Max Rufus Mosley

Max Rufus Mosley was born in London, the son of British fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley and Diana Mitford. Educated in physics at Christ Church, Oxford, and called to the bar at Gray's Inn, he entered motorsport as an amateur racer before co-founding March Engineering in 1969, which built winning Formula One, Formula Two, and Indy cars. As legal advisor to the Formula One Constructors Association (FOCA), he negotiated the historic 1981 Concorde Agreement with Bernie Ecclestone.

Elected president of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) in 1993, Mosley's greatest legacy was safety. Following the tragic deaths of Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger at Imola in 1994, he commissioned Professor Sid Watkins to overhaul circuit designs, introduce the HANS device, and institute mandatory crash testing that saved countless racers' lives. He also established Euro NCAP consumer crash testing for everyday passenger cars. In 2008, he won a historic privacy lawsuit against the News of the World, establishing new legal protections for personal privacy in British law.