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Louis Chevrolet

1878 - 1941

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Louis-Joseph Chevrolet (December 25, 1878 – June 6, 1941) was a Swiss-born American racing driver, mechanic and entrepreneur who co-founded the Chevrolet Motor Car Company in 1911. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis Chevrolet has received more than 1,174,301 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Louis Chevrolet is the 101st most popular businessperson (down from 100th in 2019), the 101st most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 95th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Swiss Businessperson.

Louis Chevrolet was a French-born American automobile designer and co-founder of the Chevrolet Motor Company.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.42

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Louis Chevrolet ranks 101 out of 847. Before him are Bertha Benz, Nathan Mayer Rothschild, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Michele Ferrero, Ferdinand Piëch, and Charlie Munger. After him are Cornelius Vanderbilt, Christophe Plantin, Roy O. Disney, Solomon R. Guggenheim, Ethan Allen, and Fred Trump.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Louis Chevrolet ranks 22. Before him are Paul Reynaud, Milan Nedić, Shigeru Yoshida, Gustav Radbruch, Iwane Matsui, and Gemma Galgani. After him are Princess Ingeborg of Denmark, Stepan Shaumian, Georg Kaiser, George Whipple, Marcel Grossmann, and Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz. Among people deceased in 1941, Louis Chevrolet ranks 36. Before him are Alexej von Jawlensky, Sherwood Anderson, Christian Rakovsky, Henri Lebesgue, Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli, and Pál Teleki. After him are Sisowath Monivong, Günther Lütjens, Mikhail Kirponos, Émile Bernard, Gottfried Feder, and Frederick Griffith.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Louis Chevrolet ranks 101 out of 1,015. Before him are Anna Göldi (1734), Albrecht von Haller (1708), Rudolf II, Duke of Austria (1270), Louis, Duke of Savoy (1413), Nicholas of Flüe (1417), and Germain Henri Hess (1802). After him are Albert Anker (1831), Henri Guisan (1874), Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821), Gaspard Bauhin (1560), Hannes Meyer (1889), and Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi (1773).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Switzerland

Among businesspeople born in Switzerland, Louis Chevrolet ranks 5. Before him are Sepp Blatter (1936), Joan Gamper (1877), Aga Khan IV (1936), and Gianni Infantino (1970). After him are César Ritz (1850), Peter Sauber (1943), Julius Maggi (1846), Meyer Guggenheim (1828), Umberto Agnelli (1934), Daniel Peter (1836), and Paul Sacher (1906).

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