1888 - 1958
Dr. Ernst Heinkel (24 January 1888 – 30 January 1958) was a German aircraft designer, manufacturer, Wehrwirtschaftsführer in Nazi Germany, and member of the Nazi party. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ernst Heinkel has received more than 227,239 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Ernst Heinkel is the 44th most popular engineer (up from 54th in 2019), the 989th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,087th in 2019) and the 9th most popular German Engineer.
Ernst Heinkel was a German engineer and aircraft designer who is most famous for designing the He 178, the world's first turbojet-powered aircraft.
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Among engineers, Ernst Heinkel ranks 44 out of 323. Before him are Anthony Fokker, John Ambrose Fleming, Alexander Wienerberger, Ildefons Cerdà, Edward A. Murphy Jr., and Sergey Ilyushin. After him are Emil Škoda, Banū Mūsā, Henry Gantt, William John Macquorn Rankine, Charles George Gordon, and Bjarne Stroustrup.
1890 - 1939
HPI: 61.45
Rank: 38
1849 - 1945
HPI: 61.41
Rank: 39
1891 - 1955
HPI: 61.41
Rank: 40
1815 - 1876
HPI: 61.18
Rank: 41
1918 - 1990
HPI: 61.18
Rank: 42
1894 - 1977
HPI: 61.11
Rank: 43
1888 - 1958
HPI: 60.92
Rank: 44
1839 - 1900
HPI: 60.59
Rank: 45
900 - 873
HPI: 60.50
Rank: 46
1861 - 1919
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 47
1820 - 1872
HPI: 60.44
Rank: 48
1833 - 1885
HPI: 60.38
Rank: 49
1950 - Present
HPI: 60.27
Rank: 50
Among people born in 1888, Ernst Heinkel ranks 44. Before him are Ossip Zadkine, Richard E. Byrd, Ernst Kretschmer, Georges Bernanos, Oskar Schlemmer, and Katherine Mansfield. After him are Irving Berlin, Fritz Klein, Max Steiner, W. O. Bentley, John Foster Dulles, and Vladimir K. Zworykin. Among people deceased in 1958, Ernst Heinkel ranks 26. Before him are Georges Rouault, Ole Kirk Christiansen, Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia, Edna Purviance, Princess Ingeborg of Denmark, and André Bazin. After him are Abul Kalam Azad, Kim Tu-bong, Pál Maléter, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Alfred Weber, and Petru Groza.
1888 - 1967
HPI: 62.43
Rank: 38
1888 - 1957
HPI: 62.34
Rank: 39
1888 - 1964
HPI: 62.23
Rank: 40
1888 - 1948
HPI: 61.68
Rank: 41
1888 - 1943
HPI: 61.32
Rank: 42
1888 - 1923
HPI: 61.13
Rank: 43
1888 - 1958
HPI: 60.92
Rank: 44
1888 - 1989
HPI: 60.84
Rank: 45
1888 - 1945
HPI: 60.82
Rank: 46
1888 - 1971
HPI: 60.76
Rank: 47
1888 - 1971
HPI: 60.69
Rank: 48
1888 - 1959
HPI: 60.51
Rank: 49
1888 - 1982
HPI: 60.48
Rank: 50
1871 - 1958
HPI: 64.34
Rank: 20
1891 - 1958
HPI: 62.47
Rank: 21
1890 - 1958
HPI: 61.97
Rank: 22
1895 - 1958
HPI: 61.92
Rank: 23
1878 - 1958
HPI: 61.73
Rank: 24
1918 - 1958
HPI: 61.65
Rank: 25
1888 - 1958
HPI: 60.92
Rank: 26
1888 - 1958
HPI: 60.42
Rank: 27
1889 - 1958
HPI: 60.19
Rank: 28
1917 - 1958
HPI: 59.93
Rank: 29
1872 - 1958
HPI: 59.91
Rank: 30
1868 - 1958
HPI: 59.90
Rank: 31
1884 - 1958
HPI: 59.77
Rank: 32
Among people born in Germany, Ernst Heinkel ranks 989 out of 6,142. Before him are Christian Thomasius (1655), Berti Vogts (1946), Conrad Schumann (1942), Henry II, Duke of Austria (1107), Ernst Zermelo (1871), and August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818). After him are Ludwig Guttmann (1899), Theodor W. Hänsch (1941), Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine (1823), Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1854), Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (1792), and Alfred Naujocks (1911).
1655 - 1728
HPI: 60.97
Rank: 983
1946 - Present
HPI: 60.97
Rank: 984
1942 - 1998
HPI: 60.95
Rank: 985
1107 - 1177
HPI: 60.95
Rank: 986
1871 - 1953
HPI: 60.94
Rank: 987
1818 - 1892
HPI: 60.93
Rank: 988
1888 - 1958
HPI: 60.92
Rank: 989
1899 - 1980
HPI: 60.90
Rank: 990
1941 - Present
HPI: 60.88
Rank: 991
1823 - 1888
HPI: 60.87
Rank: 992
1854 - 1920
HPI: 60.86
Rank: 993
1792 - 1849
HPI: 60.86
Rank: 994
1911 - 1966
HPI: 60.86
Rank: 995
Among engineers born in Germany, Ernst Heinkel ranks 9. Before him are Fritz Todt (1891), Willy Messerschmitt (1898), Albert Göring (1895), August Horch (1868), Hugo Junkers (1859), and Felix Wankel (1902). After him are Kurt Gerstein (1905), Arthur Scherbius (1878), Walter Dornberger (1895), Claude Dornier (1884), Erich Topp (1914), and Christian Otto Mohr (1835).
1891 - 1942
HPI: 66.41
Rank: 3
1898 - 1978
HPI: 65.47
Rank: 4
1895 - 1966
HPI: 64.29
Rank: 5
1868 - 1951
HPI: 64.24
Rank: 6
1859 - 1935
HPI: 63.80
Rank: 7
1902 - 1988
HPI: 62.19
Rank: 8
1888 - 1958
HPI: 60.92
Rank: 9
1905 - 1945
HPI: 60.19
Rank: 10
1878 - 1929
HPI: 59.99
Rank: 11
1895 - 1980
HPI: 59.93
Rank: 12
1884 - 1969
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 13
1914 - 2005
HPI: 55.90
Rank: 14
1835 - 1918
HPI: 55.82
Rank: 15