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Mae Jemison

1956 - Today

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Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut. She became the first African-American woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mae Jemison has received more than 4,522,152 page views. Her biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Mae Jemison is the 135th most popular astronaut (up from 169th in 2019), the 5,470th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,468th in 2019) and the 48th most popular American Astronaut.

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  • 48.51

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  • 50

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  • 2.19

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  • 5.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Mae Jemison ranks 135 out of 524Before her are Rusty Schweickart, Vyacheslav Zudov, Valery Ryumin, Gennadi Strekalov, Kathryn D. Sullivan, and Anna Lee Fisher. After her are Gennady Sarafanov, Barbara Morgan, Vitaly Zholobov, Anatoly Levchenko, Rick Husband, and William Shepherd.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Mae Jemison ranks 206Before her are Sinan Sakić, Gary Cole, Sean Kelly, Meena Keshwar Kamal, Chieko Hase, and Antonio Muñoz Molina. After her are Franz Tost, Roberto Malone, Lev Avnerovich Leviev, Majida El Roumi, Paul Day, and Vladimir Kulich.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mae Jemison ranks 5,470 out of 18,182Before her are Chloë Sevigny (1974), Jack Oakie (1903), Tabitha Babbitt (1779), Rockwell Kent (1882), Jane Greer (1924), and Lawrence Tierney (1919). After her are Red Garland (1923), Jean Shiley (1911), Keenen Ivory Wayans (1958), Robert Parrish (1916), Lauren Ridloff (1978), and Wendy O. Williams (1949).

Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Mae Jemison ranks 48Before her are Sunita Williams (1965), Donn F. Eisele (1930), William R. Pogue (1930), Rusty Schweickart (1935), Kathryn D. Sullivan (1951), and Anna Lee Fisher (1949). After her are Barbara Morgan (1951), Rick Husband (1957), William Shepherd (1949), Peggy Whitson (1960), Vance D. Brand (1931), and Ronald McNair (1950).

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