1829 - 1904
Isaac Roberts FRS (27 January 1829 – 17 July 1904) was a Welsh engineer and businessman best known for his work as an amateur astronomer, pioneering the field of astrophotography of nebulae. He was a member of the Liverpool Astronomical Society in England and was a fellow of the Royal Geological Society. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Isaac Roberts has received more than 77,942 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Isaac Roberts is the 290th most popular engineer (up from 299th in 2019), the 3,934th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,409th in 2019) and the 30th most popular British Engineer.
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Among engineers, Isaac Roberts ranks 290 out of 323. Before him are Jesse Ramsden, Albert Auguste Perdonnet, Yuri Artsutanov, Boris Lisunov, Friedrich L. Bauer, and Otmar Szafnauer. After him are Butler Lampson, Octave Chanute, R. J. Mitchell, Guenther Steiner, Louis Armand, and Hugh Latimer Dryden.
1735 - 1800
HPI: 45.34
Rank: 284
1801 - 1867
HPI: 45.31
Rank: 285
1929 - 2019
HPI: 45.16
Rank: 286
1898 - 1946
HPI: 45.12
Rank: 287
1924 - 2015
HPI: 45.07
Rank: 288
1964 - Present
HPI: 45.04
Rank: 289
1829 - 1904
HPI: 44.95
Rank: 290
1943 - Present
HPI: 44.94
Rank: 291
1832 - 1910
HPI: 44.93
Rank: 292
1895 - 1937
HPI: 44.88
Rank: 293
1965 - Present
HPI: 44.76
Rank: 294
1905 - 1971
HPI: 44.73
Rank: 295
1898 - 1965
HPI: 44.69
Rank: 296
Among people born in 1829, Isaac Roberts ranks 53. Before him are Moritz Cantor, Alfred Newton, Frederick Sandys, Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer, Edwin Long, and Epameinondas Deligeorgis. After him are José López Domínguez, William Michael Rossetti, Théodore Aubanel, Charles Walter De Vis, Catherine Booth, and Ludvig Lorenz. Among people deceased in 1904, Isaac Roberts ranks 79. Before him are Miltiadis Gouskos, Frederick Sandys, Andrei Ryabushkin, Manuel Candamo, Karl Moritz Schumann, and Rodolfo Amando Philippi. After him are Sumner Paine, Karl Alfred von Zittel, Fyodor Bredikhin, Charles Foster, Richard Knill Freeman, and John Brown Gordon.
1829 - 1920
HPI: 48.90
Rank: 47
1829 - 1907
HPI: 48.53
Rank: 48
1829 - 1904
HPI: 46.76
Rank: 49
1829 - 1927
HPI: 46.70
Rank: 50
1829 - 1891
HPI: 45.77
Rank: 51
1829 - 1879
HPI: 45.57
Rank: 52
1829 - 1904
HPI: 44.95
Rank: 53
1829 - 1911
HPI: 44.91
Rank: 54
1829 - 1919
HPI: 44.12
Rank: 55
1829 - 1886
HPI: 43.96
Rank: 56
1829 - 1915
HPI: 42.49
Rank: 57
1829 - 1890
HPI: 42.22
Rank: 58
1829 - 1891
HPI: 41.41
Rank: 59
1877 - 1904
HPI: 46.89
Rank: 73
1829 - 1904
HPI: 46.76
Rank: 74
1861 - 1904
HPI: 46.44
Rank: 75
1841 - 1904
HPI: 45.85
Rank: 76
1851 - 1904
HPI: 45.81
Rank: 77
1808 - 1904
HPI: 45.48
Rank: 78
1829 - 1904
HPI: 44.95
Rank: 79
1868 - 1904
HPI: 44.86
Rank: 80
1839 - 1904
HPI: 44.68
Rank: 81
1831 - 1904
HPI: 44.57
Rank: 82
1828 - 1904
HPI: 44.15
Rank: 83
1840 - 1904
HPI: 43.61
Rank: 84
1832 - 1904
HPI: 41.74
Rank: 85
Among people born in United Kingdom, Isaac Roberts ranks 3,934 out of 7,765. Before him are Virginia McKenna (1931), Frank Lampard (1948), Dennis Brain (1921), Richard Rodney Bennett (1936), Henry Lawes (1595), and Sam Brown (1964). After him are Alan Ayckbourn (1939), Philip Hammond (1955), Lloyd Hildebrand (1870), James Hogg (1770), Ralph Cudworth (1617), and Alice Eve (1982).
1931 - Present
HPI: 44.97
Rank: 3,928
1948 - Present
HPI: 44.96
Rank: 3,929
1921 - 1957
HPI: 44.96
Rank: 3,930
1936 - 2012
HPI: 44.96
Rank: 3,931
1595 - 1662
HPI: 44.95
Rank: 3,932
1964 - Present
HPI: 44.95
Rank: 3,933
1829 - 1904
HPI: 44.95
Rank: 3,934
1939 - Present
HPI: 44.95
Rank: 3,935
1955 - Present
HPI: 44.94
Rank: 3,936
1870 - 1924
HPI: 44.94
Rank: 3,937
1770 - 1835
HPI: 44.93
Rank: 3,938
1617 - 1688
HPI: 44.93
Rank: 3,939
1982 - Present
HPI: 44.92
Rank: 3,940
Among engineers born in United Kingdom, Isaac Roberts ranks 30. Before him are Mal Evans (1935), Robert W. Paul (1869), James B. Francis (1815), Geoffrey de Havilland (1882), William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong (1810), and Jesse Ramsden (1735). After him are R. J. Mitchell (1895), Christopher Cockerell (1910), Joseph Bazalgette (1819), Ove Arup (1895), Kevin Warwick (1954), and Pat Symonds (1953).
1935 - 1976
HPI: 47.86
Rank: 24
1869 - 1943
HPI: 47.63
Rank: 25
1815 - 1892
HPI: 47.61
Rank: 26
1882 - 1965
HPI: 45.49
Rank: 27
1810 - 1900
HPI: 45.45
Rank: 28
1735 - 1800
HPI: 45.34
Rank: 29
1829 - 1904
HPI: 44.95
Rank: 30
1895 - 1937
HPI: 44.88
Rank: 31
1910 - 1999
HPI: 44.67
Rank: 32
1819 - 1891
HPI: 43.41
Rank: 33
1895 - 1988
HPI: 43.37
Rank: 34
1954 - Present
HPI: 43.09
Rank: 35
1953 - Present
HPI: 42.53
Rank: 36