1947 - Today
Robert Cailliau (last name pronunciation: [kajo], born 26 January 1947) is a Belgian informatics engineer who proposed the first (pre-www) hypertext system for CERN in 1987 and collaborated with Tim Berners-Lee on the World Wide Web (jointly winning the ACM Software System Award) from before it got its name. He designed the historical logo of the WWW, organized the first International World Wide Web Conference at CERN in 1994 and helped transfer Web development from CERN to the global Web consortium in 1995. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Cailliau has received more than 356,327 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Robert Cailliau is the 163rd most popular inventor (down from 151st in 2019), the 242nd most popular biography from Belgium (down from 212th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Belgian Inventor.
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Among inventors, Robert Cailliau ranks 163 out of 354. Before him are Paul Baran, Joseph Monier, Uziel Gal, Charles Martin Hall, Guillaume Amontons, and Orban. After him are Edwin Howard Armstrong, Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff, Charles Cros, David Edward Hughes, Siegfried Marcus, and Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva.
1926 - 2011
HPI: 56.40
Rank: 157
1823 - 1906
HPI: 56.15
Rank: 158
1923 - 2002
HPI: 56.14
Rank: 159
1863 - 1914
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 160
1663 - 1705
HPI: 56.01
Rank: 161
1404 - 1453
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 162
1947 - Present
HPI: 55.77
Rank: 163
1890 - 1954
HPI: 55.75
Rank: 164
1803 - 1877
HPI: 55.71
Rank: 165
1842 - 1888
HPI: 55.68
Rank: 166
1831 - 1900
HPI: 55.60
Rank: 167
1831 - 1898
HPI: 55.60
Rank: 168
1895 - 1936
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 169
Among people born in 1947, Robert Cailliau ranks 140. Before him are Ángel Nieto, Kevin Farrell, Greg Lake, Su Tseng-chang, Va'aletoa Sualauvi II, and H. Robert Horvitz. After him are Branko Oblak, Yukiya Amano, Włodzimierz Lubański, Jaume Cabré, Nevio Scala, and Ben Cross.
1947 - 2017
HPI: 56.10
Rank: 134
1947 - Present
HPI: 56.08
Rank: 135
1947 - 2016
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 136
1947 - Present
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 137
1947 - Present
HPI: 55.90
Rank: 138
1947 - Present
HPI: 55.82
Rank: 139
1947 - Present
HPI: 55.77
Rank: 140
1947 - Present
HPI: 55.67
Rank: 141
1947 - 2019
HPI: 55.61
Rank: 142
1947 - Present
HPI: 55.54
Rank: 143
1947 - Present
HPI: 55.51
Rank: 144
1947 - Present
HPI: 55.47
Rank: 145
1947 - 2020
HPI: 55.42
Rank: 146
Among people born in Belgium, Robert Cailliau ranks 242 out of 1,019. Before him are Rik Van Steenbergen (1924), Désiré-Joseph Mercier (1851), Johannes Ciconia (1370), Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg (1728), Frans Masereel (1889), and Philippe Thys (1889). After him are Romelu Lukaku (1993), Henry III, Duke of Brabant (1231), John of Ruusbroec (1293), Emile Vandervelde (1866), Leo Tindemans (1922), and John II, Duke of Brabant (1275).
1924 - 2003
HPI: 55.86
Rank: 236
1851 - 1926
HPI: 55.86
Rank: 237
1370 - 1412
HPI: 55.83
Rank: 238
1728 - 1793
HPI: 55.82
Rank: 239
1889 - 1972
HPI: 55.80
Rank: 240
1889 - 1971
HPI: 55.80
Rank: 241
1947 - Present
HPI: 55.77
Rank: 242
1993 - Present
HPI: 55.75
Rank: 243
1231 - 1261
HPI: 55.70
Rank: 244
1293 - 1381
HPI: 55.70
Rank: 245
1866 - 1938
HPI: 55.61
Rank: 246
1922 - 2014
HPI: 55.56
Rank: 247
1275 - 1312
HPI: 55.52
Rank: 248
Among inventors born in Belgium, Robert Cailliau ranks 5. Before him are Adolphe Sax (1814), Jacques Piccard (1922), Zénobe Gramme (1826), and Paul Otlet (1868). After him are George Washington (1871).
1814 - 1894
HPI: 68.57
Rank: 1
1922 - 2008
HPI: 63.82
Rank: 2
1826 - 1901
HPI: 59.22
Rank: 3
1868 - 1944
HPI: 58.16
Rank: 4
1947 - Present
HPI: 55.77
Rank: 5
1871 - 1946
HPI: 55.46
Rank: 6