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The 100 known most prolific inventors based on worldwide utility patents are shown in the following table. While in many cases this is the number of utility patents granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, it may include utility patents granted by other countries, as noted by the source references for an inventor.
Hart wrote the 1999 follow-up A View from the Year 3000, [33] voiced in the perspective of a person from that future year and ranking the most influential people in history. Roughly half the entries are fictional people from 2000 to 3000, but the remainder are taken mostly from the 1992 ranking, with some sequence changes. [34] [35]
Celebrity 100 was an annual list compiled and published by Forbes magazine from 1999 to 2020, preceded by the Forbes Top 40 entertainers list. Until 2014, the rankings were made based on a complex combination of factors, including earnings, social media following, magazine covers and a range of qualitative metrics, with the aim of "measuring power".
Time 100 is a list of the top 100 most influential people, assembled by the American news magazine Time.First published in 1999 as the result of a debate among American academics, politicians, and journalists, the list is now a highly publicized annual event.
JCI selects 10 outstanding young people under 40 who live the JCI Mission in extraordinary ways. [ 1 ] It was founded by the 1983 JCI World President Kjell Peterson and first introduced at the 1983 JCI World Congress in Taipei.
This page shows the 50 accounts with the most followers on the social media platform Instagram, with each amount rounded down to the nearest million followers. [1] The most-followed account is Instagram's own account.
As of January 2025, American singer-songwriter Bruno Mars is the artist with the most monthly listeners. He is followed by Canadian singer-songwriter The Weeknd, who was the first artist to surpass 100 million monthly listeners, while American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift was the first female artist and second overall. [18]
500 million [10] 700 million [11] French: Detectives, Maigret, romans durs 570 Belgian: Enid Blyton: 600 million [12] English Children's literature, Noddy, The Famous Five, The Secret Seven: 800 British J. K. Rowling: 600 million [13] 600 million [13] English young adult, fantasy, crime fiction, including the Harry Potter series 22 British ...