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Raymond Loewy

1893 - 1986

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Raymond Loewy ( LOH-ee, French: [ʁɛmɔ̃ levi]; November 5, 1893 – July 14, 1986) was a French-born American industrial designer who achieved fame for the magnitude of his design efforts across a variety of industries. He was recognized for this by Time magazine and featured on its cover on October 31, 1949.He spent most of his professional career in the United States, becoming a naturalized citizen in 1938. Among his designs were the Shell, Exxon, TWA and the former BP logos, the Greyhound Scenicruiser bus, Coca-Cola vending machines and bottle redesign, the Lucky Strike package, Coldspot refrigerators, the Studebaker Avanti and Champion, and the Air Force One livery. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Raymond Loewy has received more than 874,847 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Raymond Loewy is the 27th most popular designer (down from 25th in 2019), the 1,632nd most popular biography from France (down from 1,330th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular French Designer.

Raymond Loewy was a French-born American industrial designer. He is most famous for his design of the Coca-Cola bottle.

Memorability Metrics

  • 870k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.02

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Raymond Loewies by language

Over the past year Raymond Loewy has had the most page views in the with 92,685 views, followed by French (21,525), and Japanese (14,745). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Basque (81.30%), Arabic (39.53%), and Egyptian Arabic (39.15%)

Among DESIGNERS

Among designers, Raymond Loewy ranks 27 out of 104. Before him are Miuccia Prada, René Lalique, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Philippe Starck, Battista Farina, and Manolo Blahnik. After him are Iris Apfel, Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, Pierre Balmain, Claude Garamond, Dieter Rams, and Salvatore Ferragamo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Raymond Loewy ranks 61. Before him are Erwin Piscator, Nicholas J. Spykman, Walter Christaller, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, Ernst Öpik, and Hans Scharoun. After him are Conrad Veidt, Dragiša Cvetković, Matthias Kleinheisterkamp, Bai Chongxi, Kurt Huber, and Mário de Andrade. Among people deceased in 1986, Raymond Loewy ranks 57. Before him are Michel de Certeau, Serge Lifar, Theodor Busse, Gusztáv Sebes, Lilli Palmer, and Marcel Dassault. After him are Ferdinand Daučík, Donna Reed, Sterling Hayden, Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, Omar Ali Saifuddien III, and Jorge Alessandri.

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In France

Among people born in France, Raymond Loewy ranks 1,632 out of 6,770. Before him are Françoise Bettencourt Meyers (1953), Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues (1715), Walter Krüger (1890), Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis (1757), Jules de Goncourt (1830), and Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza (1911). After him are Abbé Pierre (1912), Philippe Soupault (1897), Agrippa d'Aubigné (1552), Élie Cartan (1869), Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours (1489), and Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (1808).

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Among DESIGNERS In France

Among designers born in France, Raymond Loewy ranks 3. Before him are René Lalique (1860), and Philippe Starck (1949). After him are Aristide Cavaillé-Coll (1811), Pierre Balmain (1914), Claude Garamond (1499), Jeanne Lanvin (1867), Louis Majorelle (1859), Diana Vreeland (1903), Nicolas Jenson (1420), and Jean Louis (1907).

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