ASTRONAUT

Kathryn D. Sullivan

1951 - Today

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Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan (born October 3, 1951) is an American geologist, oceanographer, and former NASA astronaut and US Navy officer. She was a crew member on three Space Shuttle missions. A graduate of University of California, Santa Cruz, in the United States, and Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada—where she earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in geology in 1978—Sullivan was selected as one of the six women among the 35 astronaut candidate in NASA Astronaut Group 8, the first group to include women. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kathryn D. Sullivan has received more than 526,883 page views. Her biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Kathryn D. Sullivan is the 95th most popular astronaut (up from 133rd in 2019), the 3,772nd most popular biography from United States (up from 5,346th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular American Astronaut.

Memorability Metrics

  • 530k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.02

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Kathryn D. Sullivans by language

Over the past year Kathryn D. Sullivan has had the most page views in the with 53,460 views, followed by Russian (18,476), and Italian (10,751). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Russian (214.00%), Javanese (118.33%), and Finnish (113.23%)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Kathryn D. Sullivan ranks 95 out of 556. Before her are Donn F. Eisele, Dick Scobee, Leonid Kizim, Alfred Worden, Stuart Roosa, and Aleksandr Serebrov. After her are Yang Liwei, Anatoly Berezovoy, Valery Ryumin, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov, Deke Slayton, and Dirk Frimout.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Kathryn D. Sullivan ranks 168. Before her are Gregory Winter, Bernardo Atxaga, Timo Salonen, Walter de Silva, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, and Patriarch Daniel of Romania. After her are Isa Mustafa, Viktor Sukhorukov, Ivars Godmanis, Christopher Cross, Slavica Đukić Dejanović, and Nitish Kumar.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Kathryn D. Sullivan ranks 3,772 out of 20,380. Before her are Tiger Woods (1975), Eugene Stoner (1922), Isadore Singer (1924), Maurice Karnaugh (1924), Jim Hall (1930), and Lunalilo (1835). After her are McCoy Tyner (1938), Elizabeth Bolden (1890), Black Hawk (1767), Jim Rohn (1930), Eric Singer (1958), and Edna Parker (1893).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Kathryn D. Sullivan ranks 43. Before her are Rusty Schweickart (1935), James McDivitt (1929), Donn F. Eisele (1930), Dick Scobee (1939), Alfred Worden (1932), and Stuart Roosa (1933). After her are Deke Slayton (1924), Scott Carpenter (1925), Gregory Jarvis (1944), Joseph A. Walker (1921), Jeffrey A. Hoffman (1944), and Vance D. Brand (1931).

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