Racing Driver

Gilles Villeneuve

Canadian racing driver

1950 - 1982

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His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2024). Gilles Villeneuve is the 12th most popular racing driver (up from 16th in 2024), the 19th most popular biography from Canada (up from 23rd in 2019) and the most popular Canadian Racing Driver.

Gilles Villeneuve is most famous for being a French-Canadian Formula One driver who won the World Drivers' Championship in 1977.

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Gilles Villeneuve ranks #19 among 2,294 people in Pantheon born in Canada, inside the top 1% of that group.

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Gilles Villeneuve's biography appears in 42 language editions of Wikipedia, more than 92% of all Racing Drivers.

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Despite a life of just 32 years, Gilles Villeneuve ranks #12 among all Racing Drivers in history.

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Among Racing Drivers

Among racing drivers, Gilles Villeneuve ranks 12 out of 1,204. Before him are Juan Manuel Fangio, James Hunt, Nelson Piquet, Emerson Fittipaldi, Alberto Ascari, and Giuseppe Farina. After him are Keke Rosberg, Nigel Mansell, Ken Miles, Jackie Stewart, Jochen Rindt, and Roland Ratzenberger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Gilles Villeneuve ranks 17. Before him are Vicente del Bosque, Sahle-Work Zewde, Stevie Wonder, Jim Mattis, Goran Bregović, and Steve Wozniak. After him are Ed Harris, Robbie Coltrane, Néstor Kirchner, Jody Williams, Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, and William Sadler. Among people deceased in 1982, Gilles Villeneuve ranks 23. Before him are Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Vasily Chuikov, Karl von Frisch, Erving Goffman, Stanford Moore, and Louis Aragon. After him are Glenn Gould, Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, Barack Obama Sr., Hugo Theorell, Gala Dalí, and Georges Perec.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Gilles Villeneuve ranks 19 out of 2,294. Before him are Frank Gehry (1929), Jim Carrey (1962), Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874), Michael J. Fox (1961), Erving Goffman (1922), and Jack L. Warner (1892). After him are Glenn Gould (1932), Margaret Atwood (1939), Saul Bellow (1915), Marshall McLuhan (1911), Richard E. Taylor (1929), and David Cronenberg (1943).

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Among Racing Drivers In Canada

Among racing drivers born in Canada, Gilles Villeneuve ranks 1. After him are Jacques Villeneuve (1971), Jacques Villeneuve (1953), George Eaton (1945), Lance Stroll (1998), Bill Brack (1935), Allen Berg (1961), Nicholas Latifi (1995), Alex Tagliani (1973), Greg Moore (1975), Paul Tracy (1968), and Robert Wickens (1989).

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