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Alec Issigonis

1906 - 1988

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Sir Alexander Arnold Constantine Issigonis (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Άρνολντ Κωνσταντίνος Ισηγόνης) (18 November 1906 – 2 October 1988) was a British-Greek automotive designer. He designed the Mini, launched by the British Motor Corporation in 1959, and voted the second most influential car of the 20th century in 1999. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alec Issigonis is the 159th most popular engineer (down from 146th in 2019), the 836th most popular biography from Türkiye (down from 785th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Turkish Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Alec Issigonis ranks 159 out of 389. Before him are Gabriel Voisin, Giuseppe Colombo, Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu, Mstislav Keldysh, Anton Flettner, and John Bagot Glubb. After him are Ivan Yarkovsky, Pierre Berthier, Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, Yaakov Ziv, Essam Sharaf, and Aurel Vlaicu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Alec Issigonis ranks 150. Before him are Jim Bausch, Artur Lundkvist, Andrei Kirilenko, Betti Alver, Francisco Ayala, and Sait Faik Abasıyanık. After him are William Joyce, Joan Hickson, Tribhuvan of Nepal, Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov, Raymond Sommer, and Marian Spychalski. Among people deceased in 1988, Alec Issigonis ranks 94. Before him are Seán MacBride, Rose Ausländer, Frederick Ashton, Vasil Mzhavanadze, Andy Gibb, and Christopher Connelly. After him are Giorgio Almirante, Wilhelm Batz, Raymond Williams, Sewall Wright, Henry Armstrong, and Henry Koster.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Alec Issigonis ranks 836 out of 1,347. Before him are Idris Bitlisi (1452), Çiçek Hatun (1431), Babylas of Antioch (238), George Mouzalon (1220), Sait Faik Abasıyanık (1906), and Kekaumenos (1020). After him are Stephen I of Constantinople (867), Euphorbus (null), Aristides Quintilianus (150), Silahdar Damat Ali Pasha (1667), Alexander Ypsilantis (1726), and Constantine I, Prince of Armenia (1035).

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Among ENGINEERS In Türkiye

Among engineers born in Türkiye, Alec Issigonis ranks 2. Before him are Philo of Byzantium (-280).

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