ASTRONAUT

Alan Shepard

1923 - 1998

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Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. (November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998) was an American astronaut. In 1961, he became the second person and the first American to travel into space and, in 1971, he became the fifth and oldest person to walk on the Moon, at age 47. A graduate of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Shepard saw action with the surface navy during World War II. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alan Shepard has received more than 6,856,300 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). Alan Shepard is the 12th most popular astronaut (down from 10th in 2019), the 744th most popular biography from United States (down from 478th in 2019) and the 6th most popular American Astronaut.

Alan Shepard is most famous for being the first American in space.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 67

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Alan Shepard ranks 12 out of 556Before him are Buzz Aldrin, Pete Conrad, Vladimir Komarov, Alexei Leonov, John Glenn, and Gherman Titov. After him are Dennis Tito, Svetlana Savitskaya, Valeri Polyakov, Andriyan Nikolayev, David Scott, and Harrison Schmitt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Alan Shepard ranks 28Before him are Franco Zeffirelli, Jack Kilby, Richard Attenborough, Yma Sumac, Lee Teng-hui, and Bert Trautmann. After him are Antoni Tàpies, Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria, Arvid Carlsson, Markus Wolf, Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, and Anne Baxter. Among people deceased in 1998, Alan Shepard ranks 15Before him are Octavio Paz, Jean-François Lyotard, Niklas Luhmann, Yang Shangkun, Vladimir Prelog, and Raymond Cattell. After him are Konstantinos Karamanlis, Theodore Schultz, Falco, Frederick Reines, Tameo Ide, and Nizar Qabbani.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alan Shepard ranks 744 out of 20,380Before him are Walter Matthau (1920), Alan Arkin (1934), Douglas Osheroff (1945), Josephine Cochrane (1839), Ron Perlman (1950), and John Carpenter (1948). After him are Robert Mitchum (1917), Burt Reynolds (1936), James Caan (1940), Robert Altman (1925), Ali MacGraw (1939), and David Fincher (1962).

Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Alan Shepard ranks 6Before him are Neil Armstrong (1930), Gene Cernan (1934), Buzz Aldrin (1930), Pete Conrad (1930), and John Glenn (1921). After him are Dennis Tito (1940), David Scott (1932), Harrison Schmitt (1935), James Irwin (1930), Frank Borman (1928), and Jim Lovell (1928).