The Most Famous
INVENTORS from Ireland
This page contains a list of the greatest Irish Inventors. The pantheon dataset contains 426 Inventors, 1 of which were born in Ireland. This makes Ireland the birth place of the 41st most number of Inventors behind Denmark, and Luxembourg.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Irish Inventors of all time. This list of famous Irish Inventors is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. John Philip Holland (1840 - 1914)
With an HPI of 56.02, John Philip Holland is the most famous Irish Inventor. His biography has been translated into 19 different languages on wikipedia.
John Philip Holland (Irish: Seán Pilib Ó hUallacháin/Ó Maolchalann; February 24, 1841 – August 12, 1914) was an Irish marine engineer who developed the first submarine to be formally commissioned by the US Navy, USS Holland (SS-1) and the first Royal Navy submarine, Holland 1.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Irish inventors born between 1840 and 1840. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Irish inventors include John Philip Holland.
