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John Loudon McAdam

1756 - 1836

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John Loudon McAdam (23 September 1756 – 26 November 1836) was a Scottish civil engineer and road-builder. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Loudon McAdam has received more than 343,714 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). John Loudon McAdam is the 162nd most popular engineer (down from 150th in 2019), the 2,013th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,936th in 2019) and the 17th most popular British Engineer.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 3.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, John Loudon McAdam ranks 162 out of 389. Before him are Henryk Dembiński, Gérard Larrousse, Philippe LeBon, Anton Flettner, Hanns Hörbiger, and Marc Seguin. After him are John Smeaton, Antoine de Chézy, Sherif Ismail, Vitaly Abalakov, Menno van Coehoorn, and John Hughes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1756, John Loudon McAdam ranks 22. Before him are Guillaume-Antoine Olivier, Duke Louis of Württemberg, Thomas Rowlandson, Federico Gravina, James Gillray, and Abbé Faria. After him are Paul Wranitzky, Christian Frederik Hansen, Heinrich von Bellegarde, Jean-Antoine Chaptal, Vincent-Marie Viénot, Count of Vaublanc, and Karl Philipp Moritz. Among people deceased in 1836, John Loudon McAdam ranks 30. Before him are Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein, Carle Vernet, Prince Charles of Hesse-Kassel, Andrey Razumovsky, Karel Hynek Mácha, and Betsy Ross. After him are Norbert Burgmüller, Reşid Mehmed Pasha, Orest Kiprensky, Heinrich Schrader, Christian Dietrich Grabbe, and Martha Jefferson Randolph.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Loudon McAdam ranks 2,013 out of 8,785. Before him are Robert Watson-Watt (1892), Lady Hester Stanhope (1776), Æthelbald of Mercia (700), Ed Sheeran (1991), Andy Gibb (1958), and Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847). After him are Graham Nash (1942), Peter James (1948), Marjorie Boulton (1924), Hugh Dowding (1882), John Bull (1562), and John Mills (1908).

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Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, John Loudon McAdam ranks 17. Before him are Hertha Ayrton (1854), Adrian Newey (1958), Robert Stephenson (1803), John Bagot Glubb (1897), Patrick Head (1946), and William Playfair (1759). After him are John Smeaton (1724), John Hughes (1814), André Waterkeyn (1917), W. Ross Ashby (1903), Frederick W. Lanchester (1868), and Harvey Postlethwaite (1944).

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