1840 - 1921
John Boyd Dunlop (5 February 1840 – 23 October 1921) was a Scottish-born 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 482,539 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia. John Boyd Dunlop is the 51st most popular inventor (down from 39th in 2019), the 355th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 284th 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 355. Before him are Richard Trevithick, Charles Goodyear, Willis Carrier, Wilhelm Maybach, Douglas Engelbart, and Karl Drais. After him are Steve Wozniak, Emile Berliner, Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, Henry Fox Talbot, Adam Opel, and Louis Blériot.
1771 - 1833
HPI: 75.67
Rank: 45
1800 - 1860
HPI: 75.39
Rank: 46
1876 - 1950
HPI: 75.38
Rank: 47
1846 - 1929
HPI: 74.97
Rank: 48
1925 - 2013
HPI: 74.92
Rank: 49
1785 - 1851
HPI: 74.79
Rank: 50
1840 - 1921
HPI: 74.64
Rank: 51
1950 - Present
HPI: 74.58
Rank: 52
1851 - 1929
HPI: 74.58
Rank: 53
1725 - 1804
HPI: 74.45
Rank: 54
1800 - 1877
HPI: 74.40
Rank: 55
1837 - 1895
HPI: 74.21
Rank: 56
1872 - 1936
HPI: 74.12
Rank: 57
Among people born in 1840, John Boyd Dunlop ranks 13. Before him are Alphonse Daudet, Odilon Redon, Ernst Abbe, Carlota of Mexico, Crazy Horse, and Edward Drinker Cope. After him are Carl Menger, Father Damien, Thomas Hardy, August Bebel, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, and Hiram Maxim. Among people deceased in 1921, John Boyd Dunlop ranks 8. Before him are Enrico Caruso, Peter Kropotkin, Peter I of Serbia, Talaat Pasha, Gabriel Lippmann, and Ludwig III of Bavaria. After him are Carl Menger, Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, Alfred Hermann Fried, Antoni Grabowski, and Nicholas I of Montenegro.
1840 - 1897
HPI: 77.98
Rank: 7
1840 - 1916
HPI: 76.06
Rank: 8
1840 - 1905
HPI: 75.23
Rank: 9
1840 - 1927
HPI: 75.07
Rank: 10
1840 - 1877
HPI: 75.07
Rank: 11
1840 - 1897
HPI: 74.71
Rank: 12
1840 - 1921
HPI: 74.64
Rank: 13
1840 - 1921
HPI: 74.47
Rank: 14
1840 - 1889
HPI: 74.23
Rank: 15
1840 - 1928
HPI: 73.49
Rank: 16
1840 - 1913
HPI: 72.75
Rank: 17
1840 - 1902
HPI: 72.09
Rank: 18
1840 - 1916
HPI: 70.00
Rank: 19
1873 - 1921
HPI: 80.09
Rank: 2
1842 - 1921
HPI: 79.26
Rank: 3
1844 - 1921
HPI: 77.11
Rank: 4
1874 - 1921
HPI: 75.71
Rank: 5
1845 - 1921
HPI: 75.37
Rank: 6
1845 - 1921
HPI: 74.99
Rank: 7
1840 - 1921
HPI: 74.64
Rank: 8
1840 - 1921
HPI: 74.47
Rank: 9
1886 - 1921
HPI: 73.90
Rank: 10
1858 - 1921
HPI: 73.82
Rank: 11
1864 - 1921
HPI: 73.46
Rank: 12
1857 - 1921
HPI: 73.04
Rank: 13
1841 - 1921
HPI: 72.79
Rank: 14
Among people born in United Kingdom, John Boyd Dunlop ranks 355 out of 6,924. Before him are Anne Neville (1456), Theresa May (1956), Halford Mackinder (1861), Alec Douglas-Home (1903), Alec Guinness (1914), and Ronald Coase (1910). After him are John Bowlby (1907), George Michael (1963), James Parkinson (1755), Peter Sellers (1925), Christopher Wren (1632), and Thomas Becket (1119).
1456 - 1485
HPI: 74.70
Rank: 349
1956 - Present
HPI: 74.67
Rank: 350
1861 - 1947
HPI: 74.66
Rank: 351
1903 - 1995
HPI: 74.65
Rank: 352
1914 - 2000
HPI: 74.65
Rank: 353
1910 - 2013
HPI: 74.65
Rank: 354
1840 - 1921
HPI: 74.64
Rank: 355
1907 - 1990
HPI: 74.62
Rank: 356
1963 - 2016
HPI: 74.61
Rank: 357
1755 - 1824
HPI: 74.60
Rank: 358
1925 - 1980
HPI: 74.59
Rank: 359
1632 - 1723
HPI: 74.58
Rank: 360
1119 - 1170
HPI: 74.56
Rank: 361
Among inventors born in United Kingdom, John Boyd Dunlop ranks 9. Before him are Charles Babbage (1791), George Stephenson (1781), Thomas Newcomen (1663), John Logie Baird (1888), John Herschel (1792), and Richard Trevithick (1771). After him are Henry Fox Talbot (1800), Frank Whittle (1907), Richard Arkwright (1732), Thomas Savery (1650), Edmund Cartwright (1743), and Henry Bessemer (1813).
1791 - 1871
HPI: 81.81
Rank: 3
1781 - 1848
HPI: 81.49
Rank: 4
1663 - 1729
HPI: 78.76
Rank: 5
1888 - 1946
HPI: 77.65
Rank: 6
1792 - 1871
HPI: 76.38
Rank: 7
1771 - 1833
HPI: 75.67
Rank: 8
1840 - 1921
HPI: 74.64
Rank: 9
1800 - 1877
HPI: 74.40
Rank: 10
1907 - 1996
HPI: 74.06
Rank: 11
1732 - 1792
HPI: 73.18
Rank: 12
1650 - 1715
HPI: 73.03
Rank: 13
1743 - 1823
HPI: 72.07
Rank: 14
1813 - 1898
HPI: 71.88
Rank: 15