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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 2,046,403 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Gene Kranz is the 188th most popular engineer (up from 192nd in 2019), the 4,084th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,981st in 2019) and the 14th most popular American Engineer.

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  • 22

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  • 3.39

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Gene Kranz ranks 188 out of 323. Before him are Gotthilf Hagen, Vladimir Petlyakov, Louis Dollo, Agustín de Betancourt, Joseph Strauss, and Nikolay Kamov. After him are Jon Postel, William Playfair, W. Ross Ashby, Seymour Cray, Evgeny Paton, and Bassel al-Assad.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Gene Kranz ranks 207. Before him are René Burri, Lynn Cohen, Jörn Donner, Evaristo de Macedo, Hope Lange, and Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos. After him are Dennis Viollet, Tsai Chin, Kamal Ganzouri, Vera Krepkina, Ilya Kabakov, and Josef Kadraba.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gene Kranz ranks 4,084 out of 18,182. Before him are Jackie Earle Haley (1961), Reggie Miller (1965), Augustine Washington (1694), Nancy Spungen (1958), Mira Sorvino (1967), and Warren Oates (1928). After him are Howard Keel (1919), Celeste Holm (1917), Clifton James (1920), Eric Carmen (1949), Jim Carroll (1949), and Harrison Dillard (1923).

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Among ENGINEERS In United States

Among engineers born in United States, Gene Kranz ranks 14. Before him are Vannevar Bush (1890), Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr. (1868), J. Walter Christie (1865), Eugene Stoner (1922), Kelly Johnson (1910), and Joseph Strauss (1870). After him are Jon Postel (1943), Seymour Cray (1925), Charles F. Brush (1849), Preston Tucker (1903), Ed Heinemann (1908), and Emily Warren Roebling (1843).

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