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Sydney Camm

1893 - 1966

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Sir Sydney Camm, CBE, FRAeS (5 August 1893 – 12 March 1966) was an English aeronautical engineer who contributed to many Hawker aircraft designs, from the biplanes of the 1920s to jet fighters. One particularly notable aircraft he designed was the Hawker Hurricane fighter. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sydney Camm is the 372nd most popular engineer (down from 359th in 2019), the 6,238th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,742nd in 2019) and the 51st most popular British Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Sydney Camm ranks 372 out of 389. Before him are Mike Coughlan, John Rennie the Elder, John Houbolt, James Allison, Rajeshwari Chatterjee, and Sergey Volkov. After him are Charles Ingram, C. H. Douglas, Naoki Hattori, James Key, Douglas H. Wheelock, and Tessy Thomas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Sydney Camm ranks 275. Before him are Saunders Lewis, Dorothy Dalton, John P. Marquand, Gladys Brockwell, Irving Bacon, and Harley Earl. After him is Frank Carlson. Among people deceased in 1966, Sydney Camm ranks 231. Before him are Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi, Ethel Clayton, Francis X. Bushman, Louis A. Johnson, Bimal Roy, and Carmelita Geraghty. After him are William Frawley, Harry F. Byrd, Don Branson, Jack London, Rameshwari Nehru, and Gertrude Berg.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Sydney Camm ranks 6,240 out of 8,785. Before him are Lynne Ramsay (1969), Craig Harrison (1974), Jane Taylor (1783), Lee Evans (1964), Damien Magee (1945), and Bernadette Devlin McAliskey (1947). After him are Charles Ingram (1963), David Kelly (1944), Simon Wells (1961), Eric Linklater (1899), Daley Thompson (1958), and Martin Atkinson (1971).

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Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, Sydney Camm ranks 51. Before him are Tom Kilburn (1921), Pat Fry (1964), Mike Gascoyne (1963), Mike Coughlan (1959), John Rennie the Elder (1761), and James Allison (1968). After him are Charles Ingram (1963), C. H. Douglas (1879), James Key (1972), Thomas Sopwith (1888), James Guthrie (1953), and Julia King, Baroness Brown of Cambridge (1954).

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