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Henry Gantt

1861 - 1919

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Henry Laurence Gantt (; May 20, 1861 – November 23, 1919) was an American mechanical engineer and management consultant who is best known for his work in the development of scientific management. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Gantt has received more than 614,052 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. Henry Gantt is the 59th most popular engineer (down from 46th in 2019), the 1,387th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,286th in 2019) and the 6th most popular American Engineer.

Henry Gantt was a management consultant and engineer. He is most famous for his invention of the Gantt chart.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Henry Gantt ranks 59 out of 389. Before him are Charles George Gordon, Alexander Wienerberger, Bjarne Stroustrup, Viktor Belenko, Masaru Ibuka, and Loránd Eötvös. After him are Immanuel Nobel, Banū Mūsā, Valentin Glushko, Kurt Gerstein, Nikolay Zhukovsky, and Hans Kammler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, Henry Gantt ranks 35. Before him are Solomon R. Guggenheim, Armando Diaz, Luigi Facta, William Bateson, Anton Arensky, and Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig. After him are Walter Simons, Pierre Duhem, Michel Verne, Infanta Marie Anne of Portugal, Dorothea Klumpke, and M. Visvesvaraya. Among people deceased in 1919, Henry Gantt ranks 32. Before him are Leonid Andreyev, Habibullah Khan, Prince John of the United Kingdom, Guido von List, Madam C. J. Walker, and Loránd Eötvös. After him are Sophia Tolstaya, Franz Mehring, Georg von Hertling, Princess Marie Isabelle of Orléans, Edward Charles Pickering, and Maria Theresa of Austria-Este.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Henry Gantt ranks 1,387 out of 20,380. Before him are Norman Borlaug (1914), Jim Lovell (1928), George Strait (1952), John Jacob Astor IV (1864), John Zorn (1953), and Annette Bening (1958). After him are David Duchovny (1960), Sacagawea (1780), Nelson Goodman (1906), Charles Chaplin Jr. (1925), Dwight Schultz (1947), and John Brown (1800).

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Among ENGINEERS In United States

Among engineers born in United States, Henry Gantt ranks 6. Before him are Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856), Leslie Groves (1896), Jack Kilby (1923), Howard H. Aiken (1900), and Vannevar Bush (1890). After him are Jimmy Doolittle (1896), Jack Swigert (1931), Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr. (1868), J. Walter Christie (1865), Joseph Strauss (1870), and Eugene Stoner (1922).

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