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Gustave Eiffel

1832 - 1923

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Alexandre Gustave Eiffel ( EYE-fəl, French: [alɛksɑ̃dʁ ɡystav ɛfɛl]; né Bonickhausen dit Eiffel; 15 December 1832 – 27 December 1923) was a French civil engineer. A graduate of École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, he made his name with various bridges for the French railway network, most famously the Garabit Viaduct. He is best known for the world-famous Eiffel Tower, designed by his company and built for the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris, and his contribution to building the Statue of Liberty in New York. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gustave Eiffel has received more than 3,271,910 page views. His biography is available in 90 different languages on Wikipedia. Gustave Eiffel is the most popular engineer, the 56th most popular biography from France (up from 69th in 2019) and the most popular French Engineer.

Gustave Eiffel is most famous for his work on the Eiffel Tower.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Gustave Eiffel ranks 1 out of 389. After him are Gottlieb Daimler, Mikhail Kalashnikov, Zhuge Liang, Wernher von Braun, Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Sergei Korolev, Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, Umberto Nobile, and André Citroën.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1832, Gustave Eiffel ranks 2. Before him is Édouard Manet. After him are Wilhelm Wundt, Lewis Carroll, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Nikolaus Otto, Maximilian I of Mexico, Gustave Doré, Edward Burnett Tylor, Ivan Shishkin, José Echegaray, and William Crookes. Among people deceased in 1923, Gustave Eiffel ranks 2. Before him is Wilhelm Röntgen. After him are Sarah Bernhardt, Vilfredo Pareto, Johannes Diderik van der Waals, John Venn, Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, Jaroslav Hašek, Constantine I of Greece, Pancho Villa, Warren G. Harding, and Joaquín Sorolla.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gustave Eiffel ranks 56 out of 6,770. Before him are Auguste Rodin (1840), Madame de Pompadour (1721), Henri Becquerel (1852), Georges Bizet (1838), André-Marie Ampère (1775), and Romain Rolland (1866). After him are Cardinal Richelieu (1585), Charles Perrault (1628), Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780), Sarah Bernhardt (1844), Francis I of France (1494), and Claudius (-10).

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Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Gustave Eiffel ranks 1. After him are Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1796), Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban (1633), André Citroën (1878), Villard de Honnecourt (1200), Paul Cornu (1881), Marcel Dassault (1892), Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt (1240), Marcel Renault (1872), Henri Farman (1874), André Courrèges (1923), and Henry Darcy (1803).

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