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William Murdoch

1754 - 1839

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His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2024). William Murdoch is the 184th most popular inventor (down from 160th in 2024), the 1,858th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,413th in 2019) and the 29th most popular British Inventor.

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Among Inventors

Among inventors, William Murdoch ranks 184 out of 426. Before him are Émile Baudot, Artur Fischer, Harold Eugene Edgerton, Matthew Boulton, Lagâri Hasan Çelebi, and Gunther von Hagens. After him are Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse, Fausto Veranzio, Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff, Johann Jacob Schweppe, Arnold Orville Beckman, and Lucien Olivier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1754, William Murdoch ranks 30. Before him are Jean-Antoine Marbot, Pavel Tsitsianov, Vicente Martín y Soler, Andrea Appiani, Joseph Joubert, and Wilhelm, Duke of Oldenburg. After him are Alejandro Malaspina, Louis Claude Richard, Karl Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Claude François de Malet, Nikolay Rumyantsev, and Pierre Charles L'Enfant. Among people deceased in 1839, William Murdoch ranks 16. Before him are William Smith, Joseph Fesch, Pehr Henrik Ling, Ferdinando Paer, Aloysia Weber, and Hugues-Bernard Maret, duc de Bassano. After him are Mikhail Speransky, Milan Obrenović II, Prince of Serbia, Adolphe Nourrit, Joseph Anton Koch, Andrew Dũng-Lạc, and Lord William Bentinck.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Murdoch ranks 1,858 out of NaN. Before him are Ida Lupino (1918), Alice Keppel (1868), Arthur Young (1741), Alvin Lee (1944), Peter Collins (1931), and David Jacobs (1888). After him are Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1884), Richard Aldington (1892), John Guillermin (1925), Pasquale Anfossi (1727), John Ball (1338), and Elvis Costello (1954).

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Among Inventors In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, William Murdoch ranks 29. Before him are Robert Stirling (1790), Oliver Lodge (1851), Robert Watson-Watt (1892), Charles Algernon Parsons (1854), Sandford Fleming (1827), and Matthew Boulton (1728). After him are James Dyson (1947), David Edward Hughes (1831), Jethro Tull (1674), Elihu Thomson (1853), Hubert Cecil Booth (1871), and Robert Whitehead (1823).

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