The Most Famous

ASTRONAUTS from Peru

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This page contains a list of the greatest Peruvian Astronauts. The pantheon dataset contains 556 Astronauts, 1 of which were born in Peru. This makes Peru the birth place of the 45th most number of Astronauts behind South Africa, and Malaysia.

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

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1. Carlos I. Noriega (b. 1959)

With an HPI of 38.69, Carlos I. Noriega is the most famous Peruvian Astronaut.  His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.

Carlos Ismael Noriega (born 8 October 1959) is a Peruvian-American NASA employee, a former NASA astronaut and a retired U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant colonel.

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as Peruvian astronauts born between 1959 and 1959. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Peruvian astronauts include Carlos I. Noriega.

Living Peruvian Astronauts

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