INVENTOR

Henri Fabre

1882 - 1984

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Henri Fabre (29 November 1882 – 30 June 1984) was a French aviator and the inventor of the first successful seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion. Henri Fabre was born into a prominent family of shipowners in the city of Marseille. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henri Fabre has received more than 58,908 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Henri Fabre is the 334th most popular inventor, the 4,440th most popular biography from France and the 37th most popular French Inventor.

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  • 59k

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  • 47.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Henri Fabre ranks 334 out of 426. Before him are Bernard Lown, Rostislav Alexeyev, Orville Gibson, Hannibal Goodwin, Beulah Louise Henry, and Phil Ramone. After him are Giovanni Caselli, David Dunbar Buick, Joseph Bramah, Georges Beuchat, An Wang, and Jozef Murgaš.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Henri Fabre ranks 215. Before him are Juan Luque de Serrallonga, Sven Forssman, Purushottam Das Tandon, Ernestas Galvanauskas, Emil Filla, and Richard Johansson. After him are Marie Doro, Jess McMahon, Alexandre Schaumasse, Edmund Dulac, Péter Tóth, and Ion Agârbiceanu. Among people deceased in 1984, Henri Fabre ranks 184. Before him are Nariz, Kazuo Hasegawa, Fedir Bohatyrchuk, Klavdiya Shulzhenko, Emilio Rodríguez, and Kurt Axelsson. After him are Byron Haskin, Laurent Grimmonprez, Leopold Lindtberg, Ken Carpenter, Simón Lecue, and Jean De Clercq.

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In France

Among people born in France, Henri Fabre ranks 4,440 out of 6,770. Before him are Yvette Andréyor (1891), Eugène Guillevic (1907), Serge Telle (1955), Anni Steuer (1913), Érik Orsenna (1947), and Michel Sogny (1947). After him are Jean Cau (1875), Auguste Duméril (1812), Francis Biddle (1886), Chantal Lauby (1948), Frédérick Tristan (1931), and Victor Puiseux (1820).

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Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, Henri Fabre ranks 37. Before him are Léon Gaumont (1864), Wan Hu (1510), Alphonse Beau de Rochas (1815), Louis Lumière (1864), François Isaac de Rivaz (1752), and André Blondel (1863). After him are Georges Beuchat (1910), and Franky Zapata (1978).

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