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John Hughes

1814 - 1889

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John James Hughes (1814 – 17 June 1889) was a Welsh engineer, businessman and founder of the city of Donetsk. The village was originally named Yuzovka (Hughesovka, Russian: Юзoвка) or Yuzivka (Ukrainian: Юзівка) after Hughes, ("Yuz" being a Russian and Ukrainian approximation of Hughes), formally becoming a town in May 1917 and later, in 1924, being renamed to Stalino (Ukrainian: Сталіно); in 1961, the name was changed to Donetsk. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Hughes is the 166th most popular engineer (up from 168th in 2019), the 2,351st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,046th in 2019) and the 20th most popular British Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, John Hughes ranks 166 out of 389. Before him are Ivan Yarkovsky, Pierre Berthier, Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, Yaakov Ziv, Essam Sharaf, and Aurel Vlaicu. After him are Hugo Eckener, Antoine de Chézy, Peter Hirsch, Alexei Tupolev, Riccardo Morandi, and Gustave Whitehead.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1814, John Hughes ranks 45. Before him are Henri Tresca, Gustav Hartlaub, Bhanubhakta Acharya, Jules Simon, Daniel Kirkwood, and Miklós Ybl. After him are Pierre Wantzel, Hervé Faye, Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Auguste Clésinger, Claude Thomas Alexis Jordan, and Felix Lichnowsky. Among people deceased in 1889, John Hughes ranks 45. Before him are Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, Alfred Józef Potocki, Bernhard Förster, Charles Mackay, and Ion Creangă. After him are André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri, Champfleury, Albrecht Ritschl, Şihabetdin Märcani, Benedetto Cairoli, and Ybyrai Altynsarin.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Hughes ranks 2,351 out of 8,785. Before him are James Stirling (1692), Cary Elwes (1962), Cecil Beaton (1904), Chris Bristow (1937), David Stirling (1915), and John Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey (1885). After him are Millicent Fawcett (1847), Ken Tyrrell (1924), Paul W. S. Anderson (1965), Marie Stopes (1880), Tim Rice (1944), and Glen Johnson (1984).

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Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, John Hughes ranks 20. Before him are George Cayley (1773), Alexander Cunningham (1814), W. Ross Ashby (1903), John Loudon McAdam (1756), John Scott Russell (1808), and John Bagot Glubb (1897). After him are John Smeaton (1724), William Playfair (1759), André Waterkeyn (1917), Harvey Postlethwaite (1944), James B. Francis (1815), and Frederick W. Lanchester (1868).

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