ASTRONAUT

Hans Schlegel

1951 - Today

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Hans Wilhelm Schlegel (Überlingen, 3 August 1951) is a German physicist, a former ESA astronaut, and a veteran of two NASA Space Shuttle missions. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans Schlegel has received more than 62,677 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Hans Schlegel is the 214th most popular astronaut (down from 205th in 2019), the 4,999th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,463rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular German Astronaut.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Hans Schlegel ranks 214 out of 556Before him are Charles Bassett, Catherine Coleman, Joseph P. Kerwin, Koichi Wakata, Story Musgrave, and Laurel Clark. After him are Takao Doi, James P. Bagian, Roberto Vittori, David M. Brown, Marcos Pontes, and Bonnie J. Dunbar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Hans Schlegel ranks 432Before him are Olga Jackowska, Hani Mulki, Steve Hillage, Zoltán Ribli, Bill Moseley, and Sergey Tereshchenko. After him are Fiorella Bonicelli, Hossein Alizadeh, Gaston Kaboré, Timothy Bottoms, Suad Amiry, and Albert Salvadó.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans Schlegel ranks 4,999 out of 7,253Before him are Barbara Hendricks (1952), Joseph Weydemeyer (1818), Gabriele Kuby (1944), Wilhelm Brinkmann (1910), Curt Goetz (1888), and Wilhelm Leichum (1911). After him are Friedel Rausch (1940), Bernd Franke (1948), Brigitte Reimann (1933), Lothar Späth (1937), Hermann Volk (1903), and Andy Bechtolsheim (1955).

Among ASTRONAUTS In Germany

Among astronauts born in Germany, Hans Schlegel ranks 4Before him are Sigmund Jähn (1937), Ulf Merbold (1941), and Thomas Reiter (1958). After him are Ernst Messerschmid (1945), Jean-Jacques Favier (1949), Jasmin Moghbeli (1983), Klaus-Dietrich Flade (1952), Reinhold Ewald (1956), Ulrich Walter (1954), Gerhard Thiele (1953), and Alexander Gerst (1976).