ASTRONAUT

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 4,716,037 page views. Her biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Mae Jemison is the 138th most popular astronaut (down from 135th in 2019), the 5,262nd most popular biography from United States (up from 5,458th in 2019) and the 51st most popular American Astronaut.

Memorability Metrics

  • 4.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 52

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Mae Jemison ranks 138 out of 556. Before her are Gennadi Strekalov, Vance D. Brand, Sunita Williams, Gennady Sarafanov, Dumitru Prunariu, and Roberta Bondar. After her are Ulf Merbold, Kenneth Cockrell, Yuri Gidzenko, Wubbo Ockels, Christer Fuglesang, and Viktor Savinykh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Mae Jemison ranks 213. Before her are Gary Cole, Antonio Muñoz Molina, Said Belqola, Mark Rolston, Peter R. de Vries, and Ann Dowd. After her are Sunny Deol, Marie Colvin, Paulo Autuori, Michael Angelo Batio, Jack Sherman, and Dominique Blanc.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mae Jemison ranks 5,262 out of 20,380. Before her are Zachary Quinto (1977), Elbert Hubbard (1856), Jessica Drake (1974), Jean Hagen (1923), Hal Roach (1892), and Eric Johnson (1954). After her are Murray Leinster (1896), Joan Mitchell (1925), Elmo Lincoln (1889), Taraji P. Henson (1970), Kid Ory (1886), and Timothy D. Snyder (1969).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Mae Jemison ranks 51. Before her are Scott Carpenter (1925), Gregory Jarvis (1944), Joseph A. Walker (1921), Jeffrey A. Hoffman (1944), Vance D. Brand (1931), and Sunita Williams (1965). After her are Kenneth Cockrell (1950), William R. Pogue (1930), Edward Gibson (1936), Peggy Whitson (1960), William Shepherd (1949), and Ronald McNair (1950).

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