1814 - 1862
Samuel Colt (; July 19, 1814 – January 10, 1862) was an American inventor, industrialist, and businessman who established Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company (now Colt's Manufacturing Company) and made the mass production of revolvers commercially viable. Colt's first two business ventures were producing firearms in Paterson, New Jersey, and making underwater mines; both ended in disappointment. His business affairs improved rapidly after 1847, when the Texas Rangers ordered 1,000 revolvers during the American war with Mexico. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Samuel Colt has received more than 1,451,225 page views. His biography is available in 64 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 63 in 2019). Samuel Colt is the 22nd most popular inventor (down from 19th in 2019), the 183rd most popular biography from United States (down from 165th in 2019) and the 4th most popular American Inventor.
Samuel Colt is most famous for inventing the Colt revolver.
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Among inventors, Samuel Colt ranks 22 out of 354. Before him are George Stephenson, Cai Lun, Louis Daguerre, Nicéphore Niépce, John Logie Baird, and Karl Ferdinand Braun. After him are Charles K. Kao, Thomas Newcomen, Antonio Meucci, Werner von Siemens, James Naismith, and Steve Wozniak.
1781 - 1848
HPI: 74.92
Rank: 16
48 - 121
HPI: 74.90
Rank: 17
1787 - 1851
HPI: 74.64
Rank: 18
1765 - 1833
HPI: 73.51
Rank: 19
1888 - 1946
HPI: 72.45
Rank: 20
1850 - 1918
HPI: 72.08
Rank: 21
1814 - 1862
HPI: 72.01
Rank: 22
1933 - 2018
HPI: 71.90
Rank: 23
1663 - 1729
HPI: 71.14
Rank: 24
1808 - 1889
HPI: 71.10
Rank: 25
1816 - 1892
HPI: 70.93
Rank: 26
1861 - 1939
HPI: 70.68
Rank: 27
1950 - Present
HPI: 70.31
Rank: 28
Among people born in 1814, Samuel Colt ranks 4. Before him are Mikhail Bakunin, Jean-François Millet, and Taras Shevchenko. After him are Mikhail Lermontov, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Adolphe Sax, Julius von Mayer, Anders Jonas Ångström, Henri Nestlé, Hong Xiuquan, and Jenny von Westphalen. Among people deceased in 1862, Samuel Colt ranks 3. Before him are Martin Van Buren and Henry David Thoreau. After him are John Tyler, Jean-Baptiste Biot, Bahadur Shah Zafar, James Clark Ross, Božena Němcová, Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, Fromental Halévy, Mikhail Ostrogradsky, and Karl Nesselrode.
1814 - 1876
HPI: 77.80
Rank: 1
1814 - 1875
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 2
1814 - 1861
HPI: 72.33
Rank: 3
1814 - 1862
HPI: 72.01
Rank: 4
1814 - 1841
HPI: 69.16
Rank: 5
1814 - 1879
HPI: 68.64
Rank: 6
1814 - 1894
HPI: 68.57
Rank: 7
1814 - 1878
HPI: 66.98
Rank: 8
1814 - 1874
HPI: 66.97
Rank: 9
1814 - 1890
HPI: 66.23
Rank: 10
1814 - 1864
HPI: 65.81
Rank: 11
1814 - 1881
HPI: 62.57
Rank: 12
1782 - 1862
HPI: 83.59
Rank: 1
1817 - 1862
HPI: 75.77
Rank: 2
1814 - 1862
HPI: 72.01
Rank: 3
1790 - 1862
HPI: 67.77
Rank: 4
1774 - 1862
HPI: 65.70
Rank: 5
1775 - 1862
HPI: 64.48
Rank: 6
1800 - 1862
HPI: 63.77
Rank: 7
1820 - 1862
HPI: 62.17
Rank: 8
1787 - 1862
HPI: 61.53
Rank: 9
1799 - 1862
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 10
1801 - 1862
HPI: 60.44
Rank: 11
1780 - 1862
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 12
Among people born in United States, Samuel Colt ranks 183 out of 18,182. Before him are William James Sidis (1898), Tom Cruise (1962), David Lynch (1946), Pearl S. Buck (1892), Sigourney Weaver (1949), and James Monroe (1758). After him are Richard Gere (1949), Carl Sagan (1934), Ray Bradbury (1920), Tom Selleck (1945), Talcott Parsons (1902), and James Madison (1751).
1898 - 1944
HPI: 72.22
Rank: 177
1962 - Present
HPI: 72.16
Rank: 178
1946 - Present
HPI: 72.15
Rank: 179
1892 - 1973
HPI: 72.13
Rank: 180
1949 - Present
HPI: 72.08
Rank: 181
1758 - 1831
HPI: 72.01
Rank: 182
1814 - 1862
HPI: 72.01
Rank: 183
1949 - Present
HPI: 71.97
Rank: 184
1934 - 1996
HPI: 71.94
Rank: 185
1920 - 2012
HPI: 71.87
Rank: 186
1945 - Present
HPI: 71.76
Rank: 187
1902 - 1979
HPI: 71.74
Rank: 188
1751 - 1836
HPI: 71.71
Rank: 189
Among inventors born in United States, Samuel Colt ranks 4. Before him are Thomas Edison (1847), Henry Ford (1863), and Samuel Morse (1791). After him are Steve Wozniak (1950), George Westinghouse (1846), Robert Fulton (1765), Herman Hollerith (1860), Charles Goodyear (1800), William G. Morgan (1870), Willis Carrier (1876), and Isaac Singer (1811).
1847 - 1931
HPI: 90.99
Rank: 1
1863 - 1947
HPI: 80.48
Rank: 2
1791 - 1872
HPI: 76.69
Rank: 3
1814 - 1862
HPI: 72.01
Rank: 4
1950 - Present
HPI: 70.31
Rank: 5
1846 - 1914
HPI: 70.02
Rank: 6
1765 - 1815
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 7
1860 - 1929
HPI: 68.81
Rank: 8
1800 - 1860
HPI: 68.17
Rank: 9
1870 - 1942
HPI: 67.73
Rank: 10
1876 - 1950
HPI: 67.26
Rank: 11
1811 - 1875
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 12