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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 645,545 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Geoffrey de Havilland is the 326th most popular engineer (down from 279th in 2019), the 4,506th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,771st in 2019) and the 35th most popular British Engineer.

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  • 52.43

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.09

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Geoffrey de Havilland ranks 326 out of 389. Before him are Robert H. Dennard, John Monash, Ove Arup, T. Keith Glennan, Jack Parsons, and Willy Ley. After him are Mario Theissen, Da-Wen Sun, Albert Auguste Perdonnet, Octave Chanute, Aldo Costa, and Anatoly Blagonravov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Geoffrey de Havilland ranks 253. Before him are Max Hainle, Axel Sjöblom, Frederick Moloney, Herman Groman, André Rischmann, and Herbert E. Ives. After him are Ödön Bodor, Jaroslav Tuček, George van Rossem, Mina Loy, Paul Koebe, and Paul Günther. Among people deceased in 1965, Geoffrey de Havilland ranks 200. Before him are Frances Perkins, Heinrich Schomburgk, Teodor Koskenniemi, Alan Washbond, Chris Berger, and Steve Cochran. After him are Helen Wainwright, Spike Jones, Robert Benson, Marion Jones Farquhar, Søren Marinus Jensen, and Tadd Dameron.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Geoffrey de Havilland ranks 4,506 out of 8,785. Before him are Mark Catesby (1683), Emily Hobhouse (1860), Luke Goss (1968), Edward Newton (1832), James Frain (1968), and Morton Betts (1847). After him are Almroth Wright (1861), Zak Starkey (1965), Owain Yeoman (1978), William Sherard (1659), Julian Symons (1912), and Colin Salmon (1962).

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Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, Geoffrey de Havilland ranks 35. Before him are Mal Evans (1935), Isaac Roberts (1829), Ron Tauranac (1925), Jesse Ramsden (1735), Joseph Bazalgette (1819), and Ove Arup (1895). After him are R. J. Mitchell (1895), Tommy Flowers (1905), Harry Ricardo (1885), Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford (1893), Ralph Bagnold (1896), and Kevin Warwick (1954).

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