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André Citroën

1878 - 1935

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André-Gustave Citroën (French: [ɑ̃dʁe ɡystav sitʁɔɛn]; 5 February 1878 – 3 July 1935) was a French industrialist and the founder of French automaker Citroën. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of André Citroën has received more than 352,423 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia. André Citroën is the 12th most popular engineer (down from 11th in 2019), the 499th most popular biography from France (down from 408th in 2019) and the 4th most popular French Engineer.

André Citroën is most famous for the introduction of the Citroën DS, the first mass-produced car with a unitary body, in 1955.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, André Citroën ranks 12 out of 389. Before him are Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Sergei Korolev, Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, and Umberto Nobile. After him are Otto Lilienthal, Alexei Kosygin, Leslie Groves, Anatoly Dyatlov, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, and Fritz Todt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, André Citroën ranks 10. Before him are John B. Watson, Martin Buber, Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia, Pancho Villa, Werner von Blomberg, and Gustav Stresemann. After him are Pyotr Wrangel, Lucien Febvre, Robert Walser, Ferenc Molnár, Alfred Döblin, and Paul Reynaud. Among people deceased in 1935, André Citroën ranks 13. Before him are Paul Signac, Emmy Noether, Arthur Henderson, Alban Berg, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, and Astrid of Sweden. After him are Carlos Gardel, Auguste Escoffier, Victor Grignard, Charles Richet, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, and Henri Barbusse.

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In France

Among people born in France, André Citroën ranks 499 out of 6,770. Before him are Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647), Jean-Marie Le Pen (1928), Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881), William II of England (1056), Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse (1045), and Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727). After him are Frédéric Bazille (1841), Paul Sabatier (1854), Jean-François Lyotard (1924), Henry I, Duke of Guise (1550), Paul Langevin (1872), and Aristide Briand (1862).

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Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, André Citroën ranks 4. Before him are Gustave Eiffel (1832), Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1796), and Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban (1633). After him are Villard de Honnecourt (1200), Paul Cornu (1881), Marcel Dassault (1892), Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt (1240), Marcel Renault (1872), Henri Farman (1874), André Courrèges (1923), and Henry Darcy (1803).

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