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Rank	Topic	Wikipedia views
1	James Watt	2,469
2	Isambard Kingdom Brunel	2,180
3	Eli Whitney, Jr.	1,796
4	Joseph Priestley	1,089
5	George Stephenson	768
6	Henry Bessemer	596
7	Richard Arkwright	585
8	Erasmus Darwin	534
9	Richard Trevithick	503
10	Jethro Tull (agriculturist)	483
11	Josiah Wedgwood	474
12	Montgolfier brothers	459
13	Samuel Slater	442
14	Thomas Telford	439
15	Thomas Newcomen	309
16	Matthew Boulton	257
17	Robert Stephenson	257
18	Joseph Black	249
19	John Smeaton	242
20	Ned Ludd	219
21	John Cadbury	215
22	John Kay (flying shuttle)	175
23	Francis Cabot Lowell (businessman)	158
24	Abraham Darby I	156
25	William Henry Perkin	149
26	Thomas Savery	147
27	James Hargreaves	147
28	William Murdoch	120
29	Thomas Highs	120
30	John Loudon McAdam	114
31	James Brindley	110
32	John Wilkinson (industrialist)	98
33	Charles Tennant	95
34	Edmund Cartwright	87
35	Joseph Aspdin	72
36	R. E. B. Crompton	71
37	Abraham Darby III	70
38	Henry Maudslay	66
39	James Nasmyth	64
40	Nicolas Leblanc	61
41	James B. Francis	57
42	Matthew Murray	54
43	Benjamin Huntsman	52
44	Abraham Darby II	52
45	George Hudson	51
46	Henry Cort	47
47	William Allen (Quaker)	44
48	Samuel Bentham	42
49	William Jessop	42
50	Samuel Greg	42
51	Bryan Donkin	41
52	Daniel Leavitt	41
53	Thomas Hancock (inventor)	41
54	John Roebuck	37
55	Goldsworthy Gurney	37
56	Frederick Ayer	37
57	John Kay (spinning frame)	35
58	Warren James	35
59	John H. Hall (soldier)	35
60	Walter Hancock	34
61	Robert Forester Mushet	33
62	Patrick Tracy Jackson	30
63	John Wyatt (inventor)	30
64	William Cubitt	28
65	Alfred Lamert Dickens	28
66	Hugh Henshall	27
67	Jedediah Strutt	26
68	John Lombe	26
69	John Marshall (industrialist)	26
70	Sampson Lloyd	26
71	George Thomson (shipbuilder)	26
72	Thomas Hazlehurst (businessman)	24
73	Kirk Boott	24
74	Andrew Handyside and Company	22
75	James Douglas (businessman)	22
76	William Madison Wood	22
77	Benjamin Outram	21
78	William Radcliffe	21
79	George Turnbull (civil engineer)	21
80	Joseph Pease (railway pioneer)	20
81	Aimé Argand	20
82	James Keir	19
83	The Tafts of Mendon and Uxbridge	19
84	Walter Montgomerie Neilson	18
85	John Capron	17
86	Edward Pease (railway pioneer)	16
87	Robert Bald	16
88	Paul Moody (inventor)	15
89	Joseph Treffry	15
90	Daniel Day	15
91	Joseph Crosfield	14
92	Lieven Bauwens	14
93	William Hazledine	14
94	James Beaumont Neilson	13
95	Sarah Guppy	13
96	John Fowler (agricultural engineer)	12
97	Alexander Blair	12
98	Isaac Wilkinson	12
99	David Mushet	12
100	James Kennedy (engineer)	12
101	Benjamin Gott	11
102	Luke Taft	11
103	John Brogden (industrialist)	11
104	John Levett	11
105	Thaddeus Leavitt	11
106	William Weston (engineer)	11
107	Sir Robert Peel, 1st Baronet	10
108	George Sorocold	10
109	Joseph Wilkes	10
110	William James (railway promoter)	10
111	John Birkinshaw	10
112	Robert Rogerson	10
113	William Bald	10
114	William Cubitt (politician)	9
115	William Thorold	9
116	Thomas Warren	9
117	John Gilbert (agent)	9
118	James Cook Ayer	9
119	William Moorsom	8
120	Thomas Williams of Llanidan	8
121	George Samuel Fereday Smith	8
122	James Brogden (industrialist)	8
123	John Calley (engineer)	8
124	Pierre-Émile Martin	7
125	Robert Haldane Bradshaw	7
126	Sir Joseph Bailey, 1st Baronet	6
127	Alexander Brogden	6
128	William Haseldine Pepys	6
129	Nicholas Wood	6
130	Edward Bury	less than 5 views
131	Cranege brothers	less than 5 views
132	Frank Vickerman	less than 5 views
133	Holbrook Gaskell	less than 5 views
134	Eccles Shorrock	less than 5 views
135	John Lees (inventor)	less than 5 views
136	Charles Dance (motorist)	less than 5 views
137	John Brogden Jun. (industrialist)	less than 5 views
138	Francis Henry Crittall	less than 5 views
139	Joseph Cubitt	less than 5 views

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• 19th-century British people
• British revolutionaries
• Industrial Revolution
• People by revolution

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