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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 100,043 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Marcel Bezençon is the 48th most popular journalist (down from 47th in 2019), the 284th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 289th in 2019) and the most popular Swiss Journalist.

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Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Marcel Bezençon ranks 48 out of 127. Before him are Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, James Nachtwey, Marion Dönhoff, Joaquín Navarro-Valls, Eve Arnold, and Robbie Ross. After him are Maria Ressa, Daphne Caruana Galizia, Bill Brandt, Kazimierz Nowak, Mauricio Funes, and Yuri Bezmenov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Marcel Bezençon ranks 157. Before him are James M. Gavin, Philip Arthur Fisher, Jean Carzou, Roman Rudenko, Rosalind Russell, and Daigoro Kondo. After him are Alfred Delp, Volmari Iso-Hollo, John King Fairbank, Sukhdev Thapar, Gunnar Ekelöf, and Frederick Copleston. Among people deceased in 1981, Marcel Bezençon ranks 103. Before him are Mariama Bâ, Robert Montgomery, Walter Heitler, Roman Rudenko, Zdeněk Burian, and Norman Taurog. After him are Mostafa Chamran, Boris Polevoy, Ivan Eklind, Lydia Lopokova, Jim Davis, and Princess Marina Petrovna of Russia.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Marcel Bezençon ranks 284 out of 876. Before him are Robert Maillart (1872), Georges Cottier (1922), Lisa Della Casa (1919), Edmond Privat (1889), Johann Jakob von Tschudi (1818), and Prince Nikolaus of Liechtenstein (1947). After him are Aloïse Corbaz (1886), Paul Wild (1925), Doris Leuthard (1963), Raoul Pictet (1846), Peter Bieri (1944), and Jeanne Hersch (1910).

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Among JOURNALISTS In Switzerland

Among journalists born in Switzerland, Marcel Bezençon ranks 1. 

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