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Marc Isambard Brunel

1769 - 1849

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Sir Marc Isambard Brunel (, French: [maʁk izɑ̃baʁ bʁynɛl]; 25 April 1769 – 12 December 1849) was a French-British engineer who is most famous for the work he did in Britain. He constructed the Thames Tunnel and was the father of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Born in France, Brunel fled to the United States during the French Revolution. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marc Isambard Brunel has received more than 498,583 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Marc Isambard Brunel is the 230th most popular engineer (down from 225th in 2019), the 3,755th most popular biography from France (down from 3,623rd in 2019) and the 44th most popular French Engineer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Marc Isambard Brunel ranks 230 out of 389. Before him are Kenneth Nichols, Charles Renard, Antoine Nicolas Duchesne, Frederick W. Lanchester, Johann Georg Halske, and Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont. After him are Hidetsugu Yagi, Arkhip Lyulka, Harvey Postlethwaite, Erwin Komenda, Alexander Mikulin, and James B. Francis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1769, Marc Isambard Brunel ranks 34. Before him are Simón Rodríguez, Edward Daniel Clarke, Carlo Gaetano Gaisruck, Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Frederick Ferdinand, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen, and Frederick VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg. After him are Andreas Miaoulis, Friedrich Accum, Garlieb Merkel, George W. Campbell, Vasily Stasov, and Augustus Christian Frederick, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen. Among people deceased in 1849, Marc Isambard Brunel ranks 51. Before him are Pavel Chichagov, Andrés Manuel del Río, Filippo Paulucci, François Habeneck, François Marius Granet, and Mariano Paredes. After him are Jacob Perkins, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte von Ahlefeld, Franz Xaver Gabelsberger, Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch, and José María Carreño.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marc Isambard Brunel ranks 3,755 out of 6,770. Before him are Charles Simon Favart (1710), Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont (1798), Edmond Delfour (1907), Marie-Dominique Chenu (1895), Jean-Pierre Changeux (1936), and Catherine Frot (1956). After him are Lucien Gaudin (1886), Louis Charles Delescluze (1809), Augustin-Alexandre Dumont (1801), Lily Pons (1898), François Cavanna (1923), and Édouard Lartet (1801).

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Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Marc Isambard Brunel ranks 44. Before him are Louis Dollo (1857), Eugène Belgrand (1810), Léon Serpollet (1858), Charles Renard (1847), Antoine Nicolas Duchesne (1747), and Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont (1798). After him are René Panhard (1841), Eugène Flachat (1802), Louis Vicat (1786), Jean-Augustin Barral (1819), Ernest Goüin (1815), and Marcel Deprez (1843).

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