1834 - 1900
Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler (German: [ˈɡɔtliːp ˈdaɪmlɐ]; 17 March 1834 – 6 March 1900) was a German engineer, industrial designer and industrialist born in Schorndorf (Kingdom of Württemberg, a federal state of the German Confederation), in what is now Germany. He was a pioneer of internal-combustion engines and automobile development. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gottlieb Daimler has received more than 1,173,308 page views. His biography is available in 69 different languages on Wikipedia. Gottlieb Daimler is the 4th most popular engineer (down from 2nd in 2019), the 109th most popular biography from Germany (down from 93rd in 2019) and the most popular German Engineer.
Gottlieb Daimler is most famous for inventing the first gasoline-powered car.
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Among engineers, Gottlieb Daimler ranks 4 out of 323. Before him are Gustave Eiffel, Mikhail Kalashnikov, and Wernher von Braun. After him are Zhuge Liang, Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Sergei Korolev, Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, André Citroën, and Anatoly Dyatlov.
1832 - 1923
HPI: 78.75
Rank: 1
1919 - 2013
HPI: 76.61
Rank: 2
1912 - 1977
HPI: 74.86
Rank: 3
1834 - 1900
HPI: 74.77
Rank: 4
181 - 234
HPI: 74.14
Rank: 5
1796 - 1832
HPI: 72.62
Rank: 6
1856 - 1915
HPI: 72.61
Rank: 7
1857 - 1935
HPI: 70.34
Rank: 8
1906 - 1966
HPI: 70.33
Rank: 9
1633 - 1707
HPI: 69.03
Rank: 10
1878 - 1935
HPI: 68.66
Rank: 11
1931 - 1995
HPI: 68.50
Rank: 12
Among people born in 1834, Gottlieb Daimler ranks 4. Before him are Dmitri Mendeleev, Edgar Degas, and Ernst Haeckel. After him are John Venn, William Morris, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, Léon Walras, Duchess Helene in Bavaria, August Weismann, Amilcare Ponchielli, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Among people deceased in 1900, Gottlieb Daimler ranks 3. Before him are Friedrich Nietzsche and Oscar Wilde. After him are Max Müller, Wilhelm Steinitz, Umberto I of Italy, Ivan Aivazovsky, Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, John Ruskin, Vladimir Solovyov, Étienne Lenoir, and Wilhelm Liebknecht.
1834 - 1907
HPI: 85.55
Rank: 1
1834 - 1917
HPI: 79.06
Rank: 2
1834 - 1919
HPI: 75.41
Rank: 3
1834 - 1900
HPI: 74.77
Rank: 4
1834 - 1923
HPI: 72.95
Rank: 5
1834 - 1896
HPI: 69.43
Rank: 6
1834 - 1904
HPI: 67.69
Rank: 7
1834 - 1910
HPI: 66.98
Rank: 8
1834 - 1890
HPI: 66.43
Rank: 9
1834 - 1914
HPI: 65.87
Rank: 10
1834 - 1886
HPI: 63.92
Rank: 11
1834 - 1903
HPI: 61.95
Rank: 12
1844 - 1900
HPI: 87.93
Rank: 1
1854 - 1900
HPI: 81.49
Rank: 2
1834 - 1900
HPI: 74.77
Rank: 3
1823 - 1900
HPI: 72.38
Rank: 4
1836 - 1900
HPI: 72.18
Rank: 5
1844 - 1900
HPI: 71.11
Rank: 6
1817 - 1900
HPI: 70.16
Rank: 7
1844 - 1900
HPI: 66.97
Rank: 8
1819 - 1900
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 9
1853 - 1900
HPI: 65.59
Rank: 10
1822 - 1900
HPI: 64.65
Rank: 11
1826 - 1900
HPI: 63.16
Rank: 12
Among people born in Germany, Gottlieb Daimler ranks 109 out of 6,142. Before him are Clara Schumann (1819), Carl von Clausewitz (1780), Carl Maria von Weber (1786), Nikolaus Otto (1832), Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368), and Willy Brandt (1913). After him are Baron Munchausen (1720), Carl Orff (1895), Leopold Mozart (1719), Erich Honecker (1912), Ernst Röhm (1887), and Frederick III, German Emperor (1831).
1819 - 1896
HPI: 75.19
Rank: 103
1780 - 1831
HPI: 75.15
Rank: 104
1786 - 1826
HPI: 75.05
Rank: 105
1832 - 1891
HPI: 74.92
Rank: 106
1368 - 1437
HPI: 74.84
Rank: 107
1913 - 1992
HPI: 74.81
Rank: 108
1834 - 1900
HPI: 74.77
Rank: 109
1720 - 1797
HPI: 74.68
Rank: 110
1895 - 1982
HPI: 74.68
Rank: 111
1719 - 1787
HPI: 74.56
Rank: 112
1912 - 1994
HPI: 74.49
Rank: 113
1887 - 1934
HPI: 74.47
Rank: 114
1831 - 1888
HPI: 74.46
Rank: 115
Among engineers born in Germany, Gottlieb Daimler ranks 1. After him are Otto Lilienthal (1848), Fritz Todt (1891), Willy Messerschmitt (1898), Albert Göring (1895), August Horch (1868), Hugo Junkers (1859), Felix Wankel (1902), Ernst Heinkel (1888), Kurt Gerstein (1905), Arthur Scherbius (1878), and Walter Dornberger (1895).
1834 - 1900
HPI: 74.77
Rank: 1
1848 - 1896
HPI: 67.74
Rank: 2
1891 - 1942
HPI: 66.41
Rank: 3
1898 - 1978
HPI: 65.47
Rank: 4
1895 - 1966
HPI: 64.29
Rank: 5
1868 - 1951
HPI: 64.24
Rank: 6
1859 - 1935
HPI: 63.80
Rank: 7
1902 - 1988
HPI: 62.19
Rank: 8
1888 - 1958
HPI: 60.92
Rank: 9
1905 - 1945
HPI: 60.19
Rank: 10
1878 - 1929
HPI: 59.99
Rank: 11
1895 - 1980
HPI: 59.93
Rank: 12