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Igor Sikorsky

1889 - 1972

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Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky (Russian: Игорь Иванович Сикорский, romanized: Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky, Ukrainian: Ігор Іванович Сікорський, romanized: Ihor Ivanovych Sikorskyi; 25 May 1889 – 26 October 1972) was a Russian–American aviation pioneer in both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. His first success came with the S-2, the second aircraft of his design and construction. His fifth airplane, the S-5, won him national recognition and F.A.I. pilot's license number 64. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Igor Sikorsky has received more than 1,725,064 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Igor Sikorsky is the 42nd most popular inventor (down from 39th in 2019), the 41st most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 34th in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Inventor.

Igor Sikorsky is most famous for inventing the first mass-produced helicopter.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Igor Sikorsky ranks 42 out of 354. Before him are László Bíró, Ismail al-Jazari, Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, Konrad Zuse, Herman Hollerith, and Nicolas Appert. After him are Adolphe Sax, Richard Trevithick, Charles Goodyear, Karl Drais, John Herschel, and William G. Morgan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Igor Sikorsky ranks 15. Before him are Anna Akhmatova, Arnold J. Toynbee, Ante Pavelić, Vaslav Nijinsky, Idris of Libya, and Manuel II of Portugal. After him are Otto Frank, Gabriel Marcel, Carl von Ossietzky, Paul Karrer, Louise Mountbatten, and Gabriela Mistral. Among people deceased in 1972, Igor Sikorsky ranks 10. Before him are M. C. Escher, Yasunari Kawabata, Frederick IX of Denmark, J. Edgar Hoover, Maria Goeppert Mayer, and Ezra Pound. After him are Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, Franz Halder, Paul Hausser, Kwame Nkrumah, Erhard Milch, and Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Igor Sikorsky ranks 41 out of 1,083. Before him are Grigory Zinoviev (1883), Élie Metchnikoff (1845), Trofim Lysenko (1898), Yulia Tymoshenko (1960), Ivan Mazepa (1639), and Andrei Zhdanov (1896). After him are Joseph Roth (1894), Petro Poroshenko (1965), Vladimir II Monomakh (1053), Sholem Aleichem (1859), George Gamow (1904), and Symon Petliura (1879).

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Among INVENTORS In Ukraine

Among inventors born in Ukraine, Igor Sikorsky ranks 1. 

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