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Ralph Bagnold

1896 - 1990

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Brigadier Ralph Alger Bagnold, OBE, FRS, (3 April 1896 – 28 May 1990) was an English 20th-century desert explorer, geologist and soldier. Bagnold served in the First World War as an engineer in the British Army. In 1932, he staged the first recorded East-to-West crossing of the Libyan Desert. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ralph Bagnold has received more than 50,254 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Ralph Bagnold is the 349th most popular engineer, the 5,246th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 40th most popular British Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Ralph Bagnold ranks 349 out of 389. Before him are Pavel Pavel, Vladimir Barmin, Rajeshwari Chatterjee, Viktor Kozin, Ivan Artobolevsky, and Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford. After him are Tom Dowd, Sergey Volkov, Mehdi Jomaa, Gordon Bell, Kevin Warwick, and Pat Fry.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Ralph Bagnold ranks 260. Before him are Keen Johnson, V. K. Krishna Menon, Samuel Mosberg, Gösta Runö, Carl Abrahamsson, and Marion Zinderstein. After him are Constance Binney, R. C. Sherriff, Elliott Nugent, Ramón Eguiazábal, William Cameron Townsend, and Yip Harburg. Among people deceased in 1990, Ralph Bagnold ranks 293. Before him are Juan Manuel Bordeu, Walker Percy, V. Shantaram, Leongino Unzaim, June Christy, and Ed Czerkiewicz. After him are Luis Lucchetti, Donald A. Wollheim, Charles Farrell, Alan Hale Jr., Nobuo Arai, and Andrew Wood.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ralph Bagnold ranks 5,246 out of 8,785. Before him are John Simm (1970), Pat Rice (1949), Graham Parker (1950), Flora Murray (1869), Sonique (1965), and Angela Scoular (1945). After him are Kate O'Mara (1939), Eamonn Walker (1962), John Houghton (1931), W. Morgan Sheppard (1932), Emile Heskey (1978), and Tony Nash (1936).

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Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, Ralph Bagnold ranks 40. Before him are Ove Arup (1895), Geoffrey de Havilland (1882), R. J. Mitchell (1895), Tommy Flowers (1905), Harry Ricardo (1885), and Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford (1893). After him are Kevin Warwick (1954), Pat Fry (1964), John Lombe (1693), James Allison (1968), Sydney Camm (1893), and Mike Gascoyne (1963).

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