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Aron Ralston

1975 - Today

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Aron Lee Ralston (born October 27, 1975) is an American mountaineer, mechanical engineer, and motivational speaker, known for surviving a canyoneering accident by cutting off part of his own right arm. On April 26, 2003, during a solo descent of Bluejohn Canyon in southeastern Utah, he dislodged a boulder, pinning his right wrist to the side of the canyon wall. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aron Ralston has received more than 5,626,632 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Aron Ralston is the 238th most popular engineer (down from 234th in 2019), the 4,945th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,410th in 2019) and the 20th most popular American Engineer.

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  • 5.6M

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  • 57.40

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Aron Ralston ranks 238 out of 389. Before him are Arkhip Lyulka, Harvey Postlethwaite, Erwin Komenda, Alexander Mikulin, James B. Francis, and Essam Sharaf. After him are Ferdinand Mannlicher, Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov, Anousheh Ansari, Alexander Kemurdzhian, Enrico Forlanini, and Konstantin Kalinin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1975, Aron Ralston ranks 76. Before him are Paula Patton, Daron Malakian, Walid Regragui, Veselin Topalov, Jamie Oliver, and Brandon Sanderson. After him are Rubén Baraja, Andrea Agnelli, Míchel, Estas Tonne, Igor Dodon, and Cécile de France.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Aron Ralston ranks 4,945 out of 20,380. Before him are Antoine Fuqua (1966), Dean Jagger (1903), Joseph Hooker (1814), Gene Clark (1944), Walter De Maria (1935), and Ted Post (1918). After him are Jack DeJohnette (1942), Eddie Lawson (1958), Larry Carlton (1948), A. Merritt (1884), Eric S. Raymond (1957), and Sylvanus Morley (1883).

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Among ENGINEERS In United States

Among engineers born in United States, Aron Ralston ranks 20. Before him are Gene Kranz (1933), Kelly Johnson (1910), Charles F. Brush (1849), Seymour Cray (1925), Ed Heinemann (1908), and Kenneth Nichols (1907). After him are Jon Postel (1943), Butler Lampson (1943), Eugene Polley (1915), Hendrik Wade Bode (1905), Preston Tucker (1903), and Rudy Van Gelder (1924).

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