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Marcel Renault

1872 - 1903

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Marcel Renault (14 May 1872 – 26 May 1903) was a French racing driver and industrialist, co-inheritor of an important textile business and co-founder of the carmaker Renault with his brothers Louis and Fernand Renault. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marcel Renault has received more than 131,206 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Marcel Renault is the 76th most popular engineer, the 1,601st most popular biography from France (down from 1,598th in 2019) and the 9th most popular French Engineer.

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  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Marcel Renault ranks 76 out of 389. Before him are Colin Chapman, Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt, Su Song, Adam Czerniaków, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and Mikhail Gurevich. After him are Józef Bem, Henri Farman, Edward A. Murphy Jr., André Courrèges, Henry Royce, and Kurt Tank.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Marcel Renault ranks 42. Before him are Hugo Alfvén, Ichiyō Higuchi, Willem de Sitter, Julius Fučík, Henry Tingle Wilde, and Édouard Herriot. After him are Ralph Vaughan Williams, Kijūrō Shidehara, Ottokar Czernin, Archduke Joseph Ferdinand of Austria, Vladimir Arsenyev, and Mathilde Kschessinska. Among people deceased in 1903, Marcel Renault ranks 22. Before him are Calamity Jane, Draga Mašin, Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Richard Jordan Gatling, and Camillo Sitte. After him are Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov, Sabino Arana, James Glaisher, Ronglu, Sophie Gengembre Anderson, and Gaston Paris.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marcel Renault ranks 1,601 out of 6,770. Before him are Armand David (1826), Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1714), Philippa of Hainault (1314), Pierre Mendès France (1907), Patrick Dewaere (1947), and André de Montbard (1103). After him are Alphonse Borrelly (1842), Claude, Duke of Guise (1496), Joseph Gallieni (1849), Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy (1260), Theobald III, Count of Champagne (1179), and André Charles Boulle (1642).

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Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Marcel Renault ranks 9. Before him are Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban (1633), André Citroën (1878), Villard de Honnecourt (1200), Paul Cornu (1881), Marcel Dassault (1892), and Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt (1240). After him are Henri Farman (1874), André Courrèges (1923), Henry Darcy (1803), François Laurent d'Arlandes (1742), Alexandre Darracq (1855), and Georges Leclanché (1836).

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