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Pierre Clostermann

1921 - 2006

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Pierre-Henri Clostermann (28 February 1921 – 22 March 2006) was a World War II French ace fighter pilot. During the conflict he has been claimed to have achieved 33 air-to-air combat victories, earning the accolade "France's First Fighter" from General Charles de Gaulle. His wartime memoir, The Big Show (Le Grand Cirque) became a notable bestseller. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Clostermann has received more than 239,876 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Pierre Clostermann is the 110th most popular engineer, the 148th most popular biography from Brazil (down from 136th in 2019) and the most popular Brazilian Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Pierre Clostermann ranks 110 out of 389. Before him are Henry Darcy, Eupalinos, Carlo Abarth, Stephen Timoshenko, Yevgeny Dragunov, and Robert Stephenson. After him are John Bagot Glubb, François Laurent d'Arlandes, Pedro Navarro, Count of Oliveto, Joseph M. Juran, Sergei Khrushchev, and Alexandre Darracq.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Pierre Clostermann ranks 125. Before him are Manitas de Plata, Deanna Durbin, Philippe de Gaulle, Branko Stanković, Gitta Sereny, and Wolfgang Borchert. After him are César Baldaccini, Maurice Yaméogo, Eugenio Coșeriu, James Whitmore, Jaroslav Drobný, and Fernando Fernán Gómez. Among people deceased in 2006, Pierre Clostermann ranks 97. Before him are Betty Friedan, Rudolf Vrba, Óscar Míguez, Robert Plutchik, Walerian Borowczyk, and Richard Kuklinski. After him are Alexander Zinoviev, Jane Jacobs, Alberto Spencer, Rocío Dúrcal, Trevor Berbick, and Igor Sergeyev.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Pierre Clostermann ranks 148 out of 2,236. Before him are Dino Sani (1932), Lúcio (1978), Carlos Kaiser (1963), Floriano Peixoto (1839), Washington Luís (1869), and Roberto Burle Marx (1909). After him are Dondinho (1917), Milton Nascimento (1942), Félix Miélli Venerando (1937), Princess Januária of Brazil (1822), Oscar Schmidt (1958), and Hércules Brito Ruas (1939).

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Among ENGINEERS In Brazil

Among engineers born in Brazil, Pierre Clostermann ranks 1. 

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