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Claude Dornier

1884 - 1969

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Claude (Claudius) Honoré Désiré Dornier (14 May 1884 – 5 December 1969) was a Franco-German airplane designer and founder of Dornier GmbH. His notable designs include the 12-engine Dornier Do X flying boat, for decades the world's largest and most powerful airplane. He also made several other successful aircraft. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Claude Dornier is the 135th most popular engineer (down from 121st in 2019), the 2,702nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,210th in 2019) and the 17th most popular German Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Claude Dornier ranks 135 out of 389. Before him are W. Ross Ashby, Léon Charles Thévenin, Flaminio Bertoni, Li Kui, Georgy Shpagin, and Christian Otto Mohr. After him are Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Johan August Brinell, Joseph M. Juran, Alexandre Darracq, John Loudon McAdam, and Pedro Navarro, Count of Oliveto.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Claude Dornier ranks 85. Before him are Gustave Garrigou, Josias Braun-Blanquet, Werner Krauss, Billie Burke, Jules Supervielle, and Jaan Anvelt. After him are Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter, James Alberione, Johannes Heinrich Schultz, Wilhelm Brückner, Johannes Popitz, and George Sarton. Among people deceased in 1969, Claude Dornier ranks 91. Before him are Léon Scieur, Coleman Hawkins, Ivar Ballangrud, Josef Blösche, Thelma Ritter, and He Long. After him are Domingo Tejera, Muhammad Siddiq Al-Minshawi, André Salmon, Georges Catroux, Willy Mairesse, and John Wyndham.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Claude Dornier ranks 2,703 out of 7,253. Before him are Albert Alcibiades, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1522), Curt Sachs (1881), Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen (1890), Infanta Maria das Neves of Portugal (1852), Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner (1834), and Sophia of Holstein-Gottorp (1569). After him are Herman I of Baden (1040), Master Francke (1380), Margarete Steiff (1847), Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau (1740), Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688), and Princess Maria Christina of Saxony (1770).

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Among ENGINEERS In Germany

Among engineers born in Germany, Claude Dornier ranks 17. Before him are Arthur Scherbius (1878), Walter Dornberger (1895), John A. Roebling (1806), Erich Topp (1914), Alexander Lippisch (1894), and Christian Otto Mohr (1835). After him are Franz Reuleaux (1829), Hellmuth Walter (1900), Walter Hohmann (1880), Anton Flettner (1885), Ferdinand Alexander Porsche (1935), and Hugo Eckener (1868).

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