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Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva

1895 - 1936

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Juan de la Cierva y Codorníu, 1st Count of la Cierva ([ˈxwan de la ˈθjeɾβaj koðoɾˈni.u]; 21 September 1895 – 9 December 1936), was a Spanish civil engineer, pilot and a self-taught aeronautical engineer. His most famous accomplishment was the invention in 1920 of a rotorcraft called Autogiro, a single-rotor type of aircraft that came to be called autogyro in the English language. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva has received more than 22,317 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva is the 169th most popular inventor (up from 179th in 2019), the 660th most popular biography from Spain (up from 670th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Spanish Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva ranks 169 out of 354. Before him are Robert Cailliau, Edwin Howard Armstrong, Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff, Charles Cros, David Edward Hughes, and Siegfried Marcus. After him are Georges Claude, Shigeo Shingo, George Washington, Ottaviano Petrucci, Peter Henlein, and Hubert Cecil Booth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva ranks 101. Before him are Heinrich Eberbach, Hanns Albin Rauter, Michel Simon, Albert Cohen, Kirsten Flagstad, and Walter Stennes. After him are Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Erich Abraham, Ernst Kantorowicz, Martin Luther, Isamu Chō, and Ernesto Lecuona. Among people deceased in 1936, Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva ranks 68. Before him are Ramón del Valle-Inclán, Martin Lowry, Gyula Gömbös, Henri de Régnier, Irving Thalberg, and Takahashi Korekiyo. After him are Nestor Lakoba, Hans Poelzig, Oscar Wisting, Alexandros Zaimis, Richard Hauptmann, and Sergey Kamenev.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva ranks 660 out of 2,932. Before him are Juande Ramos (1954), Ahmad al-Muqtadir (1050), Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquess of Santa Cruz (1526), Ferdinand de la Cerda (1255), Agila I (null), and Count Theodosius (310). After him are Luis de Morales (1509), Abu Hamid al-Gharnati (1080), Manuel Fraga (1922), Ramon Borrell, Count of Barcelona (972), Jaume Cabré (1947), and Elvira of Castile, Queen of Sicily (1103).

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Among INVENTORS In Spain

Among inventors born in Spain, Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva ranks 2. Before him are Abbas ibn Firnas (810). After him are Narcís Monturiol (1819) and Leonardo Torres y Quevedo (1852).

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