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Jacque Fresco

1916 - 2017

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Jacque Fresco (March 13, 1916 – May 18, 2017) was an American futurist and self-described social engineer. Self-taught, he worked in a variety of positions related to industrial design. Fresco wrote and lectured his views on sustainable cities, energy efficiency, natural-resource management, cybernetic technology, automation, and the role of science in society. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacque Fresco has received more than 1,373,274 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia. Jacque Fresco is the 105th most popular inventor (down from 91st in 2019), the 1,252nd most popular biography from United States (down from 1,003rd in 2019) and the 25th most popular American Inventor.

Jacque Fresco is most famous for his "Venus Project" which is a plan to create a sustainable society.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Jacque Fresco ranks 105 out of 354. Before him are Edmund Cartwright, Léon Theremin, Henri Coandă, Robert Noyce, Taiichi Ohno, and W. O. Bentley. After him are William Webb Ellis, Joseph Pilates, Vladimir K. Zworykin, Zacharias Janssen, Mary the Jewess, and André Michelin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Jacque Fresco ranks 48. Before him are Sune Bergström, Masaki Kobayashi, P. W. Botha, Dino Risi, Maria Altmann, and Michael Gough. After him are Ephraim Katzir, Peter Finch, Saburō Sakai, Alberto Ginastera, Consuelo Velázquez, and Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal. Among people deceased in 2017, Jacque Fresco ranks 62. Before him are Adam West, Georges Prêtre, Giovanni Sartori, Oliver Smithies, Derek Walcott, and Pierre Bergé. After him are Michael Nyqvist, Abdul Halim of Kedah, John Heard, Hans Rosling, Piet Keizer, and Roger Ailes.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jacque Fresco ranks 1,252 out of 18,182. Before him are Frederick Cook (1865), Rene Russo (1954), Robert Englund (1947), Duff McKagan (1964), Stonewall Jackson (1824), and Mark Ruffalo (1967). After him are Cole Porter (1891), Walter Gilbert (1932), Donna Haraway (1944), Dwight Schultz (1947), David McClelland (1917), and Alyson Hannigan (1974).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Jacque Fresco ranks 25. Before him are George Eastman (1854), Ray Tomlinson (1941), Elisha Otis (1811), Leo Fender (1909), Bob Kahn (1938), and Robert Noyce (1927). After him are Percy Spencer (1894), Elias Howe (1819), Richard Jordan Gatling (1818), Lee de Forest (1873), Elisha Gray (1835), and Robert Moog (1934).

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