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Patrick Head

1946 - Today

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Sir Patrick Michael Head (born 5 June 1946) is a British motorsport executive who is the co-founder and former Engineering Director of the Williams Formula One team. For 27 years starting from the 1977 season, Head was technical director at Williams Grand Prix Engineering, and responsible for many innovations within Formula One. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Patrick Head has received more than 567,210 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Patrick Head is the 135th most popular engineer (down from 100th in 2019), the 1,731st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,403rd in 2019) and the 15th most popular British Engineer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 570k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.25

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Patrick Head ranks 135 out of 389. Before him are Borys Paton, Erich Topp, Rory Byrne, Aurel Vlaicu, Flaminio Bertoni, and J. Walter Christie. After him are Johan August Brinell, Dmitry Dmitrievich Maksutov, Pierre Berthier, Gustave Whitehead, Pierre-Émile Martin, and Gabriel Voisin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Patrick Head ranks 214. Before him are Ahmad Zahir, Renaud Camus, Udo Lindenberg, Ahmad al-Tayyeb, Duane Allman, and Rita Marley. After him are Eugene Levy, Terence McKenna, Jean-Luc Marion, Andrzej Seweryn, Antony Beevor, and Norio Yoshimizu.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Patrick Head ranks 1,731 out of 8,785. Before him are Anthony Blunt (1907), Gary Glitter (1944), Richard Aldington (1892), Roger Cotes (1682), Kingsley Amis (1922), and Dido (1971). After him are Kathleen Ferrier (1912), Edward Low (1690), Frederic W. H. Myers (1843), William Cullen (1710), Terry Eagleton (1943), and Gordon Ramsay (1966).

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Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, Patrick Head ranks 15. Before him are Alexander Cunningham (1814), George Cayley (1773), Hertha Ayrton (1854), Adrian Newey (1958), Robert Stephenson (1803), and John Bagot Glubb (1897). After him are William Playfair (1759), John Loudon McAdam (1756), John Smeaton (1724), John Hughes (1814), André Waterkeyn (1917), and W. Ross Ashby (1903).

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