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René Panhard

1841 - 1908

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Louis François René Panhard (27 May 1841 – 16 July 1908) was a French engineer, merchant and a pioneer of the automobile industry in France. Born in Paris, he studied engineering at the Collège Sainte-Barbe and then graduated from École Centrale Paris in 1864. He was then employed by Jean-Louis Périn in a firm that produced wood-working machines. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of René Panhard has received more than 31,344 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. René Panhard is the 254th most popular engineer, the 4,054th most popular biography from France and the 45th most popular French Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, René Panhard ranks 254 out of 389. Before him are Paul Mauser, Wilhelm Nusselt, Walter Thiel, Waloddi Weibull, Pierre Cérésole, and Johannes Winkler. After him are Oskar von Miller, Eugène Flachat, Louis Vicat, Jean-Augustin Barral, William Froude, and Gioacchino Colombo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1841, René Panhard ranks 81. Before him are Carl Graebe, Benedict Menni, Florence Baker, William Henry Hudson, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., and Julius Zeyer. After him are Savva Mamontov, Joaquín Crespo, Giuseppe Pitrè, Louis-Ernest Barrias, Hugo Gyldén, and Manuel Candamo. Among people deceased in 1908, René Panhard ranks 76. Before him are Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten, Ernest Fenollosa, Milovan Glišić, Carl Friedrich Schmidt, Nozu Michitsura, and Herman Snellen. After him are Ernest Hébert, Rūdolfs Blaumanis, Lorenz Frølich, Baron Ignaz von Plener, John Evans, and Carl Koldewey.

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In France

Among people born in France, René Panhard ranks 4,054 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean-Claude Mézières (1938), Françoise Rosay (1891), André Blondel (1863), Willy Ronis (1910), Marcel Arland (1899), and Bernard Panafieu (1931). After him are Émile Étienne Guimet (1836), Ernest Lavisse (1842), Robert Marchand (1911), Gérard de Vaucouleurs (1918), André Wilms (1947), and Dominique Lavanant (1944).

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Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, René Panhard ranks 45. Before him are Eugène Belgrand (1810), Léon Serpollet (1858), Charles Renard (1847), Antoine Nicolas Duchesne (1747), Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont (1798), and Marc Isambard Brunel (1769). After him are Eugène Flachat (1802), Louis Vicat (1786), Jean-Augustin Barral (1819), Ernest Goüin (1815), Marcel Deprez (1843), and Fulgence Bienvenüe (1852).

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