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Alec Issigonis

1906 - 1988

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Sir Alexander Arnold Constantine Issigonis (Greek: σερ Άλεκ, Αλέξανδρος Αρνόλδος Κωνσταντίνος Ισηγόνης) (18 November 1906 – 2 October 1988) was a British-Greek automotive designer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alec Issigonis has received more than 429,199 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Alec Issigonis is the 156th most popular engineer (up from 177th in 2019), the 777th most popular biography from Turkey (up from 779th in 2019) and the most popular Turkish Engineer.

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  • 21

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  • 4.81

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  • 2.56

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Alec Issigonis ranks 156 out of 323Before him are Hellmuth Walter, Menno van Coehoorn, John Loudon McAdam, Alexander Mozhaysky, Georges Leclanché, and Ivan Yarkovsky. After him are Giuseppe Colombo, Marc Seguin, John Bagot Glubb, Léon Charles Thévenin, Gérard Larrousse, and Pierre-Émile Martin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Alec Issigonis ranks 140Before him are Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, Francisco Ayala, Jørgen Juve, Gabriel Ramanantsoa, Virginia Hall, and Missak Manouchian. After him are Eddie Albert, Ladislao Vajda, Igor Moiseyev, J. R. Jayewardene, José Della Torre, and Shigemaru Takenokoshi. Among people deceased in 1988, Alec Issigonis ranks 89Before him are Viktors Arājs, Mikha'il Na'ima, Seán MacBride, Fritz Heider, Charles Addams, and Hillel Slovak. After him are Hamengkubuwono IX, Aparicio Méndez, Erich Fried, Paolo Stoppa, Francis Ponge, and Yuli Daniel.

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In Turkey

Among people born in Turkey, Alec Issigonis ranks 777 out of 1,301Before him are Polemon I of Pontus (-65), Euphorbus (null), Amcazade Köprülü Hüseyin Pasha (1644), Ara Güler (1928), Tatikios (1100), and Nevşehirli Damat Ibrahim Pasha (1666). After him are Antiochus Kantemir (1708), Necip Fazıl Kısakürek (1904), George, Emperor of Trebizond (1255), Alypius the Stylite (700), Kuber (null), and Roza Eskenazi (1895).

Among ENGINEERS In Turkey

Among engineers born in Turkey, Alec Issigonis ranks 1