1840 - 1921
John Boyd Dunlop (5 February 1840 – 23 October 1921) was a Scottish inventor and veterinary surgeon who spent most of his career in Ireland. Familiar with making rubber devices, he invented the first practical pneumatic tyres for his child's tricycle and developed them for use in cycle racing. He sold his rights to the pneumatic tyres to a company he formed with the president of the Irish Cyclists' Association, Harvey du Cros, for a small cash sum and a small shareholding in their pneumatic tyre business. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Boyd Dunlop has received more than 592,552 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). John Boyd Dunlop is the 51st most popular inventor, the 363rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 355th in 2019) and the 9th most popular British Inventor.
John Boyd Dunlop was a Scottish veterinarian and inventor. He is most famous for inventing the first practical pneumatic tire in 1888.
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Among inventors, John Boyd Dunlop ranks 51 out of 354. Before him are Charles Goodyear, Karl Drais, John Herschel, William G. Morgan, Willis Carrier, and Hans Lippershey. After him are Emile Berliner, Wilhelm Maybach, Frank Whittle, Isaac Singer, Adam Opel, and John Deere.
1800 - 1860
HPI: 68.17
Rank: 45
1785 - 1851
HPI: 68.05
Rank: 46
1792 - 1871
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 47
1870 - 1942
HPI: 67.73
Rank: 48
1876 - 1950
HPI: 67.26
Rank: 49
1570 - 1619
HPI: 67.25
Rank: 50
1840 - 1921
HPI: 66.90
Rank: 51
1851 - 1929
HPI: 66.44
Rank: 52
1846 - 1929
HPI: 66.32
Rank: 53
1907 - 1996
HPI: 66.20
Rank: 54
1811 - 1875
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 55
1837 - 1895
HPI: 66.10
Rank: 56
1804 - 1886
HPI: 65.61
Rank: 57
Among people born in 1840, John Boyd Dunlop ranks 12. Before him are Murad V, Odilon Redon, Carlota of Mexico, Alphonse Daudet, Carl Menger, and Ernst Abbe. After him are Edward Drinker Cope, Crazy Horse, Father Damien, August Bebel, Thomas Hardy, and Richard von Krafft-Ebing. Among people deceased in 1921, John Boyd Dunlop ranks 9. Before him are Peter Kropotkin, Peter I of Serbia, Gabriel Lippmann, Ludwig III of Bavaria, Alfred Hermann Fried, and Carl Menger. After him are Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Talaat Pasha, Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, Nicholas I of Montenegro, and Henrietta Swan Leavitt.
1840 - 1904
HPI: 73.68
Rank: 6
1840 - 1916
HPI: 69.03
Rank: 7
1840 - 1927
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 8
1840 - 1897
HPI: 68.61
Rank: 9
1840 - 1921
HPI: 67.69
Rank: 10
1840 - 1905
HPI: 66.92
Rank: 11
1840 - 1921
HPI: 66.90
Rank: 12
1840 - 1897
HPI: 66.70
Rank: 13
1840 - 1877
HPI: 66.57
Rank: 14
1840 - 1889
HPI: 66.48
Rank: 15
1840 - 1913
HPI: 64.17
Rank: 16
1840 - 1928
HPI: 64.02
Rank: 17
1840 - 1902
HPI: 62.68
Rank: 18
1842 - 1921
HPI: 73.06
Rank: 3
1844 - 1921
HPI: 71.27
Rank: 4
1845 - 1921
HPI: 71.01
Rank: 5
1845 - 1921
HPI: 68.05
Rank: 6
1864 - 1921
HPI: 67.93
Rank: 7
1840 - 1921
HPI: 67.69
Rank: 8
1840 - 1921
HPI: 66.90
Rank: 9
1886 - 1921
HPI: 66.33
Rank: 10
1874 - 1921
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 11
1858 - 1921
HPI: 66.15
Rank: 12
1856 - 1921
HPI: 65.78
Rank: 13
1841 - 1921
HPI: 65.67
Rank: 14
1868 - 1921
HPI: 64.48
Rank: 15
Among people born in United Kingdom, John Boyd Dunlop ranks 363 out of 7,765. Before him are Oswald Mosley (1896), Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1844), John Bowlby (1907), Theresa May (1956), George Paget Thomson (1892), and John Ruskin (1819). After him are Thomas Cromwell (1485), Boudica (33), Kate Bush (1958), Marianne Faithfull (1946), Edward the Confessor (1003), and Ralph Fiennes (1962).
1896 - 1980
HPI: 66.99
Rank: 357
1844 - 1900
HPI: 66.97
Rank: 358
1907 - 1990
HPI: 66.97
Rank: 359
1956 - Present
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 360
1892 - 1975
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 361
1819 - 1900
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 362
1840 - 1921
HPI: 66.90
Rank: 363
1485 - 1540
HPI: 66.90
Rank: 364
33 - 61
HPI: 66.89
Rank: 365
1958 - Present
HPI: 66.85
Rank: 366
1946 - Present
HPI: 66.76
Rank: 367
1003 - 1066
HPI: 66.75
Rank: 368
1962 - Present
HPI: 66.72
Rank: 369
Among inventors born in United Kingdom, John Boyd Dunlop ranks 9. Before him are Charles Babbage (1791), George Stephenson (1781), John Logie Baird (1888), Thomas Newcomen (1663), Richard Trevithick (1771), and John Herschel (1792). After him are Frank Whittle (1907), Henry Fox Talbot (1800), Thomas Savery (1650), Richard Arkwright (1732), James Hargreaves (1720), and Henry Bessemer (1813).
1791 - 1871
HPI: 77.95
Rank: 3
1781 - 1848
HPI: 74.92
Rank: 4
1888 - 1946
HPI: 72.45
Rank: 5
1663 - 1729
HPI: 71.14
Rank: 6
1771 - 1833
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 7
1792 - 1871
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 8
1840 - 1921
HPI: 66.90
Rank: 9
1907 - 1996
HPI: 66.20
Rank: 10
1800 - 1877
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 11
1650 - 1715
HPI: 63.70
Rank: 12
1732 - 1792
HPI: 63.63
Rank: 13
1720 - 1778
HPI: 63.04
Rank: 14
1813 - 1898
HPI: 62.68
Rank: 15