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Gene Kranz

1933 - Today

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Eugene Francis Kranz (born August 17, 1933) is an American aerospace engineer who served as NASA's second Chief Flight Director, directing missions of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs, including the first lunar landing mission, Apollo 11. He directed the successful efforts by the Mission Control team to save the crew of Apollo 13, and was portrayed in the 1995 film of the same name by actor Ed Harris. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gene Kranz has received more than 2,221,538 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Gene Kranz is the 188th most popular engineer (down from 186th in 2019), the 3,918th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,073rd in 2019) and the 14th most popular American Engineer.

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  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Gene Kranz ranks 188 out of 389. Before him are Alfred Neubauer, Giuseppe Colombo, Sergei Tumansky, Michele Besso, Michel Chevalier, and Emily Warren Roebling. After him are Ivan Yarkovsky, Kelly Johnson, Genichi Taguchi, Jorge Chávez, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, and Eugen Sänger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Gene Kranz ranks 214. Before him are Ray Dolby, Evaristo de Macedo, Mariya Pisareva, Siân Phillips, Hope Lange, and Lamine Diack. After him are Renée Taylor, Justo Tejada, Titus Buberník, Nexhmije Pagarusha, Julian Bream, and Marlene Ahrens.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gene Kranz ranks 3,918 out of 20,380. Before him are Hope Lange (1933), Kit Carson (1809), Carol Potter (1948), Richard Estes (1932), Robert Crumb (1943), and Earl Hines (1903). After him are Charlie Kaufman (1958), Anthony Franciosa (1928), Robert Evans (1930), Virginia Madsen (1961), Vincent Richards (1903), and William Forsythe (1955).

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Among ENGINEERS In United States

Among engineers born in United States, Gene Kranz ranks 14. Before him are Jack Swigert (1931), Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr. (1868), J. Walter Christie (1865), Joseph Strauss (1870), Eugene Stoner (1922), and Emily Warren Roebling (1843). After him are Kelly Johnson (1910), Charles F. Brush (1849), Seymour Cray (1925), Ed Heinemann (1908), Kenneth Nichols (1907), and Aron Ralston (1975).

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