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Bertrand Piccard

1958 - Today

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Bertrand Piccard FRSGS (born 1 March 1958) is a Swiss explorer, psychiatrist and environmentalist. Along with Brian Jones, he was the first to complete a non-stop balloon flight around the globe, in a balloon named Breitling Orbiter 3. He was the initiator, chairman, and pilot, with André Borschberg, of Solar Impulse, the first successful round-the-world solar-powered flight. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bertrand Piccard has received more than 401,362 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Bertrand Piccard is the 294th most popular explorer (down from 268th in 2019), the 332nd most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 284th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Swiss Explorer.

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  • 400k

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  • 50.53

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  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Bertrand Piccard ranks 294 out of 405Before him are Lourenço Marques, Peter Freuchen, Sebastián Vizcaíno, Johann Anton Güldenstädt, Alexander Gordon Laing, and Gonçalo Velho Cabral. After him are Meriwether Lewis, Pierre Poivre, Albert von Le Coq, Knut Haugland, Thekla Resvoll, and Theodor Kotschy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Bertrand Piccard ranks 118Before him are Kim Boo-kyum, Eric Heiden, Greg Mankiw, Oscar Schmidt, Lakhdar Belloumi, and Phạm Minh Chính. After him are Kim Coates, David O. Russell, Samira Said, Natalya Estemirova, Michael Paré, and Sergey Litvinov.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Bertrand Piccard ranks 332 out of 876Before him are Erhard Loretan (1959), Jean Reynier (1771), Max Abegglen (1902), Louis Niedermeyer (1802), Maria Bernarda Bütler (1848), and Moritz Leuenberger (1946). After him are Simon Ammann (1981), Romain Grosjean (1986), Othmar Schoeck (1886), Marc Surer (1951), Klaus Huber (1924), and Pirmin Zurbriggen (1963).

Among EXPLORERS In Switzerland

Among explorers born in Switzerland, Bertrand Piccard ranks 2Before him are Isabelle Eberhardt (1877).

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