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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 134,254 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Alan Shugart is the 277th most popular engineer (down from 91st in 2019), the 6,971st most popular biography from United States (down from 5,520th in 2019) and the 31st most popular American Engineer.

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  • 21

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  • 4.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Alan Shugart ranks 277 out of 323Before him are Peter Schreyer, Othmar Ammann, K. Eric Drexler, Donald Wills Douglas Sr., Da-Wen Sun, and Eilmer of Malmesbury. After him are Mikhail Tikhonravov, Arthur E. Kennelly, Hideo Itokawa, Geoffrey de Havilland, William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, and Frances Spence.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Alan Shugart ranks 383Before him are Alakbar Mammadov, Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, Giorgio Ghezzi, Clarke Scholes, Abdalqadir as-Sufi, and Françoise Mallet-Joris. After him are Leonid Abalkin, Vera T. Sós, Innes Ireland, Inomjon Usmonxoʻjayev, Henry Lincoln, and Polly Bergen. Among people deceased in 2006, Alan Shugart ranks 244Before him are Kenneth Lay, Duygu Asena, Viktor Pavlov, Mirko Marjanović, Karl Hugo Strunz, and Ondina Valla. After him are Valentin Muratov, Kathleen Antonelli, Zdravko Rajkov, Teresa Ciepły, Raúl Francisco Primatesta, and Ivar Formo.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alan Shugart ranks 6,971 out of 18,182Before him are Kathy Acker (1947), McLean Stevenson (1927), Garrick Ohlsson (1948), David E. Kelley (1956), Richmond Landon (1898), and Ronda Rousey (1987). After him are Jocelyn Brando (1919), Bob Einstein (1942), Art Acord (1890), John Varley (1947), Richard Henry Lee (1732), and David Bryan (1962).

Among ENGINEERS In United States

Among engineers born in United States, Alan Shugart ranks 31Before him are Rudy Van Gelder (1924), Frederick Terman (1900), Jack Parsons (1914), Ransom E. Olds (1864), K. Eric Drexler (1955), and Donald Wills Douglas Sr. (1892). After him are Frances Spence (1922), Butler Lampson (1943), Hugh Latimer Dryden (1898), Robert H. Dennard (1932), Chuck Peddle (1937), and Sidney Darlington (1906).