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Lucien Olivier

1838 - 1883

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Lucien Olivier (Russian: Люсьен Оливье) (1838–14[26] November 1883) was a Russian chef of Belgian and French descent and owner of the Hermitage restaurant in the center of Moscow, Russian Empire, in the early 1860s. He was born in Moscow. Olivier is known for the creation of Olivier salad, also known as "Russian salad". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lucien Olivier has received more than 171,393 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Lucien Olivier is the 165th most popular inventor (up from 231st in 2019), the 687th most popular biography from Russia (up from 957th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Russian Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Lucien Olivier ranks 165 out of 426. Before him are Garrett Morgan, William Murdoch, Hovannes Adamian, Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse, Royal Rife, and Angelo Moriondo. After him are Siegfried Marcus, Édouard Branly, Elihu Thomson, Lagâri Hasan Çelebi, Guillaume Amontons, and Johann Nepomuk Maelzel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Lucien Olivier ranks 42. Before him are Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows, Duchess Alexandra of Oldenburg, Vatroslav Jagić, Süleyman Hüsnü Pasha, Edwin Abbott Abbott, and Clemens Winkler. After him are Henry Sidgwick, Zeynalabdin Taghiyev, Prince Louis, Count of Trani, John Muir, Duke Philipp of Württemberg, and James Craig Watson. Among people deceased in 1883, Lucien Olivier ranks 27. Before him are Alexander Gorchakov, Édouard Roche, Friedrich von Flotow, Pierre Auguste Cot, Abdülkerim Nadir Pasha, and Édouard René de Laboulaye. After him are Wilhelm Peters, Cyprian Norwid, Franz Doppler, Iwakura Tomomi, Arnold Toynbee, and Hendrik Conscience.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Lucien Olivier ranks 687 out of 3,761. Before him are Duke Alexander of Württemberg (1804), Marko Vovchok (1833), Yuriy Sedykh (1955), Valery Bryusov (1873), Yevgeny Dragunov (1920), and Alexander Sokurov (1951). After him are Prince John Konstantinovich of Russia (1886), Vera Weizmann (1881), Igor Ansoff (1918), Dokka Umarov (1964), Walter Weiß (1890), and Irina Godunova (1557).

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Among INVENTORS In Russia

Among inventors born in Russia, Lucien Olivier ranks 7. Before him are Oleg Antonov (1906), Vladimir K. Zworykin (1888), Alexander Stepanovich Popov (1859), Léon Theremin (1896), Nikolai Kardashev (1932), and Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky (1862). After him are Pavel Yablochkov (1847), Ivan Kulibin (1735), Alexandre Alexeieff (1901), Ivan Polzunov (1728), Rostislav Alexeyev (1916), and Oleg Losev (1903).

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