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Malcolm Campbell

1885 - 1948

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Major Sir Malcolm Campbell (11 March 1885 – 31 December 1948) was a British racing motorist and motoring journalist. He gained the world speed record on land and on water at various times, using vehicles called Blue Bird, including a 1921 Grand Prix Sunbeam. His son, Donald Campbell, carried on the family tradition by holding both land speed and water speed records. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Malcolm Campbell is the 87th most popular journalist (up from 100th in 2019), the 4,005th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,352nd in 2019) and the 7th most popular British Journalist.

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Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Malcolm Campbell ranks 87 out of 196Before him are Jon Ola Sand, Norbert Haug, Malcolm Browne, Maurizio Costanzo, Pierre Brossolette, and Vladimir Solovyov. After him are Piers Morgan, Aleksey Suvorin, Marina Ovsyannikova, Kenji Goto, George Rodger, and Homai Vyarawalla.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Malcolm Campbell ranks 212Before him are Georges Passerieu, Margaret Harwood, Stith Thompson, Miroslav Kraljević, Anita Rée, and María Grever. After him are Roland Dorgelès, Tommaso Costantino, Percy Hobart, Américo Castro, Charles Henry Bartlett, and José Durand Laguna. Among people deceased in 1948, Malcolm Campbell ranks 163Before him are Harry Brearley, Joseph Friedrich Nicolaus Bornmüller, Pencho Zlatev, Georg Kulenkampff, Charles A. Beard, and Carl Hårleman. After him are Ladislav Troják, Alexander Alfonsovich Grossheim, Julius Curtius, Alice Salomon, István Barta, and Wesley Clair Mitchell.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Malcolm Campbell ranks 4,006 out of 8,785Before him are Andy Green (1962), Peter Perez Burdett (1734), Kim Newman (1959), Andy Taylor (1961), Mike Spence (1936), and Jane March (1973). After him are Margery Allingham (1904), Angus Macfadyen (1963), Frank Morley (1860), Mary Stewart (1916), Sarah Kane (1971), and Dorothy Shepherd-Barron (1897).

Among JOURNALISTS In United Kingdom

Among journalists born in United Kingdom, Malcolm Campbell ranks 7Before him are W. T. Stead (1849), Gareth Jones (1905), Jeremy Clarkson (1960), Christopher Hitchens (1949), William Wilson (1844), and Martin Parr (1952). After him are Piers Morgan (1965), George Rodger (1908), Murray Walker (1923), Malcolm Muggeridge (1903), Chris Bonington (1934), and Jemima Goldsmith (1974).