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John Hughes

1814 - 1889

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John James Hughes (1814 – 17 June 1889) was a Welsh engineer, businessman and founder of the city of Donetsk. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Hughes has received more than 148,669 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. John Hughes is the 168th most popular engineer, the 2,045th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 19th most popular British Engineer.

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.88

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  • 1.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, John Hughes ranks 168 out of 389Before him are John Loudon McAdam, John Smeaton, Antoine de Chézy, Sherif Ismail, Vitaly Abalakov, and Menno van Coehoorn. After him are Alexander Mozhaysky, Riccardo Morandi, Pierre-Paul Riquet, Louis Charles Breguet, Hellmuth Walter, and Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1814, John Hughes ranks 40Before him are Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Rafael Carrera, Tatya Tope, Ivan Mažuranić, Auguste Clésinger, and Miklós Ybl. After him are Jules Simon, Pierre Wantzel, Mehmed Fuad Pasha, Girolamo de Rada, Prince Karl of Auersperg, and Johann Georg Halske. Among people deceased in 1889, John Hughes ranks 46Before him are Şihabetdin Märcani, Bernhard Förster, André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri, Alfred Józef Potocki, Johann Jakob von Tschudi, and Champfleury. After him are Benedetto Cairoli, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, Yohannes IV, Albrecht Ritschl, Laura Bridgman, and Jean-Baptiste Arban.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Hughes ranks 2,045 out of 8,785Before him are Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder (1890), Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg (1889), Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester (1355), Eleanor of England, Countess of Bar (1269), Alan Price (1942), and Chris Bristow (1937). After him are Thomas Bradwardine (1300), Bill Bruford (1949), The Edge (1961), Alfred Edwards (1850), Eddie the Eagle (1963), and Damien Hirst (1965).

Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, John Hughes ranks 19Before him are Robert Stephenson (1803), John Bagot Glubb (1897), Patrick Head (1946), William Playfair (1759), John Loudon McAdam (1756), and John Smeaton (1724). After him are André Waterkeyn (1917), W. Ross Ashby (1903), Frederick W. Lanchester (1868), Harvey Postlethwaite (1944), James B. Francis (1815), and William Froude (1810).