INVENTOR

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 182,558 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. André Michelin is the 117th most popular inventor (down from 111th in 2019), the 1,350th most popular biography from France (down from 1,272nd in 2019) and the 19th 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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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, André Michelin ranks 117 out of 426. Before him are Lee de Forest, Léon Theremin, Alfred Krupp, Zacharias Janssen, Charles-Émile Reynaud, and Josiah Warren. After him are Hiram Maxim, Theobald Boehm, Percy Spencer, Josef Ressel, Johann Jacob Schweppe, and Henri Giffard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1853, André Michelin ranks 27. Before him are Franz I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Alphonse Bertillon, Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, Emil Jellinek, Kitasato Shibasaburō, and Katharina Schratt. After him are Louise Abbéma, Flinders Petrie, Vladimir Korolenko, Antonio Salandra, Francesco Filippini, and Sophia Perovskaya. Among people deceased in 1931, André Michelin ranks 30. Before him are Isabella, Princess of Asturias, Carin Göring, Prince Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aosta, Martinus Beijerinck, Kitasato Shibasaburō, and Wilhelm von Gloeden. After him are Chandra Shekhar Azad, Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Thomas Lipton, Giovanni Boldini, Vincent d'Indy, and Jaime, Duke of Madrid.

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In France

Among people born in France, André Michelin ranks 1,350 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Regnault (1754), Raymond Domenech (1952), François-Adrien Boieldieu (1775), Antonio I, Prince of Monaco (1661), Aegidius (450), and Adalbert of Magdeburg (910). After him are Louis III of Anjou (1403), Richardis (840), Georges Prêtre (1924), Sebastian Castellio (1515), Henri Désiré Landru (1869), and Françoise Gilot (1921).

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Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, André Michelin ranks 19. Before him are Étienne-Jules Marey (1830), André-Jacques Garnerin (1769), Alphonse Bertillon (1853), Louis Le Prince (1841), Clément Ader (1841), and Charles-Émile Reynaud (1844). After him are Henri Giffard (1825), Jean-Pierre Blanchard (1753), Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (1817), Édouard Branly (1844), Guillaume Amontons (1663), and Charles Cros (1842).

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