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Jacob W. Davis

1831 - 1908

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Jacob William Davis (born Jākobs Jufess; Russian: Якоб Яковлевич Юфес, May 14, 1831 – January 20, 1908) was a Russian-American tailor of Latvian Jewish origin who is credited with inventing modern jeans. Growing up in Russian Empire, he emigrated to the United States as a young man and spent some time in Canada as well. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacob W. Davis has received more than 451,632 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Jacob W. Davis is the 248th most popular inventor (up from 254th in 2019), the 72nd most popular biography from Latvia (up from 83rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Latvian Inventor.

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  • 51.89

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Jacob W. Davis ranks 248 out of 354. Before him are Alexander Parkes, Ottmar Mergenthaler, Theodore Maiman, Glenn Curtiss, Ray Dolby, and Frank Zamboni. After him are Ottó Bláthy, Aimo Lahti, Walter Hunt, Aurel Stodola, Eunice Newton Foote, and Colin Archer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1831, Jacob W. Davis ranks 53. Before him are Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, Wilhelm Raabe, Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola, Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, Mary Mapes Dodge, and Arsenio Martínez Campos. After him are Konstantin Leontiev, Henri Meilhac, Victor Henri Rochefort, Marquis de Rochefort-Luçay, Heinrich Anton de Bary, Gaston, Marquis de Galliffet, and Hendrik Willem Mesdag. Among people deceased in 1908, Jacob W. Davis ranks 51. Before him are Ludovic Halévy, Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, Ouida, Nikolai Linevich, Edward MacDowell, and Georgy Voronoy. After him are Giovanni Fattori, Andrew Graham, Mustafa Kamil Pasha, Holger Drachmann, Charles Barbier de Meynard, and Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Jacob W. Davis ranks 72 out of 284. Before him are Herberts Cukurs (1900), Vizma Belševica (1931), Alberts Kviesis (1881), Alfred Neuland (1895), Julie Wilhelmine Hagen-Schwarz (1824), and Ivars Godmanis (1951). After him are Georg August Schweinfurth (1836), Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven (1899), Karl Eichwald (1795), Kristjan Jaak Peterson (1801), Jānis Balodis (1881), and Juris Hartmanis (1928).

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Among INVENTORS In Latvia

Among inventors born in Latvia, Jacob W. Davis ranks 2. Before him are Friedrich Zander (1887).

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