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John Kemp Starley

1854 - 1901

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John Kemp Starley (24 December 1855 – 29 October 1901) was an English inventor and industrialist who is widely considered the inventor of the modern bicycle, and also originator of the tradename Rover. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Kemp Starley has received more than 136,614 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. John Kemp Starley is the 197th most popular inventor (down from 185th in 2019), the 1,713th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,614th in 2019) and the 31st most popular British Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, John Kemp Starley ranks 197 out of 354Before him are Sandford Fleming, Édouard Branly, Samuel Pierpont Langley, Philo Farnsworth, Oskar Barnack, and William Murdoch. After him are Yuan Longping, Hovannes Adamian, Lagâri Hasan Çelebi, Lou Ottens, Wan Hu, and Georges Hébert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, John Kemp Starley ranks 44Before him are Hermann Kövess von Kövessháza, Takahashi Korekiyo, Friedrich Alfred Krupp, Hertha Ayrton, Jean-Marie Guyau, and Thomas R. Marshall. After him are Aletta Jacobs, Sergei Shchukin, Jacek Malczewski, Viktor Dankl von Krasnik, Sergei Korsakoff, and Stefan Stambolov. Among people deceased in 1901, John Kemp Starley ranks 32Before him are Iosif Gurko, Princess Januária of Brazil, Lev Ivanov, Shō Tai, François-Marie Raoult, and Nikolaos Gyzis. After him are Leopoldo Alas, Leon Czolgosz, Mahadev Govind Ranade, Albert, 4th duc de Broglie, Archduchess Maria Isabella of Austria, and Dagny Juel.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Kemp Starley ranks 1,713 out of 7,765Before him are Rupert Grint (1988), James Connolly (1868), John Kerr (1824), Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild (1936), Eystein II of Norway (1125), and William Murdoch (1754). After him are Miranda Richardson (1958), Phil Jones (1992), Geoff Hurst (1941), James Finlayson (1887), Richard Aldington (1892), and Peter Vaughan (1923).

Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, John Kemp Starley ranks 31Before him are Charles Algernon Parsons (1854), David Edward Hughes (1831), Hubert Cecil Booth (1871), Matthew Boulton (1728), Sandford Fleming (1827), and William Murdoch (1754). After him are Oliver Lodge (1851), Henry Maudslay (1771), Robert Watson-Watt (1892), Frederick Scott Archer (1813), Elihu Thomson (1853), and James Dyson (1947).