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Louis Renault

1877 - 1944

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Louis Renault (French pronunciation: [lwi ʁəno]; 12 February 1877 – 24 October 1944) was a French industrialist, one of the founders of Renault, and a pioneer of the automobile industry. Renault built one of France's largest automobile manufacturing concerns, which still bears his name. During World War I his factories contributed massively to the war effort, notably so by the creation and manufacture of the first tank of modern configuration, the Renault FT tank. Accused of collaborating with the Germans during World War II, he died while awaiting trial in liberated France toward the end of 1944 under uncertain circumstances. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louis Renault is the 65th most popular inventor (down from 56th in 2019), the 770th most popular biography from France (down from 628th in 2019) and the 10th most popular French Inventor.

Louis Renault was a French industrialist and automobile manufacturer. He is most famous for founding the Renault company in 1899.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Louis Renault ranks 65 out of 426. Before him are John Boyd Dunlop, Louis Blériot, Emile Berliner, Willis Carrier, Étienne Lenoir, and Theodore Maiman. After him are Isaac Singer, Alberto Santos-Dumont, John Deere, Henry Fox Talbot, Josephine Cochrane, and Les Paul.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Louis Renault ranks 16. Before him are Heinrich Otto Wieland, James Jeans, Frank Marshall, Edgar Cayce, Raoul Dufy, and Gabriele Münter. After him are G. H. Hardy, Kees van Dongen, Kārlis Ulmanis, Jesse Livermore, Maurice Halbwachs, and Alfred Cortot. Among people deceased in 1944, Louis Renault ranks 43. Before him are Frank Marshall, Wang Jingwei, Erich Hoepner, Antanas Smetona, Abbas II of Egypt, and Pehr Evind Svinhufvud. After him are Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Gustav Bauer, Glenn Miller, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Mohammed Alim Khan, and Werner von Haeften.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis Renault ranks 770 out of 6,770. Before him are Gilbert Bécaud (1927), Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824), David Guetta (1967), Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698), Bruno Latour (1947), and Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803). After him are Peter Waldo (1140), Dom Pérignon (1639), Armand Fallières (1841), Guntram (532), Simon Vouet (1590), and Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran (1838).

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Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, Louis Renault ranks 10. Before him are Rudolf Diesel (1858), Nicéphore Niépce (1765), Denis Papin (1647), Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752), Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (1725), and Louis Blériot (1872). After him are Claude Chappe (1763), Jacques de Vaucanson (1709), Alphonse Bertillon (1853), André-Jacques Garnerin (1769), Charles-Émile Reynaud (1844), and Étienne-Jules Marey (1830).

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