SKIER

Henri Oreiller

1925 - 1962

Photo of Henri Oreiller

Icon of person Henri Oreiller

Henri Jean Auguste Oreiller (5 December 1925 – 7 October 1962) was an alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist from France. He won two gold medals and a bronze at the 1948 Winter Olympics, becoming the most successful athlete at those Games in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henri Oreiller is the 47th most popular skier (up from 57th in 2019), the 4,027th most popular biography from France (up from 4,236th in 2019) and the 4th most popular French Skier.

Memorability Metrics

Loading...

Page views of Henri Oreiller by language

Loading...

Among SKIERS

Among skiers, Henri Oreiller ranks 47 out of 817Before him are Francisco Fernández Ochoa, Baldur Preiml, Alevtina Kolchina, Galina Kulakova, Vreni Schneider, and Egon Zimmermann. After him are Renée Colliard, Thomas Wassberg, Tina Maze, Christl Haas, Rosi Mittermaier, and Erika Mahringer.

Most Popular Skiers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Henri Oreiller ranks 293Before him are Abdelsalam Majali, Hasse Jeppson, Bernardo Ruiz, Leo Ryan, Alfred Kelbassa, and Georg Buschner. After him are Leon Schlumpf, Joan Mitchell, Isidore Isou, Dany Dauberson, Geir Hallgrímsson, and Antonio Puchades. Among people deceased in 1962, Henri Oreiller ranks 137Before him are Donald Lippincott, Otto Froitzheim, Joe Profaci, Ellen Osiier, Josef Uridil, and Ernst Grünfeld. After him are Willis H. O'Brien, Hans Rosbaud, Rudolf von Bünau, Fidel Dávila Arrondo, Vladimir Sokoloff, and Pontus Hanson.

Others Born in 1925

Go to all Rankings

Others Deceased in 1962

Go to all Rankings

In France

Among people born in France, Henri Oreiller ranks 4,027 out of 6,770Before him are Jean-Claude Mézières (1938), Jacques Ochs (1883), François de Créquy (1625), Henri Dutrochet (1776), Robert Liottel (1885), and Louis-Antoine Ranvier (1835). After him are Émile Champion (1879), Henri Regnault (1843), Nicolas Dalayrac (1753), Alain Cavalier (1931), Véronique Sanson (1949), and Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc (1759).

Among SKIERS In France

Among skiers born in France, Henri Oreiller ranks 4Before him are Jean-Claude Killy (1943), Marielle Goitschel (1945), and Émile Allais (1912). After him are François Bonlieu (1937), Christine Goitschel (1944), Luc Alphand (1965), Annie Famose (1944), Léo Lacroix (1937), Perrine Pelen (1960), Michèle Jacot (1952), and Isabelle Mir (1949).