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 flew 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 60,987 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). John Young is the 15th most popular astronaut (down from 13th in 2019), the 1,059th most popular biography from United States (down from 720th in 2019) and the 9th 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 15 out of 524. Before him are Alexei Leonov, Alan Shepard, John Glenn, Gherman Titov, Dennis Tito, and Jim Lovell. After him are Sigmund Jähn, David Scott, Harrison Schmitt, Andriyan Nikolayev, Edgar Mitchell, and Svetlana Savitskaya.
1934 - 2019
HPI: 75.98
Rank: 9
1923 - 1998
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 10
1921 - 2016
HPI: 73.11
Rank: 11
1935 - 2000
HPI: 72.87
Rank: 12
1940 - Present
HPI: 72.75
Rank: 13
1928 - Present
HPI: 71.44
Rank: 14
1930 - 2018
HPI: 70.38
Rank: 15
1937 - 2019
HPI: 70.34
Rank: 16
1932 - Present
HPI: 70.03
Rank: 17
1935 - Present
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 18
1929 - 2004
HPI: 69.33
Rank: 19
1930 - 2016
HPI: 69.06
Rank: 20
1948 - Present
HPI: 68.96
Rank: 21
Among people born in 1930, John Young ranks 61. Before him are Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma, Robert Aumann, Joanne Woodward, Jean Rochefort, Buck Henry, and Johan Galtung. After him are Derek Walcott, Reinhard Selten, Akira Suzuki, Jesús Franco, Stanley Miller, and Gérard Genette. Among people deceased in 2018, John Young ranks 50. Before him are Claude Lanzmann, Jamal Khashoggi, Whitey Bulger, Günter Blobel, Burton Richter, and Reynaldo Bignone. After him are R. Lee Ermey, Tsukasa Hosaka, Jean-Louis Tauran, Gérard Genette, Milena Dravić, and Joe Jackson.
1930 - 2010
HPI: 71.00
Rank: 55
1930 - Present
HPI: 70.92
Rank: 56
1930 - Present
HPI: 70.72
Rank: 57
1930 - 2017
HPI: 70.68
Rank: 58
1930 - 2020
HPI: 70.50
Rank: 59
1930 - Present
HPI: 70.44
Rank: 60
1930 - 2018
HPI: 70.38
Rank: 61
1930 - 2017
HPI: 70.38
Rank: 62
1930 - 2016
HPI: 70.37
Rank: 63
1930 - Present
HPI: 70.26
Rank: 64
1930 - 2013
HPI: 70.09
Rank: 65
1930 - 2007
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 66
1930 - 2018
HPI: 69.98
Rank: 67
1925 - 2018
HPI: 70.65
Rank: 44
1958 - 2018
HPI: 70.50
Rank: 45
1929 - 2018
HPI: 70.43
Rank: 46
1936 - 2018
HPI: 70.42
Rank: 47
1931 - 2018
HPI: 70.41
Rank: 48
1928 - 2018
HPI: 70.39
Rank: 49
1930 - 2018
HPI: 70.38
Rank: 50
1944 - 2018
HPI: 70.37
Rank: 51
1937 - 2018
HPI: 70.27
Rank: 52
1943 - 2018
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 53
1930 - 2018
HPI: 69.98
Rank: 54
1940 - 2018
HPI: 69.90
Rank: 55
1928 - 2018
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 56
Among people born in United States, John Young ranks 1,059 out of 15,968. Before him are Clyde Drexler (1962), Val Logsdon Fitch (1923), Burton Richter (1931), James Brolin (1940), George Akerlof (1940), and Allen Dulles (1893). After him are James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834), Winona Ryder (1971), Gerald Edelman (1929), Lyonel Feininger (1871), Danny Aiello (1933), and R. Lee Ermey (1944).
1962 - Present
HPI: 70.42
Rank: 1,053
1923 - 2015
HPI: 70.42
Rank: 1,054
1931 - 2018
HPI: 70.41
Rank: 1,055
1940 - Present
HPI: 70.40
Rank: 1,056
1940 - Present
HPI: 70.40
Rank: 1,057
1893 - 1969
HPI: 70.40
Rank: 1,058
1930 - 2018
HPI: 70.38
Rank: 1,059
1834 - 1903
HPI: 70.38
Rank: 1,060
1971 - Present
HPI: 70.38
Rank: 1,061
1929 - 2014
HPI: 70.38
Rank: 1,062
1871 - 1956
HPI: 70.38
Rank: 1,063
1933 - 2019
HPI: 70.37
Rank: 1,064
1944 - 2018
HPI: 70.37
Rank: 1,065
Among astronauts born in United States, John Young ranks 9. Before him are Gene Cernan (1934), Pete Conrad (1930), Alan Shepard (1923), John Glenn (1921), Dennis Tito (1940), and Jim Lovell (1928). After him are David Scott (1932), Harrison Schmitt (1935), Edgar Mitchell (1930), Ed White (1930), James Irwin (1930), and Fred Haise (1933).
1934 - 2017
HPI: 78.79
Rank: 3
1930 - 1999
HPI: 76.13
Rank: 4
1923 - 1998
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 5
1921 - 2016
HPI: 73.11
Rank: 6
1940 - Present
HPI: 72.75
Rank: 7
1928 - Present
HPI: 71.44
Rank: 8
1930 - 2018
HPI: 70.38
Rank: 9
1932 - Present
HPI: 70.03
Rank: 10
1935 - Present
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 11
1930 - 2016
HPI: 69.06
Rank: 12
1930 - 1967
HPI: 68.51
Rank: 13
1930 - 1991
HPI: 68.15
Rank: 14
1933 - Present
HPI: 68.12
Rank: 15