1936 - Today
Loren Wilber Acton (born March 7, 1936) is an American physicist who flew on Space Shuttle mission STS-51-F as a Payload Specialist for the Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory. He is also the father of Cheryll Glotfelty, a leading ecocritic.Acton was born in Lewistown, Montana. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Loren Acton has received more than 69,898 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Loren Acton is the 221st most popular astronaut (down from 203rd in 2019), the 8,291st most popular biography from United States (down from 6,862nd in 2019) and the 86th most popular American Astronaut.
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Among astronauts, Loren Acton ranks 221 out of 524. Before him are Hans Schlegel, Marsha Ivins, Oleg Kononenko, Michael López-Alegría, Oleg Atkov, and Ernst Messerschmid. After him are Yuri Gidzenko, Vladimir Vasyutin, André Kuipers, Lisa Nowak, Daniel Brandenstein, and Liu Yang.
1951 - Present
HPI: 56.26
Rank: 215
1951 - Present
HPI: 56.26
Rank: 216
1964 - Present
HPI: 56.25
Rank: 217
1958 - Present
HPI: 56.22
Rank: 218
1949 - Present
HPI: 56.14
Rank: 219
1945 - Present
HPI: 56.04
Rank: 220
1936 - Present
HPI: 56.04
Rank: 221
1962 - Present
HPI: 56.03
Rank: 222
1952 - 2002
HPI: 55.99
Rank: 223
1958 - Present
HPI: 55.98
Rank: 224
1963 - Present
HPI: 55.87
Rank: 225
1943 - Present
HPI: 55.86
Rank: 226
1978 - Present
HPI: 55.79
Rank: 227
Among people born in 1936, Loren Acton ranks 385. Before him are Leon O. Chua, Shelley Morrison, Volker Strassen, Larry McMurtry, German Apukhtin, and László Fábián. After him are Roger Miller, Wolfgang Behrendt, M. Scott Peck, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, Elizabeth Dole, and Ernest Shonekan.
1936 - Present
HPI: 56.56
Rank: 379
1936 - 2019
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 380
1936 - Present
HPI: 56.41
Rank: 381
1936 - Present
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 382
1936 - 2003
HPI: 56.15
Rank: 383
1936 - 2018
HPI: 56.13
Rank: 384
1936 - Present
HPI: 56.04
Rank: 385
1936 - 1992
HPI: 55.91
Rank: 386
1936 - Present
HPI: 55.91
Rank: 387
1936 - 2005
HPI: 55.78
Rank: 388
1936 - 2016
HPI: 55.71
Rank: 389
1936 - Present
HPI: 55.66
Rank: 390
1936 - Present
HPI: 55.34
Rank: 391
Among people born in United States, Loren Acton ranks 8,291 out of 15,968. Before him are ZaSu Pitts (1894), Nana Visitor (1957), Desmond Harrington (1976), April Bowlby (1980), Elmer Rice (1892), and Billy Mills (1938). After him are Jerry Hardin (1929), Dana Carvey (1955), John Esposito (1940), Lew Rockwell (1944), Glenn Hardin (1910), and Connie Sawyer (1912).
1894 - 1963
HPI: 56.04
Rank: 8,285
1957 - Present
HPI: 56.04
Rank: 8,286
1976 - Present
HPI: 56.04
Rank: 8,287
1980 - Present
HPI: 56.04
Rank: 8,288
1892 - 1967
HPI: 56.04
Rank: 8,289
1938 - Present
HPI: 56.04
Rank: 8,290
1936 - Present
HPI: 56.04
Rank: 8,291
1929 - Present
HPI: 56.03
Rank: 8,292
1955 - Present
HPI: 56.03
Rank: 8,293
1940 - Present
HPI: 56.03
Rank: 8,294
1944 - Present
HPI: 56.03
Rank: 8,295
1910 - 1975
HPI: 56.03
Rank: 8,296
1912 - 2018
HPI: 56.03
Rank: 8,297
Among astronauts born in United States, Loren Acton ranks 86. Before him are Joseph P. Allen (1937), Story Musgrave (1935), William C. McCool (1961), James C. Adamson (1946), Steven R. Nagel (1946), and Marsha Ivins (1951). After him are Lisa Nowak (1963), Daniel Brandenstein (1943), Bryan D. O'Connor (1946), Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper (1963), David M. Walker (1944), and Jeffrey Williams (1958).
1937 - Present
HPI: 56.70
Rank: 80
1935 - Present
HPI: 56.69
Rank: 81
1961 - 2003
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 82
1946 - Present
HPI: 56.30
Rank: 83
1946 - 2014
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 84
1951 - Present
HPI: 56.26
Rank: 85
1936 - Present
HPI: 56.04
Rank: 86
1963 - Present
HPI: 55.87
Rank: 87
1943 - Present
HPI: 55.86
Rank: 88
1946 - Present
HPI: 55.74
Rank: 89
1963 - Present
HPI: 55.62
Rank: 90
1944 - 2001
HPI: 55.60
Rank: 91
1958 - Present
HPI: 55.57
Rank: 92