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Kirkpatrick Macmillan

1835 - 1867

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Kirkpatrick Macmillan (2 September 1812 in Keir, Dumfries and Galloway – 26 January 1878 in Keir) was a Scottish blacksmith. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kirkpatrick Macmillan has received more than 241,017 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Kirkpatrick Macmillan is the 368th most popular inventor (down from 319th in 2019), the 4,256th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,501st in 2019) and the 61st most popular British Inventor.

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  • 240k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.81

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Kirkpatrick Macmillan ranks 368 out of 426. Before him are Isaac Pitman, Johan Vaaler, Andy Bechtolsheim, Amar Bose, William Friese-Greene, and Lewis Howard Latimer. After him are Henry J. Kaiser, Per Georg Scheutz, Frank Piasecki, Andrew Viterbi, Arunachalam Muruganantham, and Margaret E. Knight.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Kirkpatrick Macmillan ranks 82. Before him are Theodore Thomas, Archibald Geikie, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus, Gregorio María Aguirre y García, Richard Andree, and Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig. After him are Richard Olney, A. V. Dicey, William Stanley Haseltine, Vítězslav Hálek, Lyman Abbott, and Rebecca Latimer Felton. Among people deceased in 1867, Kirkpatrick Macmillan ranks 56. Before him are Karl Ferdinand Sohn, Juan Álvarez, Phan Thanh Giản, Athanasios Miaoulis, Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg, and Charles John Andersson. After him are Albert Auguste Perdonnet, Ira Aldridge, Robert Smirke, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Sterling Price, and Prideaux John Selby.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Kirkpatrick Macmillan ranks 4,256 out of 8,785. Before him are Roger Ascham (1515), Howard Marks (1945), Sadie Frost (1965), Paula Yates (1959), George Abbot (1562), and Michelle Dockery (1981). After him are Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland (1393), Richey Edwards (1967), Tony Adams (1966), Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece (1968), Charles W. Alcock (1842), and Kenneth Clark (1903).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Kirkpatrick Macmillan ranks 61. Before him are David Dunbar Buick (1854), Joseph Bramah (1748), Robert Whitehead (1823), John Milne (1850), Isaac Pitman (1813), and William Friese-Greene (1855). After him are William Fothergill Cooke (1806), Wordsworth Donisthorpe (1847), Barnes Wallis (1887), John Whitehurst (1713), Roger C. Field (1945), and Lawrence Hargrave (1850).

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