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Amelia Earhart

1897 - 1937

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Amelia Mary Earhart ( AIR-hart; born July 24, 1897; declared dead January 5, 1939) was an American aviation pioneer. On July 2, 1937, Earhart disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to become the first female pilot to circumnavigate the world. During her life, Earhart embraced celebrity culture and women's rights, and since her disappearance, she has become a cultural icon. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Amelia Earhart has received more than 19,969,449 page views. Her biography is available in 100 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 95 in 2019). Amelia Earhart is the 2nd most popular pilot, the 167th most popular biography from United States (down from 138th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular American Pilot.

Amelia Earhart was an American aviator who set many aviation records and became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

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Among PILOTS

Among pilots, Amelia Earhart ranks 2 out of 71. Before her are Charles Lindbergh. After her are Roland Garros, Sabiha Gökçen, Hanna Reitsch, Adolf Galland, Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, Ernst Udet, Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet, Francis Gary Powers, Ivan Kozhedub, and Hermann Graf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Amelia Earhart ranks 5. Before her are Joseph Goebbels, Irène Joliot-Curie, Pope Paul VI, and William Faulkner. After her are Anthony Eden, Subhas Chandra Bose, Ludwig Erhard, Ivan Konev, Paavo Nurmi, Wilhelm Reich, and Lucky Luciano. Among people deceased in 1937, Amelia Earhart ranks 10. Before her are Alfred Adler, Pierre de Coubertin, Antonio Gramsci, John D. Rockefeller, Maurice Ravel, and Erich Ludendorff. After her are Lou Andreas-Salomé, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, George Gershwin, Gustaf Dalén, and Yevgeny Zamyatin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Amelia Earhart ranks 167 out of 20,380. Before her are Herbert Hoover (1874), Dale Carnegie (1888), Jackson Pollock (1912), Olympias (-375), Barry Barish (1936), and Sharon Tate (1943). After her are Paul Newman (1925), William James Sidis (1898), Judy Garland (1922), Samuel L. Jackson (1948), Sitting Bull (1831), and Tom Cruise (1962).

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Among PILOTS In United States

Among pilots born in United States, Amelia Earhart ranks 2. Before her are Charles Lindbergh (1902). After her are Francis Gary Powers (1929), Chesley Sullenberger (1951), Chuck Yeager (1923), Joseph Kittinger (1928), Claire Lee Chennault (1890), Bessie Coleman (1892), Jacqueline Cochran (1906), Jerrie Cobb (1931), Wally Funk (1939), and Cornelia Fort (1919).

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