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Sven Gustaf Wingqvist

1876 - 1953

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Sven Gustaf Wingqvist (10 December 1876 – 17 April 1953) was a Swedish engineer, inventor, and industrialist, and one of the founders of Svenska Kullagerfabriken (SKF), one of the world's leading ball bearing and roller bearing makers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sven Gustaf Wingqvist has received more than 82,310 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Sven Gustaf Wingqvist is the 274th most popular inventor, the 541st most popular biography from Sweden and the 4th most popular Swedish Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Sven Gustaf Wingqvist ranks 274 out of 426Before him are Colin Archer, François Isaac de Rivaz, Yoshiro Nakamatsu, Glenn Curtiss, Adolf Martens, and Cyrus McCormick. After him are Theodore Maiman, Samuel Morland, Michael S. Hart, John Barnard, Whitcomb L. Judson, and Joseph Aspdin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Sven Gustaf Wingqvist ranks 122Before him are Stephanos Christopoulos, Erhard Schmidt, Borisav Stanković, Willem Hendrik Keesom, Maria Ouspenskaya, and Alaiza Pashkevich. After him are Tiburcio Carías Andino, Hiroshi Yoshida, Hrachia Acharian, Carl Enckell, Shushanik Kurghinian, and Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth. Among people deceased in 1953, Sven Gustaf Wingqvist ranks 106Before him are Karl Staaf, Vladimir Dekanozov, Bogdan Kobulov, Maude Adams, Nigel Bruce, and Dumarsais Estimé. After him are Trần Trọng Kim, Hrachia Acharian, Charles de Tornaco, Ralph Linton, Tamar Abakelia, and Josef Fischer.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Sven Gustaf Wingqvist ranks 541 out of 1,879Before him are Henry Eriksson (1920), Anders Jahan Retzius (1742), Jenny Nyström (1854), Sune Andersson (1921), Anna Sundström (1785), and Sonja Edström (1930). After him are Harald Cramér (1893), Inger Stevens (1934), Lars-Erik Larsson (1908), Thomas Hammarberg (1942), Kiki Håkansson (1929), and Axel Cadier (1906).

Among INVENTORS In Sweden

Among inventors born in Sweden, Sven Gustaf Wingqvist ranks 4Before him are John Ericsson (1803), Gideon Sundback (1880), and Lars Magnus Ericsson (1846). After him are Nils Bohlin (1920), Ernst Alexanderson (1878), Victor Hasselblad (1906), and Simone Giertz (1990).