ASTRONAUT

Chris Hadfield

1959 - Today

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Chris Austin Hadfield (born August 29, 1959) is a Canadian retired astronaut, engineer, fighter pilot, musician, and writer. The first Canadian to perform extravehicular activity in outer space, he has flown two Space Shuttle missions and also served as commander of the International Space Station (ISS). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Chris Hadfield has received more than 3,489,323 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Chris Hadfield is the 242nd most popular astronaut (down from 198th in 2019), the 529th most popular biography from Canada (down from 446th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Canadian Astronaut.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.87

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Chris Hadfield ranks 242 out of 556. Before him are Nikolai Budarin, Jean-Pierre Haigneré, Jean-Jacques Favier, Soichi Noguchi, Akihiko Hoshide, and Bjarni Tryggvason. After him are Aleksandr Nikolayevich Balandin, Millie Hughes-Fulford, Samuel T. Durrance, Andreas Mogensen, Daniel Brandenstein, and Jan Davis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Chris Hadfield ranks 382. Before him are Dave Schultz, François Chau, Lene Hau, Noureddine Bedoui, Ajay Banga, and Gregg Araki. After him are Ryuta Kawashima, Mats Näslund, Andrzej Buncol, Glenn Morshower, Fredric Lehne, and Zoé Valdés.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Chris Hadfield ranks 529 out of 1,622. Before him are James Arthur (1944), Mark Strand (1934), Marcel Dionne (1951), Scotty Bowman (1933), Patrick J. Adams (1981), and Gil Bellows (1967). After him are Sidney Olcott (1872), Christopher Heyerdahl (1963), Marie Avgeropoulos (1986), Todd McFarlane (1961), Anne Dorval (1960), and James Tupper (1965).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Canada

Among astronauts born in Canada, Chris Hadfield ranks 2. Before him are Roberta Bondar (1945). After him are Steve MacLean (1954), Robert Thirsk (1953), David Saint-Jacques (1970), Dafydd Williams (1954), Gregory Chamitoff (1962), and Jeremy Hansen (1976).

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