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Joseph Pilates

1883 - 1967

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Joseph Hubertus Pilates (9 December 1883 – 9 October 1967) was a German-born physical trainer, writer, and inventor. He is credited with inventing and promoting the Pilates method of physical fitness. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Pilates has received more than 1,161,832 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Joseph Pilates is the 107th most popular inventor (up from 108th in 2019), the 1,045th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,008th in 2019) and the 12th most popular German Inventor.

Joseph Pilates is most famous for the Pilates Method, which is a form of exercise that focuses on strengthening the core muscles and improving posture.

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  • 19

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  • 6.69

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  • 1.89

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Joseph Pilates ranks 107 out of 354Before him are Henri Coandă, Robert Noyce, Taiichi Ohno, W. O. Bentley, Jacque Fresco, and William Webb Ellis. After him are Vladimir K. Zworykin, Zacharias Janssen, Mary the Jewess, André Michelin, Samuel Crompton, and Percy Spencer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Joseph Pilates ranks 48Before him are Douglas Fairbanks, Georgios Papanikolaou, Döme Sztójay, Max Linder, Gino Severini, and Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. After him are Rudolf Weigl, Marie Laurencin, Adolph Joffe, Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia, Ida Rubinstein, and Alexandros Papagos. Among people deceased in 1967, Joseph Pilates ranks 42Before him are Totò, Violeta Parra, G. W. Pabst, Harald Quandt, Brian Epstein, and Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden. After him are Anthony Mann, John Cockcroft, Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Lorenzo Bandini, Tamara Bunke, and Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Joseph Pilates ranks 1,045 out of 6,142Before him are William Stern (1871), Alfred Brehm (1829), Josef Harpe (1887), Uli Hoeneß (1952), John McEnroe (1959), and Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia (1887). After him are Gerda Christian (1913), Julius Wellhausen (1844), Horst Tappert (1923), Johann Mattheson (1681), Walter Christaller (1893), and Princess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1696).

Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Joseph Pilates ranks 12Before him are Konrad Zuse (1910), Karl Drais (1785), Hans Lippershey (1570), Emile Berliner (1851), Wilhelm Maybach (1846), and Adam Opel (1837). After him are Johann Philipp Reis (1834), Theobald Boehm (1794), Alfred Krupp (1812), Hugo Schmeisser (1884), Johann Jacob Schweppe (1740), and Heinrich Göbel (1818).