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Gioacchino Colombo

1903 - 1987

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Gioacchino Colombo (9 January 1903 – 24 April 1988) was an Italian automobile engine designer, known for his work at Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, and a post-WWII restarted Bugatti. He is best known for his Ferrari-Colombo V12, first used in a tiny 1.5 litre displacement in Ferrari racing cars but enlarged in displacements up to 4.8 L and produced for Ferrari road cars and endurance racing cars for more than 40 years. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gioacchino Colombo is the 259th most popular engineer (up from 260th in 2019), the 3,402nd most popular biography from Italy (down from 3,385th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Italian Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Gioacchino Colombo ranks 259 out of 389. Before him are Louis Pouzin, Antoine Nicolas Duchesne, Mikhail Simonov, Marcel Deprez, Walter Thiel, and Ransom E. Olds. After him are Sam Eyde, Nikolay Kamov, Pierre Cérésole, Paul Mauser, Gerhard Fieseler, and Frederick W. Lanchester.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Gioacchino Colombo ranks 225. Before him are Josefina Pla, Rudolf Wolters, Jack Oakie, Nils Ramm, Süreyya Ağaoğlu, and Alfredo Copello. After him are Princess Xenia Georgievna of Russia, Humberto de Araújo Benevenuto, Pierre Veyron, Lev Dovator, Juan Aguilera, and Wage Rudolf Supratman. Among people deceased in 1987, Gioacchino Colombo ranks 161. Before him are Ralph Nelson, John Mikaelsson, Jacob Taubes, J. Lawton Collins, Gerardo Diego, and Yūjirō Ishihara. After him are Petro Grigorenko, Gerhard Fieseler, Ethel Catherwood, František Šafránek, James Jesus Angleton, and Leabua Jonathan.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Gioacchino Colombo ranks 3,403 out of 5,161. Before him are Aldo Aureggi (1931), Theodoric of Prague (1319), Marco Simone (1969), Giuseppe Adami (1878), Roberto Saviano (1979), and Filippo Grandi (1957). After him are Roberto Tucci (1921), Carlo Galetti (1882), Nilla Pizzi (1919), Fausto Acke (1897), Carlo Cattaneo (1801), and Sabrina Ferilli (1964).

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Among ENGINEERS In Italy

Among engineers born in Italy, Gioacchino Colombo ranks 9. Before him are Nicola Romeo (1876), Guenther Steiner (1965), Flaminio Bertoni (1903), Giuseppe Colombo (1920), Riccardo Morandi (1902), and Enrico Forlanini (1848). After him are Aldo Costa (1961).

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