1854 - 1923
Phoebe Sarah Hertha Ayrton (28 April 1854 – 26 August 1923) was a British engineer, mathematician, physicist and inventor, and suffragette. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hertha Ayrton has received more than 101,264 page views. Her biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Hertha Ayrton is the 170th most popular engineer (down from 141st in 2019), the 2,031st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,735th in 2019) and the 19th most popular British Engineer.
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Among engineers, Hertha Ayrton ranks 170 out of 325. Before her are Pierre-Paul Riquet, Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufmann, Louis Charles Breguet, Pierre-Émile Martin, Vitaly Abalakov, and Bassel al-Assad. After her are Dmitry Dmitrievich Maksutov, Alphonse Pénaud, Mstislav Keldysh, Marc Seguin, Seymour Cray, and Alec Issigonis.
1609 - 1680
HPI: 63.59
Rank: 164
1818 - 1882
HPI: 63.56
Rank: 165
1880 - 1955
HPI: 63.55
Rank: 166
1824 - 1915
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 167
1906 - 1986
HPI: 63.50
Rank: 168
1962 - 1994
HPI: 63.46
Rank: 169
1854 - 1923
HPI: 63.43
Rank: 170
1896 - 1964
HPI: 63.41
Rank: 171
1850 - 1880
HPI: 63.26
Rank: 172
1911 - 1978
HPI: 63.15
Rank: 173
1786 - 1875
HPI: 63.13
Rank: 174
1925 - 1996
HPI: 63.10
Rank: 175
1906 - 1988
HPI: 62.94
Rank: 176
Among people born in 1854, Hertha Ayrton ranks 57. Before her are Stefan Stambolov, Ottmar Mergenthaler, Jacek Malczewski, Benjamin Tucker, Adolf Erman, and Thomas R. Marshall. After her are Yehuda Pen, Christiaan de Wet, Prince Thomas, Duke of Genoa, Alois Lexa von Aehrenthal, Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner, and Giovanni Battista Grassi. Among people deceased in 1923, Hertha Ayrton ranks 53. Before her are Alexandre Ribot, Horace Parnell Tuttle, Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter, Sayed Darwish, Walther Kadow, and Krišjānis Barons. After her are Kuroki Tamemoto, Louis Couperus, Semyon Alapin, Andrés Avelino Cáceres, Fritz Mauthner, and Hermes da Fonseca.
1854 - 1895
HPI: 64.08
Rank: 51
1854 - 1899
HPI: 63.72
Rank: 52
1854 - 1929
HPI: 63.69
Rank: 53
1854 - 1939
HPI: 63.69
Rank: 54
1854 - 1937
HPI: 63.67
Rank: 55
1854 - 1925
HPI: 63.64
Rank: 56
1854 - 1923
HPI: 63.43
Rank: 57
1854 - 1937
HPI: 63.34
Rank: 58
1854 - 1922
HPI: 63.30
Rank: 59
1854 - 1931
HPI: 63.29
Rank: 60
1854 - 1912
HPI: 63.19
Rank: 61
1854 - 1925
HPI: 62.61
Rank: 62
1854 - 1925
HPI: 62.60
Rank: 63
1842 - 1923
HPI: 64.22
Rank: 47
1837 - 1923
HPI: 64.18
Rank: 48
1884 - 1923
HPI: 64.03
Rank: 49
1892 - 1923
HPI: 63.87
Rank: 50
1900 - 1923
HPI: 63.67
Rank: 51
1835 - 1923
HPI: 63.53
Rank: 52
1854 - 1923
HPI: 63.43
Rank: 53
1844 - 1923
HPI: 63.38
Rank: 54
1863 - 1923
HPI: 63.25
Rank: 55
1856 - 1923
HPI: 63.09
Rank: 56
1836 - 1923
HPI: 63.07
Rank: 57
1849 - 1923
HPI: 63.03
Rank: 58
1855 - 1923
HPI: 62.86
Rank: 59
Among people born in United Kingdom, Hertha Ayrton ranks 2,031 out of 6,924. Before her are B. C. Forbes (1880), Geri Halliwell (1972), Tony Banks (1950), William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville (1759), George Romney (1734), and Joseph Butler (1692). After her are David Moyes (1963), Charles Dawson (1864), William Smith (1790), Lewis Gilbert (1920), Ebenezer Cobb Morley (1831), and Philip Kerr (1956).
1880 - 1954
HPI: 63.45
Rank: 2,025
1972 - Present
HPI: 63.45
Rank: 2,026
1950 - Present
HPI: 63.45
Rank: 2,027
1759 - 1834
HPI: 63.44
Rank: 2,028
1734 - 1802
HPI: 63.44
Rank: 2,029
1692 - 1752
HPI: 63.44
Rank: 2,030
1854 - 1923
HPI: 63.43
Rank: 2,031
1963 - Present
HPI: 63.43
Rank: 2,032
1864 - 1916
HPI: 63.43
Rank: 2,033
1790 - 1847
HPI: 63.43
Rank: 2,034
1920 - 2018
HPI: 63.42
Rank: 2,035
1831 - 1924
HPI: 63.42
Rank: 2,036
1956 - 2018
HPI: 63.41
Rank: 2,037
Among engineers born in United Kingdom, Hertha Ayrton ranks 19. Before her are John Loudon McAdam (1756), Patrick Head (1946), Adrian Newey (1958), John Smeaton (1724), John Bagot Glubb (1897), and Alexander Cunningham (1814). After her are William Playfair (1759), William Froude (1810), André Waterkeyn (1917), W. Ross Ashby (1903), Frederick W. Lanchester (1868), and Robert W. Paul (1869).
1756 - 1836
HPI: 65.53
Rank: 13
1946 - Present
HPI: 64.86
Rank: 14
1958 - Present
HPI: 64.69
Rank: 15
1724 - 1792
HPI: 64.62
Rank: 16
1897 - 1986
HPI: 64.56
Rank: 17
1814 - 1893
HPI: 64.07
Rank: 18
1854 - 1923
HPI: 63.43
Rank: 19
1759 - 1823
HPI: 62.12
Rank: 20
1810 - 1879
HPI: 62.09
Rank: 21
1917 - 2005
HPI: 61.73
Rank: 22
1903 - 1972
HPI: 61.70
Rank: 23
1868 - 1946
HPI: 61.27
Rank: 24
1869 - 1943
HPI: 60.93
Rank: 25