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Pierre Charles L'Enfant

1754 - 1825

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Pierre "Peter" Charles L'Enfant (French: [pjɛʁ ʃɑʁl lɑ̃fɑ̃]; August 2, 1754 – June 14, 1825) was a French-American artist, professor, and military engineer. In 1791, L'Enfant designed the baroque-styled plan for the development of Washington, D.C., after it was designated to become the capital of the United States following its relocation from Philadelphia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Charles L'Enfant has received more than 838,957 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Charles L'Enfant is the 193rd most popular engineer (down from 177th in 2019), the 3,332nd most popular biography from France (down from 3,030th in 2019) and the 30th most popular French Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Pierre Charles L'Enfant ranks 193 out of 389. Before him are Emily Warren Roebling, Gene Kranz, Ivan Yarkovsky, Kelly Johnson, Genichi Taguchi, and Jorge Chávez. After him are Eugen Sänger, Alexander Lodygin, Franz Grashof, Émile Levassor, Alphonse Pénaud, and Walter Hohmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1754, Pierre Charles L'Enfant ranks 36. Before him are Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey, Alejandro Malaspina, Louis Claude Richard, Nicolas Baudin, Claude François de Malet, and Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti. After him are Franz Anton Hoffmeister, Peter Winter, Isaac René Guy le Chapelier, Grace Elliott, Banastre Tarleton, and Ivan Martos. Among people deceased in 1825, Pierre Charles L'Enfant ranks 27. Before him are Princess Louise of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Daniel D. Tompkins, Utagawa Toyokuni, Jan Václav Voříšek, Karl Mollweide, and Pierre Gaveaux. After him are Peter Winter, Maria Angela Ardinghelli, Maha Bandula, Johann Karl Burckhardt, Franciszek Karpiński, and Marie Bouliard.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Charles L'Enfant ranks 3,332 out of 6,770. Before him are Claude Abbes (1927), Jorge Chávez (1887), Bernard Giraudeau (1947), André Caplet (1878), André Cardinal Destouches (1672), and Sylvain Wiltord (1974). After him are Alfred Grandidier (1836), Jean Joseph Marie Amiot (1718), Charles de La Fosse (1636), Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant (1845), John Francis Regis (1597), and Claude Pompidou (1912).

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Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Pierre Charles L'Enfant ranks 30. Before him are Antoine de Chézy (1718), Pierre-Paul Riquet (1609), Louis Charles Breguet (1880), Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse (1822), Michel Chevalier (1806), and Jorge Chávez (1887). After him are Émile Levassor (1843), Alphonse Pénaud (1850), Evgeny Paton (1870), Arthur Morin (1795), Benoît Fourneyron (1802), and François Hennebique (1842).

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