DESIGNER

Battista Farina

1893 - 1966

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Battista Pininfarina (born Battista Farina, nicknamed "Pinin"; 2 November 1893 – 3 April 1966) was an Italian automobile designer and the founder of the Carrozzeria Pininfarina coachbuilding company, a name associated with many well known postwar cars. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Battista Farina has received more than 206,802 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Battista Farina is the 25th most popular designer (up from 29th in 2019), the 1,363rd most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,386th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Italian Designer.

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  • 60.15

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.51

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among DESIGNERS

Among designers, Battista Farina ranks 25 out of 104. Before him are Exekias, Thomas Chippendale, Miuccia Prada, René Lalique, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, and Philippe Starck. After him are Manolo Blahnik, Raymond Loewy, Iris Apfel, Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, Pierre Balmain, and Claude Garamond.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Battista Farina ranks 54. Before him are Emmy Göring, Roy O. Disney, Allen Dulles, Ernst Toller, Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma, and Vsevolod Pudovkin. After him are Erwin Piscator, Nicholas J. Spykman, Walter Christaller, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, Ernst Öpik, and Hans Scharoun. Among people deceased in 1966, Battista Farina ranks 42. Before him are Gino Severini, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Alfred Naujocks, Lao She, Charlotte Cooper, and Hannes Kolehmainen. After him are Siegfried Kracauer, Erwin Piscator, Stanisław Jerzy Lec, Elizabeth Arden, Frank Lentini, and Jisaburō Ozawa.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Battista Farina ranks 1,363 out of 5,161. Before him are Paolo Giovio (1483), Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (-49), Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727), Carlo Gambino (1902), Liliana Cavani (1933), and Alfredo Ferrari (1932). After him are Renato Dulbecco (1914), Walter Bonatti (1930), Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri (1667), Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz (1936), Musa of Parthia (-40), and Franco Alfano (1875).

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Among DESIGNERS In Italy

Among designers born in Italy, Battista Farina ranks 9. Before him are Gianni Versace (1946), Aldus Manutius (1449), Giorgetto Giugiaro (1938), Valentino (1932), Nina Ricci (1883), and Miuccia Prada (1949). After him are Salvatore Ferragamo (1898), Giambattista Bodoni (1740), Laura Biagiotti (1943), Enzo Mari (1932), Milena Canonero (1946), and Piero Tosi (1927).

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