RACING DRIVER

Ken Miles

1918 - 1966

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Kenneth Henry Jarvis Miles (1 November 1918 – 17 August 1966) was an English sports car racing engineer and driver best known for his motorsport career in the U.S. and with American teams on the international scene. He is an inductee to the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America. As an automotive engineer, he is known for developing the Ford GT40 along with driver and designer Carroll Shelby, which won at Le Mans in 1966, 1967, 1968 and 1969. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ken Miles has received more than 24,022,756 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Ken Miles is the 8th most popular racing driver (down from 7th in 2019), the 241st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 211th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular British Racing Driver.

Ken Miles is most famous for being the first person to run a mile in less than four minutes.

Memorability Metrics

  • 24M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 69.25

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Ken Miles ranks 8 out of 1,080. Before him are Niki Lauda, Michael Schumacher, Ayrton Senna, Juan Manuel Fangio, James Hunt, and Alain Prost. After him are Alberto Ascari, Emerson Fittipaldi, Giuseppe Farina, Nelson Piquet, Carroll Shelby, and Jackie Stewart.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Ken Miles ranks 14. Before him are Leonard Bernstein, Kurt Waldheim, Louis Althusser, Robert Wadlow, Rita Hayworth, and Helmut Schmidt. After him are Gertrude B. Elion, Alberto Ascari, Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Frederick Sanger, Chaim Herzog, and Katherine Johnson. Among people deceased in 1966, Ken Miles ranks 9. Before him are Buster Keaton, Alberto Giacometti, Anna Akhmatova, Georges Lemaître, Sayyid Qutb, and Sergei Korolev. After him are Sepp Dietrich, Chester W. Nimitz, Jean Arp, Peter Debye, Lal Bahadur Shastri, and Giuseppe Farina.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ken Miles ranks 241 out of 8,785. Before him are Benjamin Disraeli (1804), William Wordsworth (1770), John Law (1671), Edward the Black Prince (1330), John Constable (1776), and Jeremy Irons (1948). After him are Ken Follett (1949), Jimmy Page (1944), Phil Collins (1951), Francis Galton (1822), Peter Higgs (1929), and Roger Taylor (1949).

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Among RACING DRIVERS In United Kingdom

Among racing drivers born in United Kingdom, Ken Miles ranks 2. Before him are James Hunt (1947). After him are Jackie Stewart (1939), Jim Clark (1936), Graham Hill (1929), Nigel Mansell (1953), Alfonso de Portago (1928), John Surtees (1934), Mike Hawthorn (1929), Stirling Moss (1929), Lewis Hamilton (1985), and Damon Hill (1960).

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