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Pat Symonds

1953 - Today

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Patrick Bruce Reith Symonds (born 11 June 1953) is a British motor racing engineer, who is currently the executive engineering consultant for the Andretti Cadillac F1 program. He was the Chief Technical Officer at Williams Grand Prix Engineering from 2013 until 2016, having previously worked at the Benetton, Renault and Virgin Formula One teams. Until May 2024 he was the Chief Technical Officer of Formula One. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pat Symonds has received more than 286,554 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Pat Symonds is the 292nd most popular engineer (up from 312th in 2019), the 3,688th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,540th in 2019) and the 27th most popular British Engineer.

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  • 47.49

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Pat Symonds ranks 292 out of 389Before him are Alan Shugart, Frances Spence, Donald Wills Douglas Sr., Peter Chen, Pavel Solovyov, and Friedrich L. Bauer. After him are Robert Esnault-Pelterie, William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, K. Eric Drexler, Hesham Qandil, Peter Schreyer, and Yaakov Ziv.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Pat Symonds ranks 324Before him are Louie Anderson, Jorvan Vieira, Roger Allam, Jaromír Nohavica, Dany Laferrière, and Ali Muhammad Mujawar. After him are Gérard Janvion, Carolyn Porco, Ahlam Mosteghanemi, Ditmar Jakobs, Ellen S. Baker, and Agustí Villaronga.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Pat Symonds ranks 3,688 out of 8,785Before him are Dorothy Tyler-Odam (1920), Ian Hunter (1939), Tobias Menzies (1974), Gwyneth Jones (1936), C. V. Boys (1855), and Margery Allingham (1904). After him are Robert Lindsay (1890), Harold Mahony (1867), Henry Litolff (1818), Calvin Harris (1984), Isabella Beeton (1836), and John Lyons (1932).

Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, Pat Symonds ranks 27Before him are W. Ross Ashby (1903), Frederick W. Lanchester (1868), Harvey Postlethwaite (1944), James B. Francis (1815), William Froude (1810), and Robert W. Paul (1869). After him are William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong (1810), Mal Evans (1935), Isaac Roberts (1829), Ron Tauranac (1925), Jesse Ramsden (1735), and Joseph Bazalgette (1819).