DESIGNER

Salvatore Ferragamo

1898 - 1960

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Salvatore Ferragamo (5 June 1898 – 7 August 1960) was an Italian shoe designer and the founder of luxury goods high-end retailer Salvatore Ferragamo S.p.A. An innovative shoe designer, Salvatore Ferragamo established a reputation in the 1930s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Salvatore Ferragamo has received more than 1,213,490 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Salvatore Ferragamo is the 33rd most popular designer (down from 30th in 2019), the 1,737th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,406th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Italian Designer.

Salvatore Ferragamo is most famous for his work as a shoe designer. He was the first to make shoes with a square toe.

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  • 57.68

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among DESIGNERS

Among designers, Salvatore Ferragamo ranks 33 out of 104. Before him are Raymond Loewy, Iris Apfel, Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, Pierre Balmain, Claude Garamond, and Dieter Rams. After him are Giambattista Bodoni, Josiah Wedgwood, Alexander McQueen, Beau Brummell, Jeanne Lanvin, and Mariano Fortuny.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Salvatore Ferragamo ranks 76. Before him are Leopold Infeld, Marie-Pierre Kœnig, August Hirt, Matvei Zakharov, Jean Borotra, and István Dobi. After him are Emil Artin, Leo McCarey, Hastings Banda, Fyodor Kuznetsov, Desanka Maksimović, and Luigi Fagioli. Among people deceased in 1960, Salvatore Ferragamo ranks 51. Before him are Beno Gutenberg, Vicki Baum, Yan Xishan, August Kopff, Feroze Gandhi, and Pierre Reverdy. After him are Sylvia Pankhurst, Antonie Pannekoek, Abram Ioffe, Alexandre Benois, Maurice de Broglie, and St John Philby.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Salvatore Ferragamo ranks 1,737 out of 5,161. Before him are Paolo Tosti (1846), Maria Cristina of Naples and Sicily (1779), Clodia Pulchra (-94), Roberto Calvi (1920), Maria Valtorta (1897), and Vincenzo Montella (1974). After him are Praxedes (100), Rose of Viterbo (1233), Ansprand (657), Pietro Bernini (1562), Gaudentius of Brescia (327), and Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse (1926).

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Among DESIGNERS In Italy

Among designers born in Italy, Salvatore Ferragamo ranks 10. Before him are Aldus Manutius (1449), Giorgetto Giugiaro (1938), Valentino (1932), Nina Ricci (1883), Miuccia Prada (1949), and Battista Farina (1893). After him are Giambattista Bodoni (1740), Laura Biagiotti (1943), Enzo Mari (1932), Milena Canonero (1946), Piero Tosi (1927), and Stefano Gabbana (1962).

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