1930 - 2018
John Watts Young (September 24, 1930 – January 5, 2018) was an American astronaut, naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and aeronautical engineer. He became the ninth person to walk on the Moon as commander of the Apollo 16 mission in 1972. He is the only astronaut to fly on four different classes of spacecraft: Gemini, the Apollo command and service module, the Apollo Lunar Module and the Space Shuttle. Before becoming an astronaut, Young received his Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and joined the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Young has received more than 65,385 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia. John Young is the 35th most popular astronaut (down from 15th in 2019), the 2,087th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,058th in 2019) and the 20th most popular American Astronaut.
John Young is most famous for being the ninth person to walk on the moon and the first person to fly six missions in space.
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Among astronauts, John Young ranks 35 out of 524. Before him are Michael P. Anderson, Bruce McCandless II, Georgy Dobrovolsky, Roger B. Chaffee, Alan Bean, and Frank Borman. After him are Ellison Onizuka, Christa McAuliffe, Kalpana Chawla, Vladislav Volkov, Valeri Kubasov, and Fred Haise.
1959 - 2003
HPI: 57.72
Rank: 29
1937 - 2017
HPI: 57.62
Rank: 30
1928 - 1971
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 31
1935 - 1967
HPI: 57.40
Rank: 32
1932 - 2018
HPI: 57.35
Rank: 33
1928 - Present
HPI: 57.18
Rank: 34
1930 - 2018
HPI: 56.94
Rank: 35
1946 - 1986
HPI: 56.92
Rank: 36
1948 - 1986
HPI: 56.77
Rank: 37
1961 - 2003
HPI: 56.75
Rank: 38
1935 - 1971
HPI: 56.69
Rank: 39
1935 - 2014
HPI: 56.51
Rank: 40
1933 - Present
HPI: 56.36
Rank: 41
Among people born in 1930, John Young ranks 120. Before him are Viktor Tikhonov, Walter Bonatti, William C. Campbell, Sergiu Nicolaescu, John Frankenheimer, and Rahmon Nabiyev. After him are Tanya Savicheva, Kinji Fukasaku, Ted Hughes, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Frank Lucas, and Yves Rocher. Among people deceased in 2018, John Young ranks 88. Before him are Ermanno Olmi, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Efraín Ríos Montt, Keith O'Brien, Paul Virilio, and Nicole Fontaine. After him are Josep Lluís Núñez, Lill-Babs, Aaron Klug, Luisa Cuesta, Whitey Bulger, and Princess Elisabeth of Denmark.
1930 - 2014
HPI: 57.45
Rank: 114
1930 - 2011
HPI: 57.31
Rank: 115
1930 - Present
HPI: 57.15
Rank: 116
1930 - 2013
HPI: 57.13
Rank: 117
1930 - 2002
HPI: 57.09
Rank: 118
1930 - 1993
HPI: 57.01
Rank: 119
1930 - 2018
HPI: 56.94
Rank: 120
1930 - 1944
HPI: 56.89
Rank: 121
1930 - 2003
HPI: 56.86
Rank: 122
1930 - 1998
HPI: 56.80
Rank: 123
1930 - 2017
HPI: 56.79
Rank: 124
1930 - 2019
HPI: 56.77
Rank: 125
1930 - 2009
HPI: 56.76
Rank: 126
1931 - 2018
HPI: 57.32
Rank: 82
1922 - 2018
HPI: 57.30
Rank: 83
1926 - 2018
HPI: 57.29
Rank: 84
1938 - 2018
HPI: 57.22
Rank: 85
1932 - 2018
HPI: 57.21
Rank: 86
1942 - 2018
HPI: 57.06
Rank: 87
1930 - 2018
HPI: 56.94
Rank: 88
1931 - 2018
HPI: 56.93
Rank: 89
1938 - 2018
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 90
1926 - 2018
HPI: 56.83
Rank: 91
1920 - 2018
HPI: 56.76
Rank: 92
1929 - 2018
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 93
1935 - 2018
HPI: 56.61
Rank: 94
Among people born in United States, John Young ranks 2,087 out of 18,182. Before him are Lewis Hine (1874), William Halsey Jr. (1882), Agnes Smedley (1892), Curtis LeMay (1906), Mary McDonnell (1952), and Asher Brown Durand (1796). After him are John Bates Clark (1847), Gregg Popovich (1949), Abner Doubleday (1819), Ken Wilber (1949), Eugene Nida (1914), and Bobby McFerrin (1950).
1874 - 1940
HPI: 56.97
Rank: 2,081
1882 - 1959
HPI: 56.97
Rank: 2,082
1892 - 1950
HPI: 56.96
Rank: 2,083
1906 - 1990
HPI: 56.96
Rank: 2,084
1952 - Present
HPI: 56.96
Rank: 2,085
1796 - 1886
HPI: 56.95
Rank: 2,086
1930 - 2018
HPI: 56.94
Rank: 2,087
1847 - 1938
HPI: 56.94
Rank: 2,088
1949 - Present
HPI: 56.93
Rank: 2,089
1819 - 1893
HPI: 56.93
Rank: 2,090
1949 - Present
HPI: 56.93
Rank: 2,091
1914 - 2011
HPI: 56.92
Rank: 2,092
1950 - Present
HPI: 56.92
Rank: 2,093
Among astronauts born in United States, John Young ranks 20. Before him are Ed White (1930), Michael P. Anderson (1959), Bruce McCandless II (1937), Roger B. Chaffee (1935), Alan Bean (1932), and Frank Borman (1928). After him are Ellison Onizuka (1946), Christa McAuliffe (1948), Fred Haise (1933), Ken Mattingly (1936), Gordon Cooper (1927), and Wally Schirra (1923).
1930 - 1967
HPI: 58.98
Rank: 14
1959 - 2003
HPI: 57.72
Rank: 15
1937 - 2017
HPI: 57.62
Rank: 16
1935 - 1967
HPI: 57.40
Rank: 17
1932 - 2018
HPI: 57.35
Rank: 18
1928 - Present
HPI: 57.18
Rank: 19
1930 - 2018
HPI: 56.94
Rank: 20
1946 - 1986
HPI: 56.92
Rank: 21
1948 - 1986
HPI: 56.77
Rank: 22
1933 - Present
HPI: 56.36
Rank: 23
1936 - Present
HPI: 55.44
Rank: 24
1927 - 2004
HPI: 55.41
Rank: 25
1923 - 2007
HPI: 55.17
Rank: 26