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Rory Byrne

1944 - Today

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Rory Byrne (born 10 January 1944) is a South African semi-retired engineer and car designer, most famous for being the chief designer at the Benetton and Scuderia Ferrari teams of Formula One. Byrne-designed cars have won ninety-nine Grands Prix, seven constructors' titles and seven drivers' titles. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rory Byrne has received more than 303,026 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Rory Byrne is the 131st most popular engineer (up from 165th in 2019), the 40th most popular biography from South Africa (up from 46th in 2019) and the most popular South African Engineer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 300k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Rory Byrne ranks 131 out of 389. Before him are Christian Otto Mohr, Georges Leclanché, Hidesaburō Ueno, Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Borys Paton, and Erich Topp. After him are Aurel Vlaicu, Flaminio Bertoni, J. Walter Christie, Patrick Head, Johan August Brinell, and Dmitry Dmitrievich Maksutov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Rory Byrne ranks 218. Before him are Brian Weiss, Ram Chandra Poudel, Peter Lindbergh, David Trimble, Masanobu Izumi, and Hugo Gatti. After him are Billy Cobham, Aguila Saleh Issa, Candy Darling, O Yeong-su, Onufriy, and Rocky Johnson.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Rory Byrne ranks 40 out of 454. Before him are Peter Abrahams (1919), Arnold Vosloo (1962), André Brink (1935), Cetshwayo kaMpande (1826), Kevin Carter (1960), and Andries Pretorius (1798). After him are Louis Botha (1862), C. R. Swart (1894), John Vorster (1915), Marais Viljoen (1915), Esther Brand (1922), and Manfred Mann (1940).

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Among ENGINEERS In South Africa

Among engineers born in South Africa, Rory Byrne ranks 1. 

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