The Most Famous

ASTRONAUTS from Cameroon

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This page contains a list of the greatest Cameroonian Astronauts. The pantheon dataset contains 556 Astronauts, 1 of which were born in Cameroon. This makes Cameroon the birth place of the 36th most number of Astronauts behind Sweden, and Georgia.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Cameroonian Astronauts of all time. This list of famous Cameroonian Astronauts is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Patrick Baudry (b. 1946)

With an HPI of 47.88, Patrick Baudry is the most famous Cameroonian Astronaut.  His biography has been translated into 21 different languages on wikipedia.

Patrick Pierre Roger Baudry (born March 6, 1946, in Cameroon) is a retired lieutenant colonel in the French Air Force and a former CNES astronaut. In 1985, he became the second French citizen in space, after Jean-Loup Chrétien, when he flew aboard NASA's Space Shuttle mission STS-51-G.

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as Cameroonian astronauts born between 1946 and 1946. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Cameroonian astronauts include Patrick Baudry.

Living Cameroonian Astronauts

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