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RACING DRIVER

Johnny Claes

1916 - 1956

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Octave John Claes (; 11 August 1916 – 3 February 1956) was a British-born racing driver who competed for Belgium. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johnny Claes has received more than 55,211 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Johnny Claes is the 329th most popular racing driver (down from 305th in 2019), the 3,339th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,161st in 2019) and the 57th most popular British Racing Driver.

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  • 55k

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  • 47.08

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Johnny Claes ranks 329 out of 888Before him are Teo Fabi, Michael Andretti, Lance Macklin, Marco Simoncelli, Guy Mairesse, and Dieter Quester. After him are Brian Redman, Timo Glock, Pablo Birger, Jean-Pierre Wimille, Piercarlo Ghinzani, and Eugène Martin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Johnny Claes ranks 197Before him are Lee Cronbach, Yasuji Miyazaki, Tatevik Sazandaryan, Arpenik Nalbandyan, Pierre Emmanuel, and Irving Wallace. After him are Arnoldo Foà, Nelly Landry, Neagu Djuvara, Bruno Chizzo, Roy Ward Baker, and Nadya Nozharova. Among people deceased in 1956, Johnny Claes ranks 146Before him are Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos, Elmer Drew Merrill, George Bancroft, E. A. Dupont, Louis Bromfield, and Billy Bishop. After him are Flora Sandes, Violet Gibson, Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein, Robert Julius Trumpler, Marie Juchacz, and E. T. Whittaker.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Johnny Claes ranks 3,339 out of 7,765Before him are Charles Shaughnessy (1955), Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn (1745), Matthew Goode (1978), Pete Ham (1947), Christopher Kelk Ingold (1893), and Andrew Loog Oldham (1944). After him are Ian Abercrombie (1934), Mary Elizabeth Barber (1818), James Arthur (1988), Steve McQueen (1969), Ralph H. Fowler (1889), and Jack Sheppard (1702).

Among RACING DRIVERS In United Kingdom

Among racing drivers born in United Kingdom, Johnny Claes ranks 57Before him are George Abecassis (1913), Cliff Allison (1932), Leslie Graham (1911), Martin Brundle (1959), Mike Spence (1936), and Lance Macklin (1919). After him are Brian Redman (1937), Al Pease (1921), Joe Fry (1915), Trevor Taylor (1936), Chris Craft (1939), and Peter Whitehead (1914).