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Kamil Tolon

1912 - 1978

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Kamil Özdemir Tolon (29 February 1912 – 23 July 1978) was a Turkish businessperson, industrialist and inventor, known for the first manufacture of an electric engine in Turkey. Tolon was born in 1912 in Istanbul. He had his secondary and university education in Ankara. He wanted to become an engineer, but went to the Ankara University Faculty of Law instead due to the lack of engineering schools. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Kamil Tolon is the 406th most popular inventor (down from 405th in 2024), the 1,280th most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 1,291st in 2019) and the most popular Turkish Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Kamil Tolon ranks 406 out of 426. Before him are John Whitehurst, Roger C. Field, Joy Mangano, Charles Ammi Cutter, Herbert E. Ives, and Clarence Birdseye. After him are Marc Andreessen, Alfred Carlton Gilbert, Harold Stephen Black, Lawrence Hargrave, Charles F. Kettering, and Arunachalam Muruganantham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Kamil Tolon ranks 404. Before him are Zoltán Várkonyi, Wendy Barrie, Zohra Sehgal, Tip O'Neill, John Le Mesurier, and Kees Mijnders. After him are Harry Hay, Roger Verey, Les Brown, Kathleen Ollerenshaw, Erland Herkenrath, and Studs Terkel. Among people deceased in 1978, Kamil Tolon ranks 262. Before him are Dan Dailey, Pavel Antokolsky, Wendy Barrie, Ray Noble, Hugh MacDiarmid, and Theresa Weld. After him are Jean Claessens, Ruth Etting, Kathryn McGuire, Selwyn Lloyd, Malvina Reynolds, and William Grant Still.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Kamil Tolon ranks 1,280 out of 1,347. Before him are Aykut Kocaman (1965), Mehmet Topal (1986), Mehmet Kurtuluş (1972), Berat Albayrak (1978), Nilüfer (1955), and Aristidis Akratopoulos (1900). After him are Afra Saraçoğlu (1997), Demet Akbağ (1959), Ayşegül Aldinç (1957), Ebru Şahin (1994), Akif Pirinçci (1959), and Cem Yılmaz (1973).

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Among inventors born in Türkiye, Kamil Tolon ranks 1. 

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