1861 - 1919
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 544,174 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Henry Gantt is the 50th most popular engineer (up from 55th in 2019), the 1,286th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,328th in 2019) and the 4th 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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Among engineers, Henry Gantt ranks 50 out of 323. Before him are Ildefons Cerdà, Edward A. Murphy Jr., Sergey Ilyushin, Ernst Heinkel, Emil Škoda, and Banū Mūsā. After him are William John Macquorn Rankine, Charles George Gordon, Bjarne Stroustrup, Gustaf de Laval, Kurt Gerstein, and Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
1815 - 1876
HPI: 61.18
Rank: 44
1918 - 1990
HPI: 61.18
Rank: 45
1894 - 1977
HPI: 61.11
Rank: 46
1888 - 1958
HPI: 60.92
Rank: 47
1839 - 1900
HPI: 60.59
Rank: 48
900 - 873
HPI: 60.50
Rank: 49
1861 - 1919
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 50
1820 - 1872
HPI: 60.44
Rank: 51
1833 - 1885
HPI: 60.38
Rank: 52
1950 - Present
HPI: 60.27
Rank: 53
1845 - 1913
HPI: 60.20
Rank: 54
1905 - 1945
HPI: 60.19
Rank: 55
1806 - 1859
HPI: 60.06
Rank: 56
Among people born in 1861, Henry Gantt ranks 29. Before him are Italo Svevo, José Rizal, Ranavalona III, Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, Anton Arensky, and William Bateson. After him are Armando Diaz, István Tisza, Nettie Stevens, Solomon R. Guggenheim, Pierre Duhem, and Nikolay Zelinsky. Among people deceased in 1919, Henry Gantt ranks 28. Before him are L. Frank Baum, Madam C. J. Walker, Kurt Eisner, Johannes Rydberg, Prince John of the United Kingdom, and Leonid Andreyev. After him are Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Princess Marie Isabelle of Orléans, Guido von List, Georg von Hertling, Sophia Tolstaya, and Mikhail Tsvet.
1861 - 1928
HPI: 62.83
Rank: 23
1861 - 1896
HPI: 62.11
Rank: 24
1861 - 1917
HPI: 61.76
Rank: 25
1861 - 1936
HPI: 61.36
Rank: 26
1861 - 1906
HPI: 61.25
Rank: 27
1861 - 1926
HPI: 60.86
Rank: 28
1861 - 1919
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 29
1861 - 1928
HPI: 60.08
Rank: 30
1861 - 1918
HPI: 60.06
Rank: 31
1861 - 1912
HPI: 60.03
Rank: 32
1861 - 1949
HPI: 59.80
Rank: 33
1861 - 1916
HPI: 59.51
Rank: 34
1861 - 1953
HPI: 59.21
Rank: 35
1856 - 1919
HPI: 62.23
Rank: 22
1867 - 1919
HPI: 62.17
Rank: 23
1867 - 1919
HPI: 62.08
Rank: 24
1854 - 1919
HPI: 61.39
Rank: 25
1905 - 1919
HPI: 60.88
Rank: 26
1871 - 1919
HPI: 60.54
Rank: 27
1861 - 1919
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 28
1880 - 1919
HPI: 60.31
Rank: 29
1848 - 1919
HPI: 60.06
Rank: 30
1848 - 1919
HPI: 60.04
Rank: 31
1843 - 1919
HPI: 59.92
Rank: 32
1844 - 1919
HPI: 59.74
Rank: 33
1872 - 1919
HPI: 59.46
Rank: 34
Among people born in United States, Henry Gantt ranks 1,286 out of 18,182. Before him are John D. Rockefeller Jr. (1874), Mike Shinoda (1977), Julius Axelrod (1912), John Payne (1912), Yonatan Netanyahu (1946), and James Garner (1928). After him are Lewis A. Swift (1820), Annette Bening (1958), Michael Stuart Brown (1941), Grandma Moses (1860), Edith Wharton (1862), and John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (1899).
1874 - 1960
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 1,280
1977 - Present
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 1,281
1912 - 2004
HPI: 60.46
Rank: 1,282
1912 - 1989
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 1,283
1946 - 1976
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 1,284
1928 - 2014
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 1,285
1861 - 1919
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 1,286
1820 - 1913
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 1,287
1958 - Present
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 1,288
1941 - Present
HPI: 60.43
Rank: 1,289
1860 - 1961
HPI: 60.43
Rank: 1,290
1862 - 1937
HPI: 60.42
Rank: 1,291
1899 - 1980
HPI: 60.42
Rank: 1,292
Among engineers born in United States, Henry Gantt ranks 4. Before him are Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856), Jack Kilby (1923), and Howard H. Aiken (1900). After him are Leslie Groves (1896), Jimmy Doolittle (1896), Jack Swigert (1931), Vannevar Bush (1890), Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr. (1868), J. Walter Christie (1865), Eugene Stoner (1922), and Kelly Johnson (1910).
1856 - 1915
HPI: 72.61
Rank: 1
1923 - 2005
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 2
1900 - 1973
HPI: 62.11
Rank: 3
1861 - 1919
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 4
1896 - 1970
HPI: 59.19
Rank: 5
1896 - 1993
HPI: 59.00
Rank: 6
1931 - 1982
HPI: 58.23
Rank: 7
1890 - 1974
HPI: 58.21
Rank: 8
1868 - 1924
HPI: 56.86
Rank: 9
1865 - 1944
HPI: 54.00
Rank: 10
1922 - 1997
HPI: 53.86
Rank: 11
1910 - 1990
HPI: 52.23
Rank: 12