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Anousheh Ansari

1966 - Today

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Anousheh Ansari (Persian: انوشه انصاری; née Raissyan; born September 12, 1966) is an Iranian-American engineer, space tourist, and entrepreneur. She is the co-founder and chairwoman of Prodea Systems, and her previous business accomplishments include serving as co-founder and chief executive officer of Telecom Technologies, Inc. On September 18, 2006, a few days after her 40th birthday, she became the first Iranian person to be in outer space. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anousheh Ansari has received more than 1,026,104 page views. Her biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Anousheh Ansari is the 241st most popular engineer (down from 211th in 2019), the 344th most popular biography from Iran (down from 288th in 2019) and the most popular Iranian Engineer.

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  • 50.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 51

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Anousheh Ansari ranks 241 out of 389. Before her are Alexander Mikulin, James B. Francis, Essam Sharaf, Aron Ralston, Ferdinand Mannlicher, and Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov. After her are Alexander Kemurdzhian, Enrico Forlanini, Konstantin Kalinin, Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, Jon Postel, and Hans Moravec.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1966, Anousheh Ansari ranks 127. Before her are Cheb Mami, Qin Gang, Antoine Fuqua, Stefan Reuter, Tatjana Patitz, and Baltasar Kormákur. After her are Jason Flemyng, JJ Lehto, Billy Burke, Jorge Mendes, Hossam Hassan, and William Ruto.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Anousheh Ansari ranks 344 out of 631. Before her are Abol-Fath Khan Zand (1755), Hafiz-i Abru (null), Masoud Kimiai (1941), Gholam Reza Azhari (1912), Cassandra Clare (1973), and Simin Daneshvar (1921). After her are Mahmoud Taleghani (1911), Iraj Mirza (1874), Mohsen Rezaee (1954), Fazlullah Nouri (1843), Haj Ali Razmara (1901), and Bahram Beyzai (1938).

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Among ENGINEERS In Iran

Among engineers born in Iran, Anousheh Ansari ranks 1. 

Iranian born Engineers

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