ASTRONAUT

Buzz Aldrin

1930 - Today

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Buzz Aldrin (; born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.; January 20, 1930) is an American former astronaut, engineer and fighter pilot. He made three spacewalks as pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission, and was the Lunar Module Eagle pilot on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission. He was the second person to walk on the Moon after mission commander Neil Armstrong. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Buzz Aldrin has received more than 15,396,291 page views. His biography is available in 101 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 97 in 2019). Buzz Aldrin is the 6th most popular astronaut (down from 5th in 2019), the 211th most popular biography from United States (down from 166th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular American Astronaut.

Buzz Aldrin is most famous for being the second man to walk on the moon.

Memorability Metrics

  • 15M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 71.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 101

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Buzz Aldrin ranks 6 out of 556. Before him are Yuri Gagarin, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Valentina Tereshkova, and Gene Cernan. After him are Pete Conrad, Vladimir Komarov, Alexei Leonov, John Glenn, Gherman Titov, and Alan Shepard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Buzz Aldrin ranks 17. Before him are Ray Charles, Jean-Luc Godard, Mobutu Sese Seko, Hafez al-Assad, Baudouin of Belgium, and Steve McQueen. After him are Salvatore Riina, Pete Conrad, Gene Hackman, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Philippe Noiret, and Tu Youyou.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Buzz Aldrin ranks 211 out of 20,380. Before him are Steve McQueen (1930), Thomas Kuhn (1922), John B. Watson (1878), John Williams (1932), Carl Sagan (1934), and Cameron Diaz (1972). After him are Benjamin Harrison (1833), Richard Gere (1949), John Quincy Adams (1767), Robert Andrews Millikan (1868), Quentin Tarantino (1963), and Barry White (1944).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Buzz Aldrin ranks 3. Before him are Neil Armstrong (1930), and Gene Cernan (1934). After him are Pete Conrad (1930), John Glenn (1921), Alan Shepard (1923), Dennis Tito (1940), David Scott (1932), Harrison Schmitt (1935), James Irwin (1930), Frank Borman (1928), and Jim Lovell (1928).

American born Astronauts

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