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Ray Dolby

1933 - 2013

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Ray Milton Dolby (; January 18, 1933 – September 12, 2013) was an American engineer and inventor of the noise reduction system known as Dolby NR. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ray Dolby has received more than 437,869 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia. Ray Dolby is the 244th most popular inventor (up from 246th in 2019), the 3,834th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,782nd in 2019) and the 59th most popular American Inventor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 440k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.31

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Ray Dolby ranks 244 out of 426. Before him are Hans von Ohain, Tivadar Puskás, Clive Sinclair, Ottó Bláthy, John Kemp Starley, and Thonmi Sambhota. After him are Frank Zamboni, Eugen Langen, Rodolphe Lindt, Aimo Lahti, Laurens Hammond, and Ottomar Anschütz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Ray Dolby ranks 208. Before him are Sergio Endrigo, Juzo Itami, Robert Shavlakadze, Ron Wyatt, Robert Blake, and Gloria Foster. After him are Evaristo de Macedo, Mariya Pisareva, Siân Phillips, Hope Lange, Lamine Diack, and Gene Kranz. Among people deceased in 2013, Ray Dolby ranks 187. Before him are Aleksandr Serebrov, Michael Ansara, Carlo Lizzani, Jim Hall, Arik Einstein, and Juan José Linz. After him are Radu Vasile, Saye Zerbo, Tommy Morrison, Scott Carpenter, Henrique Rosa, and Richard C. Sarafian.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ray Dolby ranks 3,834 out of 20,380. Before him are Gilbert Stuart (1755), Tia Carrere (1967), Ira Gershwin (1896), Michael Winslow (1958), Shannon Lee (1969), and Gloria Foster (1933). After him are Jimmy Smith (1925), Chester Barnard (1886), Elizabeth Warren (1949), Stanley Schachter (1922), Randy Savage (1952), and Jeffrey Jones (1946).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Ray Dolby ranks 59. Before him are John Wesley Hyatt (1837), Walter Hunt (1796), George Pullman (1831), Marcian Hoff (1937), Christopher C. Kraft Jr. (1924), and L. L. Langstroth (1810). After him are Frank Zamboni (1901), Laurens Hammond (1895), Robert Cornelius (1809), Glenn Curtiss (1878), Cyrus McCormick (1809), and Theodore Maiman (1927).

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