1879 - 1936
Oskar Barnack (Nuthe-Urstromtal, Brandenburg, 1 November 1879 – Bad Nauheim, Hesse, 16 January 1936) was a German inventor and photographer who built, in 1913, what would later become the first commercially successful 35mm still-camera, subsequently called Ur-Leica at Ernst Leitz Optische Werke (the Leitz factory) in Wetzlar. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oskar Barnack has received more than 130,526 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Oskar Barnack is the 195th most popular inventor (down from 163rd in 2019), the 2,290th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,891st in 2019) and the 26th most popular German Inventor.
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Among inventors, Oskar Barnack ranks 195 out of 354. Before him are Lars Magnus Ericsson, Narcís Monturiol, Sandford Fleming, Édouard Branly, Samuel Pierpont Langley, and Philo Farnsworth. After him are William Murdoch, John Kemp Starley, Yuan Longping, Hovannes Adamian, Lagâri Hasan Çelebi, and Lou Ottens.
1846 - 1926
HPI: 54.69
Rank: 189
1819 - 1885
HPI: 54.68
Rank: 190
1827 - 1915
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 191
1844 - 1940
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 192
1834 - 1906
HPI: 54.63
Rank: 193
1906 - 1971
HPI: 54.62
Rank: 194
1879 - 1936
HPI: 54.42
Rank: 195
1754 - 1839
HPI: 54.37
Rank: 196
1854 - 1901
HPI: 54.37
Rank: 197
1930 - 2021
HPI: 54.35
Rank: 198
1879 - 1932
HPI: 54.30
Rank: 199
1600 - 1700
HPI: 54.24
Rank: 200
1926 - 2021
HPI: 54.06
Rank: 201
Among people born in 1879, Oskar Barnack ranks 76. Before him are Jane Darwell, Bernhard Schmidt, Alla Nazimova, Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich of Russia, Mark Sykes, and Ernest Jones. After him are Hovannes Adamian, Eli Heckscher, René Pottier, Aimo Cajander, Alan Gardiner, and Dwight F. Davis. Among people deceased in 1936, Oskar Barnack ranks 76. Before him are Hans Poelzig, Oscar Wisting, Alexandros Zaimis, Richard Hauptmann, Sergey Kamenev, and José Calvo Sotelo. After him are Sergei Shchukin, Jean-Baptiste Charcot, Dezső Kosztolányi, Alexander Tamanian, Charles Curtis, and Johannes Franz Hartmann.
1879 - 1967
HPI: 55.45
Rank: 70
1879 - 1935
HPI: 55.32
Rank: 71
1879 - 1945
HPI: 55.27
Rank: 72
1879 - 1956
HPI: 54.78
Rank: 73
1879 - 1919
HPI: 54.50
Rank: 74
1879 - 1958
HPI: 54.47
Rank: 75
1879 - 1936
HPI: 54.42
Rank: 76
1879 - 1932
HPI: 54.30
Rank: 77
1879 - 1952
HPI: 54.21
Rank: 78
1879 - 1907
HPI: 54.13
Rank: 79
1879 - 1943
HPI: 54.00
Rank: 80
1879 - 1963
HPI: 53.95
Rank: 81
1879 - 1945
HPI: 53.79
Rank: 82
1869 - 1936
HPI: 55.35
Rank: 70
1871 - 1936
HPI: 54.77
Rank: 71
1855 - 1936
HPI: 54.62
Rank: 72
1899 - 1936
HPI: 54.60
Rank: 73
1881 - 1936
HPI: 54.59
Rank: 74
1893 - 1936
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 75
1879 - 1936
HPI: 54.42
Rank: 76
1854 - 1936
HPI: 54.14
Rank: 77
1867 - 1936
HPI: 53.90
Rank: 78
1885 - 1936
HPI: 53.80
Rank: 79
1878 - 1936
HPI: 53.80
Rank: 80
1860 - 1936
HPI: 53.70
Rank: 81
1865 - 1936
HPI: 53.53
Rank: 82
Among people born in Germany, Oskar Barnack ranks 2,290 out of 6,142. Before him are Emich Carl, 2nd Prince of Leiningen (1763), Gretl Braun (1915), Carl Hagenbeck (1844), George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1547), Anna of Cleves (1552), and Christian Lorenz (1966). After him are Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1579), Maximilian Henry of Bavaria (1621), Hermann Abendroth (1883), Juliana of Stolberg (1506), Judith Kerr (1923), and Beatrice of Swabia (1198).
1763 - 1814
HPI: 54.44
Rank: 2,284
1915 - 1987
HPI: 54.44
Rank: 2,285
1844 - 1913
HPI: 54.43
Rank: 2,286
1547 - 1596
HPI: 54.43
Rank: 2,287
1552 - 1632
HPI: 54.43
Rank: 2,288
1966 - Present
HPI: 54.43
Rank: 2,289
1879 - 1936
HPI: 54.42
Rank: 2,290
1579 - 1666
HPI: 54.42
Rank: 2,291
1621 - 1688
HPI: 54.41
Rank: 2,292
1883 - 1956
HPI: 54.40
Rank: 2,293
1506 - 1580
HPI: 54.40
Rank: 2,294
1923 - 2019
HPI: 54.39
Rank: 2,295
1198 - 1212
HPI: 54.38
Rank: 2,296
Among inventors born in Germany, Oskar Barnack ranks 26. Before him are Johann Nepomuk Maelzel (1772), Uziel Gal (1923), Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff (1803), Siegfried Marcus (1831), Peter Henlein (1479), and Johann Christoph Denner (1655). After him are Hans von Ohain (1911), Helmut Gröttrup (1916), Max Skladanowsky (1863), Henrich Focke (1890), Ricardo Wolf (1887), and Artur Fischer (1919).
1772 - 1838
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 20
1923 - 2002
HPI: 56.14
Rank: 21
1803 - 1877
HPI: 55.71
Rank: 22
1831 - 1898
HPI: 55.60
Rank: 23
1479 - 1542
HPI: 55.38
Rank: 24
1655 - 1707
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 25
1879 - 1936
HPI: 54.42
Rank: 26
1911 - 1998
HPI: 53.95
Rank: 27
1916 - 1981
HPI: 53.90
Rank: 28
1863 - 1939
HPI: 53.79
Rank: 29
1890 - 1979
HPI: 53.14
Rank: 30
1887 - 1981
HPI: 52.96
Rank: 31
1919 - 2016
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 32