1778 - 1855
Joseph Aspdin (25 December 1778 – 20 March 1855) was an English bricklayer, businessman, inventor, and stonemason who obtained the patent for Portland cement on 21 October 1824. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Aspdin has received more than 166,146 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Aspdin is the 270th most popular inventor (down from 251st in 2019), the 2,557th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,333rd in 2019) and the 43rd most popular British Inventor.
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Among inventors, Joseph Aspdin ranks 270 out of 354. Before him are Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Walter Clopton Wingfield, Robert Metcalfe, David Bushnell, Yoshiro Nakamatsu, and Peter Madsen. After him are Lester Allan Pelton, Adolf Martens, Alexander P. de Seversky, L. L. Langstroth, Edward Lawry Norton, and Štefan Banič.
1907 - 1964
HPI: 50.81
Rank: 264
1833 - 1912
HPI: 50.68
Rank: 265
1946 - Present
HPI: 50.61
Rank: 266
1742 - 1824
HPI: 50.54
Rank: 267
1928 - Present
HPI: 50.42
Rank: 268
1971 - Present
HPI: 50.42
Rank: 269
1778 - 1855
HPI: 50.23
Rank: 270
1829 - 1908
HPI: 50.09
Rank: 271
1850 - 1914
HPI: 49.94
Rank: 272
1894 - 1974
HPI: 49.77
Rank: 273
1810 - 1895
HPI: 49.64
Rank: 274
1898 - 1983
HPI: 49.55
Rank: 275
1870 - 1941
HPI: 49.54
Rank: 276
Among people born in 1778, Joseph Aspdin ranks 30. Before him are Carl Ludvig Engel, Augustinos Kapodistrias, Sigismund von Neukomm, Joseph Lancaster, Princess Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac. After him are Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, Joseph Grimaldi, Carl Ludwig Koch, Mariano Moreno, Anders Sandøe Ørsted, and Henry, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen. Among people deceased in 1855, Joseph Aspdin ranks 29. Before him are William Parry, Mihály Vörösmarty, Sergey Uvarov, Carl Anton von Meyer, Louis-Mathieu Molé, and Guglielmo Pepe. After him are Henri Druey, August Leopold Crelle, Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Konstantin Batyushkov, Josef Munzinger, and Francisco Xavier de Luna Pizarro.
1778 - 1840
HPI: 55.36
Rank: 24
1778 - 1857
HPI: 54.25
Rank: 25
1778 - 1858
HPI: 52.65
Rank: 26
1778 - 1838
HPI: 52.33
Rank: 27
1778 - 1835
HPI: 51.22
Rank: 28
1778 - 1832
HPI: 50.83
Rank: 29
1778 - 1855
HPI: 50.23
Rank: 30
1778 - 1846
HPI: 49.79
Rank: 31
1778 - 1837
HPI: 49.60
Rank: 32
1778 - 1857
HPI: 49.33
Rank: 33
1778 - 1811
HPI: 48.98
Rank: 34
1778 - 1860
HPI: 48.97
Rank: 35
1778 - 1847
HPI: 48.87
Rank: 36
1790 - 1855
HPI: 52.40
Rank: 23
1800 - 1855
HPI: 52.14
Rank: 24
1786 - 1855
HPI: 51.94
Rank: 25
1795 - 1855
HPI: 51.46
Rank: 26
1781 - 1855
HPI: 51.07
Rank: 27
1783 - 1855
HPI: 50.28
Rank: 28
1778 - 1855
HPI: 50.23
Rank: 29
1799 - 1855
HPI: 50.15
Rank: 30
1780 - 1855
HPI: 49.90
Rank: 31
1790 - 1855
HPI: 49.00
Rank: 32
1787 - 1855
HPI: 48.76
Rank: 33
1791 - 1855
HPI: 48.60
Rank: 34
1780 - 1855
HPI: 47.56
Rank: 35
Among people born in United Kingdom, Joseph Aspdin ranks 2,557 out of 7,765. Before him are Edward Robert Hughes (1851), Belinda Lee (1935), John Illsley (1949), Jane Asher (1946), Albert, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (1869), and Alfred Tysoe (1874). After him are Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers (1405), Gregory Winter (1951), Christian Horner (1973), Alexander Mackenzie (1822), Siegfried Sassoon (1886), and Sydney Chapman (1888).
1851 - 1914
HPI: 50.26
Rank: 2,551
1935 - 1961
HPI: 50.26
Rank: 2,552
1949 - Present
HPI: 50.26
Rank: 2,553
1946 - Present
HPI: 50.26
Rank: 2,554
1869 - 1931
HPI: 50.25
Rank: 2,555
1874 - 1901
HPI: 50.25
Rank: 2,556
1778 - 1855
HPI: 50.23
Rank: 2,557
1405 - 1469
HPI: 50.23
Rank: 2,558
1951 - Present
HPI: 50.23
Rank: 2,559
1973 - Present
HPI: 50.23
Rank: 2,560
1822 - 1892
HPI: 50.22
Rank: 2,561
1886 - 1967
HPI: 50.22
Rank: 2,562
1888 - 1970
HPI: 50.22
Rank: 2,563
Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Joseph Aspdin ranks 43. Before him are James Dyson (1947), Joseph Whitworth (1803), Alexander Parkes (1813), Samuel Morland (1625), James Nasmyth (1808), and Walter Clopton Wingfield (1833). After him are John Wilkinson (1728), Thomas Wedgwood (1771), Rowland Hill (1795), John Barnard (1946), Joseph Bramah (1748), and David Dunbar Buick (1854).
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.34
Rank: 37
1803 - 1887
HPI: 52.15
Rank: 38
1813 - 1890
HPI: 52.04
Rank: 39
1625 - 1695
HPI: 51.34
Rank: 40
1808 - 1890
HPI: 51.06
Rank: 41
1833 - 1912
HPI: 50.68
Rank: 42
1778 - 1855
HPI: 50.23
Rank: 43
1728 - 1808
HPI: 49.24
Rank: 44
1771 - 1805
HPI: 49.24
Rank: 45
1795 - 1879
HPI: 48.68
Rank: 46
1946 - Present
HPI: 48.49
Rank: 47
1748 - 1814
HPI: 48.22
Rank: 48
1854 - 1929
HPI: 47.97
Rank: 49