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Aron Ralston

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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 5,107,835 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia. Aron Ralston is the 236th most popular engineer (up from 238th in 2019), the 5,422nd most popular biography from United States (down from 5,399th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular American Engineer.

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  • 48.59

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  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Aron Ralston ranks 236 out of 323. Before him are William Froude, Walter Thiel, Eugène Flachat, Burt Rutan, Johann Georg Halske, and Marcel Deprez. After him are Johannes Winkler, Vladimir Mikhailovich Myasishchev, Verghese Kurien, Jean-Augustin Barral, Percy Hobart, and Hendrik Wade Bode.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1975, Aron Ralston ranks 75. Before him are Paula Patton, Gary Neville, Linda Cardellini, Zach Braff, Keiko Fujimori, and Suriya. After him are Lauryn Hill, Yasmin Levy, John Higgins, Marion Jones, Iván Helguera, and Tara Reid.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Aron Ralston ranks 5,422 out of 18,182. Before him are Anna Lee Fisher (1949), Louis Brandeis (1856), Robert Kerman (1947), Marlyn Meltzer (1922), Luther Vandross (1951), and Nathanael Greene (1742). After him are Gertrude Käsebier (1852), Dusty Rhodes (1945), Lauryn Hill (1975), Gary Cole (1956), Robert Henri (1865), and Edward Platt (1916).

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Among ENGINEERS In United States

Among engineers born in United States, Aron Ralston ranks 23. Before him are Charles F. Brush (1849), Preston Tucker (1903), Ed Heinemann (1908), Emily Warren Roebling (1843), Eugene Polley (1915), and Burt Rutan (1943). After him are Hendrik Wade Bode (1905), Rudy Van Gelder (1924), Frederick Terman (1900), Jack Parsons (1914), Ransom E. Olds (1864), and K. Eric Drexler (1955).

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