RACING DRIVER

Giuseppe Farina

1906 - 1966

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Emilio Giuseppe "Nino" Farina (Italian pronunciation: [dʒuˈzɛppe ˈniːno faˈriːna]; 30 October 1906 – 30 June 1966) was an Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1950 to 1956. Farina won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in its inaugural 1950 season with Alfa Romeo, and won five Grands Prix across seven seasons. Born in Turin, Farina was the son of Giovanni Farina, founder of Stabilimenti Farina. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giuseppe Farina has received more than 596,578 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Giuseppe Farina is the 11th most popular racing driver (down from 10th in 2019), the 581st most popular biography from Italy (down from 484th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Italian Racing Driver.

Giuseppe Farina is most famous for being the first man to win the Formula One World Championship.

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Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Giuseppe Farina ranks 11 out of 1,080Before him are Juan Manuel Fangio, James Hunt, Alain Prost, Ken Miles, Alberto Ascari, and Emerson Fittipaldi. After him are Nelson Piquet, Carroll Shelby, Jackie Stewart, Jochen Rindt, Gilles Villeneuve, and Bruce McLaren.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Giuseppe Farina ranks 32Before him are Ilse Koch, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Soichiro Honda, Ed Gein, Hermann Fegelein, and Alexey Stakhanov. After him are Léopold Sédar Senghor, Léon Degrelle, Hans Asperger, Josef Kramer, Klaus Mann, and Wassily Leontief. Among people deceased in 1966, Giuseppe Farina ranks 15Before him are Ken Miles, Sepp Dietrich, Chester W. Nimitz, Jean Arp, Peter Debye, and Lal Bahadur Shastri. After him are Frits Zernike, Felix Steiner, Cemal Gürsel, George de Hevesy, Dietrich von Choltitz, and Vincent Auriol.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giuseppe Farina ranks 581 out of 5,161Before him are Gallienus (218), Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (1492), Matilda of Tuscany (1046), Pierluigi Collina (1960), Clara Petacci (1912), and Anna Magnani (1908). After him are Aldus Manutius (1449), Tibullus (-50), Hiero II of Syracuse (-308), Titus Tatius (-800), Julius Evola (1898), and Muzio Clementi (1752).

Among RACING DRIVERS In Italy

Among racing drivers born in Italy, Giuseppe Farina ranks 3Before him are Enzo Ferrari (1898), and Alberto Ascari (1918). After him are Giacomo Agostini (1942), Valentino Rossi (1979), Alfredo Ferrari (1932), Tazio Nuvolari (1892), Lella Lombardi (1941), Riccardo Patrese (1954), Maria Teresa de Filippis (1926), Michele Alboreto (1956), and Lucien Bianchi (1934).