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Tommy Flowers

1905 - 1998

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Thomas Harold Flowers MBE (22 December 1905 – 28 October 1998) was an English engineer with the British General Post Office. During World War II, Flowers designed and built Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic computer, to help decipher encrypted German messages. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tommy Flowers is the 346th most popular engineer (down from 339th in 2019), the 5,319th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,957th in 2019) and the 41st most popular British Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Tommy Flowers ranks 346 out of 389. Before him are T. Keith Glennan, Julius Kühn, R. J. Mitchell, Harry Ricardo, Anatoly Blagonravov, and Pat Symonds. After him are Chuck Peddle, Pavel Pavel, Willy Rampf, Bob Bell, Mehdi Jomaa, and Willy Ley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Tommy Flowers ranks 379. Before him are Enrico Rivolta, Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan, Leni Junker, Tex Ritter, Pentti Haanpää, and Oleg Zhakov. After him are Jule Styne, Leroy Carr, Constant Lambert, David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter, Mulk Raj Anand, and John Hoyt. Among people deceased in 1998, Tommy Flowers ranks 299. Before him are Aleksey Spiridonov, John Pulman, Dušan Pašek, Boris Tatushin, Charles Korvin, and Dan Osman. After him are Sam Balter, Daniel Massey, E. M. S. Namboodiripad, Valerie Hobson, Rudy Dhaenens, and Hammond Innes.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Tommy Flowers ranks 5,321 out of 8,785. Before him are Julia Donaldson (1948), Clive Bunker (1946), Eddie Jobson (1955), Ann Todd (1907), John James (1914), and Asa Butterfield (1997). After him are Richard Meinertzhagen (1878), Jan Morris (1926), Nigella Lawson (1960), Howard Marks (1945), Janet Simpson (1944), and Adebayo Akinfenwa (1982).

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Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, Tommy Flowers ranks 41. Before him are Jesse Ramsden (1735), Isaac Roberts (1829), Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford (1893), R. J. Mitchell (1895), Harry Ricardo (1885), and Pat Symonds (1953). After him are Bob Bell (1958), John Lombe (1693), Kevin Warwick (1954), Tom Kilburn (1921), Pat Fry (1964), and Mike Gascoyne (1963).

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