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Tommy Flowers

1905 - 1998

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Thomas Harold Flowers MBE (22 December 1905 – 28 October 1998) was an English engineer with the British General Post Office. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tommy Flowers has received more than 536,876 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Tommy Flowers is the 339th most popular engineer (down from 319th in 2019), the 4,956th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,718th in 2019) and the 37th most popular British Engineer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 540k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 43.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Tommy Flowers by language

Over the past year Tommy Flowers has had the most page views in the with 72,788 views, followed by Spanish (4,009), and French (2,114). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (135.22%), Malagasy (109.49%), and Kurdish (Sorani) (98.88%)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Tommy Flowers ranks 339 out of 389. Before him are Charles Joseph Minard, Leon O. Chua, Otmar Szafnauer, John Houbolt, Chuck Peddle, and R. J. Mitchell. After him are Harry Ricardo, Sidney Darlington, Robert Zubrin, Pavel Pavel, Vladimir Barmin, and Rajeshwari Chatterjee.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Tommy Flowers ranks 363. Before him are György Kulin, Edvin Laine, Hanns Kilian, Helen Sawyer Hogg, Kenneth Rexroth, and Isaac Kashdan. After him are Robert Bacher, Friederich Franzl, Leroy Carr, Enrico Rivolta, Pierre Jaccoud, and George Gulack. Among people deceased in 1998, Tommy Flowers ranks 288. Before him are Charles Sibley, René Ferrier, Anna J. Harrison, Duncan White, Augusto Magli, and Elio Morille. After him are James Lighthill, Hammond Innes, Dan Osman, Lalita Pawar, E. M. S. Namboodiripad, and Valerie Hobson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Tommy Flowers ranks 4,956 out of 8,785. Before him are John Braine (1922), Herbert Morrison (1888), Ronald Pope (1920), Mackenzie Crook (1971), Frank Bruno (1961), and Bob Crompton (1879). After him are Sheila Lerwill (1928), David Bedford (1937), James Cleverly (1969), Denise Levertov (1923), Harry Ricardo (1885), and Peter Geach (1916).

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Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, Tommy Flowers ranks 37. Before him are Ron Tauranac (1925), Jesse Ramsden (1735), Joseph Bazalgette (1819), Ove Arup (1895), Geoffrey de Havilland (1882), and R. J. Mitchell (1895). After him are Harry Ricardo (1885), Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford (1893), Ralph Bagnold (1896), Kevin Warwick (1954), Pat Fry (1964), and John Lombe (1693).

British born Engineers

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