RACING DRIVER

Joe Fry

1915 - 1950

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Joseph Gibson Fry (26 October 1915, Chipping Sodbury – 29 July 1950, Blandford Motor Racing Circuit) was a British racing driver and distant member of the Fry's Chocolate family. He became the primary driver for the highly successful Shelsley Special "Freikaiserwagen", created by his cousin David Fry and Hugh Dunsterville, with help from Dick Caesar. The original car was built in Bristol in 1936 and featured an Anzani engine which was replaced in 1937 by a Blackburne engine. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joe Fry has received more than 39,379 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Joe Fry is the 256th most popular racing driver (up from 347th in 2019), the 2,825th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,429th in 2019) and the 39th most popular British Racing Driver.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Joe Fry ranks 256 out of 1,080. Before him are John Taylor, Nanni Galli, Adolf Brudes, Kevin Schwantz, Ian Ashley, and JJ Lehto. After him are Sergio Pérez, Paul Pietsch, Charles de Tornaco, Giulio Cabianca, Johnny Claes, and Jenson Button.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Joe Fry ranks 156. Before him are Patrick Leigh Fermor, Antonio Innocenti, Herman Wouk, Günther Schwägermann, William Masters, and Boris Paichadze. After him are Wolfgang Schneiderhan, Knut Nystedt, Wee Kim Wee, Alykul Osmonov, Garrett Hardin, and Hasse Ekman. Among people deceased in 1950, Joe Fry ranks 117. Before him are Miklós Bánffy, László Cseh, Recep Peker, Sami al-Hinnawi, Hiroshi Yoshida, and George Kingsley Zipf. After him are Adolf Meyer, Fats Navarro, Karin Michaëlis, Joseph, Duke of Parma, Alykul Osmonov, and Edward Arthur Milne.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Joe Fry ranks 2,825 out of 8,785. Before him are Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803), Hamilton Harty (1879), Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders (877), C. Aubrey Smith (1863), Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (1864), and Henry Daniell (1894). After him are Edmund Goulding (1891), Ian Hart (1964), Tommy Flanagan (1965), Ernest Starling (1866), Sidney Gilchrist Thomas (1850), and Rebecca Clarke (1886).

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Among RACING DRIVERS In United Kingdom

Among racing drivers born in United Kingdom, Joe Fry ranks 39. Before him are Richard Robarts (1944), Divina Galica (1944), Bill Ivy (1942), Joey Dunlop (1952), Tony Brise (1952), and John Taylor (1933). After him are Johnny Claes (1916), Jenson Button (1980), Peter Walker (1912), David Murray (1909), Derek Bell (1941), and Brian Hart (1936).

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