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Ferdinand Alexander Porsche

1935 - 2012

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Ferdinand Alexander Porsche (11 December 1935 – 5 April 2012), also known by the nickname "Butzi", was a German-Austrian designer whose best known product was the first Porsche 911. He was the son of Ferry Porsche, and the grandson of Ferdinand Porsche. While his grandfather and father were both engineers, he was more involved in working out the appearance of a product. He never thought of himself as an artist or designer, but more as a technically talented craftsman in shaping. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ferdinand Alexander Porsche is the 162nd most popular engineer (down from 144th in 2019), the 2,982nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,615th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular German Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Ferdinand Alexander Porsche ranks 162 out of 389. Before him are Mstislav Keldysh, Anton Flettner, John Bagot Glubb, Alec Issigonis, Ivan Yarkovsky, and Pierre Berthier. After him are Yaakov Ziv, Essam Sharaf, Aurel Vlaicu, John Hughes, Hugo Eckener, and Antoine de Chézy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Ferdinand Alexander Porsche ranks 178. Before him are M. Emmet Walsh, Fiorenza Cossotto, Peter Bichsel, Shūji Terayama, Pierre Kartner, and Elga Andersen. After him are Armando Manzanero, Letizia Battaglia, Lisa Gastoni, Dudley Moore, Akihiro Miwa, and Carl Andre. Among people deceased in 2012, Ferdinand Alexander Porsche ranks 158. Before him are Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, Eiko Ishioka, Jiří Raška, Geoffrey Hughes, Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein, and Prince Tomohito of Mikasa. After him are Bob Anderson, Maxim of Bulgaria, George McGovern, Pavel Grachev, Ivica Horvat, and Adrienne Rich.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ferdinand Alexander Porsche ranks 2,984 out of 7,253. Before him are Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (1889), Karl Mollweide (1774), Rudolf Jakob Camerarius (1665), Otto Schniewind (1887), John George I, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach (1634), and Johann Fust (1400). After him are Gustav Fröhlich (1902), John, Count Palatine of Neumarkt (1383), Richard Ruoff (1883), Georg I, Count of Württemberg-Mömpelgard (1498), Duchess Marie Elisabeth of Saxony (1610), and Eberhard II, Duke of Württemberg (1447).

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Among ENGINEERS In Germany

Among engineers born in Germany, Ferdinand Alexander Porsche ranks 22. Before him are Christian Otto Mohr (1835), Claude Dornier (1884), Franz Reuleaux (1829), Hellmuth Walter (1900), Walter Hohmann (1880), and Anton Flettner (1885). After him are Hugo Eckener (1868), Peter Hirsch (1925), Gustave Whitehead (1874), Franz Grashof (1826), Johann Georg Halske (1814), and Arthur Rudolph (1906).

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