RACING DRIVER

Jenson Button

1980 - Today

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Jenson Alexander Lyons Button (born 19 January 1980) is a British racing driver, who competes in the FIA World Endurance Championship for Jota. Button competed in Formula One from 2000 to 2017, and won the World Drivers' Championship in 2009 with Brawn; he won 15 Grands Prix across 18 seasons. Button began karting at the age of eight and achieved early success, before progressing to car racing in the British Formula Ford Championship and the British Formula 3 Championship. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jenson Button has received more than 6,211,984 page views. His biography is available in 64 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 63 in 2019). Jenson Button is the 262nd most popular racing driver (down from 136th in 2019), the 2,872nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,886th in 2019) and the 41st most popular British Racing Driver.

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  • 57.03

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 64

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Jenson Button ranks 262 out of 1,080. Before him are Joe Fry, Sergio Pérez, Paul Pietsch, Charles de Tornaco, Giulio Cabianca, and Johnny Claes. After him are Nicola Larini, Peter Walker, George Constantine, David Murray, Tim Schenken, and Valtteri Bottas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1980, Jenson Button ranks 57. Before him are Michelle Williams, John Arne Riise, Pau Gasol, William Levy, Kate Ryan, and Angelos Charisteas. After him are Simon Helberg, Gabriel Milito, Randy Orton, Yossi Benayoun, Ben Whishaw, and Marit Bjørgen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jenson Button ranks 2,872 out of 8,785. Before him are Paul Kennedy (1945), James David Forbes (1809), Mary Norton (1903), Damaris Cudworth Masham (1659), Eleanor Hibbert (1906), and Cara Delevingne (1992). After him are Peter Pears (1910), Billy Bremner (1942), Brian Ferneyhough (1943), Joseph Morgan (1981), Sienna Guillory (1975), and Stella McCartney (1971).

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Among RACING DRIVERS In United Kingdom

Among racing drivers born in United Kingdom, Jenson Button ranks 41. Before him are Bill Ivy (1942), Joey Dunlop (1952), Tony Brise (1952), John Taylor (1933), Joe Fry (1915), and Johnny Claes (1916). After him are Peter Walker (1912), David Murray (1909), Derek Bell (1941), Brian Hart (1936), Alan Brown (1919), and Geoff Duke (1923).

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