Engineer

Gene Kranz

NASA Flight Director and manager

1933 - today

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His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Gene Kranz is the 221st most popular engineer (down from 188th in 2024), the 5,314th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,918th in 2019) and the 17th most popular American Engineer.

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Among Engineers

Among engineers, Gene Kranz ranks 221 out of 389. Before him are Semyon Lavochkin, Charles Renard, André Waterkeyn, Harvey Postlethwaite, Eugen Sänger, and Menno van Coehoorn. After him are Mikhail Koshkin, Robert Mallet, James B. Francis, Johann Georg Halske, Eugène Belgrand, and Anousheh Ansari.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Gene Kranz ranks 257. Before him are Vassilis Vassilikos, Haruo Remeliik, Mark Jones, Milena Hübschmannová, Nicolae Rainea, and Ela Bhatt. After him are Elly Ameling, Evaristo de Macedo, Ilya Kabakov, Doyle Brunson, Ivan Passer, and Gloria Foster.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gene Kranz ranks 5,314 out of NaN. Before him are Martha Jefferson Randolph (1772), Mary Surratt (1823), Alice Coltrane (1937), Robert B. Spencer (1962), Susana Martinez (1959), and Michael Moriarty (1941). After him are James A. Michener (1907), Rose Wilder Lane (1886), David Koresh (1959), Osceola (1804), Henry Paulson (1946), and Joseph A. Walker (1921).

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Among Engineers In United States

Among engineers born in United States, Gene Kranz ranks 17. Before him are Jimmy Doolittle (1896), J. Walter Christie (1865), Kelly Johnson (1910), Joseph Strauss (1870), Eugene Stoner (1922), and Emily Warren Roebling (1843). After him are Seymour Cray (1925), Jon Postel (1943), Charles F. Brush (1849), Ed Heinemann (1908), Judith Love Cohen (1933), and Ransom E. Olds (1864).

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