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Louis Blériot

1872 - 1936

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Louis Charles Joseph Blériot ( BLERR-ee-oh, also US: BLAY-ree-oh, -⁠OH, blair-YOH, French: [lwi bleʁjo]; 1 July 1872 – 1 August 1936) was a French aviator, inventor, and engineer. He developed the first practical headlamp for cars and established a profitable business manufacturing them, using much of the money he made to finance his attempts to build a successful aircraft. Blériot was the first to use the combination of hand-operated joystick and foot-operated rudder control as used to the present day to operate the aircraft control surfaces. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis Blériot has received more than 506,575 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Louis Blériot is the 58th most popular inventor (down from 57th in 2019), the 660th most popular biography from France (down from 594th in 2019) and the 9th most popular French Inventor.

Louis Blériot was most famous for being the first person to fly across the English Channel in 1909.

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  • 51

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Louis Blériot ranks 58 out of 354. Before him are Emile Berliner, Wilhelm Maybach, Frank Whittle, Isaac Singer, Adam Opel, and John Deere. After him are Douglas Engelbart, Henry Fox Talbot, Louis Renault, John Browning, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, and Jimmy Wales.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Louis Blériot ranks 17. Before him are Emil Hácha, Marcel Mauss, Djemal Pasha, Anton Denikin, Sergei Diaghilev, and Richard Willstätter. After him are Charles Greeley Abbot, Maurice Gamelin, Helena Rubinstein, Sri Aurobindo, Aubrey Beardsley, and Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar. Among people deceased in 1936, Louis Blériot ranks 21. Before him are Alexander Glazunov, Miguel de Unamuno, Fuad I of Egypt, Grazia Deledda, Premchand, and José Antonio Primo de Rivera. After him are Hans von Seeckt, Ottorino Respighi, Karl Kraus, Buenaventura Durruti, Róbert Bárány, and Robert E. Howard.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis Blériot ranks 660 out of 6,011. Before him are Gabriel Tarde (1843), Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (1528), Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698), Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Viscount of Turenne (1611), Darius Milhaud (1892), and Dom Pérignon (1639). After him are Marcel Lefebvre (1905), René Clair (1898), Salome Zourabichvili (1952), Louis de Montfort (1673), Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922), and Jean Nicot (1530).

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Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, Louis Blériot ranks 9. Before him are Louis Daguerre (1787), Nicéphore Niépce (1765), Denis Papin (1647), Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752), Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (1725), and Nicolas Appert (1749). After him are Louis Renault (1877), Jacques de Vaucanson (1709), André-Jacques Garnerin (1769), Claude Chappe (1763), Alphonse Bertillon (1853), and Étienne-Jules Marey (1830).

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