RACING DRIVER

Niki Lauda

1949 - 2019

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Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda (22 February 1949 – 20 May 2019) was an Austrian racing driver, motorsport executive and aviation entrepreneur, who competed in Formula One from 1971 to 1979 and from 1982 to 1985. Lauda won three Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles and—at the time of his retirement—held the record for most podium finishes (54); he remains the only driver to have won a World Drivers' Championship with both Ferrari and McLaren, and won 25 Grands Prix across 13 seasons. Born and raised in Vienna, Lauda was the grandson of local industrialist Hans Lauda. Starting his career in karting, he progressed to Formula Vee and privateer racing in the late 1960s. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Niki Lauda is the 2nd most popular racing driver, the 26th most popular biography from Austria (up from 36th in 2019) and the most popular Austrian Racing Driver.

Niki Lauda is most famous for being a Formula One racing driver who won three world championships.

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Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Niki Lauda ranks 2 out of 1,080. Before him are Ayrton Senna. After him are Enzo Ferrari, Michael Schumacher, Alain Prost, Juan Manuel Fangio, James Hunt, Nelson Piquet, Emerson Fittipaldi, Alberto Ascari, Giuseppe Farina, and Gilles Villeneuve.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Niki Lauda ranks 5. Before him are Ivana Trump, Pablo Escobar, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Caitlyn Jenner. After him are Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Haruki Murakami, Roger Taylor, Nawaz Sharif, António Guterres, Meryl Streep, and Anna Wintour. Among people deceased in 2019, Niki Lauda ranks 3. Before him are Toni Morrison, and Jacques Chirac. After him are Karl Lagerfeld, David J. Thouless, Mohamed Morsi, Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Robert Mugabe, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Jeffrey Epstein, Robert Forster, and Rutger Hauer.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Niki Lauda ranks 26 out of 1,424. Before him are Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma (1791), Maximilian I of Mexico (1832), Karl Popper (1902), Charles I of Austria (1887), Ferdinand I of Austria (1793), and Klara Hitler (1860). After him are Alfred Adler (1870), Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (1685), Theodoric the Great (454), Lise Meitner (1878), Romy Schneider (1938), and Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (1552).

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Among RACING DRIVERS In Austria

Among racing drivers born in Austria, Niki Lauda ranks 1. After him are Roland Ratzenberger (1960), Helmut Marko (1943), Gerhard Berger (1959), Helmuth Koinigg (1948), Harald Ertl (1948), Franz Tost (1956), Karl Wendlinger (1968), Alexander Wurz (1974), Jo Gartner (1954), Dieter Quester (1939), and Hans Binder (1948).

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