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Jean Batten

1909 - 1982

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Jane Gardner Batten (15 September 1909 – 22 November 1982), commonly known as Jean Batten, was a New Zealand aviator who made several record-breaking flights – including the first solo flight from England to New Zealand in 1936. Born in Rotorua, Batten went to England to learn to fly. She made two unsuccessful attempts to fly from England to Australia solo before achieving the feat in May 1934, taking just under 15 days to fly the distance in a Gipsy Moth biplane. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Batten has received more than 748,823 page views. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Jean Batten is the 14,323rd most popular politician (down from 12,725th in 2019), the 48th most popular biography from New Zealand (down from 47th in 2019) and the 4th most popular New Zealander Politician.

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  • 750k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.10

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Jean Batten ranks 14,323 out of 19,576. Before her are Gerhard Louis De Geer, Grisha Filipov, Imad Khamis, Mario Echandi Jiménez, Reino Kuuskoski, and Walter Behrendt. After her are Hrvoje Horvat, Isaak Zelensky, Sarduri IV, Dominique Mbonyumutwa, Benjamin Sheares, and Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Jean Batten ranks 284. Before her are Massimo Pallottino, Zellig Harris, Margaret Mee, Juan Carreño, Xie Fuzhi, and Leo Sexton. After her are Shōhei Ōoka, Olivér Halassy, Beb Bakhuys, Vasco Bergamaschi, Emmett Toppino, and Prince Hubertus of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Among people deceased in 1982, Jean Batten ranks 194. Before her are Virginia Hall, Marie Braun, Hércules de Miranda, Victor Jory, Josef Bradl, and Hitoshi Sasaki. After her are Carmelo Robledo, Beb Bakhuys, Pedro Solé, Hal Foster, Vasily Rudenkov, and Stefanos Stefanopoulos.

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In New Zealand

Among people born in New Zealand, Jean Batten ranks 48 out of 303. Before her are Keith Urban (1967), Jacinda Ardern (1980), William Phillips (1914), Roy Kerr (1934), Anthony Wilding (1883), and Antony Starr (1975). After her are Patsy Reddy (1954), Kevin Smith (1963), Howden Ganley (1941), Meri Mangakāhia (1868), Wallace Fard Muhammad (1893), and Terence Bayler (1930).

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Among POLITICIANS In New Zealand

Among politicians born in New Zealand, Jean Batten ranks 4. Before her are Helen Clark (1950), Burt Munro (1899), and Jacinda Ardern (1980). After her are Patsy Reddy (1954), Wallace Fard Muhammad (1893), Michael Hardie Boys (1931), John Key (1961), John Gorton (1911), Silvia Cartwright (1943), Te Atairangikaahu (1931), and David Lange (1942).

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