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RACING DRIVER

Eric Thompson

1919 - 2015

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Eric David Thompson (4 November 1919 – 22 August 2015) was a British racing driver, book dealer and insurance broker. He participated in sports car racing between 1949 and 1955 taking his greatest success by finishing third in the 1951 Les 24 Heures du Mans and took part in the 1952 RAC British Grand Prix. Thompson worked as a broker for Lloyd's of London. His racing career started in 1948, racing cars for HRG. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eric Thompson has received more than 1,125,539 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Eric Thompson is the 374th most popular racing driver, the 3,640th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 64th most popular British Racing Driver.

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  • 45.94

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Eric Thompson ranks 374 out of 888. Before him are Ben Pon, Patrick Nève, Loris Capirossi, Arthur Legat, Joe Kelly, and Mário de Araújo Cabral. After him are John Miles, Innes Ireland, Alan Brown, Giorgio Francia, Élie Bayol, and Ken Kavanagh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Eric Thompson ranks 238. Before him are Vicente Asensi, Richard Scarry, Frances Bay, Annemarie Renger, Bahriye Üçok, and Jocelyn Brando. After him are Delfo Cabrera, Alan Brown, Åke Seyffarth, Veikko Huhtanen, Frank Piasecki, and Raúl Francisco Primatesta. Among people deceased in 2015, Eric Thompson ranks 301. Before him are Helmut Dietl, Dick Van Patten, Nurlan Balgimbayev, Boris Shilkov, Evelyn Furtsch, and Marília Pêra. After him are Jean Vautrin, Joseph Engelberger, Candida Royalle, Nina Companeez, Mary Ellen Trainor, and Scott Weiland.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Eric Thompson ranks 3,640 out of 7,765. Before him are Nicola Sturgeon (1970), Abdalqadir as-Sufi (1930), Anthony de la Roché (1700), Richard Thomas Lowe (1802), Barnes Wallis (1887), and Joe Fagan (1921). After him are Nathaniel Parker (1962), John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll (1680), Clive Bell (1881), Edward Carpenter (1844), Major Ritchie (1870), and Tobias Furneaux (1735).

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Among RACING DRIVERS In United Kingdom

Among racing drivers born in United Kingdom, Eric Thompson ranks 64. Before him are Brian Redman (1937), Al Pease (1921), Joe Fry (1915), Trevor Taylor (1936), Chris Craft (1939), and Peter Whitehead (1914). After him are John Miles (1943), Innes Ireland (1930), Alan Brown (1919), Richard Burns (1971), Ivor Bueb (1923), and Richard Attwood (1940).

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