RACING DRIVER

Juan Manuel Fangio

1911 - 1995

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Juan Manuel Fangio (Spanish: [ˈxwam maˈnwel ˈfaŋxjo], Italian: [ˈfandʒo]; 24 June 1911 – 17 July 1995) was an Argentine racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1950 to 1958. Nicknamed "el Chueco" and "el Maestro", Fangio won five Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles and—at the time of his retirement—held the record for most wins (24), pole positions (29), fastest laps (23), and podium finishes (35), among others. From childhood, he abandoned his studies to pursue auto mechanics. In 1938, he debuted in the newly-formed Argentine stock car racing series Turismo Carretera, competing in a Ford V8. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Juan Manuel Fangio is the 6th most popular racing driver (down from 5th in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from Argentina (up from 9th in 2019) and the most popular Argentinean Racing Driver.

Juan Manuel Fangio is most famous for being the first Formula One driver to win five world championships.

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Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Juan Manuel Fangio ranks 6 out of 1,080. Before him are Ayrton Senna, Niki Lauda, Enzo Ferrari, Michael Schumacher, and Alain Prost. After him are James Hunt, Nelson Piquet, Emerson Fittipaldi, Alberto Ascari, Giuseppe Farina, and Gilles Villeneuve.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Juan Manuel Fangio ranks 8. Before him are Josef Mengele, Baba Vanga, Konstantin Chernenko, Naguib Mahfouz, Georges Pompidou, and Emil Cioran. After him are Władysław Szpilman, Luis Walter Alvarez, Todor Zhivkov, Czesław Miłosz, Nino Rota, and William Golding. Among people deceased in 1995, Juan Manuel Fangio ranks 6. Before him are Yitzhak Rabin, Siad Barre, Bob Ross, Emil Cioran, and Gilles Deleuze. After him are Emmanuel Levinas, Adolf Butenandt, Eugene Wigner, Hannes Alfvén, Mikhail Botvinnik, and Maurizio Gucci.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Juan Manuel Fangio ranks 8 out of 1,154. Before him are Che Guevara (1928), Jorge Luis Borges (1899), Diego Maradona (1960), Alfredo Di Stéfano (1926), Eva Perón (1919), and Juan Perón (1895). After him are Astor Piazzolla (1921), Jorge Rafael Videla (1925), Isabel Martínez de Perón (1931), José de San Martín (1778), Lionel Messi (1987), and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (1953).

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Among RACING DRIVERS In Argentina

Among racing drivers born in Argentina, Juan Manuel Fangio ranks 1. After him are Carlos Reutemann (1942), José Froilán González (1922), Onofre Marimón (1923), Alejandro de Tomaso (1928), Ricardo Zunino (1949), Roberto Mieres (1924), Pablo Birger (1924), Roberto Bonomi (1919), Oscar Alfredo Gálvez (1913), Clemar Bucci (1920), and Carlos Menditeguy (1914).

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