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Henry M. Leland

1843 - 1932

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Henry Martyn Leland (February 16, 1843 – March 26, 1932) was an American machinist, inventor, engineer, and automotive entrepreneur. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry M. Leland has received more than 327,914 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Henry M. Leland is the 297th most popular inventor (down from 291st in 2019), the 5,660th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,465th in 2019) and the 74th most popular American Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Henry M. Leland ranks 297 out of 354Before him are Walter Bruch, Bernard Lown, Almon Brown Strowger, Kálmán Kandó, Joseph Bramah, and Harry Ferguson. After him are Max Valier, Henry J. Kaiser, Whitcomb L. Judson, David Dunbar Buick, Jacob Ellehammer, and Ivan Polzunov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1843, Henry M. Leland ranks 75Before him are Princess Augusta of Saxe-Meiningen, Peter Rosegger, Friedrich Robert Helmert, Moritz Pasch, Marcel Deprez, and Harald Høffding. After him are Francisco Silvela, Louis Diémer, Patricio Escobar, Gleb Uspensky, Nadezhda Suslova, and Petko Karavelov. Among people deceased in 1932, Henry M. Leland ranks 95Before him are Hafez Ibrahim, Augusta, Lady Gregory, Ellen Churchill Semple, Edgard Colle, Charles Winckler, and Dora Carrington. After him are Hart Crane, Constantin Coandă, Carmen de Burgos, Giuseppe Vitali, John Walter Gregory, and László Lukács.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Henry M. Leland ranks 5,660 out of 18,182Before him are Tom Ewell (1909), John Lee Hancock (1956), David Geffen (1943), Michael Cudlitz (1964), Chloë Grace Moretz (1997), and Stuart Gordon (1947). After him are Deirdre McCloskey (1942), Max O. Lorenz (1876), Ben Adams (1890), John J. McCloy (1895), Janice Dickinson (1955), and Norman Spinrad (1940).

Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Henry M. Leland ranks 74Before him are Edward Lawry Norton (1898), Jack Northrop (1895), Wilson Greatbatch (1919), Ralph Hartley (1888), Tabitha Babbitt (1779), and Almon Brown Strowger (1839). After him are Henry J. Kaiser (1882), Whitcomb L. Judson (1846), Lynn Conway (1938), George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. (1859), John Fitch (1743), and Jay Miner (1932).