INVENTOR

Igor Sikorsky

1889 - 1972

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Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky (Russian: Игорь Иванович Сикорский, IPA: [ˈiɡərʲ ɪˈvanəvitʃ sʲɪˈkorskʲɪj] , 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 Sikorsky 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 1,869,265 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia. Igor Sikorsky is the 35th most popular inventor (up from 42nd in 2019), the 41st most popular biography from Ukraine 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 35 out of 426. Before him are Steve Wozniak, Joseph Marie Jacquard, Thomas Newcomen, Nicolas Appert, Eli Whitney, and George Westinghouse. After him are Robert Fulton, László Bíró, Richard Trevithick, Adolphe Sax, Frank Whittle, and John Logie Baird.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Igor Sikorsky ranks 15. Before him are Paul Karrer, Ante Pavelić, Anna Akhmatova, Arnold J. Toynbee, Vaslav Nijinsky, and Manuel II of Portugal. After him are Idris of Libya, Gabriel Marcel, Gabriela Mistral, Carl von Ossietzky, Louise Mountbatten, and Otto Frank. Among people deceased in 1972, Igor Sikorsky ranks 11. Before him are Yasunari Kawabata, Edward VIII, M. C. Escher, Maria Goeppert Mayer, J. Edgar Hoover, and Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi. After him are Ezra Pound, Kwame Nkrumah, Franz Halder, Cristóbal Balenciaga, Katherine Oppenheimer, and Talal of Jordan.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Igor Sikorsky ranks 41 out of 1,365. Before him are Moshe Sharett (1894), Grigory Zinoviev (1883), Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836), Leonid Kravchuk (1934), Volodymyr Zelensky (1978), and Andrei Chikatilo (1936). After him are Levi Eshkol (1895), Yulia Tymoshenko (1960), Nestor Makhno (1888), Vladimir Horowitz (1903), Simon Wiesenthal (1908), and George Gamow (1904).

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Among INVENTORS In Ukraine

Among inventors born in Ukraine, Igor Sikorsky ranks 1. 

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