1831 - 1897
George Mortimer Pullman (March 3, 1831 – October 19, 1897) was an American engineer and industrialist. He designed and manufactured the Pullman sleeping car and founded a company town in Chicago for the workers who manufactured it. This ultimately led to the Pullman Strike due to the high rent prices charged for company housing and low wages paid by the Pullman Company. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Pullman has received more than 618,322 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). George Pullman is the 184th most popular inventor (up from 201st in 2019), the 2,710th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,977th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular American Inventor.
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Among inventors, George Pullman ranks 184 out of 354. Before him are Matthew Boulton, Johann Christoph Denner, Garrett Morgan, Traian Vuia, Friedrich Zander, and Gerald Bull. After him are Royal Rife, J. Presper Eckert, Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Charles Xavier Thomas, Lars Magnus Ericsson, and Narcís Monturiol.
1728 - 1809
HPI: 55.34
Rank: 178
1655 - 1707
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 179
1877 - 1963
HPI: 55.20
Rank: 180
1872 - 1950
HPI: 55.10
Rank: 181
1887 - 1933
HPI: 54.87
Rank: 182
1928 - 1990
HPI: 54.85
Rank: 183
1831 - 1897
HPI: 54.84
Rank: 184
1888 - 1971
HPI: 54.75
Rank: 185
1919 - 1995
HPI: 54.75
Rank: 186
1685 - 1724
HPI: 54.72
Rank: 187
1785 - 1870
HPI: 54.69
Rank: 188
1846 - 1926
HPI: 54.69
Rank: 189
1819 - 1885
HPI: 54.68
Rank: 190
Among people born in 1831, George Pullman ranks 43. Before him are Maurice de Hirsch, David Edward Hughes, Siegfried Marcus, Philip Sheridan, Ankō Itosu, and Princess Charlotte of Prussia. After him are Ludvig Nobel, Prince August, Duke of Dalarna, Daniele Comboni, Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, Wilhelm Raabe, and Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola. Among people deceased in 1897, George Pullman ranks 30. Before him are Galileo Ferraris, Alexei Savrasov, Viktor Meyer, Khurshidbanu Natavan, Minna Canth, and Stanislas de Guaita. After him are Fritz Müller, Antonio Bazzini, Henry George, Léon Boëllmann, Panteleimon Kulish, and Charles Boycott.
1831 - 1896
HPI: 55.81
Rank: 37
1831 - 1900
HPI: 55.60
Rank: 38
1831 - 1898
HPI: 55.60
Rank: 39
1831 - 1888
HPI: 55.57
Rank: 40
1831 - 1915
HPI: 55.47
Rank: 41
1831 - 1855
HPI: 55.01
Rank: 42
1831 - 1897
HPI: 54.84
Rank: 43
1831 - 1888
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 44
1831 - 1873
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 45
1831 - 1881
HPI: 54.26
Rank: 46
1831 - 1891
HPI: 53.96
Rank: 47
1831 - 1910
HPI: 53.86
Rank: 48
1831 - 1888
HPI: 53.50
Rank: 49
1847 - 1897
HPI: 56.24
Rank: 24
1830 - 1897
HPI: 56.08
Rank: 25
1848 - 1897
HPI: 55.89
Rank: 26
1832 - 1897
HPI: 55.83
Rank: 27
1844 - 1897
HPI: 55.41
Rank: 28
1861 - 1897
HPI: 55.20
Rank: 29
1831 - 1897
HPI: 54.84
Rank: 30
1822 - 1897
HPI: 54.55
Rank: 31
1818 - 1897
HPI: 54.23
Rank: 32
1839 - 1897
HPI: 54.02
Rank: 33
1862 - 1897
HPI: 54.00
Rank: 34
1819 - 1897
HPI: 53.87
Rank: 35
1832 - 1897
HPI: 53.62
Rank: 36
Among people born in United States, George Pullman ranks 2,710 out of 18,182. Before him are Ted Nelson (1937), Henry Morgenthau Jr. (1891), Winslow Homer (1836), Wallace Shawn (1943), Allen Newell (1927), and Liev Schreiber (1967). After him are Katharine Graham (1917), Jimmie Angel (1899), Cindy Sherman (1954), Lee Krasner (1908), Darryl F. Zanuck (1902), and Bonnie Bedelia (1948).
1937 - Present
HPI: 54.87
Rank: 2,704
1891 - 1967
HPI: 54.86
Rank: 2,705
1836 - 1910
HPI: 54.85
Rank: 2,706
1943 - Present
HPI: 54.85
Rank: 2,707
1927 - 1992
HPI: 54.84
Rank: 2,708
1967 - Present
HPI: 54.84
Rank: 2,709
1831 - 1897
HPI: 54.84
Rank: 2,710
1917 - 2001
HPI: 54.83
Rank: 2,711
1899 - 1956
HPI: 54.83
Rank: 2,712
1954 - Present
HPI: 54.83
Rank: 2,713
1908 - 1984
HPI: 54.83
Rank: 2,714
1902 - 1979
HPI: 54.83
Rank: 2,715
1948 - Present
HPI: 54.82
Rank: 2,716
Among inventors born in United States, George Pullman ranks 42. Before him are Sequoyah (1770), Christopher Latham Sholes (1819), Charles Martin Hall (1863), Edwin Howard Armstrong (1890), Melvil Dewey (1851), and Garrett Morgan (1877). After him are Royal Rife (1888), J. Presper Eckert (1919), Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834), Philo Farnsworth (1906), John Wesley Hyatt (1837), and Eli Whitney (1765).
1770 - 1843
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 36
1819 - 1890
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 37
1863 - 1914
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 38
1890 - 1954
HPI: 55.75
Rank: 39
1851 - 1931
HPI: 55.35
Rank: 40
1877 - 1963
HPI: 55.20
Rank: 41
1831 - 1897
HPI: 54.84
Rank: 42
1888 - 1971
HPI: 54.75
Rank: 43
1919 - 1995
HPI: 54.75
Rank: 44
1834 - 1906
HPI: 54.63
Rank: 45
1906 - 1971
HPI: 54.62
Rank: 46
1837 - 1920
HPI: 53.93
Rank: 47
1765 - 1825
HPI: 53.91
Rank: 48