ASTRONAUT

Clayton Anderson

1959 - Today

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Clayton Conrad Anderson (born February 23, 1959) is a retired NASA astronaut. Launched on STS-117, he replaced Sunita Williams on June 10, 2007, as a member of the ISS Expedition 15 crew. He is currently an author, a motivational speaker, and a Professor of Practice at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Clayton Anderson has received more than 246,870 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Clayton Anderson is the 395th most popular astronaut (up from 403rd in 2019), the 13,777th most popular biography from United States (down from 13,383rd in 2019) and the 195th most popular American Astronaut.

Memorability Metrics

  • 250k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 38.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.09

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Clayton Anderson ranks 395 out of 556Before him are Anatoli Ivanishin, Frederick Hauck, Carlos I. Noriega, Anton Shkaplerov, Brent W. Jett Jr., and Michael R. Clifford. After him are Wang Yaping, Helen Sharman, Jerome Apt, Roy D. Bridges Jr., Robert Henry Lawrence Jr., and Richard N. Richards.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Clayton Anderson ranks 636Before him are Greg Burke, Debrah Farentino, Władysław Pasikowski, Peter Angerer, Oskar Roehler, and José Figueroa. After him are Jamal Al-Qabendi, Masataka Imai, Ed Greenwood, Joachim Kunz, Jon Oliva, and Édson Boaro.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Clayton Anderson ranks 13,777 out of 20,380Before him are Josephine McKim (1910), Joan Mondale (1930), Tommy Shaw (1953), Nate Robinson (1984), John Michael Higgins (1963), and Tom Forman (1893). After him are JoJo (1990), Christopher C. Miller (1965), John A. Russo (1939), Walter Murphy (1952), Jeffrey Lieber (1969), and Billy Porter (1969).

Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Clayton Anderson ranks 195Before him are Ken Bowersox (1956), Kevin A. Ford (1960), Frank L. Culbertson Jr. (1949), Frederick Hauck (1941), Brent W. Jett Jr. (1958), and Michael R. Clifford (1952). After him are Jerome Apt (1949), Roy D. Bridges Jr. (1943), Robert Henry Lawrence Jr. (1935), Richard N. Richards (1946), Mario Runco Jr. (1952), and Mark L. Polansky (1956).