RACING DRIVER

Thierry Sabine

1949 - 1986

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Thierry Sabine (13 June 1949, Neuilly-sur-Seine – 14 January 1986, Mali) was a French wrangler, motorcycle racer and founder and main organizer of the Dakar Rally. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thierry Sabine has received more than 140,897 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Thierry Sabine is the 98th most popular racing driver, the 2,245th most popular biography from France (down from 2,028th in 2019) and the 16th most popular French Racing Driver.

Memorability Metrics

  • 140k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.27

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Thierry Sabine ranks 98 out of 1,080. Before him are Luigi Fagioli, Juha Kankkunen, Piero Taruffi, Ken Block, Guy Ligier, and Eugenio Castellotti. After him are Roger Williamson, Pedro Rodríguez, Jean Behra, Jean-Pierre Jarier, Henri Toivonen, and Jarno Saarinen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Thierry Sabine ranks 156. Before him are Patrick Hernandez, Eddie Money, Vera Wang, Hyon Yong-chol, Christopher Hitchens, and Trevor Horn. After him are Aurelio De Laurentiis, Pam Grier, Dusty Hill, Mineko Iwasaki, Horst Seehofer, and Tommy Ramone. Among people deceased in 1986, Thierry Sabine ranks 81. Before him are J. Allen Hynek, André Leroi-Gourhan, Aleksandr Akimov, Hermann Gmeiner, John Bagot Glubb, and Elsa Lanchester. After him are Ellison Onizuka, Christopher Isherwood, Yaroslav Stetsko, Gia Carangi, Henri Toivonen, and Gabdulkhay Akhatov.

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In France

Among people born in France, Thierry Sabine ranks 2,245 out of 6,770. Before him are Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay (1712), Françoise Madeleine d'Orléans (1648), Sophie Gengembre Anderson (1823), Jacques Amyot (1513), Joseph Monier (1823), and René Fonck (1894). After him are William IV, Duke of Aquitaine (935), Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (1788), Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786), Beatrice of Lorraine (1017), Benedict Joseph Labre (1748), and Eugène Marin Labiche (1815).

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Among RACING DRIVERS In France

Among racing drivers born in France, Thierry Sabine ranks 16. Before him are Patrick Tambay (1949), Jean Alesi (1964), Jean-Louis Schlesser (1948), Jean-Pierre Beltoise (1937), Pierre Levegh (1905), and Guy Ligier (1930). After him are Jean Behra (1921), Jean-Pierre Jarier (1946), Robert Manzon (1917), Sébastien Loeb (1974), Jo Schlesser (1928), and Paul Frère (1917).

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