1876 - 1950
Willis Haviland Carrier (November 26, 1876 – October 7, 1950) was an American engineer, best known for inventing modern air conditioning. Carrier invented the first electrical air conditioning unit in 1902. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Willis Carrier has received more than 1,272,451 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Willis Carrier is the 47th most popular inventor (up from 51st in 2019), the 394th most popular biography from United States (up from 464th in 2019) and the 12th most popular American Inventor.
Willis Carrier is most famous for inventing the modern air conditioner.
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Among inventors, Willis Carrier ranks 47 out of 355. Before him are Abbas ibn Firnas, Isaac Singer, László Bíró, Elon Musk, Richard Trevithick, and Charles Goodyear. After him are Wilhelm Maybach, Douglas Engelbart, Karl Drais, John Boyd Dunlop, Steve Wozniak, and Emile Berliner.
810 - 887
HPI: 76.08
Rank: 41
1811 - 1875
HPI: 75.87
Rank: 42
1899 - 1985
HPI: 75.77
Rank: 43
1971 - Present
HPI: 75.67
Rank: 44
1771 - 1833
HPI: 75.67
Rank: 45
1800 - 1860
HPI: 75.39
Rank: 46
1876 - 1950
HPI: 75.38
Rank: 47
1846 - 1929
HPI: 74.97
Rank: 48
1925 - 2013
HPI: 74.92
Rank: 49
1785 - 1851
HPI: 74.79
Rank: 50
1840 - 1921
HPI: 74.64
Rank: 51
1950 - Present
HPI: 74.58
Rank: 52
1851 - 1929
HPI: 74.58
Rank: 53
Among people born in 1876, Willis Carrier ranks 14. Before him are Wilhelm Pieck, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Pablo Casals, Zewditu, Alexander I of Serbia, and 13th Dalai Lama. After him are Maurice de Vlaminck, Manuel de Falla, Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium, Róbert Bárány, Adolf Windaus, and Hermann Müller. Among people deceased in 1950, Willis Carrier ranks 7. Before him are George Orwell, George Bernard Shaw, Joseph Schumpeter, Gustaf V of Sweden, Vaslav Nijinsky, and Heinrich Mann. After him are Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Johannes V. Jensen, Marcel Mauss, Vallabhbhai Patel, and Émile Jaques-Dalcroze.
1876 - 1960
HPI: 76.66
Rank: 8
1876 - 1944
HPI: 76.20
Rank: 9
1876 - 1973
HPI: 75.66
Rank: 10
1876 - 1930
HPI: 75.59
Rank: 11
1876 - 1903
HPI: 75.56
Rank: 12
1876 - 1933
HPI: 75.54
Rank: 13
1876 - 1950
HPI: 75.38
Rank: 14
1876 - 1958
HPI: 75.15
Rank: 15
1876 - 1946
HPI: 74.31
Rank: 16
1876 - 1965
HPI: 74.04
Rank: 17
1876 - 1936
HPI: 73.41
Rank: 18
1876 - 1959
HPI: 73.36
Rank: 19
1876 - 1931
HPI: 72.81
Rank: 20
1903 - 1950
HPI: 86.36
Rank: 1
1856 - 1950
HPI: 83.25
Rank: 2
1883 - 1950
HPI: 79.70
Rank: 3
1858 - 1950
HPI: 79.55
Rank: 4
1889 - 1950
HPI: 77.01
Rank: 5
1871 - 1950
HPI: 76.08
Rank: 6
1876 - 1950
HPI: 75.38
Rank: 7
1870 - 1950
HPI: 75.07
Rank: 8
1875 - 1950
HPI: 74.94
Rank: 9
1873 - 1950
HPI: 74.87
Rank: 10
1872 - 1950
HPI: 74.77
Rank: 11
1875 - 1950
HPI: 74.55
Rank: 12
1865 - 1950
HPI: 74.39
Rank: 13
Among people born in United States, Willis Carrier ranks 394 out of 15,968. Before him are Kathy Bates (1948), Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804), George Clooney (1961), James Buchanan (1791), Robert Woodrow Wilson (1936), and Charles Goodyear (1800). After him are Alexander Calder (1898), Paulette Goddard (1910), Joseph Stiglitz (1943), Boris Johnson (1964), Michael Clarke Duncan (1957), and Jeff Bridges (1949).
1948 - Present
HPI: 75.43
Rank: 388
1804 - 1864
HPI: 75.42
Rank: 389
1961 - Present
HPI: 75.42
Rank: 390
1791 - 1868
HPI: 75.42
Rank: 391
1936 - Present
HPI: 75.40
Rank: 392
1800 - 1860
HPI: 75.39
Rank: 393
1876 - 1950
HPI: 75.38
Rank: 394
1898 - 1976
HPI: 75.37
Rank: 395
1910 - 1990
HPI: 75.36
Rank: 396
1943 - Present
HPI: 75.35
Rank: 397
1964 - Present
HPI: 75.35
Rank: 398
1957 - 2012
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 399
1949 - Present
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 400
Among inventors born in United States, Willis Carrier ranks 12. Before him are Robert Fulton (1765), Jimmy Wales (1966), William G. Morgan (1870), Herman Hollerith (1860), Isaac Singer (1811), and Charles Goodyear (1800). After him are Douglas Engelbart (1925), Steve Wozniak (1950), Josephine Cochrane (1839), Les Paul (1915), John Deere (1804), and George Eastman (1854).
1765 - 1815
HPI: 77.57
Rank: 6
1966 - Present
HPI: 76.73
Rank: 7
1870 - 1942
HPI: 76.56
Rank: 8
1860 - 1929
HPI: 76.32
Rank: 9
1811 - 1875
HPI: 75.87
Rank: 10
1800 - 1860
HPI: 75.39
Rank: 11
1876 - 1950
HPI: 75.38
Rank: 12
1925 - 2013
HPI: 74.92
Rank: 13
1950 - Present
HPI: 74.58
Rank: 14
1839 - 1913
HPI: 73.88
Rank: 15
1915 - 2009
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 16
1804 - 1886
HPI: 73.59
Rank: 17
1854 - 1932
HPI: 73.51
Rank: 18