RACING DRIVER

Juan Manuel Fangio

1911 - 1995

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Juan Manuel Fangio (Spanish: [ˈxwam maˈnwel ˈfaŋxjo], Italian: [ˈfandʒo]; 24 June 1911 – 17 July 1995) was an Argentine racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1950 to 1958. Nicknamed "El Chueco" and "El Maestro", Fangio won five Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles and—at the time of his retirement—held the record for most wins (24), pole positions (29), fastest laps (23), and podium finishes (35), among others. From childhood, he abandoned his studies to pursue auto mechanics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Juan Manuel Fangio has received more than 2,633,242 page views. His biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 65 in 2019). Juan Manuel Fangio is the 5th most popular racing driver, the 9th most popular biography from Argentina (up from 10th in 2019) and the most popular Argentinean Racing Driver.

Juan Manuel Fangio is most famous for being the first Formula One driver to win five world championships.

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Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Juan Manuel Fangio ranks 5 out of 1,080. Before him are Enzo Ferrari, Niki Lauda, Michael Schumacher, and Ayrton Senna. After him are James Hunt, Alain Prost, Ken Miles, Alberto Ascari, Emerson Fittipaldi, Giuseppe Farina, and Nelson Piquet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Juan Manuel Fangio ranks 9. Before him are Konstantin Chernenko, Georges Pompidou, Baba Vanga, Naguib Mahfouz, Władysław Szpilman, and Emil Cioran. After him are Võ Nguyên Giáp, Todor Zhivkov, William Golding, Nino Rota, Czesław Miłosz, and Mikhail Botvinnik. Among people deceased in 1995, Juan Manuel Fangio ranks 4. Before him are Yitzhak Rabin, Emil Cioran, and Gilles Deleuze. After him are Eugene Wigner, Michael Ende, Mikhail Botvinnik, Emmanuel Levinas, Adolf Butenandt, Gunnar Nordahl, Konrad Zuse, and Dean Martin.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Juan Manuel Fangio ranks 9 out of 1,154. Before him are Diego Maradona (1960), Jorge Luis Borges (1899), Alfredo Di Stéfano (1926), Eva Perón (1919), Juan Perón (1895), and Astor Piazzolla (1921). After him are Lionel Messi (1987), Isabel Martínez de Perón (1931), Jorge Rafael Videla (1925), Martha Argerich (1941), Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (1953), and Daniel Barenboim (1942).

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Among RACING DRIVERS In Argentina

Among racing drivers born in Argentina, Juan Manuel Fangio ranks 1. After him are Carlos Reutemann (1942), José Froilán González (1922), Alejandro de Tomaso (1928), Onofre Marimón (1923), Ricardo Zunino (1949), Oscar Larrauri (1954), Clemar Bucci (1920), Carlos Menditeguy (1914), Roberto Bonomi (1919), Pablo Birger (1924), and Oscar Alfredo Gálvez (1913).

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