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Frederick W. Lanchester

1868 - 1946

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Frederick William Lanchester LLD, Hon FRAeS, FRS (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 his developing a successful car company, and is considered one of the "big three" English car engineers—alongside Harry Ricardo and Henry Royce. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frederick W. Lanchester has received more than 117,132 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Frederick W. Lanchester is the 229th most popular engineer (down from 217th in 2019), the 2,875th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,582nd in 2019) and the 22nd most popular British Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Frederick W. Lanchester ranks 229 out of 323Before him are Alexander Mikulin, Hidetsugu Yagi, Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, Eugène Belgrand, Marc Isambard Brunel, and Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont. After him are William Froude, Walter Thiel, Eugène Flachat, Burt Rutan, Johann Georg Halske, and Marcel Deprez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Frederick W. Lanchester ranks 135Before him are Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge, Ștefan Luchian, Emil Racoviță, Wallace Clement Sabine, Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo, and Arthur Gore. After him are Gustav Mie, Théodore Steeg, Constance Markievicz, Leonardus Nardus, Jonas Staugaitis, and Richard Teichmann. Among people deceased in 1946, Frederick W. Lanchester ranks 144Before him are Shirase Nobu, Júlio Prestes, Juan Bautista Sacasa, Arthur Dove, Charles Despiau, and Carl Theodor Zahle. After him are Saint Alphonsa, Teizo Takeuchi, Giuseppe Adami, Gualberto Villarroel, I Gusti Ngurah Rai, and Alfred Stock.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Frederick W. Lanchester ranks 2,875 out of 7,765Before him are William Knox D'Arcy (1849), Bryan Robson (1957), Ray Clemence (1948), Rupert Graves (1963), Frederick North, Lord North (1732), and Gwyneth Jones (1936). After him are William Nicol (1770), Taylor Caldwell (1900), George S. Robertson (1872), Hector Boece (1465), Archibald Scott Couper (1831), and Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (1864).

Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, Frederick W. Lanchester ranks 22Before him are John Loudon McAdam (1756), John Bagot Glubb (1897), John Smeaton (1724), William Playfair (1759), W. Ross Ashby (1903), and André Waterkeyn (1917). After him are William Froude (1810), Mal Evans (1935), Robert W. Paul (1869), James B. Francis (1815), Geoffrey de Havilland (1882), and William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong (1810).