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Eugène Belgrand

1810 - 1878

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Eugène Belgrand (23 April 1810 – 8 April 1878) was a French engineer who made significant contributions to the modernization of the Parisian sewer system during the 19th century rebuilding of Paris. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eugène Belgrand has received more than 41,062 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Eugène Belgrand is the 222nd most popular engineer (up from 224th in 2019), the 3,674th most popular biography from France (down from 3,620th in 2019) and the 39th most popular French Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Eugène Belgrand ranks 222 out of 389. Before him are W. Ross Ashby, Charles F. Brush, Ma Jun, Georgy Beriev, Seymour Cray, and Ed Heinemann. After him are Léon Serpollet, Kenneth Nichols, Charles Renard, Antoine Nicolas Duchesne, Frederick W. Lanchester, and Johann Georg Halske.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1810, Eugène Belgrand ranks 60. Before him are Abraham Geiger, Louis Gallait, Maurice de Guérin, Giovanni Lanza, Edward Blyth, and Lorenzo Batlle y Grau. After him are Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal, Ferdinand Freiligrath, Grigory Gagarin, Ernest Courtot de Cissey, Jaime Balmes, and Miklós Barabás. Among people deceased in 1878, Eugène Belgrand ranks 44. Before him are Anna Sewell, George Cruikshank, Cirilo Antonio Rivarola, Crawford Long, Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur, and Josip Runjanin. After him are August Heinrich Petermann, Dimitrios Voulgaris, Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, Pyotr Vyazemsky, Fabre Geffrard, and Kikuchi Yōsai.

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In France

Among people born in France, Eugène Belgrand ranks 3,674 out of 6,770. Before him are Theo Hernandez (1997), Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau (1851), Guy Ropartz (1864), Claude Fleury (1640), Gaston Rébuffat (1921), and Charles Duclerc (1812). After him are René Huyghe (1906), Félix Tisserand (1845), Georges Urbain (1872), Étienne Mattler (1905), Léon Serpollet (1858), and Adolphe Grisel (1872).

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Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Eugène Belgrand ranks 39. Before him are Evgeny Paton (1870), Arthur Morin (1795), Benoît Fourneyron (1802), François Hennebique (1842), Émile Lemoine (1840), and Louis Dollo (1857). After him are Léon Serpollet (1858), Charles Renard (1847), Antoine Nicolas Duchesne (1747), Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont (1798), Marc Isambard Brunel (1769), and René Panhard (1841).

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