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 448,109 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Henry Gantt is the 55th most popular engineer (down from 47th in 2019), the 1,329th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,123rd in 2019) and the 5th 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 55 out of 325. Before him are Arthur Scherbius, Walter Dornberger, Jack Swigert, Gustaf de Laval, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and Ernst Heinkel. After him are Bjarne Stroustrup, Alexander Wienerberger, Jimmy Doolittle, Valdemar Poulsen, Edward A. Murphy Jr., and Nikolay Zhukovsky.
1878 - 1929
HPI: 69.73
Rank: 49
1895 - 1980
HPI: 69.68
Rank: 50
1931 - 1982
HPI: 69.49
Rank: 51
1845 - 1913
HPI: 69.29
Rank: 52
1806 - 1859
HPI: 69.28
Rank: 53
1888 - 1958
HPI: 69.28
Rank: 54
1861 - 1919
HPI: 69.22
Rank: 55
1950 - Present
HPI: 69.19
Rank: 56
1891 - 1955
HPI: 69.17
Rank: 57
1896 - 1993
HPI: 69.16
Rank: 58
1869 - 1942
HPI: 69.11
Rank: 59
1918 - 1990
HPI: 69.11
Rank: 60
1847 - 1921
HPI: 69.09
Rank: 61
Among people born in 1861, Henry Gantt ranks 31. Before him are Italo Svevo, William Bateson, Solomon R. Guggenheim, Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, Armando Diaz, and Pierre Duhem. After him are Michel Verne, Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Ranavalona III, Infanta Marie Anne of Portugal, István Tisza, and Luigi Facta. Among people deceased in 1919, Henry Gantt ranks 28. Before him are Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia, Johannes Rydberg, Kurt Eisner, Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Leonid Andreyev, and Prince John of the United Kingdom. After him are Loránd Eötvös, Guido von List, Terauchi Masatake, Leo Jogiches, Princess Marie Isabelle of Orléans, and Habibullah Khan.
1861 - 1928
HPI: 69.78
Rank: 25
1861 - 1926
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 26
1861 - 1949
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 27
1861 - 1936
HPI: 69.73
Rank: 28
1861 - 1928
HPI: 69.46
Rank: 29
1861 - 1916
HPI: 69.29
Rank: 30
1861 - 1919
HPI: 69.22
Rank: 31
1861 - 1925
HPI: 69.22
Rank: 32
1861 - 1928
HPI: 68.56
Rank: 33
1861 - 1917
HPI: 68.48
Rank: 34
1861 - 1942
HPI: 68.14
Rank: 35
1861 - 1918
HPI: 68.08
Rank: 36
1861 - 1930
HPI: 67.68
Rank: 37
1860 - 1919
HPI: 70.64
Rank: 22
1854 - 1919
HPI: 70.62
Rank: 23
1867 - 1919
HPI: 70.47
Rank: 24
1880 - 1919
HPI: 69.86
Rank: 25
1871 - 1919
HPI: 69.24
Rank: 26
1905 - 1919
HPI: 69.24
Rank: 27
1861 - 1919
HPI: 69.22
Rank: 28
1848 - 1919
HPI: 69.05
Rank: 29
1848 - 1919
HPI: 69.05
Rank: 30
1852 - 1919
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 31
1867 - 1919
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 32
1848 - 1919
HPI: 68.70
Rank: 33
1872 - 1919
HPI: 68.40
Rank: 34
Among people born in United States, Henry Gantt ranks 1,329 out of 15,968. Before him are William Boeing (1881), Duff McKagan (1964), Edmund Kemper (1948), Martin Balsam (1919), Matt LeBlanc (1967), and Alan J. Heeger (1936). After him are Andrew S. Tanenbaum (1944), Robert Bruce Merrifield (1921), John Fenn (1917), Robert Loggia (1930), Paul Stanley (1952), and Debbie Harry (1945).
1881 - 1956
HPI: 69.24
Rank: 1,323
1964 - Present
HPI: 69.24
Rank: 1,324
1948 - Present
HPI: 69.22
Rank: 1,325
1919 - 1996
HPI: 69.22
Rank: 1,326
1967 - Present
HPI: 69.22
Rank: 1,327
1936 - Present
HPI: 69.22
Rank: 1,328
1861 - 1919
HPI: 69.22
Rank: 1,329
1944 - Present
HPI: 69.22
Rank: 1,330
1921 - 2006
HPI: 69.21
Rank: 1,331
1917 - 2010
HPI: 69.20
Rank: 1,332
1930 - 2015
HPI: 69.20
Rank: 1,333
1952 - Present
HPI: 69.20
Rank: 1,334
1945 - Present
HPI: 69.19
Rank: 1,335
Among engineers born in United States, Henry Gantt ranks 5. Before him are Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856), Jack Kilby (1923), Howard H. Aiken (1900), and Jack Swigert (1931). After him are Jimmy Doolittle (1896), Leslie Groves (1896), Vannevar Bush (1890), Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr. (1868), Preston Tucker (1903), J. Walter Christie (1865), and Eugene Stoner (1922).
1856 - 1915
HPI: 78.42
Rank: 1
1923 - 2005
HPI: 74.43
Rank: 2
1900 - 1973
HPI: 71.05
Rank: 3
1931 - 1982
HPI: 69.49
Rank: 4
1861 - 1919
HPI: 69.22
Rank: 5
1896 - 1993
HPI: 69.16
Rank: 6
1896 - 1970
HPI: 68.68
Rank: 7
1890 - 1974
HPI: 67.52
Rank: 8
1868 - 1924
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 9
1903 - 1956
HPI: 66.45
Rank: 10
1865 - 1944
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 11
1922 - 1997
HPI: 64.39
Rank: 12