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Jenson Button

1980 - Today

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Jenson Alexander Lyons Button (born 19 January 1980) is a British racing driver, who competes in the FIA World Endurance Championship for Jota. Button competed in Formula One from 2000 to 2017, and won the World Drivers' Championship in 2009 with Brawn; he won 15 Grands Prix across 18 seasons. Button began karting at the age of eight and achieved early success, before progressing to car racing in the British Formula Ford Championship and the British Formula 3 Championship. He first drove in F1 with Williams for the 2000 season. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jenson Button is the 198th most popular racing driver (up from 263rd in 2019), the 2,549th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,872nd in 2019) and the 33rd most popular British Racing Driver.

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Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Jenson Button ranks 198 out of 1,080. Before him are Marc Surer, Bruno Senna, Gijs van Lennep, Hans-Joachim Stuck, Toulo de Graffenried, and Brian Naylor. After him are Timo Salonen, Leslie Johnson, Camille Jenatzy, Silvio Moser, Hermann Lang, and Pat Flaherty.

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Among people born in 1980, Jenson Button ranks 40. Before him are Sibel Kekilli, Enzo Maresca, Ashanti, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Cansu Dere, and Seydou Keita. After him are Christina Ricci, Ellie Kemper, Jo Jung-suk, Wade Barrett, John Terry, and Robbie Keane.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jenson Button ranks 2,550 out of 8,785. Before him are Harold Jeffreys (1891), Bernie Taupin (1950), Herbert Read (1893), Susannah York (1939), Rufus Sewell (1967), and Frederick Denison Maurice (1805). After him are Joseph Delaney (1945), Eric Porter (1928), Sharon Osbourne (1952), David Jack (1898), Miriam Margolyes (1941), and Gerry Rafferty (1947).

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