RACING DRIVER

Niki Lauda

1949 - 2019

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Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda (22 February 1949 – 20 May 2019) was an Austrian racing driver, motorsport executive and aviation entrepreneur, who competed in Formula One from 1971 to 1979 and from 1982 to 1985. Lauda won three Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles and—at the time of his retirement—held the record for most podium finishes (54); he remains the only driver to have won a World Drivers' Championship with both Ferrari and McLaren, and won 25 Grands Prix across 13 seasons. Born and raised in Vienna, Lauda was the grandson of local industrialist Hans Lauda. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Niki Lauda has received more than 16,146,288 page views. His biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 67 in 2019). Niki Lauda is the 2nd most popular racing driver (down from 1st in 2019), the 36th most popular biography from Austria (down from 32nd in 2019) and the most popular Austrian Racing Driver.

Niki Lauda is most famous for being a Formula One racing driver who won three world championships.

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Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Niki Lauda ranks 2 out of 1,080. Before him are Enzo Ferrari. After him are Michael Schumacher, Ayrton Senna, Juan Manuel Fangio, James Hunt, Alain Prost, Ken Miles, Alberto Ascari, Emerson Fittipaldi, Giuseppe Farina, and Nelson Piquet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Niki Lauda ranks 6. Before him are Pablo Escobar, Benjamin Netanyahu, António Guterres, Caitlyn Jenner, and Haruki Murakami. After him are Meryl Streep, Pedro Almodóvar, Mark Knopfler, Bernard Arnault, Lech Kaczyński, and Anna Wintour. Among people deceased in 2019, Niki Lauda ranks 4. Before him are Jacques Chirac, Toni Morrison, and Karl Lagerfeld. After him are Agnès Varda, Robert Mugabe, Jeffrey Epstein, Rutger Hauer, Robert Forster, Bruno Ganz, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, and Mohamed Morsi.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Niki Lauda ranks 36 out of 1,424. Before him are Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (1640), Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (1552), Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (1578), Herbert von Karajan (1908), Friedrich Hayek (1899), and Egon Schiele (1890). After him are Konrad Lorenz (1903), Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor (1557), Viktor Frankl (1905), Maximilian I of Mexico (1832), Alois Hitler (1837), and Wolfgang Pauli (1900).

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Among RACING DRIVERS In Austria

Among racing drivers born in Austria, Niki Lauda ranks 1. After him are Helmut Marko (1943), Roland Ratzenberger (1960), Gerhard Berger (1959), Helmuth Koinigg (1948), Harald Ertl (1948), Franz Tost (1956), Karl Wendlinger (1968), Alexander Wurz (1974), Dieter Quester (1939), Jo Gartner (1954), and Hans Binder (1948).

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