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Melvil Dewey

1851 - 1931

Melvil Dewey

Melville Louis Kossuth "Melvil" Dewey (December 10, 1851 – December 26, 1931) was an influential American librarian and educator, inventor of the Dewey Decimal system of library classification, a founder of the Lake Placid Club, and a chief librarian at Columbia University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Melvil Dewey has received more than 562,091 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Melvil Dewey is the 160th most popular inventor (up from 167th in 2019), the 2,309th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,200th in 2019) and the 38th most popular American Inventor.

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Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
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Languages Editions (L)
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Effective Languages (L*)
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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Melvil Dewey ranks 160 out of 355. Before him are Charles Cros, Georges Hébert, Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse, Elias Howe, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, and Gerald Bull. After him are Ottaviano Petrucci, Siegfried Marcus, Oskar Barnack, Gunther von Hagens, Johann Christoph Denner, and Hans von Ohain.

Most Popular Inventors in Wikipedia

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Charles Cros
1842 - 1888
HPI: 66.48
Rank: 154
Georges Hébert
1875 - 1957
HPI: 66.33
Rank: 155
Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse
1787 - 1867
HPI: 66.33
Rank: 156
Elias Howe
1819 - 1867
HPI: 66.26
Rank: 157
Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville
1817 - 1879
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 158
Gerald Bull
1928 - 1990
HPI: 66.10
Rank: 159
Melvil Dewey
1851 - 1931
HPI: 66.10
Rank: 160
Ottaviano Petrucci
1466 - 1539
HPI: 66.08
Rank: 161
Siegfried Marcus
1831 - 1898
HPI: 66.03
Rank: 162
Oskar Barnack
1879 - 1936
HPI: 66.02
Rank: 163
Gunther von Hagens
1945 - Present
HPI: 66.01
Rank: 164
Johann Christoph Denner
1655 - 1707
HPI: 66.00
Rank: 165
Hans von Ohain
1911 - 1998
HPI: 65.98
Rank: 166

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1851, Melvil Dewey ranks 33. Before him are Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, Princess Maria Antonietta of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, George Francis FitzGerald, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Charles Joseph Bonaparte, and Jacobus Kapteyn. After him are Theodor Lipps, Arne Garborg, Franz von Liszt, Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Bernardino Machado, and Charles Chamberland. Among people deceased in 1931, Melvil Dewey ranks 41. Before him are Santiago Rusiñol, Charles Algernon Parsons, Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia, Thomas Lipton, Jaime, Duke of Madrid, and William Bates. After him are Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria, Antonio Salandra, Eugene de Blaas, Princess Isabella of Croÿ, Salvatore Maranzano, and David Bruce.

Others Born in 1851

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Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval
1851 - 1940
HPI: 66.75
Rank: 27
Princess Maria Antonietta of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
1851 - 1938
HPI: 66.64
Rank: 28
George Francis FitzGerald
1851 - 1901
HPI: 66.56
Rank: 29
Emilia Pardo Bazán
1851 - 1921
HPI: 66.48
Rank: 30
Charles Joseph Bonaparte
1851 - 1921
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 31
Jacobus Kapteyn
1851 - 1922
HPI: 66.14
Rank: 32
Melvil Dewey
1851 - 1931
HPI: 66.10
Rank: 33
Theodor Lipps
1851 - 1914
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 34
Arne Garborg
1851 - 1924
HPI: 65.83
Rank: 35
Franz von Liszt
1851 - 1919
HPI: 65.64
Rank: 36
Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
1851 - 1928
HPI: 65.64
Rank: 37
Bernardino Machado
1851 - 1944
HPI: 65.35
Rank: 38
Charles Chamberland
1851 - 1908
HPI: 65.31
Rank: 39