Automobile Founders and Biographies

View Biographies of individuals who founded some of the famous car brands of the world


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Robert Bamford  Aston Martin

Ettore Bugatti  Bugatti

Carl Benz  Mercedes-Benz

Sir David Brown  Aston Martin

Walter Owen Bentley  Bentley

David Dunbar Buick  Buick

Benjamin Briscoe  Maxwell-Briscoe

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Walter P Chrysler Chrysler

Colin Chapman Lotus

Louis Chevrolet Chevrolet

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Gottlieb Daimler Mercedes-Benz

William C Durant General Motors

John Dodge Dodge

Horace Dodge Dodge

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Henry Ford Ford

Enzo Ferrari Ferrari

Walter E. Flanders E-M-F Company

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Wilbur A. Gun Lagonda

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August Horch Audi

Donald Healey Austin-Healey

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Lee Iacocca  Chrysler

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Emil Jellinek Mercedes-Benz

Richard Adolf Jaenicke Audi

Alan Jensen | Richard Jensen Jensen Motors

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Ferruccio Lamborghini  Lamborghini

Henry Leland  Cadillac

William Lyons  Jaguar

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Lionel Martin  Aston Martin

Alfieri Maserati  Maserati

Wilhelm Maybach  Mercedes-Benz

Jonathan Dixon Maxwell  Maxwell-Briscoe

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Charles Nash Nash Motors

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Ransom Olds  Oldsmobile and REO

Adolfo Orsi  Maserati

 

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Ferdinand Porsche  Porsche

Ferry Porsche  Porsche

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Henry Royce  Rolls-Royce

Charles Rolls  Rolls-Royce

Jörgen Skafte Rasmussen  Audi

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Carroll Shelby Shelby

Alfred P. Sloan GM

Sergio Marchionne Fiat Chrysler

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Johann Baptist Winklhofer  AudI

John Willys  Jeep

James H. Whiting  Whiting

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Count Louis Zborowski  Aston Martin

 

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