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André Michelin

1853 - 1931

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André Jules Michelin (16 January 1853 – 4 April 1931) was a French industrialist who, with his brother Édouard (1859–1940), founded the Michelin Tyre Company (Compagnie Générale des Établissements Michelin) in 1888 in the French city of Clermont-Ferrand. In 1900, André Michelin published the first Michelin Guide, the purpose of which was to promote tourism by car, thereby supporting his tyre manufacturing operation. In 1886, 33-year-old André Michelin abandoned his career as a successful Parisian engineer to take over his grandfather's failing agricultural goods and farm equipment business. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of André Michelin has received more than 157,548 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). André Michelin is the 111th most popular inventor (up from 118th in 2019), the 1,276th most popular biography from France (up from 1,318th in 2019) and the 17th most popular French Inventor.

André Michelin was a French industrialist who founded the Michelin tire company in 1889. He is most famous for his invention of the Michelin Man, which is a cartoon figure used to represent the company.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, André Michelin ranks 111 out of 354Before him are Jacque Fresco, William Webb Ellis, Joseph Pilates, Vladimir K. Zworykin, Zacharias Janssen, and Mary the Jewess. After him are Samuel Crompton, Percy Spencer, Johann Philipp Reis, Theobald Boehm, Elias Howe, and Alfred Krupp.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1853, André Michelin ranks 26Before him are Oskar Potiorek, Hussein Kamel of Egypt, Hans Christian Gram, Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, Emil Jellinek, and Katharina Schratt. After him are Kitasato Shibasaburō, Vladimir Korolenko, Flinders Petrie, Louise Abbéma, Vladimir Shukhov, and Miguel, Duke of Braganza. Among people deceased in 1931, André Michelin ranks 27Before him are Eugène Ysaÿe, Carin Göring, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Armand Fallières, Martinus Beijerinck, and Nathan Söderblom. After him are Prince Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aosta, Kitasato Shibasaburō, Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Chandra Shekhar Azad, Giovanni Boldini, and Vincent d'Indy.

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In France

Among people born in France, André Michelin ranks 1,276 out of 6,011Before him are Édouard Vuillard (1868), Vanessa Paradis (1972), Stéphane Grappelli (1908), Jean Giraudoux (1882), Eugène Atget (1857), and Aimé Bonpland (1773). After him are Margaret of France, Queen of England and Hungary (1158), Maurice Thorez (1900), Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy (1435), Pierre Larousse (1817), Michel de Certeau (1925), and Henri, Count of Paris (1908).

Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, André Michelin ranks 17Before him are Jacques de Vaucanson (1709), André-Jacques Garnerin (1769), Claude Chappe (1763), Alphonse Bertillon (1853), Étienne-Jules Marey (1830), and Charles-Émile Reynaud (1844). After him are Clément Ader (1841), Jean-Pierre Blanchard (1753), Henri Giffard (1825), Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (1817), Louis Le Prince (1841), and Joseph Monier (1823).