1809 - 1852
Louis Braille ( (listen); French: [lwi bʁaj]; 4 January 1809 – 6 January 1852) was a French educator and inventor of a reading and writing system for use by people who are visually impaired. His system remains virtually unchanged to this day, and is known worldwide simply as braille. Braille was blinded at the age of three in one eye as a result of an accident with a stitching awl in his father's harness making shop. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis Braille has received more than 1,558,590 page views. His biography is available in 77 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 75 in 2019). Louis Braille is the 11th most popular inventor, the 108th most popular biography from France (down from 91st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular French Inventor.
Louis Braille is most famous for inventing a system of writing for the blind and visually impaired. This system, called braille, is composed of raised dots that can be read by touch.
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Among inventors, Louis Braille ranks 11 out of 355. Before him are James Watt, Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Ford, Karl Benz, Guglielmo Marconi, and Rudolf Diesel. After him are Charles Babbage, Louis Daguerre, George Stephenson, Samuel Morse, Nikolaus Otto, and Cai Lun.
1736 - 1819
HPI: 89.63
Rank: 5
1847 - 1922
HPI: 86.44
Rank: 6
1863 - 1947
HPI: 84.73
Rank: 7
1844 - 1929
HPI: 84.50
Rank: 8
1874 - 1937
HPI: 84.02
Rank: 9
1858 - 1913
HPI: 82.52
Rank: 10
1809 - 1852
HPI: 82.29
Rank: 11
1791 - 1871
HPI: 81.81
Rank: 12
1787 - 1851
HPI: 81.74
Rank: 13
1781 - 1848
HPI: 81.49
Rank: 14
1791 - 1872
HPI: 81.45
Rank: 15
1832 - 1891
HPI: 81.22
Rank: 16
48 - 121
HPI: 80.82
Rank: 17
Among people born in 1809, Louis Braille ranks 6. Before him are Charles Darwin, Edgar Allan Poe, Abraham Lincoln, Nikolai Gogol, and Felix Mendelssohn. After him are Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Bruno Bauer, William Ewart Gladstone, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and Joseph Liouville. Among people deceased in 1852, Louis Braille ranks 2. Before him is Nikolai Gogol. After him are Friedrich Fröbel, Ada Lovelace, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Henry Clay, Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Auguste de Marmont, Johan Gadolin, Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, Karl Bryullov, and Vasily Zhukovsky.
1809 - 1882
HPI: 93.29
Rank: 1
1809 - 1849
HPI: 89.63
Rank: 2
1809 - 1865
HPI: 89.14
Rank: 3
1809 - 1852
HPI: 85.09
Rank: 4
1809 - 1847
HPI: 85.00
Rank: 5
1809 - 1852
HPI: 82.29
Rank: 6
1809 - 1865
HPI: 80.58
Rank: 7
1809 - 1891
HPI: 76.40
Rank: 8
1809 - 1882
HPI: 73.49
Rank: 9
1809 - 1898
HPI: 73.24
Rank: 10
1809 - 1892
HPI: 71.71
Rank: 11
1809 - 1882
HPI: 71.43
Rank: 12
1809 - 1852
HPI: 85.09
Rank: 1
1809 - 1852
HPI: 82.29
Rank: 2
1782 - 1852
HPI: 80.48
Rank: 3
1815 - 1852
HPI: 78.78
Rank: 4
1769 - 1852
HPI: 76.95
Rank: 5
1777 - 1852
HPI: 75.91
Rank: 6
1778 - 1852
HPI: 74.65
Rank: 7
1774 - 1852
HPI: 74.22
Rank: 8
1760 - 1852
HPI: 71.81
Rank: 9
1778 - 1852
HPI: 71.34
Rank: 10
1799 - 1852
HPI: 70.66
Rank: 11
1783 - 1852
HPI: 70.05
Rank: 12
Among people born in France, Louis Braille ranks 108 out of 5,234. Before him are Philip II of France (1165), Camille Saint-Saëns (1835), Albert Schweitzer (1875), Louis XII of France (1462), Paul Verlaine (1844), and Godfrey of Bouillon (1060). After him are George Sand (1804), Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663), Charles VII of France (1403), Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (1708), Georges Danton (1759), and François Villon (1431).
1165 - 1223
HPI: 82.35
Rank: 102
1835 - 1921
HPI: 82.33
Rank: 103
1875 - 1965
HPI: 82.32
Rank: 104
1462 - 1515
HPI: 82.32
Rank: 105
1844 - 1896
HPI: 82.32
Rank: 106
1060 - 1100
HPI: 82.29
Rank: 107
1809 - 1852
HPI: 82.29
Rank: 108
1804 - 1876
HPI: 82.26
Rank: 109
1663 - 1736
HPI: 82.26
Rank: 110
1403 - 1461
HPI: 82.25
Rank: 111
1708 - 1765
HPI: 82.23
Rank: 112
1759 - 1794
HPI: 82.22
Rank: 113
1431 - 1463
HPI: 82.19
Rank: 114
Among inventors born in France, Louis Braille ranks 2. Before him are Rudolf Diesel (1858). After him are Louis Daguerre (1787), Nicéphore Niépce (1765), Denis Papin (1647), Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752), Nicolas Appert (1749), Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (1725), Louis Blériot (1872), Louis Renault (1877), Jacques de Vaucanson (1709), and Alphonse Bertillon (1853).
1858 - 1913
HPI: 82.52
Rank: 1
1809 - 1852
HPI: 82.29
Rank: 2
1787 - 1851
HPI: 81.74
Rank: 3
1765 - 1833
HPI: 80.28
Rank: 4
1647 - 1712
HPI: 78.04
Rank: 5
1752 - 1834
HPI: 76.77
Rank: 6
1749 - 1841
HPI: 76.76
Rank: 7
1725 - 1804
HPI: 74.45
Rank: 8
1872 - 1936
HPI: 74.12
Rank: 9
1877 - 1944
HPI: 73.49
Rank: 10
1709 - 1782
HPI: 72.71
Rank: 11
1853 - 1914
HPI: 71.51
Rank: 12