ASTRONAUT

John Glenn

1921 - 2016

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John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was an American Marine Corps aviator, astronaut, businessman, and politician. He was the third American in space and the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962. Following his retirement from NASA, he served from 1974 to 1999 as a U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Glenn has received more than 12,510,455 page views. His biography is available in 76 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 72 in 2019). John Glenn is the 10th most popular astronaut (up from 11th in 2019), the 655th most popular biography from United States (down from 601st in 2019) and the 5th most popular American Astronaut.

John Glenn is most famous for becoming the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962.

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  • 76

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  • 4.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, John Glenn ranks 10 out of 556Before him are Valentina Tereshkova, Gene Cernan, Buzz Aldrin, Pete Conrad, Vladimir Komarov, and Alexei Leonov. After him are Gherman Titov, Alan Shepard, Dennis Tito, Svetlana Savitskaya, Valeri Polyakov, and Andriyan Nikolayev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, John Glenn ranks 32Before him are Satyajit Ray, Sugar Ray Robinson, Vasily Smyslov, Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, Vasily Stalin, and Gianni Agnelli. After him are Jane Russell, Lana Turner, Arthur Leonard Schawlow, Marija Gimbutas, Lotfi A. Zadeh, and Yoichiro Nambu. Among people deceased in 2016, John Glenn ranks 36Before him are Carrie Fisher, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Pierre Boulez, Andrzej Żuławski, Walter Scheel, and Gene Wilder. After him are Harper Lee, George Kennedy, Vera Rubin, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Věra Čáslavská, and James Cronin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Glenn ranks 655 out of 20,380Before him are Lionel Richie (1949), Stanford Moore (1913), Paul Berg (1926), George Minot (1885), Gary Becker (1930), and Matthew C. Perry (1794). After him are Billy Graham (1918), Joe Louis (1914), Martin Lewis Perl (1927), Michael Crichton (1942), James Rainwater (1917), and Dolly Parton (1946).

Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, John Glenn ranks 5Before him are Neil Armstrong (1930), Gene Cernan (1934), Buzz Aldrin (1930), and Pete Conrad (1930). After him are Alan Shepard (1923), Dennis Tito (1940), David Scott (1932), Harrison Schmitt (1935), James Irwin (1930), Frank Borman (1928), and Jim Lovell (1928).