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Leonardo da Vinci

1452 - 1519

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Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 1452 - 2 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially rested on his achievements as a painter, he has also become known for his notebooks, in which he made drawings and notes on a variety of subjects, including anatomy, astronomy, botany, cartography, painting, and palaeontology. Leonardo is widely regarded to have been a genius who epitomised the Renaissance humanist ideal, and his collective works comprise a contribution to later generations of artists matched only by that of his younger contemporary Michelangelo. Born out of wedlock to a successful notary and a lower-class woman in, or near, Vinci, he was educated in Florence by the Italian painter and sculptor Andrea del Verrocchio. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Leonardo da Vinci is the most popular inventor, the most popular biography from Italy and the most popular Italian Inventor.

Leonardo da Vinci is most famous for his paintings of the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.

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Among inventors, Leonardo da Vinci ranks 1 out of 426. After him are Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Johannes Gutenberg, James Watt, Karl Benz, Elon Musk, Alexander Graham Bell, Guglielmo Marconi, Henry Ford, Louis Braille, and Charles Babbage.

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Among people born in 1452, Leonardo da Vinci ranks 1. After him are Richard III of England, Girolamo Savonarola, Ferdinand II of Aragon, Ludovico Sforza, Abraham Zacuto, Joanna, Princess of Portugal, Prospero Colonna, Idris Bitlisi, and Davide Ghirlandaio. Among people deceased in 1519, Leonardo da Vinci ranks 1. After him are Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, Lucrezia Borgia, Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino, Johann Tetzel, Michael Wolgemut, Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua, Juan de Flandes, Maddalena de' Medici, Madeleine de La Tour d'Auvergne, and Hōjō Sōun.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Leonardo da Vinci ranks 1 out of 5,161. After him are Marco Polo (1254), Galileo Galilei (1564), Christopher Columbus (1451), Julius Caesar (-100), Michelangelo (1475), Archimedes (-287), Dante Alighieri (1265), Augustus (-63), Antonio Vivaldi (1678), Raphael (1483), and Niccolò Machiavelli (1469).

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Among inventors born in Italy, Leonardo da Vinci ranks 1. After him are Guglielmo Marconi (1874), Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655), Antonio Meucci (1808), Johann Maria Farina (1685), Ottaviano Petrucci (1466), Angelo Moriondo (1851), Max Valier (1895), Giovanni Caselli (1815), and Andrew Viterbi (1935).

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