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Marcel Bezençon

1907 - 1981

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Marcel Bezençon (French pronunciation: [maʁsɛl bəzɑ̃sɔ̃]; 1 May 1907 – 17 February 1981) was a Swiss journalist, media executive and the director of the European Broadcasting Union between 1954 and 1970. In 1955, he conceived the idea of the Eurovision Song Contest, based on the famous Sanremo Music Festival. Bezençon graduated with a degree in art history from the University of Lausanne in 1932, and then started work as a freelance art and theater critic before becoming editor of the newspaper Feuille d'Avis. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marcel Bezençon has received more than 104,679 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Marcel Bezençon is the 34th most popular journalist (up from 48th in 2019), the 227th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 284th in 2019) and the most popular Swiss Journalist.

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Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Marcel Bezençon ranks 34 out of 196. Before him are Charles Dow, Diana Nyad, Steve McCurry, Walker Evans, Christopher Hitchens, and Kevin Carter. After him are Margaret Bourke-White, Joe Rosenthal, François Mignet, Thomas Nast, Vladimir Posner, and Pavlo Chubynsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Marcel Bezençon ranks 121. Before him are Ayub Khan, Rudolf Peierls, Pierre Pflimlin, George de Mestral, Sabahattin Ali, and Roger Peyrefitte. After him are Dixie Dean, Heinz Brandt, Bruno Munari, Yves Allégret, William Steig, and August Eigruber. Among people deceased in 1981, Marcel Bezençon ranks 73. Before him are Ferruccio Parri, Jean Eustache, Ziaur Rahman, Nelson Algren, Kirill Kondrashin, and Franjo Šeper. After him are Yakov Pavlov, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Glauber Rocha, Alexander Kotov, Manuel Urrutia Lleó, and Savitri.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Marcel Bezençon ranks 227 out of 1,015. Before him are Denis de Rougemont (1906), George de Mestral (1907), Pascal Couchepin (1942), Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac (1817), Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (1742), and Carl Nägeli (1817). After him are Pierre Jeanneret (1896), Jean-André Deluc (1727), Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825), Jean Vanier (1928), Heinrich Glarean (1488), and Emil Brunner (1889).

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Among JOURNALISTS In Switzerland

Among journalists born in Switzerland, Marcel Bezençon ranks 1. 

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