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Lawrence Hargrave

1850 - 1915

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Lawrence Hargrave, MRAeS, (29 January 1850 – 6 July 1915) was an Australian engineer, explorer, astronomer, inventor and aeronautical pioneer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lawrence Hargrave has received more than 157,661 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Lawrence Hargrave is the 411th most popular inventor (down from 374th in 2019), the 5,749th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,276th in 2019) and the 67th most popular British Inventor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 160k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 40.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Lawrence Hargraves by language

Over the past year Lawrence Hargrave has had the most page views in the with 14,443 views, followed by Spanish (982), and Portuguese (871). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (109.24%), Albanian (34.14%), and English (9.46%)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Lawrence Hargrave ranks 411 out of 426. Before him are Stanford R. Ovshinsky, Kamil Tolon, Richard Pearse, Roger C. Field, Clarence Birdseye, and Charles Ammi Cutter. After him are John F. Seitz, Sarah E. Goode, Frank Hornby, Marc Andreessen, Valerie Thomas, and Harold Stephen Black.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, Lawrence Hargrave ranks 120. Before him are Henry Cabot Lodge, John Munro Longyear, Constantin Henriquez, Fanny Hesse, Georg Naue, and Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer. After him is Samuel Gompers. Among people deceased in 1915, Lawrence Hargrave ranks 126. Before him are W. G. Grace, Henry Roscoe, Charles Tupper, William Wallace Denslow, John Bunny, and Tom Watson. After him are Robert Smalls, and Susan La Flesche Picotte.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Lawrence Hargrave ranks 5,749 out of 8,785. Before him are Eddie Hopkinson (1935), Ernest Townsend (1880), Angus Wilson (1913), Christopher Fairbank (1953), David Mackenzie (1966), and Jodie Comer (1993). After him are Alec B. Francis (1867), Tony Pulis (1958), Gerald Logan (1879), Saint Piran (null), Colin McGinn (1950), and Lynn Davies (1942).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Lawrence Hargrave ranks 67. Before him are Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1835), William Fothergill Cooke (1806), Wordsworth Donisthorpe (1847), Barnes Wallis (1887), John Whitehurst (1713), and Roger C. Field (1945). After him are Frank Hornby (1863).

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