New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

ENGINEER

Arthur Rudolph

1906 - 1996

Photo of Arthur Rudolph

Icon of person Arthur Rudolph

Arthur Louis Hugo Rudolph (November 9, 1906 – January 1, 1996) was a German rocket engineer who was a leader of the effort to develop the V-2 rocket for Nazi Germany. After World War II, the United States government's Office of Strategic Services (OSS) brought him to the U.S. as part of the clandestine Operation Paperclip, where he became one of the main developers of the U.S. space program. He worked within the U.S. Army and NASA, where he managed the development of several systems, including the Pershing missile and the Saturn V Moon rocket. In 1984, the U.S. government investigated him for war crimes, and he agreed to renounce his United States citizenship and leave the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arthur Rudolph has received more than 442,148 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Arthur Rudolph is the 270th most popular engineer (down from 227th in 2019), the 4,116th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,341st in 2019) and the 32nd most popular German Engineer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 440k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.71

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Arthur Rudolphs by language


Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Arthur Rudolph ranks 270 out of 323. Before him are Mikhail Simonov, Émile Lemoine, Markus Reiner, Sam Eyde, Ransom E. Olds, and Robert Esnault-Pelterie. After him are Peter Schreyer, Othmar Ammann, K. Eric Drexler, Donald Wills Douglas Sr., Da-Wen Sun, and Eilmer of Malmesbury.

Most Popular Engineers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Arthur Rudolph ranks 259. Before him are Wolfgang Koeppen, Joseph Höffner, Petre Steinbach, Jan Diddens, David Smith, and Klavdiya Shulzhenko. After him are Victor Hasselblad, Thelma Todd, Gerardo Romero, Alberto Soria, William Wilson Morgan, and Dashdorjiin Natsagdorj. Among people deceased in 1996, Arthur Rudolph ranks 206. Before him are Nnamdi Azikiwe, Petre Steinbach, Robert Nisbet, Antonio Creus, Roger Lapébie, and Harry Andersson. After him are Marin Sorescu, David Tudor, Léon-Étienne Duval, Gesualdo Bufalino, José Lázaro Robles, and N. T. Rama Rao.

Others Born in 1906

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1996

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Arthur Rudolph ranks 4,116 out of 6,142. Before him are Bernd Förster (1956), Ulf Timmermann (1962), Ludwig Bechstein (1801), Friedrich Chrysander (1826), Rainer Zobel (1948), and Nicolaus Michael Oppel (1782). After him are Udo Beyer (1955), Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer (1829), Gerhard Rohlfs (1892), Albrecht Unsöld (1905), Barthold Heinrich Brockes (1680), and Hanna Maron (1923).

Others born in Germany

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among ENGINEERS In Germany

Among engineers born in Germany, Arthur Rudolph ranks 32. Before him are Franz Grashof (1826), Paul Mauser (1838), Ferdinand Mannlicher (1848), Johann Georg Halske (1814), Oskar von Miller (1855), and Gerhard Fieseler (1896). After him are Peter Schreyer (1953), Friedrich L. Bauer (1924), Mario Theissen (1952), Willy Ley (1906), and Matthias Ettrich (1972).

German born Engineers

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous
  • DatawheelCL