INVENTOR

Sequoyah

1770 - 1843

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Sequoyah ( sə-QUOY-yə; Cherokee: ᏍᏏᏉᏯ, Ssiquoya, or ᏎᏉᏯ, Sequoya, pronounced [seɡʷoja]; c. 1770 – August 1843), also known as George Gist or George Guess, was a Native American polymath and neographer of the Cherokee Nation. In 1821, Sequoyah completed his Cherokee syllabary, enabling reading and writing in the Cherokee language. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sequoyah has received more than 1,385,833 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Sequoyah is the 143rd most popular inventor (up from 155th in 2019), the 1,941st most popular biography from United States (up from 2,097th in 2019) and the 35th most popular American Inventor.

Sequoyah is most famous for creating the Cherokee alphabet.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.04

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Sequoyah ranks 143 out of 426. Before him are Paul Otlet, Robert Cailliau, John Ericsson, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, Georg Luger, and John Kay. After him are Charles Algernon Parsons, Robert Stirling, Elias Howe, Uziel Gal, Edwin Howard Armstrong, and Viktor Schauberger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1770, Sequoyah ranks 25. Before him are Louis-Gabriel Suchet, Thomas Johann Seebeck, Alexandre Pétion, Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Charles Emmanuel, Prince of Carignano, and Lucile Desmoulins. After him are François Étienne de Kellermann, Jean Maximilien Lamarque, Alexandre Brongniart, Dominique Vandamme, Princess Maria Christina of Saxony, and Étienne Pivert de Senancour. Among people deceased in 1843, Sequoyah ranks 11. Before him are Samuel Hahnemann, Princess Louise Auguste of Denmark, Theodoros Kolokotronis, Joseph Lanner, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, and Marie Anne Lenormand. After him are Peter Wittgenstein, Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, Robert Southey, Charles Macintosh, Alexis Bouvard, and Jakob Friedrich Fries.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sequoyah ranks 1,941 out of 20,380. Before him are Mick Foley (1965), Connie Francis (1938), Jim Henson (1936), Wilbur Scoville (1865), Martha Stewart (1941), and Avery Brundage (1887). After him are Lee Majors (1939), Carl Andre (1935), Robert E. Park (1864), Donna Karan (1948), Robert Fogel (1926), and Billy Dee Williams (1937).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Sequoyah ranks 35. Before him are Hiram Maxim (1840), Percy Spencer (1894), Mary Anderson (1862), Elisha Gray (1835), Richard Jordan Gatling (1818), and Robert Moog (1934). After him are Elias Howe (1819), Edwin Howard Armstrong (1890), Bob Kahn (1938), Alfred Vail (1807), Garrett Morgan (1877), and Royal Rife (1888).

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