1888 - 1946
John Logie Baird FRSE (; 13 August 1888 – 14 June 1946) was a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer, and innovator who demonstrated the world's first live working television system on 26 January 1926. He went on to invent the first publicly demonstrated colour television system and the first viable purely electronic colour television picture tube.In 1928 the Baird Television Development Company achieved the first transatlantic television transmission. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Logie Baird has received more than 2,649,354 page views. His biography is available in 72 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 70 in 2019). John Logie Baird is the 20th most popular inventor (up from 28th in 2019), the 152nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 195th in 2019) and the 5th most popular British Inventor.
John Logie Baird is most famous for inventing the television.
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Among inventors, John Logie Baird ranks 20 out of 354. Before him are Rudolf Diesel, Nikolaus Otto, George Stephenson, Cai Lun, Louis Daguerre, and Nicéphore Niépce. After him are Karl Ferdinand Braun, Samuel Colt, Charles K. Kao, Thomas Newcomen, Antonio Meucci, and Werner von Siemens.
1858 - 1913
HPI: 76.24
Rank: 14
1832 - 1891
HPI: 74.92
Rank: 15
1781 - 1848
HPI: 74.92
Rank: 16
48 - 121
HPI: 74.90
Rank: 17
1787 - 1851
HPI: 74.64
Rank: 18
1765 - 1833
HPI: 73.51
Rank: 19
1888 - 1946
HPI: 72.45
Rank: 20
1850 - 1918
HPI: 72.08
Rank: 21
1814 - 1862
HPI: 72.01
Rank: 22
1933 - 2018
HPI: 71.90
Rank: 23
1663 - 1729
HPI: 71.14
Rank: 24
1808 - 1889
HPI: 71.10
Rank: 25
1816 - 1892
HPI: 70.93
Rank: 26
Among people born in 1888, John Logie Baird ranks 5. Before him are Heinz Guderian, Fernando Pessoa, T. E. Lawrence, and Dale Carnegie. After him are José Raúl Capablanca, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Giorgio de Chirico, Otto Stern, Carl Schmitt, Nikolai Bukharin, and Nestor Makhno. Among people deceased in 1946, John Logie Baird ranks 8. Before him are Hermann Göring, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, H. G. Wells, Alfred Rosenberg, and Alfred Jodl. After him are Hans Frank, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Ion Antonescu, Mikhail Kalinin, and Wilhelm Frick.
1888 - 1954
HPI: 76.75
Rank: 1
1888 - 1935
HPI: 73.69
Rank: 2
1888 - 1935
HPI: 73.17
Rank: 3
1888 - 1955
HPI: 73.13
Rank: 4
1888 - 1946
HPI: 72.45
Rank: 5
1888 - 1942
HPI: 70.74
Rank: 6
1888 - 1975
HPI: 70.19
Rank: 7
1888 - 1978
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 8
1888 - 1969
HPI: 69.91
Rank: 9
1888 - 1985
HPI: 69.86
Rank: 10
1888 - 1938
HPI: 69.74
Rank: 11
1888 - 1934
HPI: 69.68
Rank: 12
1893 - 1946
HPI: 80.86
Rank: 2
1893 - 1946
HPI: 76.27
Rank: 3
1882 - 1946
HPI: 75.91
Rank: 4
1866 - 1946
HPI: 74.42
Rank: 5
1893 - 1946
HPI: 73.86
Rank: 6
1890 - 1946
HPI: 73.13
Rank: 7
1888 - 1946
HPI: 72.45
Rank: 8
1900 - 1946
HPI: 72.30
Rank: 9
1903 - 1946
HPI: 72.21
Rank: 10
1892 - 1946
HPI: 71.98
Rank: 11
1882 - 1946
HPI: 71.56
Rank: 12
1875 - 1946
HPI: 71.22
Rank: 13
1877 - 1946
HPI: 70.59
Rank: 14
Among people born in United Kingdom, John Logie Baird ranks 152 out of 7,765. Before him are Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (1857), George IV of the United Kingdom (1762), Ada Lovelace (1815), Catherine Parr (1512), Ian Fleming (1908), and Alfred Marshall (1842). After him are Henry IV of England (1367), Thomas Young (1773), James Chadwick (1891), Ringo Starr (1940), Anne, Queen of Great Britain (1665), and Saint Patrick (385).
1857 - 1944
HPI: 72.67
Rank: 146
1762 - 1830
HPI: 72.55
Rank: 147
1815 - 1852
HPI: 72.54
Rank: 148
1512 - 1548
HPI: 72.50
Rank: 149
1908 - 1964
HPI: 72.50
Rank: 150
1842 - 1924
HPI: 72.50
Rank: 151
1888 - 1946
HPI: 72.45
Rank: 152
1367 - 1413
HPI: 72.44
Rank: 153
1773 - 1829
HPI: 72.42
Rank: 154
1891 - 1974
HPI: 72.41
Rank: 155
1940 - Present
HPI: 72.39
Rank: 156
1665 - 1714
HPI: 72.38
Rank: 157
385 - 461
HPI: 72.30
Rank: 158
Among inventors born in United Kingdom, John Logie Baird ranks 5. Before him are James Watt (1736), Alexander Graham Bell (1847), Charles Babbage (1791), and George Stephenson (1781). After him are Thomas Newcomen (1663), Richard Trevithick (1771), John Herschel (1792), John Boyd Dunlop (1840), Frank Whittle (1907), Henry Fox Talbot (1800), and Thomas Savery (1650).
1736 - 1819
HPI: 86.42
Rank: 1
1847 - 1922
HPI: 82.97
Rank: 2
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