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George Washington

1871 - 1946

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George Constant Louis Washington (May 20, 1871 – March 29, 1946) was a Belgian inventor and businessman. He is best remembered for his improvement of an early instant coffee process and for the company he founded to mass-produce it, the G. Washington Coffee Company. An emigrant from his native Belgium, he arrived in the New York area in 1897. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Washington has received more than 52,495,359 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). George Washington is the 172nd most popular inventor (up from 231st in 2019), the 251st most popular biography from Belgium (up from 367th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Belgian Inventor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 52M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.46

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.02

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, George Washington ranks 172 out of 354. Before him are Charles Cros, David Edward Hughes, Siegfried Marcus, Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva, Georges Claude, and Shigeo Shingo. After him are Ottaviano Petrucci, Peter Henlein, Hubert Cecil Booth, Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Melvil Dewey, and Matthew Boulton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, George Washington ranks 50. Before him are Hanns Heinz Ewers, Fedor Tokarev, Wilhelm Stenhammar, Guillermo Kahlo, Ivan Poddubny, and Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe. After him are Hubert Cecil Booth, William Heard Kilpatrick, Cesare Mori, Claus Schilling, Doppo Kunikida, and Mariano Fortuny. Among people deceased in 1946, George Washington ranks 74. Before him are Masaharu Homma, Louis Slotin, Mihai Antonescu, Yōsuke Matsuoka, Martin Gottfried Weiss, and Henri Gouraud. After him are Elisabeth Becker, Karl Eberhard Schöngarth, Wilhelm Souchon, Claus Schilling, Madan Mohan Malaviya, and Hermann von Keyserling.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, George Washington ranks 251 out of 1,019. Before him are John of Ruusbroec (1293), Emile Vandervelde (1866), Leo Tindemans (1922), John II, Duke of Brabant (1275), Michiel Coxie (1499), and Herbert Wimmer (1944). After him are James Weddell (1787), Princess Anne, Duchess of Calabria (1938), Prince Alexandre of Belgium (1942), Stromae (1985), Princess Joséphine Caroline of Belgium (1872), and Pierre Deligne (1944).

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Among INVENTORS In Belgium

Among inventors born in Belgium, George Washington ranks 6. Before him are Adolphe Sax (1814), Jacques Piccard (1922), Zénobe Gramme (1826), Paul Otlet (1868), and Robert Cailliau (1947).

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