1902 - 1988
Felix Heinrich Wankel (German: [ˈfeːlɪks ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈvaŋkl̩]; 13 August 1902 – 9 October 1988) was a German mechanical engineer and inventor after whom the Wankel engine was named. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Felix Wankel has received more than 289,009 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia. Felix Wankel is the 34th most popular engineer (down from 30th in 2019), the 825th most popular biography from Germany (down from 671st in 2019) and the 8th most popular German Engineer.
Felix wankel is most famous for inventing the wankel engine, which is a type of internal combustion engine.
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Among engineers, Felix Wankel ranks 34 out of 323. Before him are José Echegaray, Hugo Junkers, Lennart Torstensson, Jiro Horikoshi, Theodore von Kármán, and Villard de Honnecourt. After him are Pavel Sukhoi, Howard H. Aiken, Godfrey Hounsfield, Anthony Fokker, John Ambrose Fleming, and Alexander Wienerberger.
1832 - 1916
HPI: 64.02
Rank: 28
1859 - 1935
HPI: 63.80
Rank: 29
1603 - 1651
HPI: 62.90
Rank: 30
1903 - 1982
HPI: 62.81
Rank: 31
1881 - 1963
HPI: 62.65
Rank: 32
1200 - 1250
HPI: 62.32
Rank: 33
1902 - 1988
HPI: 62.19
Rank: 34
1895 - 1975
HPI: 62.14
Rank: 35
1900 - 1973
HPI: 62.11
Rank: 36
1919 - 2004
HPI: 61.81
Rank: 37
1890 - 1939
HPI: 61.45
Rank: 38
1849 - 1945
HPI: 61.41
Rank: 39
1891 - 1955
HPI: 61.41
Rank: 40
Among people born in 1902, Felix Wankel ranks 39. Before him are Alexander Luria, Theodore Schultz, Émile Benveniste, Juscelino Kubitschek, André Michel Lwoff, and Mitsuo Fuchida. After him are Fritz Strassmann, Alexandre Kojève, Günther Anders, Luis Barragán, Princess Mafalda of Savoy, and Prince George, Duke of Kent. Among people deceased in 1988, Felix Wankel ranks 20. Before him are Roy Orbison, Raymond Carver, Juan Pujol García, Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad, Virginia Satir, and Gert Fröbe. After him are John Holmes, Clifford D. Simak, Luis Barragán, André Frédéric Cournand, Tibor Sekelj, and Paul Grice.
1902 - 1977
HPI: 63.98
Rank: 33
1902 - 1998
HPI: 63.63
Rank: 34
1902 - 1976
HPI: 63.22
Rank: 35
1902 - 1976
HPI: 63.08
Rank: 36
1902 - 1994
HPI: 62.48
Rank: 37
1902 - 1976
HPI: 62.22
Rank: 38
1902 - 1988
HPI: 62.19
Rank: 39
1902 - 1980
HPI: 62.02
Rank: 40
1902 - 1968
HPI: 61.94
Rank: 41
1902 - 1992
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 42
1902 - 1988
HPI: 61.60
Rank: 43
1902 - 1944
HPI: 61.12
Rank: 44
1902 - 1942
HPI: 61.10
Rank: 45
1936 - 1988
HPI: 64.39
Rank: 14
1938 - 1988
HPI: 63.40
Rank: 15
1912 - 1988
HPI: 63.24
Rank: 16
1927 - 1988
HPI: 63.18
Rank: 17
1916 - 1988
HPI: 62.64
Rank: 18
1913 - 1988
HPI: 62.36
Rank: 19
1902 - 1988
HPI: 62.19
Rank: 20
1944 - 1988
HPI: 61.99
Rank: 21
1904 - 1988
HPI: 61.88
Rank: 22
1902 - 1988
HPI: 61.60
Rank: 23
1895 - 1988
HPI: 61.27
Rank: 24
1912 - 1988
HPI: 60.87
Rank: 25
1913 - 1988
HPI: 60.71
Rank: 26
Among people born in Germany, Felix Wankel ranks 825 out of 6,142. Before him are Christina of Holstein-Gottorp (1573), Luz Long (1913), Wilhelm Windelband (1848), Ernst Kretschmer (1888), Gottfried Feder (1883), and Johannes Peter Müller (1801). After him are Joseph Wirth (1879), Max Delbrück (1906), Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1823), Theodor Fontane (1819), Therese Neumann (1898), and Fritz Haarmann (1879).
1573 - 1625
HPI: 62.25
Rank: 819
1913 - 1943
HPI: 62.24
Rank: 820
1848 - 1915
HPI: 62.24
Rank: 821
1888 - 1964
HPI: 62.23
Rank: 822
1883 - 1941
HPI: 62.22
Rank: 823
1801 - 1858
HPI: 62.19
Rank: 824
1902 - 1988
HPI: 62.19
Rank: 825
1879 - 1956
HPI: 62.19
Rank: 826
1906 - 1981
HPI: 62.19
Rank: 827
1823 - 1883
HPI: 62.19
Rank: 828
1819 - 1898
HPI: 62.18
Rank: 829
1898 - 1962
HPI: 62.18
Rank: 830
1879 - 1925
HPI: 62.16
Rank: 831
Among engineers born in Germany, Felix Wankel ranks 8. Before him are Otto Lilienthal (1848), Fritz Todt (1891), Willy Messerschmitt (1898), Albert Göring (1895), August Horch (1868), and Hugo Junkers (1859). After him are Ernst Heinkel (1888), Kurt Gerstein (1905), Arthur Scherbius (1878), Walter Dornberger (1895), Claude Dornier (1884), and Erich Topp (1914).
1848 - 1896
HPI: 67.74
Rank: 2
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