1840 - 1916
Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim (5 February 1840 – 24 November 1916) was an American-British inventor best known as the creator of the first automatic machine gun, the Maxim gun. Maxim held patents on numerous mechanical devices such as hair-curling irons, a mousetrap, and steam pumps. Maxim laid claim to inventing the lightbulb.Maxim experimented with powered flight; his large aircraft designs were never successful. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hiram Maxim has received more than 634,520 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Hiram Maxim is the 101st most popular inventor (up from 115th in 2019), the 1,140th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,250th in 2019) and the 25th most popular American Inventor.
Hiram Maxim is most famous for inventing the machine gun.
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Among inventors, Hiram Maxim ranks 101 out of 355. Before him are Abraham-Louis Breguet, Cornelis Drebbel, Sakichi Toyoda, Vladimir K. Zworykin, Henri Coandă, and Charles-Émile Reynaud. After him are Taiichi Ohno, Claude Chappe, Daniel Swarovski, André-Jacques Garnerin, Elisha Otis, and Clément Ader.
1747 - 1823
HPI: 70.43
Rank: 95
1572 - 1633
HPI: 70.42
Rank: 96
1867 - 1930
HPI: 70.41
Rank: 97
1888 - 1982
HPI: 70.26
Rank: 98
1886 - 1972
HPI: 70.03
Rank: 99
1844 - 1918
HPI: 70.01
Rank: 100
1840 - 1916
HPI: 70.00
Rank: 101
1912 - 1990
HPI: 69.96
Rank: 102
1763 - 1805
HPI: 69.90
Rank: 103
1862 - 1956
HPI: 69.89
Rank: 104
1769 - 1823
HPI: 69.82
Rank: 105
1811 - 1861
HPI: 69.82
Rank: 106
1841 - 1925
HPI: 69.74
Rank: 107
Among people born in 1840, Hiram Maxim ranks 19. Before him are John Boyd Dunlop, Carl Menger, Father Damien, Thomas Hardy, August Bebel, and Richard von Krafft-Ebing. After him are Alfred Thayer Mahan, Edward Whymper, Hans Makart, Johann II, Prince of Liechtenstein, Johan Svendsen, and Giovanni Verga. Among people deceased in 1916, Hiram Maxim ranks 35. Before him are Rubén Darío, Eduard Strauss, Jean Webster, Gaston Maspero, Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz, and Vilhelm Hammershøi. After him are Victoriano Huerta, Pierre Duhem, Gérard Encausse, Julius Fučík, Max Immelmann, and Hugo Münsterberg.
1840 - 1921
HPI: 74.64
Rank: 13
1840 - 1921
HPI: 74.47
Rank: 14
1840 - 1889
HPI: 74.23
Rank: 15
1840 - 1928
HPI: 73.49
Rank: 16
1840 - 1913
HPI: 72.75
Rank: 17
1840 - 1902
HPI: 72.09
Rank: 18
1840 - 1916
HPI: 70.00
Rank: 19
1840 - 1914
HPI: 69.74
Rank: 20
1840 - 1911
HPI: 69.53
Rank: 21
1840 - 1884
HPI: 69.12
Rank: 22
1840 - 1929
HPI: 69.00
Rank: 23
1840 - 1911
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 24
1840 - 1922
HPI: 68.56
Rank: 25
1867 - 1916
HPI: 71.21
Rank: 29
1835 - 1916
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 30
1876 - 1916
HPI: 70.86
Rank: 31
1846 - 1916
HPI: 70.85
Rank: 32
1843 - 1916
HPI: 70.84
Rank: 33
1864 - 1916
HPI: 70.50
Rank: 34
1840 - 1916
HPI: 70.00
Rank: 35
1850 - 1916
HPI: 69.72
Rank: 36
1861 - 1916
HPI: 69.29
Rank: 37
1865 - 1916
HPI: 68.95
Rank: 38
1872 - 1916
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 39
1890 - 1916
HPI: 68.32
Rank: 40
1863 - 1916
HPI: 68.29
Rank: 41
Among people born in United States, Hiram Maxim ranks 1,140 out of 15,968. Before him are Peter Dinklage (1969), David Scott (1932), James Earl Ray (1928), Robert Englund (1947), Geena Davis (1956), and Mark Felt (1913). After him are Kelly Preston (1962), Sonny Liston (1932), William Howard Stein (1911), Mae West (1893), Susan Hayward (1917), and Joseph Erlanger (1874).
1969 - Present
HPI: 70.03
Rank: 1,134
1932 - Present
HPI: 70.03
Rank: 1,135
1928 - 1998
HPI: 70.02
Rank: 1,136
1947 - Present
HPI: 70.02
Rank: 1,137
1956 - Present
HPI: 70.01
Rank: 1,138
1913 - 2008
HPI: 70.01
Rank: 1,139
1840 - 1916
HPI: 70.00
Rank: 1,140
1962 - 2020
HPI: 70.00
Rank: 1,141
1932 - 1970
HPI: 69.99
Rank: 1,142
1911 - 1980
HPI: 69.99
Rank: 1,143
1893 - 1980
HPI: 69.99
Rank: 1,144
1917 - 1975
HPI: 69.98
Rank: 1,145
1874 - 1965
HPI: 69.96
Rank: 1,146
Among inventors born in United States, Hiram Maxim ranks 25. Before him are John Browning (1855), Ray Tomlinson (1941), Percy Spencer (1894), Leo Fender (1909), Jacque Fresco (1916), and Robert Noyce (1927). After him are Elisha Otis (1811), Robert Moog (1934), Bob Kahn (1938), Sequoyah (1770), Elisha Gray (1835), and Lee de Forest (1873).
1855 - 1926
HPI: 73.37
Rank: 19
1941 - 2016
HPI: 71.36
Rank: 20
1894 - 1970
HPI: 71.22
Rank: 21
1909 - 1991
HPI: 70.73
Rank: 22
1916 - 2017
HPI: 70.67
Rank: 23
1927 - 1990
HPI: 70.62
Rank: 24
1840 - 1916
HPI: 70.00
Rank: 25
1811 - 1861
HPI: 69.82
Rank: 26
1934 - 2005
HPI: 69.46
Rank: 27
1938 - Present
HPI: 69.35
Rank: 28
1770 - 1843
HPI: 69.10
Rank: 29
1835 - 1901
HPI: 68.86
Rank: 30
1873 - 1961
HPI: 68.50
Rank: 31