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Robert Stephenson

1803 - 1859

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Robert Stephenson , DCL (Hon. causa) (16 October 1803 – 12 October 1859) was an English civil engineer and designer of locomotives. The only son of George Stephenson, the "Father of Railways", he built on the achievements of his father. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Stephenson has received more than 677,285 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Robert Stephenson is the 109th most popular engineer (up from 114th in 2019), the 1,465th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,519th in 2019) and the 13th most popular British Engineer.

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Robert Stephenson ranks 109 out of 389. Before him are Adrian Newey, Henry Darcy, Eupalinos, Carlo Abarth, Stephen Timoshenko, and Yevgeny Dragunov. After him are Pierre Clostermann, John Bagot Glubb, François Laurent d'Arlandes, Pedro Navarro, Count of Oliveto, Joseph M. Juran, and Sergei Khrushchev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1803, Robert Stephenson ranks 29. Before him are Muhammad IV of Morocco, Jacques Charles François Sturm, Joseph Paxton, Henry Darcy, Alexander Georg von Bunge, and John Sutter. After him are Henri Herz, Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff, Karl Gützlaff, Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, Edgar Quinet, and Alexander von Nordmann. Among people deceased in 1859, Robert Stephenson ranks 28. Before him are Thomas Babington Macaulay, Alfred Vail, Carl Adolph Agardh, Yoshida Shōin, Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi, and Louis Poinsot. After him are Karl Baedeker, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Zygmunt Krasiński, Nana Sahib, Sergey Aksakov, and Tatya Tope.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Stephenson ranks 1,465 out of 8,785. Before him are Thomas Addison (1793), Claire Bloom (1931), Simon Stock (1164), David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon (1961), Sean Harris (1966), and Elihu Thomson (1853). After him are Thomas Wyatt (1503), J. Lee Thompson (1914), David Garrick (1717), Edward Young (1683), John Graunt (1620), and Roland Joffé (1945).

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Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, Robert Stephenson ranks 13. Before him are Henry Royce (1863), Charles Rolls (1877), Alexander Cunningham (1814), George Cayley (1773), Hertha Ayrton (1854), and Adrian Newey (1958). After him are John Bagot Glubb (1897), Patrick Head (1946), William Playfair (1759), John Loudon McAdam (1756), John Smeaton (1724), and John Hughes (1814).

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