1874 - 1937
Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi (Italian: [ɡuʎˈʎɛlmo marˈkoːni]; 25 April 1874 – 20 July 1937) was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer, known for his creation of a practical radio wave-based wireless telegraph system. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Guglielmo Marconi has received more than 3,584,351 page views. His biography is available in 107 different languages on Wikipedia. Guglielmo Marconi is the 10th most popular inventor (down from 9th in 2019), the 62nd most popular biography from Italy (down from 61st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Italian Inventor.
Guglielmo Marconi was an Italian inventor who is most famous for his contributions to the development of radio.
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Among inventors, Guglielmo Marconi ranks 10 out of 354. Before him are Johannes Gutenberg, James Watt, Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Ford, Elon Musk, and Karl Benz. After him are Louis Braille, Charles Babbage, Samuel Morse, Rudolf Diesel, Nikolaus Otto, and George Stephenson.
1394 - 1468
HPI: 89.28
Rank: 4
1736 - 1819
HPI: 86.42
Rank: 5
1847 - 1922
HPI: 82.97
Rank: 6
1863 - 1947
HPI: 80.48
Rank: 7
1971 - Present
HPI: 80.35
Rank: 8
1844 - 1929
HPI: 79.02
Rank: 9
1874 - 1937
HPI: 78.99
Rank: 10
1809 - 1852
HPI: 78.84
Rank: 11
1791 - 1871
HPI: 77.95
Rank: 12
1791 - 1872
HPI: 76.69
Rank: 13
1858 - 1913
HPI: 76.24
Rank: 14
1832 - 1891
HPI: 74.92
Rank: 15
1781 - 1848
HPI: 74.92
Rank: 16
Among people born in 1874, Guglielmo Marconi ranks 2. Before him is Winston Churchill. After him are Robert Frost, Harry Houdini, Arnold Schoenberg, Herbert Hoover, Howard Carter, Edward Thorndike, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Ernst Cassirer, Chaim Weizmann, and Max Scheler. Among people deceased in 1937, Guglielmo Marconi ranks 3. Before him are Ernest Rutherford and Pierre de Coubertin. After him are Alfred Adler, John D. Rockefeller, Maurice Ravel, Antonio Gramsci, H. P. Lovecraft, Amelia Earhart, George Gershwin, Erich Ludendorff, and Lou Andreas-Salomé.
1874 - 1965
HPI: 86.92
Rank: 1
1874 - 1937
HPI: 78.99
Rank: 2
1874 - 1963
HPI: 78.15
Rank: 3
1874 - 1926
HPI: 74.75
Rank: 4
1874 - 1951
HPI: 74.57
Rank: 5
1874 - 1964
HPI: 72.37
Rank: 6
1874 - 1939
HPI: 71.79
Rank: 7
1874 - 1949
HPI: 71.41
Rank: 8
1874 - 1942
HPI: 71.02
Rank: 9
1874 - 1945
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 10
1874 - 1952
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 11
1874 - 1928
HPI: 69.65
Rank: 12
1871 - 1937
HPI: 80.84
Rank: 1
1863 - 1937
HPI: 80.21
Rank: 2
1874 - 1937
HPI: 78.99
Rank: 3
1870 - 1937
HPI: 78.40
Rank: 4
1839 - 1937
HPI: 77.60
Rank: 5
1875 - 1937
HPI: 77.40
Rank: 6
1891 - 1937
HPI: 76.84
Rank: 7
1890 - 1937
HPI: 75.57
Rank: 8
1897 - 1937
HPI: 73.67
Rank: 9
1898 - 1937
HPI: 72.73
Rank: 10
1865 - 1937
HPI: 72.71
Rank: 11
1861 - 1937
HPI: 72.62
Rank: 12
Among people born in Italy, Guglielmo Marconi ranks 62 out of 4,668. Before him are Empedocles (-490), Federico Fellini (1920), Fibonacci (1170), Lucretius (-94), Pope Clement VII (1478), and Umberto Eco (1932). After him are Vespasian (9), Antonio Stradivari (1644), Benedict of Nursia (480), Luciano Pavarotti (1935), Vitruvius (-75), and Giacomo Casanova (1725).
490 BC - 430 BC
HPI: 79.37
Rank: 56
1920 - 1993
HPI: 79.23
Rank: 57
1170 - 1240
HPI: 79.18
Rank: 58
94 BC - 55 BC
HPI: 79.18
Rank: 59
1478 - 1534
HPI: 79.12
Rank: 60
1932 - 2016
HPI: 79.11
Rank: 61
1874 - 1937
HPI: 78.99
Rank: 62
9 - 79
HPI: 78.98
Rank: 63
1644 - 1737
HPI: 78.94
Rank: 64
480 - 543
HPI: 78.85
Rank: 65
1935 - 2007
HPI: 78.84
Rank: 66
75 BC - 15 BC
HPI: 78.72
Rank: 67
1725 - 1798
HPI: 78.68
Rank: 68
Among inventors born in Italy, Guglielmo Marconi ranks 2. Before him are Leonardo da Vinci (1452). After him are Antonio Meucci (1808), Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655), Johann Maria Farina (1685), Ottaviano Petrucci (1466), Max Valier (1895), and Andrew Viterbi (1935).
1452 - 1519
HPI: 96.48
Rank: 1
1874 - 1937
HPI: 78.99
Rank: 2
1808 - 1889
HPI: 71.10
Rank: 3
1655 - 1731
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 4
1685 - 1766
HPI: 61.59
Rank: 5
1466 - 1539
HPI: 55.43
Rank: 6
1895 - 1930
HPI: 48.08
Rank: 7
1935 - Present
HPI: 44.47
Rank: 8