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 1,555,305 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Willis Carrier is the 49th most popular inventor (down from 47th in 2019), the 455th most popular biography from United States (down from 394th in 2019) and the 11th most popular American Inventor.
Willis Carrier is most famous for inventing the modern air conditioner.
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Among inventors, Willis Carrier ranks 49 out of 354. Before him are Adolphe Sax, Richard Trevithick, Charles Goodyear, Karl Drais, John Herschel, and William G. Morgan. After him are Hans Lippershey, John Boyd Dunlop, Emile Berliner, Wilhelm Maybach, Frank Whittle, and Isaac Singer.
1814 - 1894
HPI: 68.57
Rank: 43
1771 - 1833
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 44
1800 - 1860
HPI: 68.17
Rank: 45
1785 - 1851
HPI: 68.05
Rank: 46
1792 - 1871
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 47
1870 - 1942
HPI: 67.73
Rank: 48
1876 - 1950
HPI: 67.26
Rank: 49
1570 - 1619
HPI: 67.25
Rank: 50
1840 - 1921
HPI: 66.90
Rank: 51
1851 - 1929
HPI: 66.44
Rank: 52
1846 - 1929
HPI: 66.32
Rank: 53
1907 - 1996
HPI: 66.20
Rank: 54
1811 - 1875
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 55
Among people born in 1876, Willis Carrier ranks 14. Before him are Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Zewditu, Constantin Brâncuși, Pablo Casals, Manuel de Falla, and Alexander I of Serbia. After him are 13th Dalai Lama, Maurice de Vlaminck, Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium, Adolf Windaus, Otto Diels, and Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia. Among people deceased in 1950, Willis Carrier ranks 11. Before him are Vaslav Nijinsky, Johannes V. Jensen, Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Albert Lebrun, Léon Blum, and Marcel Mauss. After him are Vallabhbhai Patel, Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, Karl Renner, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Heinrich Mann, and Kurt Weill.
1876 - 1944
HPI: 69.95
Rank: 8
1876 - 1930
HPI: 69.60
Rank: 9
1876 - 1957
HPI: 69.36
Rank: 10
1876 - 1973
HPI: 68.36
Rank: 11
1876 - 1946
HPI: 67.87
Rank: 12
1876 - 1903
HPI: 67.45
Rank: 13
1876 - 1950
HPI: 67.26
Rank: 14
1876 - 1933
HPI: 67.20
Rank: 15
1876 - 1958
HPI: 67.02
Rank: 16
1876 - 1965
HPI: 66.19
Rank: 17
1876 - 1959
HPI: 66.11
Rank: 18
1876 - 1954
HPI: 65.81
Rank: 19
1876 - 1938
HPI: 65.22
Rank: 20
1889 - 1950
HPI: 70.73
Rank: 5
1873 - 1950
HPI: 68.83
Rank: 6
1870 - 1950
HPI: 67.96
Rank: 7
1871 - 1950
HPI: 67.51
Rank: 8
1872 - 1950
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 9
1872 - 1950
HPI: 67.29
Rank: 10
1876 - 1950
HPI: 67.26
Rank: 11
1875 - 1950
HPI: 66.81
Rank: 12
1865 - 1950
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 13
1870 - 1950
HPI: 66.19
Rank: 14
1875 - 1950
HPI: 65.89
Rank: 15
1871 - 1950
HPI: 65.74
Rank: 16
1900 - 1950
HPI: 65.60
Rank: 17
Among people born in United States, Willis Carrier ranks 455 out of 18,182. Before him are John Wayne Gacy (1942), Glenn Close (1947), Pat Morita (1932), Jim Jones (1931), Rutherford B. Hayes (1822), and Sharon Stone (1958). After him are Iggy Pop (1947), Richard Bach (1936), Dennis Hopper (1936), Julianne Moore (1960), Michelle Pfeiffer (1958), and Terry Gilliam (1940).
1942 - 1994
HPI: 67.33
Rank: 449
1947 - Present
HPI: 67.31
Rank: 450
1932 - 2005
HPI: 67.29
Rank: 451
1931 - 1978
HPI: 67.28
Rank: 452
1822 - 1893
HPI: 67.27
Rank: 453
1958 - Present
HPI: 67.27
Rank: 454
1876 - 1950
HPI: 67.26
Rank: 455
1947 - Present
HPI: 67.24
Rank: 456
1936 - Present
HPI: 67.20
Rank: 457
1936 - 2010
HPI: 67.19
Rank: 458
1960 - Present
HPI: 67.18
Rank: 459
1958 - Present
HPI: 67.14
Rank: 460
1940 - Present
HPI: 67.12
Rank: 461
Among inventors born in United States, Willis Carrier ranks 11. Before him are Steve Wozniak (1950), George Westinghouse (1846), Robert Fulton (1765), Herman Hollerith (1860), Charles Goodyear (1800), and William G. Morgan (1870). After him are Isaac Singer (1811), John Deere (1804), Douglas Engelbart (1925), John Browning (1855), Jimmy Wales (1966), and Josephine Cochrane (1839).
1950 - Present
HPI: 70.31
Rank: 5
1846 - 1914
HPI: 70.02
Rank: 6
1765 - 1815
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 7
1860 - 1929
HPI: 68.81
Rank: 8
1800 - 1860
HPI: 68.17
Rank: 9
1870 - 1942
HPI: 67.73
Rank: 10
1876 - 1950
HPI: 67.26
Rank: 11
1811 - 1875
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 12
1804 - 1886
HPI: 65.61
Rank: 13
1925 - 2013
HPI: 65.53
Rank: 14
1855 - 1926
HPI: 65.00
Rank: 15
1966 - Present
HPI: 64.94
Rank: 16
1839 - 1913
HPI: 64.67
Rank: 17