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Kelly Johnson

1910 - 1990

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Clarence Leonard "Kelly" Johnson (February 27, 1910 – December 21, 1990) was an American aeronautical and systems engineer. He is recognized for his contributions to a series of important aircraft designs, most notably the Lockheed U-2 and SR-71 Blackbird. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kelly Johnson has received more than 33,951 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Kelly Johnson is the 168th most popular engineer (up from 181st in 2019), the 3,670th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,742nd in 2019) and the 12th most popular American Engineer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Kelly Johnson ranks 168 out of 323. Before him are Pierre-Émile Martin, Antoine de Chézy, Anton Flettner, Louis Charles Breguet, Émile Levassor, and Rory Byrne. After him are Arthur Morin, Béla Barényi, Alphonse Pénaud, Robert Maillart, Pierre-Paul Riquet, and Alfred Neubauer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Kelly Johnson ranks 139. Before him are Josef Tal, Sylvia Sidney, Trygve Bratteli, Franz Kline, Yekaterina Furtseva, and T-Bone Walker. After him are Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Aleksandar Tirnanić, Armen Takhtajan, Bernard Voorhoof, Lothar Collatz, and Jeanne Hersch. Among people deceased in 1990, Kelly Johnson ranks 115. Before him are Alan Perlis, Hayedeh, Venedikt Yerofeyev, Matvey Blanter, Andrei Kirilenko, and Hans Freudenthal. After him are James M. Gavin, Grethe Ingmann, David White, Lothar Collatz, Jorge Bolet, and Paul Ariste.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Kelly Johnson ranks 3,670 out of 18,182. Before him are Vonda N. McIntyre (1948), Elmore James (1918), Hubert Selby Jr. (1928), Thomas C. Kinkaid (1888), David Huddleston (1930), and Jack Nance (1943). After him are Kevin Hart (1979), Sherilyn Fenn (1965), James Michael Tyler (1962), Jim Brown (1936), Virginia Madsen (1961), and Mildred Natwick (1905).

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Among ENGINEERS In United States

Among engineers born in United States, Kelly Johnson ranks 12. Before him are Jimmy Doolittle (1896), Jack Swigert (1931), Vannevar Bush (1890), Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr. (1868), J. Walter Christie (1865), and Eugene Stoner (1922). After him are Joseph Strauss (1870), Gene Kranz (1933), Jon Postel (1943), Seymour Cray (1925), Charles F. Brush (1849), and Preston Tucker (1903).

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