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Gabriel Voisin

1880 - 1973

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Gabriel Voisin (5 February 1880 – 25 December 1973) was a French aviation pioneer and the creator of Europe's first manned, engine-powered, heavier-than-air aircraft capable of a sustained (1 km), circular, controlled flight, which was made by Henry Farman on 13 January 1908 near Paris, France. During World War I the company founded by Voisin became a major producer of military aircraft, notably the Voisin III. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gabriel Voisin has received more than 102,041 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Gabriel Voisin is the 145th most popular engineer, the 2,655th most popular biography from France (down from 2,512th in 2019) and the 17th most popular French Engineer.

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Among engineers, Gabriel Voisin ranks 145 out of 323Before him are Georgy Shpagin, Eugene Stoner, Alexei Tupolev, Mikhail Yangel, Philippe LeBon, and Riccardo Morandi. After him are Li Kui, Kerim Kerimov, Jorge Chávez, Mstislav Keldysh, Hellmuth Walter, and Menno van Coehoorn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Gabriel Voisin ranks 88Before him are Waldemar Bonsels, Kōdō Sawaki, Archie Hahn, Mihail Sadoveanu, Joseph Trumpeldor, and Eric Lemming. After him are Ildebrando Pizzetti, Begum Rokeya, Princess Thyra of Denmark, Tudor Arghezi, Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, and Leonard Woolf. Among people deceased in 1973, Gabriel Voisin ranks 103Before him are Tanzan Ishibashi, Henry Darger, Ben Webster, Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, Walter Krüger, and Archduchess Isabella of Austria. After him are Lorenzo Fernández, Vilhelm Moberg, Robert Watson-Watt, Mirra Alfassa, Laurens Hammond, and Alexander Mosolov.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gabriel Voisin ranks 2,655 out of 6,011Before him are Fernando Ocáriz Braña (1944), Alberic of Cîteaux (1001), Jean Guitton (1901), Guillaume Le Gentil (1725), François de Bourbon, Prince of Conti (1558), and Claude Bolling (1930). After him are Yvon Douis (1935), Aristide Bruant (1851), Emmeram of Regensburg (600), Jean-Joseph de Mondonville (1711), Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau (1737), and Daniel Buren (1938).

Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Gabriel Voisin ranks 17Before him are Henry Darcy (1803), André Courrèges (1923), François Laurent d'Arlandes (1742), Alexandre Darracq (1855), Pierre Berthier (1782), and Philippe LeBon (1767). After him are Jorge Chávez (1887), Georges Leclanché (1836), Marc Seguin (1786), Léon Charles Thévenin (1857), Gérard Larrousse (1940), and Pierre-Émile Martin (1824).