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Louis Renault

1877 - 1944

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Louis Renault (French: [lwi ʁəno]; 12 February 1877 – 24 October 1944) was a French industrialist, one of the founders of Renault and a pioneer of the automobile industry. Renault built one of France's largest automobile manufacturing concerns, which bears his name to this day. During World War I his factories contributed massively to the war effort notably so by the creation and manufacture of the first tank of modern configuration: the Renault FT tank. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis Renault has received more than 8,228 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Louis Renault is the 66th most popular inventor (down from 62nd in 2019), the 668th most popular biography from France (down from 652nd in 2019) and the 10th most popular French Inventor.

Louis Renault was a French industrialist and automobile manufacturer. He is most famous for founding the Renault company in 1899.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Louis Renault ranks 66 out of 355. Before him are Josephine Cochrane, Les Paul, Étienne Lenoir, Oleg Antonov, John Deere, and George Eastman. After him are John Browning, Richard Arkwright, Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Thomas Savery, Jacques de Vaucanson, and Alberto Santos-Dumont.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Louis Renault ranks 13. Before him are Frederick Soddy, Charles Glover Barkla, Edgar Cayce, Muhammad Iqbal, Francis William Aston, and Joan Gamper. After him are Raoul Dufy, Heinrich Otto Wieland, Kees van Dongen, Said Nursî, Kārlis Ulmanis, and Arthur Cecil Pigou. Among people deceased in 1944, Louis Renault ranks 30. Before him are Ernst Thälmann, Arthur Eddington, Hilma af Klint, Milena Jesenská, Florence Foster Jenkins, and Friedrich Olbricht. After him are Aristide Maillol, Wang Jingwei, Glenn Miller, Henning von Tresckow, Nikolai Vatutin, and Erich Hoepner.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis Renault ranks 668 out of 5,234. Before him are Paul Langevin (1872), Suzanne Valadon (1865), Marcel Lefebvre (1905), Alfred Kastler (1902), Raymond Aron (1905), and Adam de la Halle (1245). After him are Roger Garaudy (1913), Hans Bethe (1906), Dora Maar (1907), Jean Parisot de Valette (1494), Aristide Maillol (1861), and Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1741).

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Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, Louis Renault ranks 10. Before him are Nicéphore Niépce (1765), Denis Papin (1647), Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752), Nicolas Appert (1749), Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (1725), and Louis Blériot (1872). After him are Jacques de Vaucanson (1709), Alphonse Bertillon (1853), Étienne-Jules Marey (1830), Charles-Émile Reynaud (1844), Claude Chappe (1763), and André-Jacques Garnerin (1769).

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