INVENTOR

Louis Le Prince

1841 - 1890

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Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince (28 August 1841 – disappeared 16 September 1890, declared dead 16 September 1897) was a French artist and the inventor of an early motion-picture camera, and director of Roundhay Garden Scene. He was possibly the first person to shoot a moving picture sequence using a single lens camera and a strip of (paper) film. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis Le Prince has received more than 1,284,543 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Louis Le Prince is the 102nd most popular inventor (up from 133rd in 2019), the 1,212th most popular biography from France (up from 1,600th in 2019) and the 16th most popular French Inventor.

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  • 66.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.42

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Louis Le Prince ranks 102 out of 426. Before him are Franz Reichelt, Alphonse Bertillon, Johann Maria Farina, Leo Fender, Momofuku Ando, and Robert Noyce. After him are Jacque Fresco, John Harrison, Edmund Cartwright, Joseph Pilates, Johann Philipp Reis, and Clément Ader.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1841, Louis Le Prince ranks 19. Before him are Félix Faure, Nicholas I of Montenegro, Maria Sophie of Bavaria, Armand Fallières, Emmanuel Chabrier, and Armand Guillaumin. After him are Clément Ader, Ahmed ‘Urabi, Gerhard Armauer Hansen, Ferdinand Buisson, Victor D'Hondt, and Prince Alfonso, Count of Caserta. Among people deceased in 1890, Louis Le Prince ranks 18. Before him are Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Richard Francis Burton, William Kemmler, Niels Gade, John Henry Newman, and Princess Zorka of Montenegro. After him are Gottfried Keller, Lorenz von Stein, Antoine, Duke of Montpensier, Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters, Jyotirao Phule, and Carl Bloch.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis Le Prince ranks 1,212 out of 6,770. Before him are Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (1767), Armand Guillaumin (1841), Georges Duby (1919), Henry, Count of Portugal (1066), Jean Bart (1650), and Jean-Louis Tauran (1943). After him are Louise de Marillac (1591), Maurice Thorez (1900), Louis, Count of Évreux (1276), Isabella of Hainault (1170), Vanessa Paradis (1972), and Franck Ribéry (1983).

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Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, Louis Le Prince ranks 16. Before him are Louis Blériot (1872), Claude Chappe (1763), Jacques de Vaucanson (1709), Étienne-Jules Marey (1830), André-Jacques Garnerin (1769), and Alphonse Bertillon (1853). After him are Clément Ader (1841), Charles-Émile Reynaud (1844), André Michelin (1853), Henri Giffard (1825), Jean-Pierre Blanchard (1753), and Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (1817).

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