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W. O. Bentley

1888 - 1971

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Walter Owen Bentley, (16 September 1888 – 13 August 1971) was an English engineer who founded Bentley in London. He was a motorcycle and car racer as a young man. After making a name for himself as a designer of aircraft and automobile engines, Bentley established his own firm in 1919. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of W. O. Bentley has received more than 426,861 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 20 in 2019). W. O. Bentley is the 133rd most popular inventor (down from 104th in 2019), the 1,070th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 827th in 2019) and the 20th most popular British Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, W. O. Bentley ranks 133 out of 426. Before him are Samuel Crompton, Mary Anderson, Robert Adler, Elisha Gray, Richard Jordan Gatling, and Gunther von Hagens. After him are Robert Moog, Zénobe Gramme, Paul Baran, Paul Otlet, Robert Cailliau, and John Ericsson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, W. O. Bentley ranks 57. Before him are John Foster Dulles, Thea von Harbou, Heinrich Neuhaus, Georgios Papandreou, Tôn Đức Thắng, and Nuri al-Said. After him are Fritz Klein, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Nikolay Shvernik, Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach, Vicki Baum, and Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark. Among people deceased in 1971, W. O. Bentley ranks 41. Before him are Johannes Frießner, Bernardo Houssay, John Boyd Orr, Heinz Lammerding, Diane Arbus, and Raoul Hausmann. After him are Georgy Dobrovolsky, Helene Weigel, Mathilde Kschessinska, Ub Iwerks, Archduchess Adelheid of Austria, and Gene Vincent.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, W. O. Bentley ranks 1,070 out of 8,785. Before him are Isabella Bird (1831), David Hamilton (1933), Cozy Powell (1947), Nicko McBrain (1952), Dave Gahan (1962), and Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872). After him are Bob Hope (1903), Ian Wilmut (1944), Mungo Park (1771), Edmund Leighton (1852), William Henry Perkin (1838), and Jane Hawking (1944).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, W. O. Bentley ranks 20. Before him are James Hargreaves (1720), Richard Arkwright (1732), William Webb Ellis (1806), John Harrison (1693), Edmund Cartwright (1743), and Samuel Crompton (1753). After him are John Kay (1704), Charles Algernon Parsons (1854), Robert Stirling (1790), William Murdoch (1754), Elihu Thomson (1853), and Matthew Boulton (1728).

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