1848 - 1896
Karl Wilhelm Otto Lilienthal (23 May 1848 – 10 August 1896) was a German pioneer of aviation who became known as the "flying man". He was the first person to make well-documented, repeated, successful flights with gliders, therefore making the idea of "heavier than air" a reality. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Otto Lilienthal has received more than 575,661 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Otto Lilienthal is the 12th most popular engineer, the 313th most popular biography from Germany (down from 301st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular German Engineer.
Otto Lilienthal was a German engineer and inventor who is most famous for inventing the first successful human-powered aircraft.
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Among engineers, Otto Lilienthal ranks 12 out of 325. Before him are Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Sergei Korolev, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, and Anatoly Dyatlov. After him are André Citroën, Umberto Nobile, Alexei Kosygin, Jiro Horikoshi, Jack Kilby, and Fritz Todt.
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
1878 - 1935
HPI: 75.59
Rank: 13
1885 - 1978
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 14
1904 - 1980
HPI: 74.76
Rank: 15
1903 - 1982
HPI: 74.59
Rank: 16
1923 - 2005
HPI: 74.43
Rank: 17
1891 - 1942
HPI: 74.25
Rank: 18
Among people born in 1848, Otto Lilienthal ranks 5. Before him are Paul Gauguin, Octave Mirbeau, Vilfredo Pareto, and Gottlob Frege. After him are Gustave Caillebotte, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Otto of Bavaria, Helmuth von Moltke the Younger, Tōgō Heihachirō, Hugo de Vries, and Wyatt Earp. Among people deceased in 1896, Otto Lilienthal ranks 7. Before him are Alfred Nobel, Paul Verlaine, Clara Schumann, Anton Bruckner, Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria, and William Morris. After him are August Kekulé, Hippolyte Fizeau, John Everett Millais, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, and H. H. Holmes.
1848 - 1903
HPI: 86.84
Rank: 1
1848 - 1917
HPI: 83.53
Rank: 2
1848 - 1923
HPI: 80.35
Rank: 3
1848 - 1925
HPI: 79.29
Rank: 4
1848 - 1896
HPI: 75.98
Rank: 5
1848 - 1894
HPI: 75.07
Rank: 6
1848 - 1907
HPI: 74.77
Rank: 7
1848 - 1916
HPI: 73.98
Rank: 8
1848 - 1916
HPI: 73.93
Rank: 9
1848 - 1934
HPI: 73.75
Rank: 10
1848 - 1935
HPI: 72.99
Rank: 11
1848 - 1929
HPI: 72.98
Rank: 12
1833 - 1896
HPI: 89.69
Rank: 1
1844 - 1896
HPI: 82.32
Rank: 2
1819 - 1896
HPI: 80.90
Rank: 3
1824 - 1896
HPI: 80.41
Rank: 4
1833 - 1896
HPI: 76.77
Rank: 5
1834 - 1896
HPI: 76.46
Rank: 6
1848 - 1896
HPI: 75.98
Rank: 7
1829 - 1896
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 8
1819 - 1896
HPI: 75.05
Rank: 9
1829 - 1896
HPI: 74.31
Rank: 10
1811 - 1896
HPI: 74.26
Rank: 11
1831 - 1896
HPI: 74.13
Rank: 12
1861 - 1896
HPI: 72.79
Rank: 13
Among people born in Germany, Otto Lilienthal ranks 313 out of 5,289. Before him are Ulrike Meinhof (1934), Hans Zimmer (1957), Baldur von Schirach (1907), Heinrich Müller (1900), Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928), and Christian III of Denmark (1503). After him are Hans Eysenck (1916), Fritz Sauckel (1894), Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1486), Emil Kraepelin (1856), Peter Behrens (1868), and Sophie Scholl (1921).
1934 - 1976
HPI: 76.06
Rank: 307
1957 - Present
HPI: 76.06
Rank: 308
1907 - 1974
HPI: 76.04
Rank: 309
1900 - 1945
HPI: 76.04
Rank: 310
1928 - 2007
HPI: 76.01
Rank: 311
1503 - 1559
HPI: 76.00
Rank: 312
1848 - 1896
HPI: 75.98
Rank: 313
1916 - 1997
HPI: 75.90
Rank: 314
1894 - 1946
HPI: 75.89
Rank: 315
1486 - 1535
HPI: 75.89
Rank: 316
1856 - 1926
HPI: 75.89
Rank: 317
1868 - 1940
HPI: 75.87
Rank: 318
1921 - 1943
HPI: 75.85
Rank: 319
Among engineers born in Germany, Otto Lilienthal ranks 2. Before him are Gottlieb Daimler (1834). After him are Fritz Todt (1891), Willy Messerschmitt (1898), Felix Wankel (1902), August Horch (1868), Hugo Junkers (1859), Albert Göring (1895), Kurt Gerstein (1905), Arthur Scherbius (1878), Walter Dornberger (1895), and Ernst Heinkel (1888).
1834 - 1900
HPI: 81.30
Rank: 1
1848 - 1896
HPI: 75.98
Rank: 2
1891 - 1942
HPI: 74.25
Rank: 3
1898 - 1978
HPI: 73.74
Rank: 4
1902 - 1988
HPI: 71.88
Rank: 5
1868 - 1951
HPI: 71.85
Rank: 6
1859 - 1935
HPI: 71.39
Rank: 7
1895 - 1966
HPI: 71.03
Rank: 8
1905 - 1945
HPI: 70.52
Rank: 9
1878 - 1929
HPI: 69.73
Rank: 10
1895 - 1980
HPI: 69.68
Rank: 11
1888 - 1958
HPI: 69.28
Rank: 12