, Ernst Gräfenberg ranks 71. Before him are Leo Perutz, Alexander Vertinsky, Kurt von Tippelskirch, Soemu Toyoda, Malcolm Lowry, and Carlos Castillo Armas. After him are Prince Franz of Bavaria, Heinrich Bär, Josef Hofmann, Dorothy L. Sayers, Washington Luís, and Theodor Körner.
1881 - 1941
HPI: 58.27
Rank: 58
1881 - 1944
HPI: 57.93
Rank: 59
1881 - 1944
HPI: 57.79
Rank: 60
1881 - 1955
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 61
1881 - 1965
HPI: 57.52
Rank: 62
1881 - 1962
HPI: 57.10
Rank: 63
1881 - 1957
HPI: 56.30
Rank: 64
1881 - 1959
HPI: 55.86
Rank: 65
1881 - 1969
HPI: 55.80
Rank: 66
1881 - 1950
HPI: 55.68
Rank: 67
1881 - 1938
HPI: 55.62
Rank: 68
1881 - 1968
HPI: 55.54
Rank: 69
1881 - 1967
HPI: 55.34
Rank: 70
1882 - 1957
HPI: 57.56
Rank: 65
1889 - 1957
HPI: 56.96
Rank: 66
1891 - 1957
HPI: 56.94
Rank: 67
1885 - 1957
HPI: 56.77
Rank: 68
1909 - 1957
HPI: 56.34
Rank: 69
1914 - 1957
HPI: 56.34
Rank: 70
1881 - 1957
HPI: 56.30
Rank: 71
1875 - 1957
HPI: 56.04
Rank: 72
1913 - 1957
HPI: 55.98
Rank: 73
1876 - 1957
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 74
1893 - 1957
HPI: 55.81
Rank: 75
1869 - 1957
HPI: 55.78
Rank: 76
1873 - 1957
HPI: 55.48
Rank: 77
Among people born in Germany, Ernst Gräfenberg ranks 1,839 out of 6,142. Before him are Margaret Sambiria (1230), George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1605), Hermann Weingärtner (1864), Ernest, Duke of Bavaria (1373), Axel Springer (1912), and Duchess Charlotte Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1784). After him are Benno (1010), Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau (1837), Ernest Louis, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1667), Walter Buch (1883), Judith of Swabia (1054), and Wolfgang Sawallisch (1923).
1230 - 1282
HPI: 56.33
Rank: 1,833
1605 - 1661
HPI: 56.33
Rank: 1,834
1864 - 1919
HPI: 56.33
Rank: 1,835
1373 - 1438
HPI: 56.32
Rank: 1,836
1912 - 1985
HPI: 56.32
Rank: 1,837
1784 - 1840
HPI: 56.32
Rank: 1,838
1881 - 1957
HPI: 56.30
Rank: 1,839
1010 - 1106
HPI: 56.30
Rank: 1,840
1837 - 1906
HPI: 56.30
Rank: 1,841
1667 - 1739
HPI: 56.30
Rank: 1,842
1883 - 1949
HPI: 56.29
Rank: 1,843
1054 - 1105
HPI: 56.29
Rank: 1,844
1923 - 2013
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 1,845
Among physicians born in Germany, Ernst Gräfenberg ranks 40. Before him are Carl Ludwig (1816), Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796), August Oetker (1862), Adolf Eugen Fick (1829), Karl Adolph von Basedow (1799), and Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1735). After him are Ferdinand Sauerbruch (1875), Friedrich Kasimir Medikus (1736), Friedrich Hoffmann (1660), Eduard Wirths (1909), Claus Schilling (1871), and Hinrich Lichtenstein (1780).
1816 - 1895
HPI: 57.12
Rank: 34
1796 - 1866
HPI: 56.89
Rank: 35
1862 - 1918
HPI: 56.83
Rank: 36
1829 - 1901
HPI: 56.81
Rank: 37
1799 - 1854
HPI: 56.60
Rank: 38
1735 - 1794
HPI: 56.35
Rank: 39
1881 - 1957
HPI: 56.30
Rank: 40
1875 - 1951
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 41
1736 - 1808
HPI: 55.42
Rank: 42
1660 - 1742
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 43
1909 - 1945
HPI: 55.36
Rank: 44
1871 - 1946
HPI: 55.05
Rank: 45
1780 - 1857
HPI: 54.30
Rank: 46