1907 - 1996
Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, (1 June 1907 – 9 August 1996) was an English Royal Air Force air officer. He is credited with single-handedly inventing the turbojet engine. A patent was submitted by Maxime Guillaume in 1921 for a similar invention; however, this was technically unfeasible at the time. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frank Whittle has received more than 684,205 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Frank Whittle is the 59th most popular inventor (up from 66th in 2019), the 402nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 457th in 2019) and the 11th most popular British Inventor.
Frank Whittle is most famous for inventing the jet engine.
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Among inventors, Frank Whittle ranks 59 out of 355. Before him are Emile Berliner, Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, Henry Fox Talbot, Adam Opel, Louis Blériot, and Hans Lippershey. After him are Josephine Cochrane, Les Paul, Étienne Lenoir, Oleg Antonov, John Deere, and George Eastman.
1851 - 1929
HPI: 74.58
Rank: 53
1725 - 1804
HPI: 74.45
Rank: 54
1800 - 1877
HPI: 74.40
Rank: 55
1837 - 1895
HPI: 74.21
Rank: 56
1872 - 1936
HPI: 74.12
Rank: 57
1570 - 1619
HPI: 74.08
Rank: 58
1907 - 1996
HPI: 74.06
Rank: 59
1839 - 1913
HPI: 73.88
Rank: 60
1915 - 2009
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 61
1822 - 1900
HPI: 73.75
Rank: 62
1906 - 1984
HPI: 73.62
Rank: 63
1804 - 1886
HPI: 73.59
Rank: 64
1854 - 1932
HPI: 73.51
Rank: 65
Among people born in 1907, Frank Whittle ranks 23. Before him are François Duvalier, John Bowlby, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Robert A. Heinlein, Lin Biao, and Horst Wessel. After him are J. Hans D. Jensen, Sister Lúcia, Fred Zinnemann, Dora Maar, Hans Selye, and Bhagat Singh. Among people deceased in 1996, Frank Whittle ranks 13. Before him are Marguerite Duras, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Ella Fitzgerald, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Joseph Brodsky, and René Lacoste. After him are Dzhokhar Dudayev, Paul Erdős, Gene Kelly, Sergiu Celibidache, Adolf Galland, and Babrak Karmal.
1907 - 1971
HPI: 75.01
Rank: 17
1907 - 1990
HPI: 74.62
Rank: 18
1907 - 1988
HPI: 74.54
Rank: 19
1907 - 1988
HPI: 74.43
Rank: 20
1907 - 1971
HPI: 74.20
Rank: 21
1907 - 1930
HPI: 74.10
Rank: 22
1907 - 1996
HPI: 74.06
Rank: 23
1907 - 1973
HPI: 74.05
Rank: 24
1907 - 2005
HPI: 73.83
Rank: 25
1907 - 1997
HPI: 73.44
Rank: 26
1907 - 1997
HPI: 73.43
Rank: 27
1907 - 1982
HPI: 73.14
Rank: 28
1907 - 1931
HPI: 73.06
Rank: 29
1914 - 1996
HPI: 77.25
Rank: 7
1941 - 1996
HPI: 77.23
Rank: 8
1917 - 1996
HPI: 76.47
Rank: 9
1921 - 1996
HPI: 76.35
Rank: 10
1940 - 1996
HPI: 75.04
Rank: 11
1904 - 1996
HPI: 74.10
Rank: 12
1907 - 1996
HPI: 74.06
Rank: 13
1944 - 1996
HPI: 73.92
Rank: 14
1913 - 1996
HPI: 73.70
Rank: 15
1912 - 1996
HPI: 73.63
Rank: 16
1912 - 1996
HPI: 73.35
Rank: 17
1912 - 1996
HPI: 73.35
Rank: 18
1929 - 1996
HPI: 73.00
Rank: 19
Among people born in United Kingdom, Frank Whittle ranks 402 out of 6,924. Before him are Francis William Aston (1877), Rudolf Abel (1903), Bonnie Tyler (1951), Angus Young (1955), Joshua Reynolds (1723), and Æthelred I, King of Wessex (837). After him are George Paget Thomson (1892), James I of Scotland (1394), David Niven (1910), Richard Attenborough (1923), Robert Fripp (1946), and A. J. Cronin (1896).
1877 - 1945
HPI: 74.16
Rank: 396
1903 - 1971
HPI: 74.14
Rank: 397
1951 - Present
HPI: 74.12
Rank: 398
1955 - Present
HPI: 74.12
Rank: 399
1723 - 1792
HPI: 74.10
Rank: 400
837 - 871
HPI: 74.10
Rank: 401
1907 - 1996
HPI: 74.06
Rank: 402
1892 - 1975
HPI: 74.04
Rank: 403
1394 - 1437
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 404
1910 - 1983
HPI: 74.00
Rank: 405
1923 - 2014
HPI: 73.98
Rank: 406
1946 - Present
HPI: 73.96
Rank: 407
1896 - 1981
HPI: 73.94
Rank: 408
Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Frank Whittle ranks 11. Before him are Thomas Newcomen (1663), John Logie Baird (1888), John Herschel (1792), Richard Trevithick (1771), John Boyd Dunlop (1840), and Henry Fox Talbot (1800). After him are Richard Arkwright (1732), Thomas Savery (1650), Edmund Cartwright (1743), Henry Bessemer (1813), John Harrison (1693), and William Webb Ellis (1806).
1663 - 1729
HPI: 78.76
Rank: 5
1888 - 1946
HPI: 77.65
Rank: 6
1792 - 1871
HPI: 76.38
Rank: 7
1771 - 1833
HPI: 75.67
Rank: 8
1840 - 1921
HPI: 74.64
Rank: 9
1800 - 1877
HPI: 74.40
Rank: 10
1907 - 1996
HPI: 74.06
Rank: 11
1732 - 1792
HPI: 73.18
Rank: 12
1650 - 1715
HPI: 73.03
Rank: 13
1743 - 1823
HPI: 72.07
Rank: 14
1813 - 1898
HPI: 71.88
Rank: 15
1693 - 1776
HPI: 71.77
Rank: 16
1806 - 1872
HPI: 70.89
Rank: 17