INVENTOR

Louis Lumière

1864 - 1948

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Louis Jean Lumière (5 October 1864 Besançon – 6 June 1948, Bandol) was a French engineer and industrialist who played a key role in the development of photography and cinema. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis Lumière has received more than 133,545 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Louis Lumière is the 266th most popular inventor, the 3,655th most popular biography from France and the 34th most popular French Inventor.

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  • 130k

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  • 51.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Louis Lumière ranks 266 out of 426. Before him are Jacob W. Davis, Wan Hu, Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Frederick Scott Archer, Harry Brearley, and Alphonse Beau de Rochas. After him are Walter Clopton Wingfield, Colin Archer, François Isaac de Rivaz, Yoshiro Nakamatsu, Glenn Curtiss, and Adolf Martens.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Louis Lumière ranks 106. Before him are Marguerite Durand, John Henry Mackay, Akashi Motojiro, Leonard Hobhouse, Vladimir Steklov, and Juan Benlloch i Vivó. After him are Sándor Simonyi-Semadam, Guy Ropartz, Frances Cleveland, Israel Zangwill, Princess Marie Anne of Saxe-Altenburg, and Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh. Among people deceased in 1948, Louis Lumière ranks 118. Before him are Fred Niblo, Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, Zhou Fohai, Giulio Gaudini, Richard von Kühlmann, and Harry Brearley. After him are Nikolai Podvoisky, Sigrid Hjertén, August Hlond, František Svoboda, Carole Landis, and Sylvanus Morley.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis Lumière ranks 3,655 out of 6,770. Before him are Julie d'Aubigny (1670), Daniel Duval (1944), Adolphe Niel (1802), Michel Garicoïts (1797), William Gallas (1977), and Nicole Courcel (1931). After him are Alain Bashung (1947), Frédéric Diefenthal (1968), Geoffrey I of Provence (1013), Napoléon Henri Reber (1807), Gérard Larcher (1949), and Guillaume Musso (1974).

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Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, Louis Lumière ranks 34. Before him are Charles Xavier Thomas (1785), Émile Baudot (1845), Georges Hébert (1875), Léon Gaumont (1864), Wan Hu (1510), and Alphonse Beau de Rochas (1815). After him are François Isaac de Rivaz (1752), André Blondel (1863), Henri Fabre (1882), Georges Beuchat (1910), and Franky Zapata (1978).

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