RACING DRIVER

Jo Bonnier

1930 - 1972

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Karl Jockum Jonas "Joakim" Bonnier (31 January 1930 – 11 June 1972), commonly known as Jo Bonnier, was a Swedish racing driver and motorsport executive, who competed in Formula One from 1956 to 1971. Bonnier won the 1959 Dutch Grand Prix with BRM. Born and raised in Stockholm, Bonnier was the son of geneticist Gert Bonnier and born into the wealthy Bonnier family, the controlling family of the eponymous Bonnier Group. Bonnier competed in Formula One for Maserati, Scuderia Centro Sud, BRM, Porsche, Rob Walker Racing and Ecurie Bonnier, winning the Dutch Grand Prix with BRM to become the first Swedish Formula One Grand Prix winner and finishing eighth in the World Drivers' Championship that year. Outside of Formula One, Bonnier entered 13 editions of the 24 Hours of Le Mans from 1957 to 1972, finishing runner-up in 1964 alongside Graham Hill, driving the Ferrari 330P. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jo Bonnier has received more than 191,404 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Jo Bonnier is the 108th most popular racing driver (down from 100th in 2019), the 305th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 276th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Swedish Racing Driver.

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Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Jo Bonnier ranks 108 out of 1,080. Before him are Jean-Pierre Jarier, Henri Toivonen, Jarno Saarinen, David Purley, Max Verstappen, and Tommi Mäkinen. After him are Robert Manzon, Ralf Schumacher, Markku Alén, Andrea de Cesaris, Sébastien Loeb, and Dan Gurney.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Jo Bonnier ranks 157. Before him are Manuel Marulanda, Viktor Tikhonov, José Águas, Anthony Steffen, Ilon Wikland, and Giuliano Montaldo. After him are Sergiu Nicolaescu, Carolyn Jones, Claude Bolling, Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, Veljo Tormis, and Bo Widerberg. Among people deceased in 1972, Jo Bonnier ranks 78. Before him are Paul Goodman, C. Rajagopalachari, Stephen Timoshenko, Viktor Barna, Watchman Nee, and William Dieterle. After him are C. W. Ceram, Ernst von Salomon, Nikolay Krylov, René Mayer, Frank Knight, and Lillian Moller Gilbreth.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Jo Bonnier ranks 305 out of 1,879. Before him are Princess Cecilia of Sweden (1540), Lill-Babs (1938), Lennart Skoglund (1929), Prince Carl Bernadotte (1911), Anders Gustaf Ekeberg (1767), and Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson (1390). After him are Nicodemus Tessin the Younger (1654), Pernilla August (1958), Rogvolod (901), Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871), Gillis Grafström (1893), and Håkan the Red (1040).

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Among RACING DRIVERS In Sweden

Among racing drivers born in Sweden, Jo Bonnier ranks 5. Before him are Ronnie Peterson (1944), Keke Rosberg (1948), Björn Waldegård (1943), and Stig Blomqvist (1946). After him are Reine Wisell (1941), Gunnar Nilsson (1948), Ove Andersson (1938), Slim Borgudd (1946), Stefan Johansson (1956), Kent Andersson (1942), and Conny Andersson (1939).

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