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John DeLorean

1925 - 2005

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John Zachary DeLorean ( də-LOR-ee-ən; January 6, 1925 – March 19, 2005) was an American engineer, inventor, and executive in the U.S. automobile industry. He is widely known as founder of the DeLorean Motor Company, as well as for his work at General Motors. DeLorean managed the development of several vehicles throughout his career, including the Pontiac GTO, Pontiac Firebird, Pontiac Grand Prix, Chevrolet Cosworth Vega, and DMC DeLorean, which was featured in the 1985 film Back to the Future. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John DeLorean has received more than 6,546,890 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. John DeLorean is the 295th most popular businessperson (down from 129th in 2019), the 3,334th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,423rd in 2019) and the 91st most popular American Businessperson.

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  • 25

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  • 2.75

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  • 3.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, John DeLorean ranks 295 out of 847. Before him are Sergio Marchionne, Stefano Casiraghi, Charles Pathé, Albert Kahn, Arnon Milchan, and John Cockerill. After him are Silvio Santos, Mikimoto Kōkichi, Arthur Guinness, Douglas Tompkins, Frits Philips, and Marc Rich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, John DeLorean ranks 170. Before him are Bauer, Nancy Roman, Alexei Tupolev, Elmore Leonard, Doris Hart, and June Whitfield. After him are Yuval Ne'eman, Krishna Sobti, Wojciech Has, Michael Dummett, Arlene Dahl, and Etel Adnan. Among people deceased in 2005, John DeLorean ranks 106. Before him are Sandra Dee, Ferruccio Valcareggi, Jair da Rosa Pinto, Johnny Carson, Andrea Dworkin, and Tilly Fleischer. After him are Monica Zetterlund, Melita Norwood, Polina Astakhova, Ralph Erskine, Frits Philips, and Romano Scarpa.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John DeLorean ranks 3,334 out of 20,380. Before him are Neil Simon (1927), Orson Scott Card (1951), Winslow Homer (1836), Franz Kline (1910), Linda Nochlin (1931), and David Butler (1894). After him are Frank Welker (1946), Eric Carle (1929), Fred Willard (1939), Marcus Miller (1959), Ice Cube (1969), and Lon Chaney (1883).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, John DeLorean ranks 91. Before him are Bob Iger (1951), Jack Welch (1935), Melinda Gates (1964), Hetty Green (1834), Alfred P. Sloan (1875), and Erin Brockovich (1960). After him are Douglas Tompkins (1943), Paul Castellano (1915), Amadeo Giannini (1870), Alice Walton (1949), David Stern (1942), and Jerry Buss (1933).

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