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Jimmy Doolittle

1896 - 1993

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James Harold Doolittle (December 14, 1896 – September 27, 1993) was an American military general and aviation pioneer who received the Medal of Honor for his daring raid on Japan during World War II, known as the Doolittle Raid in his honor. He made early coast-to-coast flights, record-breaking speed flights, won many flying races, and helped develop flight-test instrument flying.Doolittle grew up in Nome, Alaska. He attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1922. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jimmy Doolittle has received more than 3,212,732 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Jimmy Doolittle is the 66th most popular engineer (down from 58th in 2019), the 1,588th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,339th in 2019) and the 6th most popular American Engineer.

Jimmy Doolittle is most famous for leading the first bombing raid on Tokyo in World War II.

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  • 27

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  • 4.25

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  • 3.30

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Jimmy Doolittle ranks 66 out of 323. Before him are Lu Ban, Masaru Ibuka, Su Song, Viktor Bryukhanov, Hans Kammler, and Leslie Groves. After him are Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt, Paul Cornu, Marcel Dassault, Ross Brawn, Henry Royce, and Viktor Belenko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Jimmy Doolittle ranks 56. Before him are Elsa Triolet, Mamie Eisenhower, Nikolay Semyonov, Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse, Leslie Groves, and Ida Noddack. After him are Dimitri Mitropoulos, Julien Duvivier, Norodom Suramarit, Aleksei Antonov, Friedrich Hund, and Henri de Lubac. Among people deceased in 1993, Jimmy Doolittle ranks 44. Before him are Yuri Lotman, Boris Christoff, Hans Baur, Pat Nixon, Severo Ochoa, and Dinmukhamed Kunaev. After him are Horia Sima, River Phoenix, Don Ameche, Lucia Popp, Stewart Granger, and Leonid Gaidai.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jimmy Doolittle ranks 1,588 out of 18,182. Before him are Art Tatum (1909), William Walker (1824), Michael Rooker (1955), Arthur Penn (1922), Samuel Adams (1722), and Bruce Nauman (1941). After him are Edgar Mitchell (1930), George Clinton (1739), Steve McCurry (1950), Vincent du Vigneaud (1901), R. L. Stine (1943), and Chyna (1969).

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Among ENGINEERS In United States

Among engineers born in United States, Jimmy Doolittle ranks 6. Before him are Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856), Jack Kilby (1923), Howard H. Aiken (1900), Henry Gantt (1861), and Leslie Groves (1896). After him are Jack Swigert (1931), Vannevar Bush (1890), Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr. (1868), J. Walter Christie (1865), Eugene Stoner (1922), and Kelly Johnson (1910).

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