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Louis Lumière

1864 - 1948

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Louis Jean Lumière (French: [lwi ʒɑ̃ lymjɛʁ]; 5 October 1864 – 6 June 1948) was a French engineer and industrialist who played a key role in the development of photography and cinema. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louis Lumière is the 268th most popular inventor (down from 266th in 2019), the 3,665th most popular biography from France (down from 3,656th in 2019) and the 35th most popular French Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Louis Lumière ranks 268 out of 426. Before him are Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Angelo Moriondo, Walter Zapp, Gerald Bull, Ray Dolby, and Henri Fabre. After him are Alexandre Alexeieff, John Barnard, Colin Archer, Léon Gaumont, Franz Xaver Gabelsberger, and Jacob W. Davis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Louis Lumière ranks 113. Before him are Futabatei Shimei, Toktogul Satylganov, Vladimir Steklov, Alexander Dutov, Vera Komissarzhevskaya, and Nathan Birnbaum. After him are Sándor Simonyi-Semadam, Léon Gaumont, Miina Härma, Israel Zangwill, Jens Ferdinand Willumsen, and Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah. Among people deceased in 1948, Louis Lumière ranks 117. Before him are Carole Landis, Lajos Bíró, Edgar Leonard, Fred Niblo, Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte, and Richard von Kühlmann. After him are Abraham Brill, Avetis Aharonian, C. Aubrey Smith, Zhou Fohai, Aldo Leopold, and Hulusi Behçet.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis Lumière ranks 3,665 out of 6,770. Before him are Adrien René Franchet (1834), Micheline Ostermeyer (1922), André Cardinal Destouches (1672), Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau (1851), Émile Duclaux (1840), and Henri Fabre (1882). After him are Guillaume Philibert Duhesme (1766), Éric Serra (1959), Claude Bourgelat (1712), Georges Descrières (1930), Jean Robic (1921), and Philippe Étancelin (1896).

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Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, Louis Lumière ranks 35. Before him are Charles Xavier Thomas (1785), Wan Hu (1510), Georges Hébert (1875), François Isaac de Rivaz (1752), Alphonse Beau de Rochas (1815), and Henri Fabre (1882). After him are Léon Gaumont (1864), Georges Beuchat (1910), André Blondel (1863), and Franky Zapata (1978).

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