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Lazare Ponticelli

1897 - 2008

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Lazare Ponticelli (born Lazzaro Ponticelli; 24 December 1897, later mistranscribed as 7 December – 12 March 2008), Knight of Vittorio Veneto, was at 110, the last surviving officially recognized veteran of the First World War from France and the last poilu of its trenches to die.Born in Italy, he travelled on his own to France at the age of eight. Aged 16, he lied about his age in order to join the French Army at the start of the war in 1914, before being transferred against his will to the Italian Army the following year. After the war, he came back to Paris where he and his brothers founded the piping and metal work company Ponticelli Frères (Ponticelli Brothers), which produced supplies for the Second World War effort and as of 2023 is still in business. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lazare Ponticelli has received more than 129,441 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 21 in 2019). Lazare Ponticelli is the 290th most popular businessperson (down from 229th in 2019), the 2,373rd most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,107th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Italian Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Lazare Ponticelli ranks 290 out of 601Before him are Paul Rusesabagina, Arnold Rothstein, Robert Monroe, David Stern, François-Henri Pinault, and Chuck Feeney. After him are B. C. Forbes, Edward Colston, Jimmy Lai, Colonel Tom Parker, Ken Aston, and Serge Dassault.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Lazare Ponticelli ranks 137Before him are Ram Prasad Bismil, Edith Head, Marian Anderson, Xu Zhimo, Horace McCoy, and Traicho Kostov. After him are Gottfried, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, John Bagot Glubb, Natacha Rambova, Lepke Buchalter, Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia, and Husni al-Za'im. Among people deceased in 2008, Lazare Ponticelli ranks 114Before him are Bronisław Geremek, Albert Cossery, Anthony Mamo, Joseph Weizenbaum, Boris Shakhlin, and Šaban Bajramović. After him are Tommy Lapid, Rubens de Falco, Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Castro, Sofiko Chiaureli, Josef Tal, and Andrew Bertie.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Lazare Ponticelli ranks 2,373 out of 4,668Before him are Giuseppe Colombo (1920), Guido Crepax (1933), Aldo Fabrizi (1905), Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster (1880), Isabella Andreini (1562), and Adriana Asti (1931). After him are Giovanni Morone (1509), Coppo di Marcovaldo (1225), John Italus (1025), Tiridates III of Parthia (-50), Sophron (-500), and Pietro Aldobrandini (1571).

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Italy

Among businesspeople born in Italy, Lazare Ponticelli ranks 18Before him are Mino Raiola (1967), Luca Cordero di Montezemolo (1947), Aurelio Peccei (1908), Francesco Baracca (1888), Stefano Casiraghi (1960), and Adriano Galliani (1944). After him are Sergio Marchionne (1952), Giangiacomo Feltrinelli (1926), Andrea Agnelli (1975), Maurizio Arrivabene (1957), Piero Dusio (1899), and Marco Mattiacci (1970).