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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 143,679 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Gregory Olsen is the 459th most popular businessperson (down from 300th in 2019), the 6,396th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,220th in 2019) and the 151st most popular American Businessperson.

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  • 140k

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  • 46.87

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Gregory Olsen ranks 459 out of 601. Before him are Mary Barra, Anders Frisk, Suleyman Kerimov, Trip Hawkins, Samuel Cunard, and Eli Lilly. After him are Isabella Beeton, Gardiner Greene Hubbard, Zhong Shanshan, Teddy Mayer, Dmitry Rybolovlev, and Lila Tretikov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Gregory Olsen ranks 350. Before him are Walter Momper, Nils Torvalds, Mario Livio, Randy Brecker, Leslie West, and Marion Rung. After him are Raila Odinga, Alan Ball Jr., Modestas Paulauskas, Bob Welch, Fuad Muzurović, and Jean-Marie Poiré.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gregory Olsen ranks 6,396 out of 18,182. Before him are Amina Wadud (1952), William Higinbotham (1910), Eileen Ryan (1927), Gunther Schuller (1925), Dexter Jackson (1969), and Evelyn Ashford (1957). After him are Robert Hays (1947), Robert Richardson (1955), John Shelby Spong (1931), Melissa Mathison (1950), Kevin Sussman (1970), and Henry L. Giclas (1910).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Gregory Olsen ranks 151. Before him are Milton S. Hershey (1857), Herman Cain (1945), Guy Kawasaki (1954), Mary Barra (1961), Trip Hawkins (1953), and Eli Lilly (1838). After him are Gardiner Greene Hubbard (1822), Teddy Mayer (1935), Jay Gould (1836), Stephen A. Schwarzman (1947), Richard Bass (1929), and Steve Forbes (1947).

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