1800 - 1877
William Henry Fox Talbot FRS FRSE FRAS (; 11 February 1800 – 17 September 1877) was an English scientist, inventor, and photography pioneer who invented the salted paper and calotype processes, precursors to photographic processes of the later 19th and 20th centuries. His work in the 1840s on photomechanical reproduction led to the creation of the photoglyphic engraving process, the precursor to photogravure. He was the holder of a controversial patent that affected the early development of commercial photography in Britain. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Fox Talbot has received more than 650,268 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia. Henry Fox Talbot is the 60th most popular inventor (down from 55th in 2019), the 443rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 374th in 2019) and the 11th most popular British Inventor.
Henry Fox Talbot is most famous for his invention of the calotype process, which was a photographic process that could produce an image on paper.
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Among inventors, Henry Fox Talbot ranks 60 out of 354. Before him are Frank Whittle, Isaac Singer, Adam Opel, John Deere, Louis Blériot, and Douglas Engelbart. After him are Louis Renault, John Browning, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Jimmy Wales, Alberto Santos-Dumont, and Josephine Cochrane.
1907 - 1996
HPI: 66.20
Rank: 54
1811 - 1875
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 55
1837 - 1895
HPI: 66.10
Rank: 56
1804 - 1886
HPI: 65.61
Rank: 57
1872 - 1936
HPI: 65.55
Rank: 58
1925 - 2013
HPI: 65.53
Rank: 59
1800 - 1877
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 60
1877 - 1944
HPI: 65.34
Rank: 61
1855 - 1926
HPI: 65.00
Rank: 62
1860 - 1940
HPI: 64.94
Rank: 63
1966 - Present
HPI: 64.94
Rank: 64
1873 - 1932
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 65
1839 - 1913
HPI: 64.67
Rank: 66
Among people born in 1800, Henry Fox Talbot ranks 6. Before him are Friedrich Wöhler, Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Emperor Ninkō, Charles Goodyear, and Millard Fillmore. After him are France Prešeren, James Clark Ross, John Edward Gray, Jean-Baptiste Dumas, Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, and Ludwig Ritter von Köchel. Among people deceased in 1877, Henry Fox Talbot ranks 7. Before him are Gustave Courbet, Brigham Young, Adolphe Thiers, Saigō Takamori, Urbain Le Verrier, and Crazy Horse. After him are Maria Anna of Bavaria, Amalie Auguste of Bavaria, Gustav, Prince of Vasa, Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Hermann Grassmann, and Sophie of Württemberg.
1800 - 1882
HPI: 72.32
Rank: 1
1800 - 1891
HPI: 71.34
Rank: 2
1800 - 1846
HPI: 68.34
Rank: 3
1800 - 1860
HPI: 68.17
Rank: 4
1800 - 1874
HPI: 67.84
Rank: 5
1800 - 1877
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 6
1800 - 1849
HPI: 64.95
Rank: 7
1800 - 1862
HPI: 63.77
Rank: 8
1800 - 1875
HPI: 63.48
Rank: 9
1800 - 1884
HPI: 61.92
Rank: 10
1800 - 1831
HPI: 61.68
Rank: 11
1800 - 1877
HPI: 60.80
Rank: 12
1819 - 1877
HPI: 78.13
Rank: 1
1801 - 1877
HPI: 70.48
Rank: 2
1797 - 1877
HPI: 69.05
Rank: 3
1828 - 1877
HPI: 68.05
Rank: 4
1811 - 1877
HPI: 67.52
Rank: 5
1840 - 1877
HPI: 66.57
Rank: 6
1800 - 1877
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 7
1805 - 1877
HPI: 63.91
Rank: 8
1801 - 1877
HPI: 63.16
Rank: 9
1799 - 1877
HPI: 61.71
Rank: 10
1804 - 1877
HPI: 61.38
Rank: 11
1809 - 1877
HPI: 61.23
Rank: 12
1818 - 1877
HPI: 61.20
Rank: 13
Among people born in United Kingdom, Henry Fox Talbot ranks 443 out of 7,765. Before him are Hugh Grant (1960), Gary Moore (1952), Alec Douglas-Home (1903), Joseph Merrick (1862), Percy Fawcett (1867), and Christopher Nolan (1970). After him are David Attenborough (1926), James I of Scotland (1394), Robert II of Scotland (1316), Kate Winslet (1975), Thomas Harriot (1560), and Charles Dance (1946).
1960 - Present
HPI: 65.55
Rank: 437
1952 - 2011
HPI: 65.53
Rank: 438
1903 - 1995
HPI: 65.52
Rank: 439
1862 - 1890
HPI: 65.51
Rank: 440
1867 - 1925
HPI: 65.50
Rank: 441
1970 - Present
HPI: 65.50
Rank: 442
1800 - 1877
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 443
1926 - Present
HPI: 65.45
Rank: 444
1394 - 1437
HPI: 65.44
Rank: 445
1316 - 1390
HPI: 65.40
Rank: 446
1975 - Present
HPI: 65.38
Rank: 447
1560 - 1621
HPI: 65.37
Rank: 448
1946 - Present
HPI: 65.32
Rank: 449
Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Henry Fox Talbot ranks 11. Before him are John Logie Baird (1888), Thomas Newcomen (1663), Richard Trevithick (1771), John Herschel (1792), John Boyd Dunlop (1840), and Frank Whittle (1907). After him are Thomas Savery (1650), Richard Arkwright (1732), James Hargreaves (1720), Henry Bessemer (1813), John Harrison (1693), and Edmund Cartwright (1743).
1888 - 1946
HPI: 72.45
Rank: 5
1663 - 1729
HPI: 71.14
Rank: 6
1771 - 1833
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 7
1792 - 1871
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 8
1840 - 1921
HPI: 66.90
Rank: 9
1907 - 1996
HPI: 66.20
Rank: 10
1800 - 1877
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 11
1650 - 1715
HPI: 63.70
Rank: 12
1732 - 1792
HPI: 63.63
Rank: 13
1720 - 1778
HPI: 63.04
Rank: 14
1813 - 1898
HPI: 62.68
Rank: 15
1693 - 1776
HPI: 62.34
Rank: 16
1743 - 1823
HPI: 61.45
Rank: 17