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Igor Sikorsky

1889 - 1972

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Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky (25 May 1889 – 26 October 1972) was a Russian-American aviation pioneer in both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. His first success came with the Sikorsky S-2, the second aircraft of his design and construction. His fifth airplane, the S-5, won him national recognition and F.A.I. pilot's license number 64. His S-6-A received the highest award at the 1912 Moscow Aviation Exhibition, and in the fall of that year the aircraft won first prize for its young designer, builder and pilot in the military competition at Saint Petersburg. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Igor Sikorsky is the 37th most popular inventor (down from 35th in 2019), the 45th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 41st in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Inventor.

Igor Sikorsky is most famous for inventing the first mass-produced helicopter.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Igor Sikorsky ranks 37 out of 426. Before him are Jimmy Wales, Ernő Rubik, Samuel Colt, Gideon Sundback, John Herschel, and Antonio Meucci. After him are László Bíró, Joseph Marie Jacquard, Frank Whittle, Bob Kahn, Ismail al-Jazari, and Adolphe Sax.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Igor Sikorsky ranks 16. Before him are Philip Noel-Baker, Paul Karrer, Ante Pavelić, Anna Akhmatova, Vaslav Nijinsky, and Arnold J. Toynbee. After him are Thomas Midgley Jr., Manuel II of Portugal, Claude Rains, Gabriela Mistral, Idris of Libya, and Carl von Ossietzky. Among people deceased in 1972, Igor Sikorsky ranks 13. Before him are Yasunari Kawabata, M. C. Escher, Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, Neilia Hunter Biden, Kwame Nkrumah, and Paul-Henri Spaak. After him are Franz Halder, Athenagoras I of Constantinople, Asta Nielsen, J. Edgar Hoover, Paul Hausser, and Cristóbal Balenciaga.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Igor Sikorsky ranks 45 out of 1,365. Before him are Ludwig von Mises (1881), Wilhelm Reich (1897), Simon Wiesenthal (1908), Trofim Lysenko (1898), Symon Petliura (1879), and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836). After him are George Gamow (1904), Joseph Roth (1894), Semyon Timoshenko (1895), Vladimir II Monomakh (1053), Stanislaw Ulam (1909), and Andrei Zhdanov (1896).

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Among INVENTORS In Ukraine

Among inventors born in Ukraine, Igor Sikorsky ranks 1. 

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