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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 offering 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 462,947 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Ove Arup is the 322nd most popular engineer (down from 304th in 2019), the 4,449th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,345th in 2019) and the 34th most popular British Engineer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Ove Arup ranks 322 out of 389. Before her are Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, Boris Lisunov, Joseph Bazalgette, Hugh Latimer Dryden, Robert H. Dennard, and John Monash. After her are T. Keith Glennan, Jack Parsons, Willy Ley, Geoffrey de Havilland, Mario Theissen, and Da-Wen Sun.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Ove Arup ranks 266. Before her are Phyllis Covell, Dudley Nichols, André Gaboriaud, Yakima Canutt, Antoni Słonimski, and Alexander Pavlovich Vinogradov. After her are Alberta Hunter, Mikuláš Galanda, Fredric Wertham, Evelyn Brent, Albert White, and Väinö Ikonen. Among people deceased in 1988, Ove Arup ranks 230. Before her are Willi Apel, Judith Barsi, Sten Suvio, Hilda Gobbi, Steve Anderson, and Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. After her are Näcip Cihanov, Oktay Rıfat Horozcu, Christopher Connelly, Greta Nissen, Henry Johansen, and Carlos Manuel Piedra.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ove Arup ranks 4,449 out of 8,785. Before her are Barbara Bodichon (1827), Tracey Ullman (1959), Karen Gillan (1987), Graham Taylor (1944), James Nesbitt (1965), and George Reid (1845). After her are Cecilia Colledge (1920), Joe Orton (1933), Betty Nuthall (1911), Anna Popplewell (1988), Mark Blundell (1966), and Robert Moray (1609).

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Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, Ove Arup ranks 34. Before her are William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong (1810), Mal Evans (1935), Isaac Roberts (1829), Ron Tauranac (1925), Jesse Ramsden (1735), and Joseph Bazalgette (1819). After her are Geoffrey de Havilland (1882), R. J. Mitchell (1895), Tommy Flowers (1905), Harry Ricardo (1885), Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford (1893), and Ralph Bagnold (1896).

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