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Gregory Olsen

1945 - Today

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Gregory Hammond Olsen (born April 20, 1945) is an American entrepreneur, engineer and scientist who, in October 2005, became the third private citizen to make a self-funded trip to the International Space Station with the company Space Adventures. Olsen was the co-founder and chairman of Sensors Unlimited Inc., a company developing optoelectronic devices such as sensitive near-infrared (NIR) and shortwave-infrared (SWIR) cameras. One of Sensors Unlimited's major customers is NASA. Currently, Olsen is President of GHO Ventures, LLC, in Princeton, New Jersey, where he manages his angel investments, South African winery, Montana ranch, Manhattan and Miami real estate, and performs numerous speaking engagements to encourage children – especially minority and female children – to consider careers in science or engineering. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gregory Olsen has received more than 150,513 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Gregory Olsen is the 506th most popular businessperson (down from 459th in 2019), the 6,598th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,383rd in 2019) and the 161st most popular American Businessperson.

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  • 150k

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  • 48.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Gregory Olsen ranks 506 out of 847. Before him are Petr Kellner, Samuel P. Bush, Gene Haas, Mario Segale, Jared Kushner, and John Henry Davies. After him are Johan Anker, Choi Soon-sil, Irving Kristol, Ian Livingstone, Indra Nooyi, and Robert Trump.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Gregory Olsen ranks 411. Before him are Brian Doyle-Murray, Ken Livingstone, Anna Enquist, Henrik Nordbrandt, Yekaterina Vasilyeva, and Saharon Shelah. After him are Naftali Temu, Mikhail Voronin, Erwin Vandendaele, Burhan Ghalioun, Ulla Pia, and Kadir Topbaş.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gregory Olsen ranks 6,598 out of 20,380. Before him are Ellen Albertini Dow (1913), Stephen Sommers (1962), Maury Chaykin (1949), James Lee Burke (1936), Brad Delson (1977), and Joel Stebbins (1878). After him are Carl Benjamin Boyer (1906), Mario Cuomo (1932), Shailene Woodley (1991), Charles P. Kindleberger (1910), Zack de la Rocha (1970), and Chrissy Teigen (1985).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Gregory Olsen ranks 161. Before him are George Peabody (1795), Will Keith Kellogg (1860), Samuel P. Bush (1863), Gene Haas (1952), Mario Segale (1934), and Jared Kushner (1981). After him are Irving Kristol (1920), Robert Trump (1948), Sam Altman (1985), Gilbert Kaplan (1941), Irene Rosenfeld (1953), and William Henry Vanderbilt (1821).

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