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Geoffrey de Havilland

1882 - 1965

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Captain Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, (27 July 1882 – 21 May 1965) was an English aviation pioneer and aerospace engineer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Geoffrey de Havilland has received more than 592,443 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Geoffrey de Havilland is the 281st most popular engineer (down from 268th in 2019), the 3,779th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,613th in 2019) and the 27th most popular British Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Geoffrey de Havilland ranks 281 out of 323Before him are Da-Wen Sun, Eilmer of Malmesbury, Alan Shugart, Mikhail Tikhonravov, Arthur E. Kennelly, and Hideo Itokawa. After him are William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, Frances Spence, Jesse Ramsden, Albert Auguste Perdonnet, Yuri Artsutanov, and Boris Lisunov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Geoffrey de Havilland ranks 213Before him are Alvin Langdon Coburn, Hernando Siles Reyes, José Luis Tejada Sorzano, Adrianus de Jong, Juan Luque de Serrallonga, and Leonard Nelson. After him are Ion Agârbiceanu, Harold D. Babcock, Harry Myers, Juan Guevara, Tadeusz Banachiewicz, and Jimmy Hogan. Among people deceased in 1965, Geoffrey de Havilland ranks 163Before him are Ivan Joseph Martin Osiier, Ethel Thomson Larcombe, František Langer, Vladimir Gardin, Edgar Barth, and Urho Castrén. After him are Charles Sheeler, Chris Berger, Giorgio Zampori, Hilario López, Eric Brook, and Spike Jones.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Geoffrey de Havilland ranks 3,779 out of 7,765Before him are John Moresby (1830), William Henry Smyth (1788), David Pegg (1935), Burt Kwouk (1930), Thomas Tomkins (1572), and Margaret Mee (1909). After him are Robin Trower (1945), Simon Wright (1963), Wallace Ford (1898), Jack Taylor (1930), Thomas Andrew Knight (1759), and John Eliot (1604).

Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, Geoffrey de Havilland ranks 27Before him are André Waterkeyn (1917), Frederick W. Lanchester (1868), William Froude (1810), Mal Evans (1935), Robert W. Paul (1869), and James B. Francis (1815). After him are William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong (1810), Jesse Ramsden (1735), Isaac Roberts (1829), R. J. Mitchell (1895), Christopher Cockerell (1910), and Joseph Bazalgette (1819).