ASTRONAUT

Bjarni Tryggvason

1945 - 2022

Photo of Bjarni Tryggvason

Icon of person Bjarni Tryggvason

Bjarni Valdimar Tryggvason (September 21, 1945 – April 5, 2022) was an Icelandic-born Canadian engineer and a NRC/CSA astronaut. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bjarni Tryggvason has received more than 150,471 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Bjarni Tryggvason is the 241st most popular astronaut (up from 381st in 2019), the 82nd most popular biography from Iceland (up from 113th in 2019) and the most popular Icelander Astronaut.

Memorability Metrics

  • 150k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.43

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.05

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Bjarni Tryggvasons by language

Over the past year Bjarni Tryggvason has had the most page views in the with 10,699 views, followed by Icelandic (1,160), and Chinese (945). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (127.85%), Arabic (45.45%), and Hungarian (44.10%)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Bjarni Tryggvason ranks 241 out of 556. Before him are John Oliver Creighton, Nikolai Budarin, Jean-Pierre Haigneré, Jean-Jacques Favier, Soichi Noguchi, and Akihiko Hoshide. After him are Chris Hadfield, Aleksandr Nikolayevich Balandin, Millie Hughes-Fulford, Samuel T. Durrance, Andreas Mogensen, and Daniel Brandenstein.

Most Popular Astronauts in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Bjarni Tryggvason ranks 556. Before him are Steve Railsback, César Maluco, Huell Howser, Wolfgang Seguin, Hugh Hopper, and Luis Garisto. After him are Amos Sawyer, Millie Hughes-Fulford, Wilma Mankiller, Muriel Casals i Couturier, Michael Hayden, and Narendra Dabholkar. Among people deceased in 2022, Bjarni Tryggvason ranks 503. Before him are Keith Levene, Benjamin Kogo, Kazimierz Zimny, John McNally, Mike Hodges, and Henry Lincoln. After him are Jose Maria Sison, Ned Rorem, Walter Abish, Amos Sawyer, Sture Allén, and David Ray Griffin.

Others Born in 1945

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 2022

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Iceland

Among people born in Iceland, Bjarni Tryggvason ranks 82 out of 190. Before him are Jón Magnússon (1859), Jón Þorláksson (1877), Arnór Guðjohnsen (1961), Torfi Bryngeirsson (1926), Steingrímur Steinþórsson (1893), and Guðmundur Guðmundsson (1960). After him are Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson (1962), Emilíana Torrini (1977), Alfreð Finnbogason (1989), Ólafur Stefánsson (1973), Sigurður Eggerz (1875), and Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson (1975).

Others born in Iceland

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among ASTRONAUTS In Iceland

Among astronauts born in Iceland, Bjarni Tryggvason ranks 1. 

Icelander born Astronauts

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous