1946 - Today
Robert "Bob" Melancton Metcalfe (born April 7, 1946) is an American engineer and entrepreneur who contributed to the development of the internet in the 1970s. He co-invented Ethernet, co-founded 3Com, and formulated Metcalfe's law, which describes the effect of a telecommunications network. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Metcalfe has received more than 885,444 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Robert Metcalfe is the 266th most popular inventor (up from 286th in 2019), the 4,384th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,275th in 2019) and the 64th most popular American Inventor.
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Among inventors, Robert Metcalfe ranks 266 out of 354. Before him are Vittorio Jano, Leonardo Torres y Quevedo, James Nasmyth, Michael S. Hart, Joseph-Armand Bombardier, and Walter Clopton Wingfield. After him are David Bushnell, Yoshiro Nakamatsu, Peter Madsen, Joseph Aspdin, Lester Allan Pelton, and Adolf Martens.
1891 - 1965
HPI: 51.27
Rank: 260
1852 - 1936
HPI: 51.13
Rank: 261
1808 - 1890
HPI: 51.06
Rank: 262
1947 - 2011
HPI: 50.94
Rank: 263
1907 - 1964
HPI: 50.81
Rank: 264
1833 - 1912
HPI: 50.68
Rank: 265
1946 - Present
HPI: 50.61
Rank: 266
1742 - 1824
HPI: 50.54
Rank: 267
1928 - Present
HPI: 50.42
Rank: 268
1971 - Present
HPI: 50.42
Rank: 269
1778 - 1855
HPI: 50.23
Rank: 270
1829 - 1908
HPI: 50.09
Rank: 271
1850 - 1914
HPI: 49.94
Rank: 272
Among people born in 1946, Robert Metcalfe ranks 284. Before him are Paul Davies, Dan O'Bannon, Johnson Toribiong, John Spencer, Moritz Leuenberger, and Carl Wilson. After him are Davorin Popović, Suzanne Somers, Aleksander Wolszczan, Jacques Tardi, Minoru Kobata, and Jiří Bělohlávek.
1946 - Present
HPI: 50.74
Rank: 278
1946 - 2009
HPI: 50.72
Rank: 279
1946 - Present
HPI: 50.70
Rank: 280
1946 - 2005
HPI: 50.68
Rank: 281
1946 - Present
HPI: 50.67
Rank: 282
1946 - 1998
HPI: 50.62
Rank: 283
1946 - Present
HPI: 50.61
Rank: 284
1946 - 2001
HPI: 50.55
Rank: 285
1946 - 2023
HPI: 50.48
Rank: 286
1946 - Present
HPI: 50.47
Rank: 287
1946 - Present
HPI: 50.46
Rank: 288
1946 - Present
HPI: 50.44
Rank: 289
1946 - 2017
HPI: 50.44
Rank: 290
Among people born in United States, Robert Metcalfe ranks 4,384 out of 18,182. Before him are Patricia Kennedy Lawford (1924), Carl Wilson (1946), Anthony Heald (1944), RuPaul (1960), Billy Vaughn (1919), and Barbara Babcock (1937). After him are Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850), Robert Smith (1757), Country Joe McDonald (1942), Leon Russell (1942), Desmond Child (1953), and Sasha Grey (1988).
1924 - 2006
HPI: 50.62
Rank: 4,378
1946 - 1998
HPI: 50.62
Rank: 4,379
1944 - Present
HPI: 50.62
Rank: 4,380
1960 - Present
HPI: 50.62
Rank: 4,381
1919 - 1991
HPI: 50.62
Rank: 4,382
1937 - Present
HPI: 50.61
Rank: 4,383
1946 - Present
HPI: 50.61
Rank: 4,384
1850 - 1927
HPI: 50.61
Rank: 4,385
1757 - 1842
HPI: 50.61
Rank: 4,386
1942 - Present
HPI: 50.61
Rank: 4,387
1942 - 2016
HPI: 50.60
Rank: 4,388
1953 - Present
HPI: 50.60
Rank: 4,389
1988 - Present
HPI: 50.60
Rank: 4,390
Among inventors born in United States, Robert Metcalfe ranks 64. Before him are Ray Dolby (1933), Frank Zamboni (1901), Walter Hunt (1796), Eunice Newton Foote (1819), Cyrus McCormick (1809), and Michael S. Hart (1947). After him are David Bushnell (1742), Lester Allan Pelton (1829), L. L. Langstroth (1810), Edward Lawry Norton (1898), Jack Northrop (1895), and Wilson Greatbatch (1919).
1933 - 2013
HPI: 51.92
Rank: 58
1901 - 1988
HPI: 51.91
Rank: 59
1796 - 1859
HPI: 51.68
Rank: 60
1819 - 1888
HPI: 51.57
Rank: 61
1809 - 1884
HPI: 51.28
Rank: 62
1947 - 2011
HPI: 50.94
Rank: 63
1946 - Present
HPI: 50.61
Rank: 64
1742 - 1824
HPI: 50.54
Rank: 65
1829 - 1908
HPI: 50.09
Rank: 66
1810 - 1895
HPI: 49.64
Rank: 67
1898 - 1983
HPI: 49.55
Rank: 68
1895 - 1981
HPI: 49.03
Rank: 69
1919 - 2011
HPI: 48.78
Rank: 70