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Robert Stephenson

1803 - 1859

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Robert Stephenson FRS HFRSE FRSA DCL (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 636,203 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Robert Stephenson is the 116th most popular engineer (down from 100th in 2019), the 1,524th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,350th in 2019) and the 14th most popular British Engineer.

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  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Robert Stephenson ranks 116 out of 323. Before him are Pedro Navarro, Count of Oliveto, Viktor Kaplan, Pierre Clostermann, Alexander Cunningham, François Laurent d'Arlandes, and Alexander Lodygin. After him are Álvaro del Portillo, Hertha Ayrton, John A. Roebling, Flaminio Bertoni, Alexandre Darracq, and Ferdinand Alexander Porsche.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1803, Robert Stephenson ranks 28. Before him are Joseph Paxton, Henry Darcy, John Sutter, Friedrich von Amerling, Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, and Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff. After him are Henri Herz, Muhammad IV of Morocco, Jacques Charles François Sturm, Alexander Georg von Bunge, Karl Gützlaff, and Edgar Quinet. Among people deceased in 1859, Robert Stephenson ranks 27. Before him are Nana Sahib, Karl Baedeker, Abd al-Rahman of Morocco, John Austin, Thomas Babington Macaulay, and Marceline Desbordes-Valmore. After him are Louis Poinsot, Yoshida Shōin, Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi, Princess Anna of Saxony, Zygmunt Krasiński, and Tatya Tope.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Stephenson ranks 1,524 out of 7,765. Before him are Joan Hickson (1906), William Prout (1785), Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1836), David Hemmings (1941), E. P. Thompson (1924), and James Faulkner (1948). After him are Jim Carter (1948), William Paley (1743), John Bowring (1792), Clarke Abel (1780), Ben Cross (1947), and Cicely Saunders (1918).

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Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, Robert Stephenson ranks 14. Before him are Henry Royce (1863), Charles Rolls (1877), George Cayley (1773), Patrick Head (1946), Adrian Newey (1958), and Alexander Cunningham (1814). After him are Hertha Ayrton (1854), John Loudon McAdam (1756), John Bagot Glubb (1897), John Smeaton (1724), William Playfair (1759), and W. Ross Ashby (1903).

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