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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 101,190 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Léon Gaumont is the 252nd most popular inventor (down from 238th in 2019), the 3,276th most popular biography from France (down from 2,917th in 2019) and the 31st most popular French Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Léon Gaumont ranks 252 out of 426. Before him are Eugen Langen, Rodolphe Lindt, Aimo Lahti, Laurens Hammond, Ottomar Anschütz, and Joseph Whitworth. After him are Fritz von Opel, Ricardo Wolf, Abraham Darby I, James Nasmyth, Robert Cornelius, and Petrache Poenaru.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Léon Gaumont ranks 96. Before him are Tsuda Umeko, Alexander Dutov, Nathan Birnbaum, George Washington Carver, Banjo Paterson, and Maud Watson. After him are José Gregorio Hernández, Charlotte of Schaumburg-Lippe, Futabatei Shimei, Marguerite Durand, John Henry Mackay, and Akashi Motojiro. Among people deceased in 1946, Léon Gaumont ranks 114. Before him are Ioannis Rallis, Heinrich George, Dion Fortune, Ferdinand Marian, Maud Watson, and Victor Loret. After him are Karl Groos, Leopold Okulicki, Charlotte of Schaumburg-Lippe, Safiya Zaghloul, Duchess Jutta of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and Erwin Rösener.

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In France

Among people born in France, Léon Gaumont ranks 3,276 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean Rollin (1938), Louis, Duke of Guyenne (1397), Victor Loret (1859), René Daumal (1908), Georges Franju (1912), and Tristan Bernard (1866). After him are Georges Vacher de Lapouge (1854), René de Saussure (1868), Olivier Blanchard (1948), John II, Count of Nevers (1415), Daniel-Rops (1901), and Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes (1719).

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Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, Léon Gaumont ranks 31. Before him are Charles Cros (1842), Joseph Monier (1823), Georges Claude (1870), Charles Xavier Thomas (1785), Émile Baudot (1845), and Georges Hébert (1875). After him are Wan Hu (1510), Alphonse Beau de Rochas (1815), Louis Lumière (1864), François Isaac de Rivaz (1752), André Blondel (1863), and Henri Fabre (1882).

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