Gilles Villeneuve
1950 - 1982
HPI 73.0742 languages
Gilles Villeneuve is most famous for being a French-Canadian Formula One driver who won the World Drivers' Championship in 1977.
The Most Famous
Racing Drivers from Canada
13 notable people
This page contains a list of the greatest Canadians Racing Drivers. The pantheon dataset contains 1,204 Racing Drivers, 13 of which were born in Canada. This makes Canada the birth place of the 19th most number of Racing Drivers behind South Africa and New Zealand.
Top 10 Canadian Racing Drivers
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Canadian Racing Drivers of all time. This list of famous Canadian 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 Canadian Racing Drivers.
#1 #2 
Jacques Villeneuve
b. 1971
HPI 65.2054 languagesCanadian racecar driver
#3 
Jacques Villeneuve
b. 1953
HPI 61.9617 languagesCanadian racing driver
#4 
George Eaton
b. 1945
HPI 60.5020 languagesCanadian former racing driver
#5 
Lance Stroll
b. 1998
HPI 51.4051 languagesCanadian racing driver
#6 
Bill Brack
b. 1935
HPI 48.3717 languagesCanadian former racing driver
#7 
Allen Berg
b. 1961
HPI 47.3421 languagesCanadian former racing driver
#8 
Nicholas Latifi
b. 1995
HPI 47.0138 languagesCanadian racing driver
#9 
Alex Tagliani
b. 1973
HPI 44.7215 languagesCanadian racecar driver
#10 
Greg Moore
1975 - 1999
HPI 44.5215 languagesCanadian open-wheel racing driver
People by Birth Decade
Browse notable Canadians Racing Drivers grouped by birth decade. Each decade shows the top 10 by HPI; expand to see everyone.
1990s(2)
1980s(2)
1960s(2)
1940s(1)
1930s(1)
Overlapping Lives
Which Racing Drivers were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 13 most globally memorable Racing Drivers since 1700.
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