1803 - 1889
John Ericsson (born Johan Ericsson; July 31, 1803 – March 8, 1889) was a Swedish-American inventor. He was active in England and the United States. Ericsson collaborated on the design of the railroad steam locomotive Novelty, which competed in the Rainhill Trials on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, which were won by inventor George Stephenson's (1781–1848), Rocket. In North America, he designed the United States Navy's first screw-propelled steam-frigate USS Princeton, in partnership with Captain (later Commodore) Robert F. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Ericsson has received more than 373,985 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. John Ericsson is the 139th most popular inventor (down from 128th in 2019), the 227th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 205th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Swedish Inventor.
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Among inventors, John Ericsson ranks 139 out of 354. Before him are Louis Le Prince, Paul Otlet, Robert Moog, Gunther von Hagens, Johann Jacob Schweppe, and Josiah Warren. After him are Jang Yeong-sil, Georg Luger, Heinrich Göbel, Alfred Vail, Viktor Schauberger, and Nikolai Kardashev.
1841 - 1890
HPI: 58.20
Rank: 133
1868 - 1944
HPI: 58.16
Rank: 134
1934 - 2005
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 135
1945 - Present
HPI: 57.82
Rank: 136
1740 - 1821
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 137
1798 - 1874
HPI: 57.69
Rank: 138
1803 - 1889
HPI: 57.64
Rank: 139
1400 - Present
HPI: 57.62
Rank: 140
1849 - 1923
HPI: 57.55
Rank: 141
1818 - 1893
HPI: 57.49
Rank: 142
1807 - 1859
HPI: 57.49
Rank: 143
1885 - 1958
HPI: 57.41
Rank: 144
1932 - 2019
HPI: 57.39
Rank: 145
Among people born in 1803, John Ericsson ranks 21. Before him are Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony, Ferenc Deák, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville, and Princess Alexandrine of Prussia. After him are Joseph Paxton, Henry Darcy, John Sutter, Friedrich von Amerling, Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, and Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff. Among people deceased in 1889, John Ericsson ranks 24. Before him are Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Robert Browning, Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges, Ion Creangă, and Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin. After him are Ignacy Domeyko, Gaston Planté, Princess Eugénie of Sweden, Viktor Bunyakovsky, Jules Dupré, and Maria Mitchell.
1803 - 1829
HPI: 58.68
Rank: 15
1803 - 1876
HPI: 58.21
Rank: 16
1803 - 1873
HPI: 58.19
Rank: 17
1803 - 1882
HPI: 58.05
Rank: 18
1803 - 1847
HPI: 57.99
Rank: 19
1803 - 1892
HPI: 57.86
Rank: 20
1803 - 1889
HPI: 57.64
Rank: 21
1803 - 1865
HPI: 57.09
Rank: 22
1803 - 1858
HPI: 56.92
Rank: 23
1803 - 1880
HPI: 56.57
Rank: 24
1803 - 1887
HPI: 56.53
Rank: 25
1803 - 1879
HPI: 55.82
Rank: 26
1803 - 1877
HPI: 55.71
Rank: 27
1822 - 1889
HPI: 58.40
Rank: 18
1808 - 1889
HPI: 58.17
Rank: 19
1812 - 1889
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 20
1830 - 1889
HPI: 58.02
Rank: 21
1837 - 1889
HPI: 57.85
Rank: 22
1826 - 1889
HPI: 57.69
Rank: 23
1803 - 1889
HPI: 57.64
Rank: 24
1802 - 1889
HPI: 57.56
Rank: 25
1834 - 1889
HPI: 57.56
Rank: 26
1830 - 1889
HPI: 57.07
Rank: 27
1804 - 1889
HPI: 56.96
Rank: 28
1811 - 1889
HPI: 56.64
Rank: 29
1818 - 1889
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 30
Among people born in Sweden, John Ericsson ranks 227 out of 1,612. Before him are Ingemar Johansson (1932), Carl Linnaeus the Younger (1741), Carl Michael Bellman (1740), Princess Margaretha of Sweden (1899), Carl Johan Bernadotte (1916), and Håkan Nesser (1950). After him are Henrik Larsson (1971), Gillis Grafström (1893), Harry Nyquist (1889), Torbern Bergman (1735), Jan Guillou (1944), and Joey Tempest (1963).
1932 - 2009
HPI: 57.87
Rank: 221
1741 - 1783
HPI: 57.80
Rank: 222
1740 - 1795
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 223
1899 - 1977
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 224
1916 - 2012
HPI: 57.69
Rank: 225
1950 - Present
HPI: 57.66
Rank: 226
1803 - 1889
HPI: 57.64
Rank: 227
1971 - Present
HPI: 57.57
Rank: 228
1893 - 1938
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 229
1889 - 1976
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 230
1735 - 1784
HPI: 57.49
Rank: 231
1944 - Present
HPI: 57.44
Rank: 232
1963 - Present
HPI: 57.44
Rank: 233
Among inventors born in Sweden, John Ericsson ranks 2. Before him are Gideon Sundback (1880). After him are Lars Magnus Ericsson (1846), Ernst Alexanderson (1878), Victor Hasselblad (1906), and Simone Giertz (1990).
1880 - 1954
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 1
1803 - 1889
HPI: 57.64
Rank: 2
1846 - 1926
HPI: 54.69
Rank: 3
1878 - 1975
HPI: 51.43
Rank: 4
1906 - 1978
HPI: 46.67
Rank: 5
1990 - Present
HPI: 25.68
Rank: 6