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Buenaventura Durruti
Spanish anarchist (1896-1936)
Ferruccio Lamborghini
Italian industrialist, founder of Automobili Lamborghini (1916–1993)
Errico Malatesta
anarchist (1853-1932)
Walter Percy Chrysler Sr.
(1875-1940) American automotive industry executive
Louis Chevrolet
Swiss motor company founder and racecar driver (1878-1941)
Ken Miles
Kenneth Henry Jarvis Miles was an English sports car racing engineer and driver best known for his motorsport career in the U.S. and with American teams on the international scene. He is an inductee to the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America. As an automotive engineer, he is known for developing, along with driver and designer Carroll Shelby, the Ford GT40, the car that won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1966, 1967, 1968, and 1969. Miles and Shelby's efforts at Le Mans were dramatized in the 2019 Oscar-winning film Ford v Ferrari.
Jack Parsons
American rocket engineer (1914–1952)
Burt Munro
New Zealand motorcycle racer (1899–1978)
Jesse James
American entrepreneur and television personality
Ivan Kulibin
Russian mechanic and inventor; (1735-1818)
Hermann Höfle
Coordinator of Operation Reinhard (1911-1962)
Simón Radowitzky
Argentine worker and anarchist (1891–1956)
Carey Loftin
American actor (1914-1997)
Jonathan Wheatley
British engineer
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Zodiac killer suspect
Muhend Ayt Amezyan
Kabyle anarchist activist, anti-colonialist and journalist
Jean Snella
Polish and French footballer (1914-1979)
Giuseppe Marco Fieschi
French draper
Vasile Patilineț
Romanian politician
Joseph Kaucsar
Association football player (1904–1986)
Erv Kanemoto
American motorcycle mechanic
Pops Yoshimura
Japanese motorcycle builder (1922-1995)
Marion Barbara "Joe" Carstairs
British motorboat racer (1900-1993)
Ermenegildo Gasperoni
Sammarinese politician
Diedrich Uhlhorn
German engineer (1764-1837)
Guy Martin
British motorcycle racer
Elizabeth A. Fenn
American historian and professor
Ernő Garami
Hungarian politician (1876-1935)
Charlotte Marsh
English suffragette and social worker
Georg Friedrich Brander
German precision mechanic and mathematician
Karri Wilms
Canadian female curler and coach
Jens Olsen
clockmaker (1872-1945)
Joseph Carr
American football executive, owner
Alf Francis
racing car constructor, designer and mechanic
Jacob Auch
Skillful German mechanic/instrument/clock-maker (1765-1842)
Morris Birdyellowhead
actor
Harry Hartz
American racing driver (1896–1974)
Jules-Henri Desfourneaux
French executioner (1877–1951)
Arlen Ness
American entrepreneur and motorcyclist (1939–2019)