RACING DRIVER

Enzo Ferrari

1898 - 1988

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Enzo Anselmo Giuseppe Maria Ferrari (; Italian: [ˈɛntso anˈsɛlmo ferˈraːri]; 18 February 1898 – 14 August 1988) was an Italian racing driver and entrepreneur, the founder of Scuderia Ferrari in Grand Prix motor racing, and subsequently of the Ferrari automobile marque. Under his leadership in Formula One, Ferrari won nine World Drivers' Championships and eight World Constructors' Championships during his lifetime. He was widely known as il Commendatore or il Drake, a nickname given by British opponents in reference to the English privateer Francis Drake, due to Ferrari's demonstrated ability and determination in achieving significant sports results with his small company. In his final years, he was often referred to as l'Ingegnere ("the Engineer"), il Grande Vecchio ("the Grand Old Man"), il Cavaliere ("the Knight"), il Mago ("the Wizard"), and il Patriarca ("the Patriarch"). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Enzo Ferrari is the 3rd most popular racing driver (down from 1st in 2019), the 166th most popular biography from Italy (down from 140th in 2019) and the most popular Italian Racing Driver.

Enzo Ferrari is most famous for being the founder of the Ferrari car company.

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Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Enzo Ferrari ranks 3 out of 1,080. Before him are Ayrton Senna, and Niki Lauda. After him are Michael Schumacher, Alain Prost, Juan Manuel Fangio, James Hunt, Nelson Piquet, Emerson Fittipaldi, Alberto Ascari, Giuseppe Farina, and Gilles Villeneuve.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Enzo Ferrari ranks 6. Before him are Bertolt Brecht, Golda Meir, Erich Maria Remarque, Alvar Aalto, and Federico García Lorca. After him are Sergei Eisenstein, René Magritte, Stefania Turkewich, Umm Kulthum, Zhou Enlai, and Leo Szilard. Among people deceased in 1988, Enzo Ferrari ranks 1. After him are Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Georgy Malenkov, Richard Feynman, Luis Walter Alvarez, Nico, John Holmes, Bacha Khan, Ernst Ruska, Valery Legasov, Nikolaas Tinbergen, and Kurt Georg Kiesinger.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Enzo Ferrari ranks 166 out of 5,161. Before him are Pope Gregory IX (1160), Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526), Numa Pompilius (-753), Cardinal Mazarin (1602), Antonio Gramsci (1891), and Pope Eugene IV (1383). After him are Pliny the Elder (23), Marcus Claudius Tacitus (200), Domenico Scarlatti (1685), Pope Benedict IX (1012), Agatha of Sicily (235), and Nerva (30).

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Among RACING DRIVERS In Italy

Among racing drivers born in Italy, Enzo Ferrari ranks 1. After him are Alberto Ascari (1918), Giuseppe Farina (1906), Giacomo Agostini (1942), Alfredo Ferrari (1932), Riccardo Patrese (1954), Lella Lombardi (1941), Valentino Rossi (1979), Michele Alboreto (1956), Tazio Nuvolari (1892), Elio de Angelis (1958), and Arturo Merzario (1943).

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