1825 - 1882
Baptiste Jules Henri Jacques Giffard (8 February 1825 – 14 April 1882) was a French engineer. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henri Giffard has received more than 131,808 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Henri Giffard is the 130th most popular inventor (down from 121st in 2019), the 1,569th most popular biography from France (down from 1,375th in 2019) and the 20th most popular French Inventor.
Henri Giffard was a French engineer who designed the first powered airship.
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Among inventors, Henri Giffard ranks 130 out of 354. Before him are Lee de Forest, Josef Ressel, Gideon Sundback, Elisha Gray, Robert Adler, and Hugo Schmeisser. After him are Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, Robert Stirling, Louis Le Prince, Paul Otlet, Robert Moog, and Gunther von Hagens.
1873 - 1961
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 124
1793 - 1857
HPI: 59.00
Rank: 125
1880 - 1954
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 126
1835 - 1901
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 127
1913 - 2007
HPI: 58.75
Rank: 128
1884 - 1953
HPI: 58.55
Rank: 129
1825 - 1882
HPI: 58.45
Rank: 130
1817 - 1879
HPI: 58.28
Rank: 131
1790 - 1878
HPI: 58.23
Rank: 132
1841 - 1890
HPI: 58.20
Rank: 133
1868 - 1944
HPI: 58.16
Rank: 134
1934 - 2005
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 135
1945 - Present
HPI: 57.82
Rank: 136
Among people born in 1825, Henri Giffard ranks 17. Before him are Dadabhai Naoroji, Marie of Prussia, Eduard Hanslick, Emil Erlenmeyer, Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia, and Sher Ali Khan. After him are Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Nubar Pasha, Henry Walter Bates, Princess Hildegard of Bavaria, Charles Frederick Worth, and Edward Frankland. Among people deceased in 1882, Henri Giffard ranks 21. Before him are Vasily Perov, Sergey Nechayev, Mary Todd Lincoln, Ewelina Hańska, Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. After him are Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play, Mikhail Skobelev, Karl-Maria Kertbeny, and Anthony Trollope.
1825 - 1917
HPI: 61.46
Rank: 11
1825 - 1889
HPI: 61.42
Rank: 12
1825 - 1904
HPI: 60.13
Rank: 13
1825 - 1909
HPI: 60.05
Rank: 14
1825 - 1844
HPI: 59.51
Rank: 15
1825 - 1879
HPI: 59.17
Rank: 16
1825 - 1882
HPI: 58.45
Rank: 17
1825 - 1895
HPI: 58.09
Rank: 18
1825 - 1899
HPI: 57.73
Rank: 19
1825 - 1892
HPI: 57.63
Rank: 20
1825 - 1864
HPI: 57.61
Rank: 21
1825 - 1895
HPI: 57.16
Rank: 22
1825 - 1899
HPI: 56.78
Rank: 23
1834 - 1882
HPI: 60.87
Rank: 15
1847 - 1882
HPI: 60.37
Rank: 16
1818 - 1882
HPI: 59.96
Rank: 17
1805 - 1882
HPI: 59.49
Rank: 18
1849 - 1882
HPI: 59.46
Rank: 19
1807 - 1882
HPI: 59.18
Rank: 20
1825 - 1882
HPI: 58.45
Rank: 21
1822 - 1882
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 22
1803 - 1882
HPI: 58.05
Rank: 23
1806 - 1882
HPI: 58.00
Rank: 24
1843 - 1882
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 25
1824 - 1882
HPI: 57.45
Rank: 26
1815 - 1882
HPI: 55.90
Rank: 27
Among people born in France, Henri Giffard ranks 1,569 out of 6,011. Before him are Liane de Pougy (1869), Joan of England, Queen of Sicily (1165), Amadeus VII, Count of Savoy (1360), Adalbert of Magdeburg (910), Louis Henri, Prince of Condé (1756), and Louis François, Prince of Conti (1717). After him are Bernard Buffet (1928), Marie Anne Lenormand (1772), Yolande of Valois (1434), Édith Cresson (1934), Françoise Gilot (1921), and Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard (1476).
1869 - 1950
HPI: 58.54
Rank: 1,563
1165 - 1199
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 1,564
1360 - 1391
HPI: 58.50
Rank: 1,565
910 - 981
HPI: 58.50
Rank: 1,566
1756 - 1830
HPI: 58.47
Rank: 1,567
1717 - 1776
HPI: 58.47
Rank: 1,568
1825 - 1882
HPI: 58.45
Rank: 1,569
1928 - 1999
HPI: 58.42
Rank: 1,570
1772 - 1843
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 1,571
1434 - 1478
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 1,572
1934 - Present
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 1,573
1921 - 2023
HPI: 58.40
Rank: 1,574
1476 - 1524
HPI: 58.40
Rank: 1,575
Among inventors born in France, Henri Giffard ranks 20. Before him are Alphonse Bertillon (1853), Étienne-Jules Marey (1830), Charles-Émile Reynaud (1844), André Michelin (1853), Clément Ader (1841), and Jean-Pierre Blanchard (1753). After him are Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (1817), Louis Le Prince (1841), Joseph Monier (1823), Guillaume Amontons (1663), Charles Cros (1842), and Georges Claude (1870).
1853 - 1914
HPI: 62.31
Rank: 14
1830 - 1904
HPI: 61.88
Rank: 15
1844 - 1918
HPI: 61.46
Rank: 16
1853 - 1931
HPI: 60.26
Rank: 17
1841 - 1925
HPI: 59.41
Rank: 18
1753 - 1809
HPI: 59.27
Rank: 19
1825 - 1882
HPI: 58.45
Rank: 20
1817 - 1879
HPI: 58.28
Rank: 21
1841 - 1890
HPI: 58.20
Rank: 22
1823 - 1906
HPI: 56.15
Rank: 23
1663 - 1705
HPI: 56.01
Rank: 24
1842 - 1888
HPI: 55.68
Rank: 25
1870 - 1960
HPI: 55.54
Rank: 26