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Louis Chevrolet

1878 - 1941

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Louis-Joseph Chevrolet (December 25, 1878 – June 6, 1941) was an 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 1,102,528 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Louis Chevrolet is the 100th most popular businessperson (up from 111th in 2019), the 95th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 106th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Swiss Businessperson.

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

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  • 1.1M

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  • 61.26

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Louis Chevrolet ranks 100 out of 601Before him are John McAfee, Bertha Benz, Michele Ferrero, Nathan Mayer Rothschild, Ivana Trump, and Sam Walton. After him are Eusebi Güell, Gianni Infantino, William Boeing, Lee Iacocca, Christophe Plantin, and Fred Trump.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Louis Chevrolet ranks 23Before him are Milan Nedić, Iwane Matsui, Gustav Radbruch, Princess Ingeborg of Denmark, Shigeru Yoshida, and Gemma Galgani. After him are Yakov Yurovsky, Eileen Gray, Alexander von Falkenhausen, Elizabeth Arden, Archduchess Elisabeth Amalie of Austria, and Arthur Scherbius. Among people deceased in 1941, Louis Chevrolet ranks 38Before him are Alexej von Jawlensky, Christian Rakovsky, Frederick Griffith, Émile Bernard, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, and Kurt Koffka. After him are Dmitry Pavlov, Günther Lütjens, Mikhail Kirponos, Pál Teleki, Sisowath Monivong, and Ernst Lindemann.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Louis Chevrolet ranks 95 out of 876Before him are Kurt Wüthrich (1938), Rudolf II, Duke of Austria (1270), Albrecht von Haller (1708), Alfred Cortot (1877), Jakob Steiner (1796), and Bernardino Luini (1475). After him are Gianni Infantino (1970), Horace Bénédict de Saussure (1740), Jost Bürgi (1552), Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821), Nicholas of Flüe (1417), and Hannes Meyer (1889).

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Switzerland

Among businesspeople born in Switzerland, Louis Chevrolet ranks 4Before him are Sepp Blatter (1936), Joan Gamper (1877), and Aga Khan IV (1936). After him are Gianni Infantino (1970), César Ritz (1850), Peter Sauber (1943), Umberto Agnelli (1934), Daniel Peter (1836), Julius Maggi (1846), Meyer Guggenheim (1828), and Paul Sacher (1906).