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George Washington Gale Ferris Jr.

1859 - 1896

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George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. (February 14, 1859 – November 22, 1896) was an American civil engineer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. has received more than 430,963 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. is the 306th most popular inventor (up from 309th in 2019), the 6,020th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,523rd in 2019) and the 78th most popular American Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. ranks 306 out of 354Before him are Whitcomb L. Judson, David Dunbar Buick, Jacob Ellehammer, Ivan Polzunov, Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, and Lynn Conway. After him are John Fitch, Jay Miner, William Friese-Greene, Isaac Pitman, Oleg Losev, and Robert S. Langer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. ranks 99Before him are Jacques Loeb, Anna Palm de Rosa, Édouard-Alfred Martel, Rizaeddin bin Fakhreddin, Teodor Axentowicz, and Georgios Orphanidis. After him are A. E. Housman, Nikolay Kasatkin, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Virginie Demont-Breton, Stefan Toshev, and Ernst Hartert. Among people deceased in 1896, George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. ranks 65Before him are Walthère Frère-Orban, Gustav Adolf, Cardinal Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Hamad bin Thuwaini of Zanzibar, Carl Humann, Jane Wilde, and Johannes Müller Argoviensis. After him are Theodore Robinson, Luigi Palmieri, William Quan Judge, Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Ferdinand von Mueller, and George du Maurier.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. ranks 6,020 out of 18,182Before him are Morris Louis (1912), Estelle Parsons (1927), Dave Alexander (1947), Caleb Bradham (1867), Bob McAdoo (1951), and Vinnie Paul (1964). After him are George Bancroft (1882), Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (1787), Debra Messing (1968), George Winston (1949), Jonathan Carroll (1949), and Harry Cohn (1891).

Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. ranks 78Before him are Tabitha Babbitt (1779), Almon Brown Strowger (1839), Henry M. Leland (1843), Henry J. Kaiser (1882), Whitcomb L. Judson (1846), and Lynn Conway (1938). After him are John Fitch (1743), Jay Miner (1932), Robert S. Langer (1948), Marion Donovan (1917), Norman Joseph Woodland (1921), and Margaret E. Knight (1838).