1919 - 2013
Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov (Russian: Михаи́л Тимофе́евич Кала́шников, IPA: [kɐˈlaʂnʲɪkəf]; 10 November 1919 – 23 December 2013) was a Soviet and Russian lieutenant general, inventor, military engineer, writer, and small arms designer. He is most famous for developing the AK-47 assault rifle and its improvements, the AKM and AK-74, as well as the PK machine gun and RPK light machine gun.Kalashnikov was, according to himself, a self-taught tinkerer who combined innate mechanical skills with the study of weaponry to design arms that achieved battlefield ubiquity. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mikhail Kalashnikov has received more than 2,862,898 page views. His biography is available in 78 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 75 in 2019). Mikhail Kalashnikov is the 4th most popular engineer (up from 5th in 2019), the 59th most popular biography from Russia (down from 49th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Engineer.
Mikhail Kalashnikov is most famous for inventing the AK-47, which is a rifle that can be used by both military and civilians.
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Among engineers, Mikhail Kalashnikov ranks 4 out of 325. Before him are Gustave Eiffel, Gottlieb Daimler, and Zhuge Liang. After him are Wernher von Braun, Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Sergei Korolev, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, Anatoly Dyatlov, and Otto Lilienthal.
1832 - 1923
HPI: 84.06
Rank: 1
1834 - 1900
HPI: 81.30
Rank: 2
181 - 234
HPI: 80.75
Rank: 3
1919 - 2013
HPI: 79.92
Rank: 4
1912 - 1977
HPI: 79.67
Rank: 5
1796 - 1832
HPI: 79.22
Rank: 6
1856 - 1915
HPI: 78.42
Rank: 7
1906 - 1966
HPI: 77.47
Rank: 8
1857 - 1935
HPI: 77.36
Rank: 9
1633 - 1707
HPI: 76.91
Rank: 10
1931 - 1995
HPI: 76.01
Rank: 11
1848 - 1896
HPI: 75.98
Rank: 12
Among people born in 1919, Mikhail Kalashnikov ranks 5. Before him are Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Eva Perón, J. D. Salinger, and Edmund Hillary. After him are Doris Lessing, Primo Levi, Desmond Doss, Nat King Cole, Zhao Ziyang, Giulio Andreotti, and Margot Fonteyn. Among people deceased in 2013, Mikhail Kalashnikov ranks 3. Before him are Nelson Mandela and Margaret Thatcher. After him are Doris Lessing, Võ Nguyên Giáp, Hugo Chávez, Fawzia Fuad of Egypt, Peter O'Toole, Paul Walker, Joan Fontaine, Jorge Rafael Videla, and Frederick Sanger.
1919 - 1980
HPI: 83.60
Rank: 1
1919 - 1952
HPI: 81.64
Rank: 2
1919 - 2010
HPI: 80.62
Rank: 3
1919 - 2008
HPI: 80.10
Rank: 4
1919 - 2013
HPI: 79.92
Rank: 5
1919 - 2013
HPI: 78.68
Rank: 6
1919 - 1987
HPI: 77.34
Rank: 7
1919 - 2006
HPI: 77.03
Rank: 8
1919 - 1965
HPI: 74.55
Rank: 9
1919 - 2005
HPI: 74.50
Rank: 10
1919 - 2013
HPI: 74.39
Rank: 11
1919 - 1991
HPI: 73.85
Rank: 12
1918 - 2013
HPI: 91.88
Rank: 1
1925 - 2013
HPI: 86.06
Rank: 2
1919 - 2013
HPI: 79.92
Rank: 3
1919 - 2013
HPI: 78.68
Rank: 4
1911 - 2013
HPI: 78.10
Rank: 5
1954 - 2013
HPI: 77.73
Rank: 6
1921 - 2013
HPI: 77.63
Rank: 7
1932 - 2013
HPI: 77.21
Rank: 8
1973 - 2013
HPI: 76.85
Rank: 9
1917 - 2013
HPI: 76.48
Rank: 10
1925 - 2013
HPI: 76.41
Rank: 11
1918 - 2013
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 12
Among people born in Russia, Mikhail Kalashnikov ranks 59 out of 2,688. Before him are Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (1895), Georg Cantor (1845), Rurik (830), Alexander Borodin (1833), Alexander Nevsky (1220), and Vasily Zaitsev (1915). After him are Vladimir the Great (958), Gustav Kirchhoff (1824), Boris Godunov (1552), Konstantin Stanislavski (1863), Feodor I of Russia (1557), and Andrei Sakharov (1921).
1895 - 1918
HPI: 80.38
Rank: 53
1845 - 1918
HPI: 80.15
Rank: 54
830 - 879
HPI: 80.13
Rank: 55
1833 - 1887
HPI: 80.00
Rank: 56
1220 - 1263
HPI: 79.97
Rank: 57
1915 - 1991
HPI: 79.95
Rank: 58
1919 - 2013
HPI: 79.92
Rank: 59
958 - 1015
HPI: 79.74
Rank: 60
1824 - 1887
HPI: 79.73
Rank: 61
1552 - 1605
HPI: 79.73
Rank: 62
1863 - 1938
HPI: 79.72
Rank: 63
1557 - 1598
HPI: 79.39
Rank: 64
1921 - 1989
HPI: 79.31
Rank: 65
Among engineers born in Russia, Mikhail Kalashnikov ranks 1. After him are Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857), Anatoly Dyatlov (1931), Alexei Kosygin (1904), Andrei Tupolev (1888), Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1856), Sergey Ilyushin (1894), Nikolay Zhukovsky (1847), Viktor Belenko (1947), Mikhail Gurevich (1892), Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev (1906), and Ivan Sechenov (1829).
1919 - 2013
HPI: 79.92
Rank: 1
1857 - 1935
HPI: 77.36
Rank: 2
1931 - 1995
HPI: 76.01
Rank: 3
1904 - 1980
HPI: 74.76
Rank: 4
1888 - 1972
HPI: 73.14
Rank: 5
1856 - 1929
HPI: 71.35
Rank: 6
1894 - 1977
HPI: 70.11
Rank: 7
1847 - 1921
HPI: 69.09
Rank: 8
1947 - Present
HPI: 67.81
Rank: 9
1892 - 1976
HPI: 67.55
Rank: 10
1906 - 1989
HPI: 67.37
Rank: 11
1829 - 1905
HPI: 66.85
Rank: 12