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Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva

1895 - 1936

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Juan de la Cierva y Codorníu, 1st Count of la Cierva ([ˈxwan de la ˈθjeɾβaj koðoɾˈni.u]; 21 September 1895 – 9 December 1936), was a Spanish civil engineer, pilot and a self-taught aeronautical engineer. His most famous accomplishment was the invention in 1920 of a rotorcraft called Autogiro, a single-rotor type of aircraft that came to be called autogyro in the English language. In 1923, after four years of experimentation, De la Cierva developed the articulated rotor, which resulted in the world's first successful flight of a stable rotary-wing aircraft, with his C.4 prototype. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva is the 206th most popular inventor (down from 181st in 2019), the 840th most popular biography from Spain (down from 708th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Spanish Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva ranks 206 out of 426. Before him are Eunice Newton Foote, Hovannes Adamian, Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Josip Belušić, Max Skladanowsky, and Reginald Fessenden. After him are Royal Rife, James Dyson, Édouard Branly, Charles Xavier Thomas, Helmut Gröttrup, and Lou Ottens.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva ranks 123. Before him are Liaquat Ali Khan, Ernesto Lecuona, Iona Nikitchenko, Ernst Kantorowicz, Bertil Lindblad, and Robert Heinrich Wagner. After him are Alfred Neuland, Pan Yuliang, H. A. R. Gibb, Isamu Chō, Jakov Gotovac, and Lucian Blaga. Among people deceased in 1936, Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva ranks 88. Before him are Takahashi Korekiyo, Conrad Böcker, Hu Hanmin, Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, Édouard Herzen, and Meir Dizengoff. After him are José Calvo Sotelo, Georgios Kondylis, Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke, Dezső Kosztolányi, David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty, and Nahum Sokolow.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva ranks 840 out of 3,355. Before him are Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquess of Santa Cruz (1526), Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro (1676), Carlos Westendorp (1937), Marcos Alonso (1933), Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos (1744), and Alphonsus Rodriguez (1532). After him are Constanza Manuel (1315), Joaquín Almunia (1948), José Calvo Sotelo (1893), Ion Andoni Goikoetxea (1965), Eleanor of Arborea (1340), and Joaquín Navarro-Valls (1936).

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Among INVENTORS In Spain

Among inventors born in Spain, Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva ranks 2. Before him are Abbas ibn Firnas (810). After him are Narcís Monturiol (1819), and Leonardo Torres y Quevedo (1852).

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