1809 - 1852
Louis Braille (; French: [lwi bʁɑj]; 4 January 1809 – 6 January 1852) was a French educator and the inventor of a reading and writing system, named braille after him, intended for use by visually impaired people. His system is used worldwide and remains virtually unchanged to this day. 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 1,698,852 page views. His biography is available in 79 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 77 in 2019). Louis Braille is the 11th most popular inventor, the 66th most popular biography from France (up from 108th in 2019) and the 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 354. Before him are James Watt, Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Ford, Elon Musk, Karl Benz, and Guglielmo Marconi. After him are Charles Babbage, Samuel Morse, Rudolf Diesel, Nikolaus Otto, George Stephenson, and Cai Lun.
1736 - 1819
HPI: 86.42
Rank: 5
1847 - 1922
HPI: 82.97
Rank: 6
1863 - 1947
HPI: 80.48
Rank: 7
1971 - Present
HPI: 80.35
Rank: 8
1844 - 1929
HPI: 79.02
Rank: 9
1874 - 1937
HPI: 78.99
Rank: 10
1809 - 1852
HPI: 78.84
Rank: 11
1791 - 1871
HPI: 77.95
Rank: 12
1791 - 1872
HPI: 76.69
Rank: 13
1858 - 1913
HPI: 76.24
Rank: 14
1832 - 1891
HPI: 74.92
Rank: 15
1781 - 1848
HPI: 74.92
Rank: 16
48 - 121
HPI: 74.90
Rank: 17
Among people born in 1809, Louis Braille ranks 5. Before him are Charles Darwin, Edgar Allan Poe, Abraham Lincoln, and Felix Mendelssohn. After him are Nikolai Gogol, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Bruno Bauer, Albert Pike, William Ewart Gladstone, and Joseph Liouville. Among people deceased in 1852, Louis Braille ranks 1. After him are Nikolai Gogol, Friedrich Fröbel, Ada Lovelace, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Henry Clay, Auguste de Marmont, Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Johan Gadolin, Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, Karl Bryullov, and Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden.
1809 - 1882
HPI: 90.67
Rank: 1
1809 - 1849
HPI: 86.74
Rank: 2
1809 - 1865
HPI: 85.22
Rank: 3
1809 - 1847
HPI: 79.90
Rank: 4
1809 - 1852
HPI: 78.84
Rank: 5
1809 - 1852
HPI: 77.86
Rank: 6
1809 - 1865
HPI: 74.09
Rank: 7
1809 - 1891
HPI: 70.17
Rank: 8
1809 - 1882
HPI: 64.51
Rank: 9
1809 - 1891
HPI: 62.56
Rank: 10
1809 - 1898
HPI: 62.39
Rank: 11
1809 - 1882
HPI: 62.08
Rank: 12
1809 - 1852
HPI: 78.84
Rank: 1
1809 - 1852
HPI: 77.86
Rank: 2
1782 - 1852
HPI: 73.34
Rank: 3
1815 - 1852
HPI: 72.54
Rank: 4
1769 - 1852
HPI: 70.65
Rank: 5
1777 - 1852
HPI: 68.10
Rank: 6
1774 - 1852
HPI: 67.19
Rank: 7
1778 - 1852
HPI: 65.86
Rank: 8
1760 - 1852
HPI: 63.23
Rank: 9
1778 - 1852
HPI: 61.69
Rank: 10
1799 - 1852
HPI: 61.38
Rank: 11
1790 - 1852
HPI: 60.04
Rank: 12
Among people born in France, Louis Braille ranks 66 out of 6,011. Before him are Jacques-Louis David (1748), Arthur Rimbaud (1854), Charles Perrault (1628), Claude Debussy (1862), Henri Becquerel (1852), and Cardinal Richelieu (1585). After him are Hector Berlioz (1803), Maximilien Robespierre (1758), Gustave Eiffel (1832), Romain Rolland (1866), Louis IX of France (1214), and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780).
1748 - 1825
HPI: 78.96
Rank: 60
1854 - 1891
HPI: 78.92
Rank: 61
1628 - 1703
HPI: 78.91
Rank: 62
1862 - 1918
HPI: 78.91
Rank: 63
1852 - 1908
HPI: 78.87
Rank: 64
1585 - 1642
HPI: 78.85
Rank: 65
1809 - 1852
HPI: 78.84
Rank: 66
1803 - 1869
HPI: 78.80
Rank: 67
1758 - 1794
HPI: 78.78
Rank: 68
1832 - 1923
HPI: 78.75
Rank: 69
1866 - 1944
HPI: 78.73
Rank: 70
1214 - 1270
HPI: 78.71
Rank: 71
1780 - 1867
HPI: 78.64
Rank: 72
Among inventors born in France, Louis Braille ranks 1. After him are Rudolf Diesel (1858), Louis Daguerre (1787), Nicéphore Niépce (1765), Denis Papin (1647), Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752), Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (1725), Nicolas Appert (1749), Louis Blériot (1872), Louis Renault (1877), Jacques de Vaucanson (1709), and André-Jacques Garnerin (1769).
1809 - 1852
HPI: 78.84
Rank: 1
1858 - 1913
HPI: 76.24
Rank: 2
1787 - 1851
HPI: 74.64
Rank: 3
1765 - 1833
HPI: 73.51
Rank: 4
1647 - 1712
HPI: 70.25
Rank: 5
1752 - 1834
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 6
1725 - 1804
HPI: 68.84
Rank: 7
1749 - 1841
HPI: 68.60
Rank: 8
1872 - 1936
HPI: 65.55
Rank: 9
1877 - 1944
HPI: 65.34
Rank: 10
1709 - 1782
HPI: 64.00
Rank: 11
1769 - 1823
HPI: 62.99
Rank: 12