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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. He dabbled in several technical fields before hitting upon manufacturing an adapted version of the nascent instant coffee, during a sojourn in Central America in 1906 or 1907. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Washington has received more than 51,876,474 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). George Washington is the 217th most popular inventor (down from 172nd in 2019), the 355th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 251st in 2019) and the 7th most popular Belgian Inventor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 52M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.25

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of George Washingtons by language

Over the past year George Washington has had the most page views in the with 9,026,588 views, followed by Arabic (5,340), and Spanish (3,276). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Arabic (72.87%), Portuguese (39.93%), and Sinhalese (35.63%)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, George Washington ranks 217 out of 426. Before him are J. Presper Eckert, Gerald Bull, Robert Metcalfe, Helmut Gröttrup, John Wesley Hyatt, and Artur Fischer. After him are Josip Belušić, Max Skladanowsky, Walter Hunt, Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Vittorio Jano, and George Pullman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, George Washington ranks 68. Before him are Dame Gruev, Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, Arthur Griffith, Alajos Szokolyi, Abanindranath Tagore, and Giuseppe Motta. After him are John Millington Synge, Wilhelm von Mirbach, Arthur Tansley, Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Ivan Poddubny, and Claus Schilling. Among people deceased in 1946, George Washington ranks 97. Before him are Chen Gongbo, Robert Heinrich Wagner, Madan Mohan Malaviya, Bo Gu, Louis Zutter, and Béla Imrédy. After him are Max Pauly, Edmund Glaise-Horstenau, Gerda Steinhoff, Claus Schilling, John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, and Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, George Washington ranks 355 out of 1,190. Before him are Firmin Lambot (1886), Amélie Nothomb (1967), Louis Michel (1947), Yves Leterme (1960), Sigebert of Gembloux (1030), and Didier Reynders (1958). After him are Johnny Galecki (1975), Paul Anspach (1882), Princess Marie-Esméralda of Belgium (1956), Gaspar de Crayer (1584), René Jacobs (1946), and Hucbald (840).

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Among INVENTORS In Belgium

Among inventors born in Belgium, George Washington ranks 7. Before him are Adolphe Sax (1814), Étienne Lenoir (1822), Jacques Piccard (1922), Zénobe Gramme (1826), Paul Otlet (1868), and Robert Cailliau (1947).

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