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William Friese-Greene

1855 - 1921

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William Friese-Greene (born William Edward Green, 7 September 1855 – 5 May 1921) was a prolific English inventor and professional photographer. He was known as a pioneer in the field of motion pictures, having devised a series of cameras between 1888–1891 and shot moving pictures with them in London. He went on to patent an early two-colour filming process in 1905. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Friese-Greene has received more than 263,548 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. William Friese-Greene is the 366th most popular inventor (down from 309th in 2019), the 4,231st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,365th in 2019) and the 60th most popular British Inventor.

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  • 2.95

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, William Friese-Greene ranks 366 out of 426. Before her are John Milne, Elizabeth Holmes, Isaac Pitman, Johan Vaaler, Andy Bechtolsheim, and Amar Bose. After her are Lewis Howard Latimer, Kirkpatrick Macmillan, Henry J. Kaiser, Per Georg Scheutz, Frank Piasecki, and Andrew Viterbi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1855, William Friese-Greene ranks 95. Before her are Alfred Ewing, Marie Stritt, Ludwig Ganghofer, Robert M. La Follette, Henry Nicholas Ridley, and Juan Zorrilla de San Martín. After her are Pierre Puiseux, August Spies, Clinton Hart Merriam, Edward Angle, Elena Maróthy-Šoltésová, and John McKenna. Among people deceased in 1921, William Friese-Greene ranks 117. Before her are Nino Martoglio, Ludwig Thoma, James H. Johnson, Abbott Handerson Thayer, Eduardo Acevedo Díaz, and Lipót Schulhof. After her are Isak Saba, Philander C. Knox, Julius von Hann, Justiniano Borgoño, Emily Davies, and Rudolf Stöger-Steiner von Steinstätten.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Friese-Greene ranks 4,231 out of 8,785. Before her are William of Newburgh (1130), Ramsey Campbell (1946), Brendan Perry (1959), David Jacobs (1888), Joe Elliott (1959), and Michael Grant (1914). After her are David C. Jewitt (1958), Tommy Docherty (1928), Roy Kinnear (1934), Allen Jones (1937), Jimmy Jones (1928), and Clive Swift (1936).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, William Friese-Greene ranks 60. Before her are John Wilkinson (1728), David Dunbar Buick (1854), Joseph Bramah (1748), Robert Whitehead (1823), John Milne (1850), and Isaac Pitman (1813). After her are Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1835), William Fothergill Cooke (1806), Wordsworth Donisthorpe (1847), Barnes Wallis (1887), John Whitehurst (1713), and Roger C. Field (1945).

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