Ayrton Senna
1960 - 1994
HPI 82.7290 languages
Ayrton Senna is most famous for being a Brazilian racing driver who won three Formula One world championships. He was killed in a crash at the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix.
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Racing Drivers from Brazil
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Trending Racing Drivers from Brazil This Week
The top 10 Racing Drivers from Brazil trending on Wikipedia in the past 7 days, with a quick note on what drove the spike.
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Ayrton Senna
1960 - 1994
Trending in Hungarian (#55) and Portuguese (#138) Wikipedia (170 views, on Jul 17).
This page contains a list of the greatest Brazilians Racing Drivers. The pantheon dataset contains 1,204 Racing Drivers, 34 of which were born in Brazil. This makes Brazil the birth place of the 8th most number of Racing Drivers behind Spain and Japan.
Top 10 Brazilian Racing Drivers
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Brazilian Racing Drivers of all time. This list of famous Brazilian Racing Drivers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity. Visit the rankings page to view the entire list of Brazilian Racing Drivers.
#1 #2 
Nelson Piquet
b. 1952
HPI 74.8355 languagesNelson Piquet is most famous for being the first Formula One driver to win three world championships.
#3 
Emerson Fittipaldi
b. 1946
HPI 74.2949 languagesEmerson Fittipaldi is most famous for winning the Formula One world championship in 1972 and 1974.
#4 
Rubens Barrichello
b. 1972
HPI 67.5157 languagesBrazilian racing driver
#5 
Wilson Fittipaldi Júnior
1943 - 2024
HPI 65.7325 languagesBrazilian racecar driver and team owner
#6 
Carlos Pace
1944 - 1977
HPI 64.1626 languagesBrazilian racing driver (1944-1977)
#7 
Felipe Massa
b. 1981
HPI 62.6368 languagesBrazilian racing driver
#8 
Roberto Moreno
b. 1959
HPI 60.2929 languagesBrazilian racing driver
#9 
Bruno Senna
b. 1983
HPI 60.2540 languagesBrazilian racing driver
#10 
Chico Serra
b. 1957
HPI 59.1122 languagesBrazilian racing driver
People by Birth Decade
Browse notable Brazilians Racing Drivers grouped by birth decade. Each decade shows the top 10 by HPI; expand to see everyone.
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1920s(1)
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Overlapping Lives
Which Racing Drivers were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 25 most globally memorable Racing Drivers since 1700.
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