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Gustave Eiffel

1832 - 1923

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Alexandre Gustave Eiffel ( EYE-fəl, French: [alɛksɑ̃dʁ ɡystav ɛfɛl]; né Bonickhausen dit Eiffel; 15 December 1832 – 27 December 1923) was a French civil engineer. A graduate of École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, he made his name with various bridges for the French railway network, most famously the Garabit Viaduct. He is best known for the world-famous Eiffel Tower, designed by his company and built for the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris, and his contribution to building the Statue of Liberty in New York. After his retirement from engineering, Eiffel focused on research into meteorology and aerodynamics, making significant contributions in both fields. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gustave Eiffel is the most popular engineer, the 63rd most popular biography from France (down from 56th in 2019) and the most popular French Engineer.

Gustave Eiffel is most famous for his work on the Eiffel Tower.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Gustave Eiffel ranks 1 out of 389. After him are Gottlieb Daimler, Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Mikhail Kalashnikov, Zhuge Liang, Wernher von Braun, Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, William John Macquorn Rankine, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Alexei Kosygin, and Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1832, Gustave Eiffel ranks 2. Before him is Édouard Manet. After him are Maximilian I of Mexico, Louisa May Alcott, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Wilhelm Wundt, Lewis Carroll, Nikolaus Otto, Gustave Doré, José Echegaray, Edward Burnett Tylor, and Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld. Among people deceased in 1923, Gustave Eiffel ranks 2. Before him is Wilhelm Röntgen. After him are Sarah Bernhardt, Vilfredo Pareto, Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, Jaroslav Hašek, Constantine I of Greece, John Venn, Warren G. Harding, Pancho Villa, and Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gustave Eiffel ranks 63 out of 6,770. Before him are Michel de Montaigne (1533), Pierre de Fermat (1601), Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1520), Philip IV of France (1268), Napoleon II (1811), and Louis XVII of France (1785). After him are Cardinal Richelieu (1585), Maurice Ravel (1875), Romain Rolland (1866), Charles Perrault (1628), Hector Berlioz (1803), and Auguste Rodin (1840).

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Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Gustave Eiffel ranks 1. After him are Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1796), Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban (1633), André Citroën (1878), Villard de Honnecourt (1200), Marcel Dassault (1892), Marcel Renault (1872), Henri Farman (1874), Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt (1240), Paul Cornu (1881), André Courrèges (1923), and François Laurent d'Arlandes (1742).

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