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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 195,193 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Battista Farina is the 29th most popular designer (up from 35th in 2019), the 1,390th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,690th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Italian Designer.

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Among DESIGNERS

Among designers, Battista Farina ranks 29 out of 86Before him are Manolo Blahnik, Iris Apfel, Raymond Loewy, Miuccia Prada, Dieter Rams, and Philippe Starck. After him are Salvatore Ferragamo, Claude Garamond, Pierre Balmain, Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, Giambattista Bodoni, and Alexander McQueen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Battista Farina ranks 59Before him are Allen Dulles, Clemens Krauss, Roy O. Disney, Wallace Fard Muhammad, Nicholas J. Spykman, and Pierre Drieu La Rochelle. After him are Hans Scharoun, Ernst Öpik, Dorothy Parker, Ivan Panfilov, Edsel Ford, and Carl Værnet. Among people deceased in 1966, Battista Farina ranks 49Before him are Erwin Piscator, Lao She, Jisaburō Ozawa, Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, Stanisław Jerzy Lec, and Margaret Sanger. After him are Siegfried Kracauer, Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern, L. E. J. Brouwer, Edward Gordon Craig, Evelyn Waugh, and Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Battista Farina ranks 1,390 out of 4,668Before him are Margaret of Cortona (1247), Caesar Baronius (1538), Paolo Ruffini (1765), Andrea Alciato (1492), Veronica Giuliani (1660), and Angelo Scola (1941). After him are Trota of Salerno (1001), Isabella de' Medici (1542), Luisa of Naples and Sicily (1773), Francesco I d'Este, Duke of Modena (1610), Antonio Sant'Elia (1888), and Luigi Tenco (1938).

Among DESIGNERS In Italy

Among designers born in Italy, Battista Farina ranks 9Before 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 Stefano Gabbana (1962).