1868 - 1924
Frank Bunker Gilbreth (July 7, 1868 – June 14, 1924) was an American engineer, consultant, and author known as an early advocate of scientific management and a pioneer of time and motion study, and is perhaps best known as the father and central figure of Cheaper by the Dozen. Both he and his wife Lillian Moller Gilbreth were industrial engineers and efficiency experts who contributed to the study of industrial engineering in fields such as motion study and human factors. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr. has received more than 248,282 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr. is the 96th most popular engineer (down from 86th in 2019), the 2,112th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,837th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Engineer.
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Among engineers, Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr. ranks 96 out of 323. Before him are Valdemar Poulsen, Mikhail Gurevich, Stephen Timoshenko, Joseph M. Juran, Henry Darcy, and Immanuel Nobel. After him are Nikolai Polikarpov, André Courrèges, Claude Dornier, Mikhail Mil, Fedor Tokarev, and Charles Rolls.
1869 - 1942
HPI: 57.34
Rank: 90
1892 - 1976
HPI: 57.32
Rank: 91
1878 - 1972
HPI: 57.08
Rank: 92
1904 - 2008
HPI: 56.97
Rank: 93
1803 - 1858
HPI: 56.92
Rank: 94
1801 - 1872
HPI: 56.87
Rank: 95
1868 - 1924
HPI: 56.86
Rank: 96
1892 - 1944
HPI: 56.81
Rank: 97
1923 - 2016
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 98
1884 - 1969
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 99
1909 - 1970
HPI: 56.39
Rank: 100
1871 - 1968
HPI: 56.35
Rank: 101
1877 - 1910
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 102
Among people born in 1868, Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr. ranks 67. Before him are Alice Keppel, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ahmed Shawqi, Noe Zhordania, S. P. L. Sørensen, and Mary Parker Follett. After him are Paul P. Harris, Archduke Ferdinand Karl of Austria, Louis Couturat, Wilhelm Schmidt, Otto von Lossow, and Francis Jammes. Among people deceased in 1924, Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr. ranks 31. Before him are Lyubov Popova, Princess Louise of Belgium, Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Ziya Gökalp, Teófilo Braga, and Bogd Khan. After him are Matsukata Masayoshi, Helge von Koch, Roland Bonaparte, Fernand Cormon, Louis Delluc, and Valery Bryusov.
1868 - 1947
HPI: 57.80
Rank: 61
1868 - 1963
HPI: 57.76
Rank: 62
1868 - 1932
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 63
1868 - 1953
HPI: 57.41
Rank: 64
1868 - 1939
HPI: 57.35
Rank: 65
1868 - 1933
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 66
1868 - 1924
HPI: 56.86
Rank: 67
1868 - 1947
HPI: 56.65
Rank: 68
1868 - 1915
HPI: 56.42
Rank: 69
1868 - 1914
HPI: 55.71
Rank: 70
1868 - 1954
HPI: 55.69
Rank: 71
1868 - 1938
HPI: 55.56
Rank: 72
1868 - 1938
HPI: 55.42
Rank: 73
1889 - 1924
HPI: 59.54
Rank: 25
1858 - 1924
HPI: 59.31
Rank: 26
1894 - 1924
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 27
1876 - 1924
HPI: 58.81
Rank: 28
1843 - 1924
HPI: 57.74
Rank: 29
1869 - 1924
HPI: 57.09
Rank: 30
1868 - 1924
HPI: 56.86
Rank: 31
1835 - 1924
HPI: 56.65
Rank: 32
1870 - 1924
HPI: 56.61
Rank: 33
1858 - 1924
HPI: 56.46
Rank: 34
1845 - 1924
HPI: 56.14
Rank: 35
1890 - 1924
HPI: 56.12
Rank: 36
1873 - 1924
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 37
Among people born in United States, Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr. ranks 2,112 out of 18,182. Before him are Sheldon Adelson (1933), Jon Kabat-Zinn (1944), Robert Ballard (1942), Merce Cunningham (1919), Steve Morse (1954), and Charles M. Rice (1952). After him are Leonard Kleinrock (1934), Karl Guthe Jansky (1905), Frank Jack Fletcher (1885), Henrietta Lacks (1920), Saul Bass (1920), and Jane Jacobs (1916).
1933 - 2021
HPI: 56.88
Rank: 2,106
1944 - Present
HPI: 56.88
Rank: 2,107
1942 - Present
HPI: 56.87
Rank: 2,108
1919 - 2009
HPI: 56.87
Rank: 2,109
1954 - Present
HPI: 56.87
Rank: 2,110
1952 - Present
HPI: 56.87
Rank: 2,111
1868 - 1924
HPI: 56.86
Rank: 2,112
1934 - Present
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 2,113
1905 - 1950
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 2,114
1885 - 1973
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 2,115
1920 - 1951
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 2,116
1920 - 1996
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 2,117
1916 - 2006
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 2,118
Among engineers born in United States, Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr. ranks 9. Before him are Howard H. Aiken (1900), Henry Gantt (1861), Leslie Groves (1896), Jimmy Doolittle (1896), Jack Swigert (1931), and Vannevar Bush (1890). After him are J. Walter Christie (1865), Eugene Stoner (1922), Kelly Johnson (1910), Joseph Strauss (1870), Gene Kranz (1933), and Jon Postel (1943).
1900 - 1973
HPI: 62.11
Rank: 3
1861 - 1919
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 4
1896 - 1970
HPI: 59.19
Rank: 5
1896 - 1993
HPI: 59.00
Rank: 6
1931 - 1982
HPI: 58.23
Rank: 7
1890 - 1974
HPI: 58.21
Rank: 8
1868 - 1924
HPI: 56.86
Rank: 9
1865 - 1944
HPI: 54.00
Rank: 10
1922 - 1997
HPI: 53.86
Rank: 11
1910 - 1990
HPI: 52.23
Rank: 12
1870 - 1938
HPI: 51.33
Rank: 13
1933 - Present
HPI: 51.26
Rank: 14
1943 - 1998
HPI: 51.21
Rank: 15