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René Panhard

1841 - 1908

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Louis François René Panhard (27 May 1841 – 16 July 1908) was a French engineer, merchant and a pioneer of the automobile industry in France. Born in Paris, he studied engineering at the Collège Sainte-Barbe and then graduated from École Centrale Paris in 1864. He was then employed by Jean-Louis Périn in a firm that produced wood-working machines. It was there that Panhard met Émile Levassor. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. René Panhard is the 238th most popular engineer (up from 254th in 2019), the 3,887th most popular biography from France (up from 4,055th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular French Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, René Panhard ranks 238 out of 389. Before him are Enrico Forlanini, Béla Barényi, Jon Postel, Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov, Eilmer of Malmesbury, and Alfred Neubauer. After him are Hidetsugu Yagi, Arthur Rudolph, Yahya Ayyash, Ferdinand Mannlicher, Charles F. Brush, and Eugène Flachat.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1841, René Panhard ranks 73. Before him are Karl Binding, Federico Zandomeneghi, Benedict Menni, John Murray, Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer, and Florence Baker. After him are Antonio Pacinotti, Andrejs Pumpurs, Savva Mamontov, John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, William Henry Hudson, and Joaquín Crespo. Among people deceased in 1908, René Panhard ranks 74. Before him are Jacob W. Davis, Lester Allan Pelton, Valtazar Bogišić, Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg, Friedrich Paulsen, and Ernest Hébert. After him are Milovan Glišić, Ernest Fenollosa, Carl Friedrich Schmidt, William Edward Ayrton, Baron Ignaz von Plener, and Manuel Curros Enríquez.

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In France

Among people born in France, René Panhard ranks 3,887 out of 6,770. Before him are Hortense Schneider (1833), Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville (1720), André Auffray (1884), Marcel Brillouin (1854), Ernest Hébert (1817), and Michèle Arnaud (1919). After him are François Perrier (1833), Louis Boyer (1901), Princess Maria Cristina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1877), Anne-Marie Colchen (1925), Michel Onfray (1959), and Thomas Murner (1475).

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Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, René Panhard ranks 43. Before him are Émile Levassor (1843), Michel Chevalier (1806), Robert Esnault-Pelterie (1881), Charles Renard (1847), Eugène Belgrand (1810), and Benoît Fourneyron (1802). After him are Eugène Flachat (1802), Louis Vicat (1786), Léon Serpollet (1858), Louis Pouzin (1931), Antoine Nicolas Duchesne (1747), and Marcel Deprez (1843).

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