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Sequoyah

1770 - 1843

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Sequoyah ( sə-QUOY-yə; Cherokee: ᏍᏏᏉᏯ, Ssiquoya, or ᏎᏉᏯ, Sequoya, pronounced [seɡʷoja]; c. 1770 – August 1843), also known as George Gist or George Guess, was a Native American polymath and neographer of the Cherokee Nation. In 1821, Sequoyah completed his Cherokee syllabary, enabling reading and writing in the Cherokee language. One of the first North American Indigenous groups to gain a written language, the Cherokee Nation officially adopted the syllabary in 1825, helping to unify a forcibly divided nation with new ways of communication and a sense of independence. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sequoyah is the 192nd most popular inventor (down from 143rd in 2019), the 3,198th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,941st in 2019) and the 53rd most popular American Inventor.

Sequoyah is most famous for creating the Cherokee alphabet.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Sequoyah ranks 192 out of 426. Before him are Fausto Veranzio, Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff, Johann Jacob Schweppe, Arnold Orville Beckman, Lucien Olivier, and Larry Sanger. After him are Johann Christoph Denner, George de Mestral, Viktor Schauberger, Ottaviano Petrucci, Garrett Morgan, and J. Presper Eckert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1770, Sequoyah ranks 31. Before him are Charles Emmanuel, Prince of Carignano, Zaman Shah Durrani, Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, François Étienne de Kellermann, Lucile Desmoulins, and Dominique Vandamme. After him are Princess Maria Christina of Saxony, Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau, Étienne Pivert de Senancour, Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy, Gabriel Jean Joseph Molitor, and Georges Mouton. Among people deceased in 1843, Sequoyah ranks 15. Before him are Theodoros Kolokotronis, John Armstrong Jr., Marie Anne Lenormand, Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, Robert Southey, and Peter Wittgenstein. After him are Charles Macintosh, Alexis Bouvard, Casimir Delavigne, Miguel Ricardo de Álava, Jakob Friedrich Fries, and Ippolito Rosellini.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sequoyah ranks 3,198 out of 20,380. Before him are Robert Hansen (1939), Anikka Albrite (1988), Moses Finley (1912), Irene Cara (1959), Herbert Blumer (1900), and Maxwell D. Taylor (1901). After him are Danny Sullivan (1950), Diane Ladd (1935), Tom Savini (1946), Judith Resnik (1949), Michael Kelly (1969), and Brandon deWilde (1942).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Sequoyah ranks 53. Before him are Elizabeth Holmes (1984), Alfred Vail (1807), Robert Metcalfe (1946), Harold Eugene Edgerton (1903), Arnold Orville Beckman (1900), and Larry Sanger (1968). After him are Garrett Morgan (1877), J. Presper Eckert (1919), Eunice Newton Foote (1819), Royal Rife (1888), Melvil Dewey (1851), and Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878).

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