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Pierre Charles L'Enfant

1754 - 1825

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Pierre "Peter" Charles L'Enfant (French: [pjɛʁ ʃɑʁl lɑ̃fɑ̃]; August 2, 1754 – June 14, 1825) was a French-American artist, professor, and military engineer. In 1791, L'Enfant designed the baroque-styled plan for the development of Washington, D.C., after it was designated to become the capital of the United States following its relocation from Philadelphia. His work, known as the L'Enfant Plan, inspired plans for other major world capitals, including Brasília, New Delhi, and Canberra. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Charles L'Enfant is the 183rd most popular engineer (up from 193rd in 2019), the 3,237th most popular biography from France (up from 3,332nd in 2019) and the 25th most popular French Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Pierre Charles L'Enfant ranks 183 out of 389. Before him are Alexander Mozhaysky, Gérard Larrousse, John Smeaton, Ma Jun, Kerim Kerimov, and Gotthilf Hagen. After him are Pierre-Paul Riquet, Kelly Johnson, Agustín de Betancourt, Genichi Taguchi, Eduard Totleben, and Louis Dollo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1754, Pierre Charles L'Enfant ranks 36. Before him are William Murdoch, Alejandro Malaspina, Louis Claude Richard, Karl Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Claude François de Malet, and Nikolay Rumyantsev. After him are Nicolas Baudin, Franz Anton Hoffmeister, Peter Winter, Juan José Elhuyar, Isaac René Guy le Chapelier, and José Antonio Pavón Jiménez. Among people deceased in 1825, Pierre Charles L'Enfant ranks 25. Before him are Johann Friedrich Pfaff, Princess Louise of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Karl Mollweide, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Vladimir Borovikovsky, and Jan Václav Voříšek. After him are Pierre Gaveaux, Peter Winter, Juan Martín Díez, Johann Karl Burckhardt, Wilhelm Hemprich, and Utagawa Toyokuni.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Charles L'Enfant ranks 3,237 out of 6,770. Before him are Vincent Lindon (1959), Émile Coste (1862), Marcel Granet (1884), Pierre Robert Olivétan (1505), Antoine Coypel (1661), and Guy Ropartz (1864). After him are Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau (1770), Charles Pinot Duclos (1704), Vladimir Posner (1934), Toulo de Graffenried (1914), Guy Laroche (1921), and Charles Wolf (1827).

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Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Pierre Charles L'Enfant ranks 25. Before him are Gabriel Voisin (1880), Pierre Berthier (1782), Antoine de Chézy (1718), Louis Charles Breguet (1880), Alphonse Pénaud (1850), and Gérard Larrousse (1940). After him are Pierre-Paul Riquet (1609), Louis Dollo (1857), Jorge Chávez (1887), Marc Isambard Brunel (1769), Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse (1822), and Philippe LeBon (1767).

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