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William Froude

1810 - 1879

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William Froude (; 28 November 1810 in Devon – 4 May 1879 in Simonstown, Cape Colony) was an English engineer, hydrodynamicist and naval architect. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Froude has received more than 90,775 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. William Froude is the 230th most popular engineer (down from 201st in 2019), the 2,891st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,357th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular British Engineer.

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  • 48.85

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, William Froude ranks 230 out of 323. Before him are Hidetsugu Yagi, Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, Eugène Belgrand, Marc Isambard Brunel, Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, and Frederick W. Lanchester. After him are Walter Thiel, Eugène Flachat, Burt Rutan, Johann Georg Halske, Marcel Deprez, and Aron Ralston.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1810, William Froude ranks 59. Before him are Giovanni Lanza, L. L. Langstroth, George Robert Waterhouse, Eugène Belgrand, Philip Henry Gosse, and Ferdinand Freiligrath. After him are Andrew Scott Waugh, Miklós Barabás, Johan August Wahlberg, Fritz Reuter, Asa Gray, and Paul Kane. Among people deceased in 1879, William Froude ranks 43. Before him are Miguel Grau Seminario, Anthony Panizzi, Jeanne Jugan, Johann von Lamont, Jakob Dubs, and Aleksandr Baryatinsky. After him are Lyuben Karavelov, Rowland Hill, Immanuel Hermann Fichte, William Lloyd Garrison, Edward Blore, and Jean Baptiste Boisduval.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Froude ranks 2,891 out of 7,765. Before him are John Anderson (1833), Joseph Raphson (1648), Phil Manzanera (1951), Howard Webb (1971), Quentin Blake (1932), and Harriet Walter (1950). After him are Johnny Clegg (1953), Steve McManaman (1972), Alan Cumming (1965), Stephen Wolfram (1959), John Neville Keynes (1852), and Anthony Caro (1924).

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Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, William Froude ranks 23. Before him are John Bagot Glubb (1897), John Smeaton (1724), William Playfair (1759), W. Ross Ashby (1903), André Waterkeyn (1917), and Frederick W. Lanchester (1868). After him are Mal Evans (1935), Robert W. Paul (1869), James B. Francis (1815), Geoffrey de Havilland (1882), William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong (1810), and Jesse Ramsden (1735).

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