1907 - 1996
Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, (1 June 1907 – 8 August 1996) was an English engineer, inventor and Royal Air Force (RAF) air officer. He is credited with having invented the turbojet engine. A patent was submitted by Maxime Guillaume in 1921 for a similar invention which was technically unfeasible at the time. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frank Whittle has received more than 1,095,119 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia. Frank Whittle is the 54th most popular inventor (up from 59th in 2019), the 398th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 401st in 2019) and the 10th most popular British Inventor.
Frank Whittle is most famous for inventing the jet engine.
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Among inventors, Frank Whittle ranks 54 out of 354. Before him are William G. Morgan, Willis Carrier, Hans Lippershey, John Boyd Dunlop, Emile Berliner, and Wilhelm Maybach. After him are Isaac Singer, Adam Opel, John Deere, Louis Blériot, Douglas Engelbart, and Henry Fox Talbot.
1870 - 1942
HPI: 67.73
Rank: 48
1876 - 1950
HPI: 67.26
Rank: 49
1570 - 1619
HPI: 67.25
Rank: 50
1840 - 1921
HPI: 66.90
Rank: 51
1851 - 1929
HPI: 66.44
Rank: 52
1846 - 1929
HPI: 66.32
Rank: 53
1907 - 1996
HPI: 66.20
Rank: 54
1811 - 1875
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 55
1837 - 1895
HPI: 66.10
Rank: 56
1804 - 1886
HPI: 65.61
Rank: 57
1872 - 1936
HPI: 65.55
Rank: 58
1925 - 2013
HPI: 65.53
Rank: 59
1800 - 1877
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 60
Among people born in 1907, Frank Whittle ranks 21. Before him are Jacques Tati, Yang Shangkun, J. Hans D. Jensen, Lin Biao, John Bowlby, and Robert A. Heinlein. After him are Nikolaas Tinbergen, Hans Selye, Hideki Yukawa, Horst Wessel, Fred Zinnemann, and Bhagat Singh. Among people deceased in 1996, Frank Whittle ranks 16. Before him are Dzhokhar Dudayev, Ella Fitzgerald, Joseph Brodsky, Babrak Karmal, René Lacoste, and Paul Erdős. After him are Tadeusz Reichstein, Adolf Galland, Joan Clarke, Gene Kelly, Solomon Asch, and Silvio Piola.
1907 - 1982
HPI: 68.31
Rank: 15
1907 - 1998
HPI: 67.66
Rank: 16
1907 - 1973
HPI: 67.14
Rank: 17
1907 - 1971
HPI: 66.97
Rank: 18
1907 - 1990
HPI: 66.97
Rank: 19
1907 - 1988
HPI: 66.60
Rank: 20
1907 - 1996
HPI: 66.20
Rank: 21
1907 - 1988
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 22
1907 - 1982
HPI: 65.85
Rank: 23
1907 - 1981
HPI: 65.56
Rank: 24
1907 - 1930
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 25
1907 - 1997
HPI: 65.39
Rank: 26
1907 - 1931
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 27
1944 - 1996
HPI: 69.32
Rank: 10
1917 - 1996
HPI: 68.71
Rank: 11
1940 - 1996
HPI: 67.60
Rank: 12
1929 - 1996
HPI: 66.82
Rank: 13
1904 - 1996
HPI: 66.51
Rank: 14
1913 - 1996
HPI: 66.35
Rank: 15
1907 - 1996
HPI: 66.20
Rank: 16
1897 - 1996
HPI: 66.15
Rank: 17
1912 - 1996
HPI: 66.15
Rank: 18
1917 - 1996
HPI: 65.81
Rank: 19
1912 - 1996
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 20
1907 - 1996
HPI: 64.38
Rank: 21
1913 - 1996
HPI: 64.16
Rank: 22
Among people born in United Kingdom, Frank Whittle ranks 398 out of 7,765. Before him are Margot Fonteyn (1919), John Wesley (1703), Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales (1453), J. M. Barrie (1860), Ian Holm (1931), and Fred Hoyle (1915). After him are Robert Fripp (1946), Richard Owen (1804), John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650), Prince Andrew, Duke of York (1960), Jim Clark (1936), and Millvina Dean (1912).
1919 - 1991
HPI: 66.30
Rank: 392
1703 - 1791
HPI: 66.29
Rank: 393
1453 - 1471
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 394
1860 - 1937
HPI: 66.25
Rank: 395
1931 - 2020
HPI: 66.23
Rank: 396
1915 - 2001
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 397
1907 - 1996
HPI: 66.20
Rank: 398
1946 - Present
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 399
1804 - 1892
HPI: 66.14
Rank: 400
1650 - 1722
HPI: 66.13
Rank: 401
1960 - Present
HPI: 66.12
Rank: 402
1936 - 1968
HPI: 66.12
Rank: 403
1912 - 2009
HPI: 66.06
Rank: 404
Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Frank Whittle ranks 10. Before him are George Stephenson (1781), John Logie Baird (1888), Thomas Newcomen (1663), Richard Trevithick (1771), John Herschel (1792), and John Boyd Dunlop (1840). After him are Henry Fox Talbot (1800), Thomas Savery (1650), Richard Arkwright (1732), James Hargreaves (1720), Henry Bessemer (1813), and John Harrison (1693).
1781 - 1848
HPI: 74.92
Rank: 4
1888 - 1946
HPI: 72.45
Rank: 5
1663 - 1729
HPI: 71.14
Rank: 6
1771 - 1833
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 7
1792 - 1871
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 8
1840 - 1921
HPI: 66.90
Rank: 9
1907 - 1996
HPI: 66.20
Rank: 10
1800 - 1877
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 11
1650 - 1715
HPI: 63.70
Rank: 12
1732 - 1792
HPI: 63.63
Rank: 13
1720 - 1778
HPI: 63.04
Rank: 14
1813 - 1898
HPI: 62.68
Rank: 15
1693 - 1776
HPI: 62.34
Rank: 16