Ettore Bugatti | |
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Born | Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti 15 September 1881 Milan, Italy |
Died | 21 August 1947 Paris, France | (aged 65)
Resting place | Dorlisheim, France |
Citizenship | Italian, French |
Occupation | Automotive engineer |
Years active | 1898–1947 |
Employer | Automobiles E. Bugatti (founder) |
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Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti (15 September 1881 – 21 August 1947) was an Italian-born French[1] automobile designer and manufacturer. He received French citizenship in 1946. He is remembered as the founder and proprietor of the automobile manufacturing company Automobiles E. Bugatti, which he founded in 1909 in the then German town of Molsheim in the Alsace region of what is now France. Bugatti died in Paris, and is buried in Dorlisheim, France.