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Ove Arup

1895 - 1988

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Sir Ove Nyquist Arup, CBE, MICE, MIStructE, FCIOB (16 April 1895 – 5 February 1988) was an English engineer who founded Arup Group Limited, a multinational corporation that offers engineering, design, planning, project management, and consulting services for building systems. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ove Arup has received more than 432,151 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Ove Arup is the 306th most popular engineer (down from 243rd in 2019), the 4,354th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,002nd in 2019) and the 34th most popular British Engineer.

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  • 43.37

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Ove Arup ranks 306 out of 323Before her are Franciszek Rychnowski, Yaakov Ziv, Aldo Costa, Mario Theissen, Yahya Ayyash, and Joseph Bazalgette. After her are Willy Ley, Georgy Babakin, Hesham Qandil, Kevin Warwick, Leon O. Chua, and Chuck Peddle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Ove Arup ranks 236Before her are Valentin Loos, Malcolm Sargent, Choudhry Rahmat Ali, Sándor Gombos, Mamerto Urriolagoitía, and Earl Thomson. After her are Alice Lake, Florence Vidor, Evripidis Bakirtzis, John Ainsworth-Davis, Milton Margai, and Alexander Pavlovich Vinogradov. Among people deceased in 1988, Ove Arup ranks 203Before her are Lin Carter, Ralph Meeker, Bibi Torriani, Sten Suvio, Duane Jones, and Lois Wilson. After her are Paula Mollenhauer, Gerd Hornberger, Steve Anderson, Solomon, Toni Frissell, and Kenneth Williams.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ove Arup ranks 4,354 out of 7,765Before her are John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence (1811), Stephen Leacock (1869), Aneurin Bevan (1897), Brian Robertson (1956), Richard A. Proctor (1837), and Bert Williams (1920). After her are Kim Newman (1959), Chris Irwin (1942), Paul Ritter (1966), Zak Starkey (1965), Gerry Marsden (1942), and Joseph Cook (1860).

Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, Ove Arup ranks 34Before her are William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong (1810), Jesse Ramsden (1735), Isaac Roberts (1829), R. J. Mitchell (1895), Christopher Cockerell (1910), and Joseph Bazalgette (1819). After her are Kevin Warwick (1954), Pat Symonds (1953), Pat Fry (1964), Tommy Flowers (1905), Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford (1893), and C. H. Douglas (1879).