RACING DRIVER

Louis Rosier

1905 - 1956

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Louis Claude Rosier (5 November 1905 – 29 October 1956) was a French racing driver and motorsport executive, who competed in Formula One from 1950 to 1956. In endurance racing, Rosier won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1950 in a privateer Talbot-Lago T26C-GS. Rosier competed in Formula One under his own Écurie Rosier banner, making privateer entries in machinery from Talbot-Lago, Ferrari, and Maserati; he also competed for the works teams of Talbot and Maserati, the former of which he scored back-to-back podium finishes with at the Swiss and Belgian Grands Prix in 1950. Rosier competed in nine editions of the 24 Hours of Le Mans between 1938 and 1956, winning in 1950 alongside his son Jean-Louis Rosier, which remains the only father-and-son victory in Le Mans history. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis Rosier has received more than 87,816 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Louis Rosier is the 156th most popular racing driver (down from 147th in 2019), the 3,001st most popular biography from France (down from 2,834th in 2019) and the 24th most popular French Racing Driver.

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Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Louis Rosier ranks 156 out of 1,080. Before him are Ove Andersson, Richie Ginther, Willy Mairesse, Rauno Aaltonen, Chris Bristow, and Ricardo Rodríguez. After him are Luigi Villoresi, Gijs van Lennep, Didier Auriol, Hans-Joachim Stuck, Jarno Trulli, and Carel Godin de Beaufort.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Louis Rosier ranks 140. Before him are Shojiro Sugimura, Robert Donat, Ángel Bossio, Clarence Zener, Mohammad Hidayatullah, and Sven Rydell. After him are Grigori Kozintsev, Fumiko Enchi, Zdeněk Burian, Manuel Ferreira, Tore Keller, and Jan Gies. Among people deceased in 1956, Louis Rosier ranks 100. Before him are Carl Brockelmann, Marcel Griaule, Mohammed Hussein Heikal, Samad Vurgun, Harold Bride, and Vladimir Obruchev. After him are Israel Zolli, Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg, Frigyes Riesz, Stan Ockers, Leo Baeck, and Paul Renner.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis Rosier ranks 3,001 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean Lorrain (1855), Claude François de Malet (1754), Paul de Senneville (1933), Duchess Sabine of Württemberg (1549), Jacques Georges (1916), and Pierre Daniel Huet (1630). After him are Richard Galliano (1950), Marie Thérèse de Bourbon (1666), Maurice Germot (1882), Henri Vidal (1919), Auguste Vaillant (1861), and Armand Louis de Gontaut (1747).

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Among RACING DRIVERS In France

Among racing drivers born in France, Louis Rosier ranks 24. Before him are Jean-Pierre Jarier (1946), Robert Manzon (1917), Sébastien Loeb (1974), Jo Schlesser (1928), Paul Frère (1917), and Henri Pescarolo (1942). After him are Didier Auriol (1958), Stéphane Peterhansel (1965), Olivier Panis (1966), Raymond Sommer (1906), Paul Belmondo (1963), and Johnny Servoz-Gavin (1942).

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