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Frederick W. Lanchester

1868 - 1946

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Frederick William Lanchester (23 October 1868 – 8 March 1946), was an English polymath and engineer who made important contributions to automotive engineering and to aerodynamics, and co-invented the topic of operations research. Lanchester became a pioneer British motor-car builder, a hobby which resulted in him building the first British car in 1895 and developing a successful car company. Some of the innovations Lanchester developed have gone on to become widely adopted in the car industry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frederick W. Lanchester has received more than 130,825 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Frederick W. Lanchester is the 227th most popular engineer, the 2,669th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,867th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular British Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Frederick W. Lanchester ranks 227 out of 389. Before him are Ed Heinemann, Eugène Belgrand, Léon Serpollet, Kenneth Nichols, Charles Renard, and Antoine Nicolas Duchesne. After him are Johann Georg Halske, Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, Marc Isambard Brunel, Hidetsugu Yagi, Arkhip Lyulka, and Harvey Postlethwaite.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Frederick W. Lanchester ranks 135. Before him are Juventino Rosas, Georges Lacombe, Constance Markievicz, Mikhail Pokrovsky, Emil Racoviță, and Nikolaos Trikoupis. After him are Zhang Binglin, Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo, Arthur Gore, Panagis Tsaldaris, and Max von Schillings. Among people deceased in 1946, Frederick W. Lanchester ranks 143. Before him are Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen, Gualberto Villarroel, Józef Mehoffer, I Gusti Ngurah Rai, Aleksandr Bogomolets, and Jenny Nyström. After him are Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede, Raimu, Adriaan van Maanen, Charles Despiau, Pantelis Karasevdas, and William Wain Prior.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Frederick W. Lanchester ranks 2,669 out of 8,785. Before him are John Neville (1925), Rupert Brooke (1887), Alexander Dalrymple (1737), Jonny Lee Miller (1972), David Heyman (1961), and Thomas Wyatt the Younger (1521). After him are John Tavener (1944), Stephen Daldry (1960), William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk (1396), Centwine of Wessex (643), Terence Fisher (1904), and Gorden Kaye (1941).

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Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, Frederick W. Lanchester ranks 22. Before him are William Playfair (1759), John Loudon McAdam (1756), John Smeaton (1724), John Hughes (1814), André Waterkeyn (1917), and W. Ross Ashby (1903). After him are Harvey Postlethwaite (1944), James B. Francis (1815), William Froude (1810), Robert W. Paul (1869), Pat Symonds (1953), and William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong (1810).

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