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Jerrie Cobb

1931 - 2019

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Geraldyn M. Cobb (March 5, 1931 – March 18, 2019), commonly known as Jerrie Cobb, was an American pilot and aviator. She was also part of the Mercury 13, a group of women who underwent physiological screening tests at the same time as the original Mercury Seven astronauts, and was the first to complete each of the tests. Cobb set three aviation records in her 20s: the 1959 world record for non-stop long-distance flight, the 1959 world light-plane speed record, and a 1960 world altitude record for lightweight aircraft of 37,010 feet (11,280 m). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jerrie Cobb has received more than 1,253,319 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Jerrie Cobb is the 50th most popular pilot (up from 54th in 2019), the 6,386th most popular biography from United States (up from 7,613th in 2019) and the 10th most popular American Pilot.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.40

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PILOTS

Among pilots, Jerrie Cobb ranks 50 out of 71. Before her are Nikolai Kamanin, Jacqueline Cochran, Maguba Syrtlanova, Nikolai Gastello, Mariya Dolina, and Gotthard Handrick. After her are Natalya Meklin, Anna Yegorova, Lotfia Elnadi, Tatyana Makarova, Gregorio Fuentes, and Viktor Talalikhin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Jerrie Cobb ranks 356. Before her are Louis Pouzin, Tullio Regge, Skeeter Davis, Park Wan-suh, Ferenc Szojka, and Emma Andijewska. After her are Emam-Ali Habibi, Paulo Maluf, Imrich Stacho, Yasushi Akashi, Lev Durov, and Redha Malek. Among people deceased in 2019, Jerrie Cobb ranks 307. Before her are Charles Kittel, Carolee Schneemann, Fred Bongusto, Ivan Dimitrov, George Fernandes, and Robert Ryman. After her are Patricia Bath, Ismail Petra of Kelantan, Egon Zimmermann, Med Hondo, Larry Cohen, and Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jerrie Cobb ranks 6,386 out of 20,380. Before her are Robert Ryman (1930), Jane Colden (1724), Thelma Todd (1906), Steven Culp (1955), Bernadette Peters (1948), and Joseph Sweeney (1884). After her are Theodore Robinson (1852), Patricia Bath (1942), Shafi Goldwasser (1958), Victor J. Stenger (1935), Peter Facinelli (1973), and Henry Carr (1941).

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Among PILOTS In United States

Among pilots born in United States, Jerrie Cobb ranks 10. Before her are Chesley Sullenberger (1951), Chuck Yeager (1923), Joseph Kittinger (1928), Claire Lee Chennault (1890), Bessie Coleman (1892), and Jacqueline Cochran (1906). After her are Wally Funk (1939), Cornelia Fort (1919), and Blanche Stuart Scott (1884).

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