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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 542,125 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Tommy Flowers is the 321st most popular engineer (down from 294th in 2019), the 4,729th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,240th in 2019) and the 38th most popular British Engineer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 540k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 41.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Tommy Flowers ranks 321 out of 323. Before him are Anatoly Blagonravov, Gordon Bell, John Monash, Pat Fry, Robert Zubrin, and Viktor Kozin. After him are Vladimir Barmin, Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford, C. H. Douglas, Tom Dowd, Bob Bell, and Sydney Camm.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Tommy Flowers ranks 331. Before him are Chick Webb, Lev Arnshtam, Mulk Raj Anand, Kay Francis, Leroy Carr, and Robert Bacher. After him are Tex Ritter, Eleanor Audley, Kenneth Rexroth, John Hoyt, Jules Pappaert, and Fidel LaBarba. Among people deceased in 1998, Tommy Flowers ranks 260. Before him are Charles Sibley, Jackie Blanchflower, John Hunt, Baron Hunt, Duncan White, Fred Davis, and Jesús Loroño. After him are Norman Fell, Daniel Massey, Boris Tatushin, James Algar, Hammond Innes, and Voitto Hellsten.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Tommy Flowers ranks 4,729 out of 7,765. Before him are Geoffrey Crossley (1921), Peter Glenville (1913), Raymond Gosling (1926), Iain Pears (1955), John Byrne (1950), and Ron Greenwood (1921). After him are Aaron Taylor-Johnson (1990), Sonya Walger (1974), Jessie J (1988), Robert Hamer (1911), Dick King-Smith (1922), and Alec Jeffreys (1950).

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Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, Tommy Flowers ranks 38. Before him are Christopher Cockerell (1910), Joseph Bazalgette (1819), Ove Arup (1895), Kevin Warwick (1954), Pat Symonds (1953), and Pat Fry (1964). After him are Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford (1893), C. H. Douglas (1879), Bob Bell (1958), Sydney Camm (1893), John Lombe (1693), and Thomas Sopwith (1888).

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