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Léon Gaumont

1864 - 1946

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Léon Ernest Gaumont (French: [ɡomɔ̃]; 10 May 1864 – 10 August 1946) was a French inventor, engineer, and industrialist who was a pioneer of the motion picture industry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Léon Gaumont has received more than 93,488 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Léon Gaumont is the 238th most popular inventor (down from 235th in 2019), the 2,926th most popular biography from France (down from 2,861st in 2019) and the 34th most popular French Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Léon Gaumont ranks 238 out of 354Before him are Artur Fischer, Genrich Altshuller, Carl Wilhelm Siemens, Alphonse Beau de Rochas, Eugen Langen, and Fritz von Opel. After him are David Schwarz, James Dyson, Joseph Whitworth, Alexander Parkes, Ottmar Mergenthaler, and Theodore Maiman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Léon Gaumont ranks 83Before him are Đồng Khánh, Adolf Wölfli, Ferdinand Zecca, George Washington Carver, Herman Gorter, and Apolinario Mabini. After him are Eemil Nestor Setälä, Michael Mayr, Charlotte of Schaumburg-Lippe, Nathan Birnbaum, Frances Cleveland, and Tsuda Umeko. Among people deceased in 1946, Léon Gaumont ranks 103Before him are László Bárdossy, Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov, Edmund Glaise-Horstenau, Louis Zutter, Benjamin I of Constantinople, and Johannes Vares. After him are Ahmad Kasravi, George Arliss, Charlotte of Schaumburg-Lippe, Heinrich George, John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, and Duchess Jutta of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

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In France

Among people born in France, Léon Gaumont ranks 2,926 out of 6,011Before him are Ghislaine Maxwell (1961), Pierre Benoit (1886), Henri Maspero (1883), Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Duval (1808), Eustace III, Count of Boulogne (1060), and Jean Pierre Flourens (1794). After him are Pierre Pigneau de Behaine (1741), Jacques Babinet (1794), Michael Baius (1513), Pierre Attaingnant (1494), Henri Mathias Berthelot (1861), and Étienne Pivert de Senancour (1770).

Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, Léon Gaumont ranks 34Before him are Édouard Branly (1844), Wan Hu (1510), Georges Hébert (1875), Émile Baudot (1845), François Isaac de Rivaz (1752), and Alphonse Beau de Rochas (1815). After him are André Blondel (1863) and Franky Zapata (1978).