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Marcel Renault

1872 - 1903

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Marcel Renault (14 May 1872 – 26 May 1903) was a French racing driver and industrialist, co-inheritor of an important textile business and co-founder of the carmaker Renault with his brothers Louis and Fernand Renault. He died at 31 years old due to injuries from the Paris–Madrid race of 1903. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marcel Renault is the 81st most popular engineer (down from 76th in 2019), the 1,709th most popular biography from France (down from 1,601st in 2019) and the 7th most popular French Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Marcel Renault ranks 81 out of 389Before him are Marcel Dassault, Walter Dornberger, Józef Bem, Nikolay Zhukovsky, Adrian Newey, and Gustaf de Laval. After him are Kurt Tank, Henri Farman, Henry Royce, Immanuel Nobel, Harry Nyquist, and Nicola Romeo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Marcel Renault ranks 49Before him are Pío Baroja, Arsen Kotsoyev, Otto Braun, Ottokar Czernin, Eduard Bloch, and Mathilde Kschessinska. After him are Adolf Schmal, Ichiyō Higuchi, Henry Tingle Wilde, Princess Margaret of Prussia, Vladimir Arsenyev, and Arthur Blake. Among people deceased in 1903, Marcel Renault ranks 22Before him are George Gissing, Alexander Bain, Draga Mašin, Calamity Jane, Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria, and Vasily Dokuchaev. After him are Sabino Arana, Camillo Sitte, Richard Jordan Gatling, Sophie Gengembre Anderson, Práxedes Mateo Sagasta, and Karl Gegenbaur.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marcel Renault ranks 1,709 out of 6,770Before him are Marie de Gournay (1565), Léon Werth (1878), Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon (1675), Christian de Castries (1902), Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne (1756), and Joseph Bédier (1864). After him are Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay (1740), Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours (1489), Anna de Noailles (1876), Arnaud Amalric (1160), Dominique Jean Larrey (1766), and Nicolas Sanson (1600).

Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Marcel Renault ranks 7Before him are Gustave Eiffel (1832), Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1796), Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban (1633), André Citroën (1878), Villard de Honnecourt (1200), and Marcel Dassault (1892). After him are Henri Farman (1874), Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt (1240), Paul Cornu (1881), André Courrèges (1923), François Laurent d'Arlandes (1742), and Henry Darcy (1803).