RACING DRIVER

Louis Chiron

1899 - 1979

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Louis Alexandre Chiron (French pronunciation: [lwi ʃi.ʁɔ̃]; 3 August 1899 – 22 June 1979) was a Monégasque racing driver who competed in rallies, sports car races, and Grands Prix. Among the greatest drivers between the two World Wars, his career embraced over thirty years, starting in 1923, and ending at the end of the 1950s. He is still the oldest driver ever to have started a race in the Formula One World Championship, having taken 6th place in the 1955 Monaco Grand Prix when he was 55. Three years later he became the oldest driver to enter a Formula One race, at 58. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louis Chiron is the 64th most popular racing driver (up from 65th in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Monaco (down from 6th in 2019) and the most popular Monegasque Racing Driver.

Louis Chiron is most famous for being the oldest living Formula One driver. He was born in 1899 and died in 1999.

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Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Louis Chiron ranks 64 out of 1,080. Before him are Kimi Räikkönen, Mark Webber, Michèle Mouton, Michele Alboreto, Lorenzo Bandini, and Walter Röhrl. After him are Alan Jones, Tazio Nuvolari, Wilson Fittipaldi Júnior, Jo Bonnier, Jean Alesi, and Hannu Mikkola.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Louis Chiron ranks 64. Before him are Kazi Nazrul Islam, Leo Strauss, Lao She, Brassaï, Nadezhda Mandelstam, and Andrei Platonov. After him are Georges Bidault, Akim Tamiroff, Philipp Bouhler, Frances Yates, Artur da Costa e Silva, and Ernst-Robert Grawitz. Among people deceased in 1979, Louis Chiron ranks 49. Before him are Mamie Eisenhower, Dimitri Tiomkin, Otto Robert Frisch, Jean-Marie Villot, Alfredo Ottaviani, and Peggy Guggenheim. After him are Nicholas Ray, Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth, Louis Durey, Conrad Hilton, Richard Rodgers, and Charles W. Morris.

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In Monaco

Among people born in Monaco, Louis Chiron ranks 7 out of 32. Before him are Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (1923), Albert II, Prince of Monaco (1958), Caroline, Princess of Hanover (1957), Wilhelm Karl, Duke of Urach (1864), Louise Hippolyte, Princess of Monaco (1697), and Princess Stéphanie of Monaco (1965). After him are Honoré II, Prince of Monaco (1597), Léo Ferré (1916), Franz Schreker (1878), Louis I, Prince of Monaco (1642), Ercole, Lord of Monaco (1562), and Charles Leclerc (1997).

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Among RACING DRIVERS In Monaco

Among racing drivers born in Monaco, Louis Chiron ranks 1. After him are Charles Leclerc (1997), Olivier Beretta (1969), Arthur Leclerc (2000), and Stefano Coletti (1989).

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