1765 - 1833
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (French: [nisefɔʁ njɛps]; 7 March 1765 – 5 July 1833) was a French inventor and one of the earliest pioneers of photography. Niépce developed heliography, a technique he used to create the world's oldest surviving product of a photographic process: a print made from a photoengraved printing plate in 1825 (see View from the Window at Le Gras). In 1826 or 1827, he used a primitive camera to produce the oldest surviving photograph of a real-world scene. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicéphore Niépce has received more than 1,207,199 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019). Nicéphore Niépce is the 19th most popular inventor (down from 18th in 2019), the 206th most popular biography from France (down from 180th in 2019) and the 4th most popular French Inventor.
Nicéphore Niépce is most famous for his invention of photography in 1826.
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Among inventors, Nicéphore Niépce ranks 19 out of 354. Before him are Samuel Morse, Rudolf Diesel, Nikolaus Otto, George Stephenson, Cai Lun, and Louis Daguerre. After him are John Logie Baird, Karl Ferdinand Braun, Samuel Colt, Charles K. Kao, Thomas Newcomen, and Antonio Meucci.
1791 - 1872
HPI: 76.69
Rank: 13
1858 - 1913
HPI: 76.24
Rank: 14
1832 - 1891
HPI: 74.92
Rank: 15
1781 - 1848
HPI: 74.92
Rank: 16
48 - 121
HPI: 74.90
Rank: 17
1787 - 1851
HPI: 74.64
Rank: 18
1765 - 1833
HPI: 73.51
Rank: 19
1888 - 1946
HPI: 72.45
Rank: 20
1850 - 1918
HPI: 72.08
Rank: 21
1814 - 1862
HPI: 72.01
Rank: 22
1933 - 2018
HPI: 71.90
Rank: 23
1663 - 1729
HPI: 71.14
Rank: 24
1808 - 1889
HPI: 71.10
Rank: 25
Among people born in 1765, Nicéphore Niépce ranks 2. Before him is Pope Gregory XVI. After him are William IV of the United Kingdom, Robert Fulton, Pyotr Bagration, Jacques MacDonald, Charles Felix of Sardinia, Emma, Lady Hamilton, Karl Ludwig Harding, Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt, Paolo Ruffini, and José María Morelos. Among people deceased in 1833, Nicéphore Niépce ranks 1. After him are Kaspar Hauser, Ferdinand VII of Spain, Richard Trevithick, Adrien-Marie Legendre, Seraphim of Sarov, Marie-Antoine Carême, Ram Mohan Roy, Hugh Glass, William Wilberforce, Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, and Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach.
1765 - 1846
HPI: 75.94
Rank: 1
1765 - 1833
HPI: 73.51
Rank: 2
1765 - 1837
HPI: 72.99
Rank: 3
1765 - 1815
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 4
1765 - 1812
HPI: 67.36
Rank: 5
1765 - 1840
HPI: 62.97
Rank: 6
1765 - 1831
HPI: 61.77
Rank: 7
1765 - 1815
HPI: 61.76
Rank: 8
1765 - 1834
HPI: 60.50
Rank: 9
1765 - 1796
HPI: 60.10
Rank: 10
1765 - 1822
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 11
1765 - 1815
HPI: 58.76
Rank: 12
1765 - 1833
HPI: 73.51
Rank: 1
1812 - 1833
HPI: 71.01
Rank: 2
1784 - 1833
HPI: 70.60
Rank: 3
1771 - 1833
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 4
1752 - 1833
HPI: 66.27
Rank: 5
1754 - 1833
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 6
1784 - 1833
HPI: 65.82
Rank: 7
1772 - 1833
HPI: 65.33
Rank: 8
1783 - 1833
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 9
1759 - 1833
HPI: 63.06
Rank: 10
1762 - 1833
HPI: 62.05
Rank: 11
1775 - 1833
HPI: 60.75
Rank: 12
Among people born in France, Nicéphore Niépce ranks 206 out of 6,011. Before him are Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou (1113), François Truffaut (1932), Henri de Saint-Simon (1760), Henri Rousseau (1844), Léon Foucault (1819), and Richard II of England (1367). After him are Georges Méliès (1861), Charles IV of France (1294), Saint Roch (1295), Pope Innocent VI (1282), Marie Thérèse of France (1778), and Gustave Doré (1832).
1113 - 1151
HPI: 73.72
Rank: 200
1932 - 1984
HPI: 73.66
Rank: 201
1760 - 1825
HPI: 73.62
Rank: 202
1844 - 1910
HPI: 73.59
Rank: 203
1819 - 1868
HPI: 73.53
Rank: 204
1367 - 1400
HPI: 73.51
Rank: 205
1765 - 1833
HPI: 73.51
Rank: 206
1861 - 1938
HPI: 73.44
Rank: 207
1294 - 1328
HPI: 73.43
Rank: 208
1295 - 1327
HPI: 73.40
Rank: 209
1282 - 1362
HPI: 73.38
Rank: 210
1778 - 1851
HPI: 73.36
Rank: 211
1832 - 1883
HPI: 73.35
Rank: 212
Among inventors born in France, Nicéphore Niépce ranks 4. Before him are Louis Braille (1809), Rudolf Diesel (1858), and Louis Daguerre (1787). After him are Denis Papin (1647), Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752), Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (1725), Nicolas Appert (1749), Louis Blériot (1872), Louis Renault (1877), Jacques de Vaucanson (1709), and André-Jacques Garnerin (1769).
1809 - 1852
HPI: 78.84
Rank: 1
1858 - 1913
HPI: 76.24
Rank: 2
1787 - 1851
HPI: 74.64
Rank: 3
1765 - 1833
HPI: 73.51
Rank: 4
1647 - 1712
HPI: 70.25
Rank: 5
1752 - 1834
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 6
1725 - 1804
HPI: 68.84
Rank: 7
1749 - 1841
HPI: 68.60
Rank: 8
1872 - 1936
HPI: 65.55
Rank: 9
1877 - 1944
HPI: 65.34
Rank: 10
1709 - 1782
HPI: 64.00
Rank: 11
1769 - 1823
HPI: 62.99
Rank: 12