The Most Famous
ASTRONAUTS from Kyrgyzstan
This page contains a list of the greatest Kirghiz Astronauts. The pantheon dataset contains 524 Astronauts, 1 of which were born in Kyrgyzstan. This makes Kyrgyzstan the birth place of the 42nd most number of Astronauts behind Turkmenistan and Slovakia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Kirghiz Astronauts of all time. This list of famous Kirghiz Astronauts is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Salizhan Sharipov (1964 - )
With an HPI of 41.97, Salizhan Sharipov is the most famous Kirghiz Astronaut. His biography has been translated into 29 different languages on wikipedia.
Salizhan Shakirovich Sharipov (Russian: Салижан Шакирович Шарипов, Uzbek: Солижон Шокирович Шарипов, Kyrgyz: Салижан Шакир уулу Шарипов, Tajik: Солиҷон Шокирович Шарипов; born 24 August 1964) is a Kyrgyz cosmonaut of Uzbek descent. Sharipov is a co-author and investigator for the Advanced Diagnostic Ultrasound in Microgravity project. He has been to space twice (launched from the U.S. as an astronaut in 1998 and from Russia as a cosmonaut in 2004) and has conducted two space walks. Sharipov retired on 18 July 2008.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as astronauts born between 1964 and 1964. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living astronauts include Salizhan Sharipov.
