RACING DRIVER

Elio de Angelis

1958 - 1986

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Elio de Angelis (26 March 1958 – 15 May 1986) was an Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1979 to 1986. De Angelis won two Formula One Grands Prix across eight seasons. De Angelis competed in Formula One for Shadow, Lotus and Brabham, winning two Grands Prix across eight seasons. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elio de Angelis has received more than 586,232 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Elio de Angelis is the 90th most popular racing driver (up from 92nd in 2019), the 1,892nd most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,805th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Italian Racing Driver.

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  • 62.84

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Elio de Angelis ranks 90 out of 1,080. Before him are Tom Pryce, Björn Waldegård, Jacques Villeneuve, Pierre Levegh, Rubens Barrichello, and Stig Blomqvist. After him are Ángel Nieto, Luigi Fagioli, Juha Kankkunen, Piero Taruffi, Ken Block, and Guy Ligier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Elio de Angelis ranks 61. Before him are Javier Aguirre, Ghassan Massoud, Sergei Krikalev, Marg Helgenberger, Sooronbay Jeenbekov, and Adrian Newey. After him are Holly Hunter, Bernardo Arévalo, Éric Zemmour, Oscar Schmidt, Goran Hadžić, and Pekka Haavisto. Among people deceased in 1986, Elio de Angelis ranks 71. Before him are Alfredo Binda, Bernard Malamud, Ernst Neufert, Maurice Duruflé, Lyudmila Rudenko, and Sandro Puppo. After him are Cheikh Anta Diop, Alexandre Tansman, Emilio Fernández, J. Allen Hynek, André Leroi-Gourhan, and Aleksandr Akimov.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Elio de Angelis ranks 1,892 out of 5,161. Before him are Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica (-230), Gian Francesco Malipiero (1882), Giovanna Garzoni (1600), Sandro Puppo (1918), Eleanor of Anjou (1289), and Lucius Aemilius Paullus (-300). After him are Junio Valerio Borghese (1906), Giuseppe Pella (1902), Luigi Fagioli (1898), Niccolò de' Conti (1395), Rodoald (626), and Marcus Tullius Tiro (-103).

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Among RACING DRIVERS In Italy

Among racing drivers born in Italy, Elio de Angelis ranks 15. Before him are Riccardo Patrese (1954), Maria Teresa de Filippis (1926), Michele Alboreto (1956), Lucien Bianchi (1934), Arturo Merzario (1943), and Vittorio Brambilla (1937). After him are Luigi Fagioli (1898), Piero Taruffi (1906), Eugenio Castellotti (1930), Andrea de Cesaris (1959), Ludovico Scarfiotti (1933), and Luigi Musso (1924).

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