1928 - 1990
Gerald Vincent Bull (March 9, 1928 – March 22, 1990) was a Canadian engineer who developed long-range artillery. He moved from project to project in his quest to economically launch a satellite using a huge artillery piece, to which end he designed the Project Babylon "supergun" for the Iraqi government. Bull was assassinated outside his apartment in Brussels, Belgium in March 1990. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gerald Bull has received more than 721,192 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Gerald Bull is the 159th most popular inventor (up from 174th in 2019), the 89th most popular biography from Canada (up from 95th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Canadian Inventor.
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Among inventors, Gerald Bull ranks 159 out of 355. Before him are Edwin Howard Armstrong, Charles Cros, Georges Hébert, Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse, Elias Howe, and Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville. After him are Melvil Dewey, Ottaviano Petrucci, Siegfried Marcus, Oskar Barnack, Gunther von Hagens, and Johann Christoph Denner.
1890 - 1954
HPI: 66.48
Rank: 153
1842 - 1888
HPI: 66.48
Rank: 154
1875 - 1957
HPI: 66.33
Rank: 155
1787 - 1867
HPI: 66.33
Rank: 156
1819 - 1867
HPI: 66.26
Rank: 157
1817 - 1879
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 158
1928 - 1990
HPI: 66.10
Rank: 159
1851 - 1931
HPI: 66.10
Rank: 160
1466 - 1539
HPI: 66.08
Rank: 161
1831 - 1898
HPI: 66.03
Rank: 162
1879 - 1936
HPI: 66.02
Rank: 163
1945 - Present
HPI: 66.01
Rank: 164
1655 - 1707
HPI: 66.00
Rank: 165
Among people born in 1928, Gerald Bull ranks 145. Before him are Laurence Harvey, Emilio Caprile, Ann Morgan Guilbert, László Budai, Djivan Gasparyan, and Eddie Fisher. After him are Alfonso de Portago, Héctor Rial, Malcolm Glazer, Ulric Neisser, Peter Naur, and Petr Ginz. Among people deceased in 1990, Gerald Bull ranks 72. Before him are Curtis LeMay, Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, Viktor Tsoi, J. C. R. Licklider, Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, and Tadeusz Kantor. After him are Vaso Čubrilović, Michel Leiris, Sergei Dovlatov, Samuel Doe, José Figueres Ferrer, and Hussein Onn.
1928 - 1973
HPI: 66.29
Rank: 139
1928 - 2020
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 140
1928 - 2016
HPI: 66.26
Rank: 141
1928 - 1983
HPI: 66.26
Rank: 142
1928 - Present
HPI: 66.20
Rank: 143
1928 - 2010
HPI: 66.15
Rank: 144
1928 - 1990
HPI: 66.10
Rank: 145
1928 - 1957
HPI: 66.03
Rank: 146
1928 - 1991
HPI: 66.02
Rank: 147
1928 - 2014
HPI: 66.00
Rank: 148
1928 - 2012
HPI: 65.99
Rank: 149
1928 - 2016
HPI: 65.97
Rank: 150
1928 - 1944
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 151
1906 - 1990
HPI: 66.72
Rank: 66
1918 - 1990
HPI: 66.49
Rank: 67
1962 - 1990
HPI: 66.38
Rank: 68
1915 - 1990
HPI: 66.37
Rank: 69
1912 - 1990
HPI: 66.18
Rank: 70
1915 - 1990
HPI: 66.14
Rank: 71
1928 - 1990
HPI: 66.10
Rank: 72
1897 - 1990
HPI: 66.05
Rank: 73
1901 - 1990
HPI: 65.99
Rank: 74
1941 - 1990
HPI: 65.95
Rank: 75
1951 - 1990
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 76
1906 - 1990
HPI: 65.57
Rank: 77
1922 - 1990
HPI: 65.57
Rank: 78
Among people born in Canada, Gerald Bull ranks 89 out of 1,130. Before him are Jacques Villeneuve (1971), Brian Tracy (1944), Ian Stevenson (1918), Joe Weider (1919), Norma Shearer (1902), and Jack L. Warner (1892). After him are James Doohan (1920), Wayne Gretzky (1961), Simon Newcomb (1835), Eric McCormack (1963), Denny Doherty (1940), and Denys Arcand (1941).
1971 - Present
HPI: 66.38
Rank: 83
1944 - Present
HPI: 66.37
Rank: 84
1918 - 2007
HPI: 66.32
Rank: 85
1919 - 2013
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 86
1902 - 1983
HPI: 66.27
Rank: 87
1892 - 1978
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 88
1928 - 1990
HPI: 66.10
Rank: 89
1920 - 2005
HPI: 66.09
Rank: 90
1961 - Present
HPI: 66.05
Rank: 91
1835 - 1909
HPI: 66.05
Rank: 92
1963 - Present
HPI: 65.99
Rank: 93
1940 - 2007
HPI: 65.90
Rank: 94
1941 - Present
HPI: 65.78
Rank: 95
Among inventors born in Canada, Gerald Bull ranks 2. Before him are James Naismith (1861). After him are Reginald Fessenden (1866), Joseph-Armand Bombardier (1907), and Yvonne Brill (1924).
1861 - 1939
HPI: 77.80
Rank: 1
1928 - 1990
HPI: 66.10
Rank: 2
1866 - 1932
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 3
1907 - 1964
HPI: 61.93
Rank: 4
1924 - 2013
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 5