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Alan Shugart

1930 - 2006

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Alan Field Shugart (September 27, 1930 – December 12, 2006) was an American engineer, entrepreneur and business executive whose career defined the modern computer disk drive industry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alan Shugart has received more than 144,348 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Alan Shugart is the 286th most popular engineer (down from 275th in 2019), the 6,919th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,957th in 2019) and the 29th most popular American Engineer.

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  • 140k

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  • 47.67

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Alan Shugart ranks 286 out of 389. Before him are Arthur Rudolph, Ransom E. Olds, Pierre-François Bouchard, Georgy Langemak, Hideo Itokawa, and Burt Rutan. After him are Frances Spence, Donald Wills Douglas Sr., Peter Chen, Pavel Solovyov, Friedrich L. Bauer, and Pat Symonds.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Alan Shugart ranks 407. Before him are Schafik Hándal, Pavel Schmidt, Grace Lee Whitney, Allan Bloom, John Romita Sr., and Smail Hamdani. After him are István Mészáros, Suat Mamat, Terence Bayler, Gladys West, Anatoly Kuznetsov, and Ora Namir. Among people deceased in 2006, Alan Shugart ranks 249. Before him are Schafik Hándal, Mary Boyce, William P. Gottlieb, Rajkumar, Frank Beyer, and Dana Reeve. After him are Ole Madsen, Fritz Schwab, Viktor Pavlov, Konstantin Beskov, Andrey Petrov, and Eugène Martin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alan Shugart ranks 6,919 out of 20,380. Before him are Bob Weinstein (1954), Eben Alexander (1953), Frederick Russell Burnham (1861), Dana Reeve (1961), Charles H. Bennett (1943), and Gary Rossington (1951). After him are Gilbert Kaplan (1941), Frances Spence (1922), William Stevenson (1900), Bud Houser (1901), Donald Wills Douglas Sr. (1892), and John L. Hennessy (1952).

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Among ENGINEERS In United States

Among engineers born in United States, Alan Shugart ranks 29. Before him are Eugene Polley (1915), Hendrik Wade Bode (1905), Preston Tucker (1903), Rudy Van Gelder (1924), Ransom E. Olds (1864), and Burt Rutan (1943). After him are Frances Spence (1922), Donald Wills Douglas Sr. (1892), K. Eric Drexler (1955), Frederick Terman (1900), Hugh Latimer Dryden (1898), and Robert H. Dennard (1932).

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