ASTRONAUT

Michael Collins

1930 - 2021

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Michael "Mike" Collins (October 31, 1930 – April 28, 2021) was an American astronaut who flew the Apollo 11 command module Columbia around the Moon in 1969 while his crewmates, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, made the first crewed landing on the surface. He was also a test pilot and major general in the U.S. Air Force Reserve. Born in Rome, Italy, where his father was serving as the U.S. military attaché, Collins graduated in the Class of 1952 from the United States Military Academy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Collins has received more than 204,348 page views. His biography is available in 80 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 77 in 2019). Michael Collins is the 3rd most popular astronaut, the 85th most popular biography from Italy (down from 83rd in 2019) and the most popular Italian Astronaut.

Michael Collins is most famous for the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War. He was the Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Republican Army and a member of the Irish delegation during the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations.

Memorability Metrics

  • 200k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 77.58

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 80

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 18.04

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Michael Collins ranks 3 out of 556. Before him are Yuri Gagarin, and Neil Armstrong. After him are Valentina Tereshkova, Gene Cernan, Buzz Aldrin, Pete Conrad, Vladimir Komarov, Alexei Leonov, John Glenn, Gherman Titov, and Alan Shepard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Michael Collins ranks 4. Before him are Neil Armstrong, Clint Eastwood, and Sean Connery. After him are Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, Helmut Kohl, Warren Buffett, Pierre Bourdieu, George Soros, Jacques Derrida, Ray Charles, and Jean-Luc Godard. Among people deceased in 2021, Michael Collins ranks 3. Before him are Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and Jean-Paul Belmondo. After him are Gerd Müller, Albert Bandura, Mikis Theodorakis, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, F. W. de Klerk, Chun Doo-hwan, Christopher Plummer, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, and Charlie Watts.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Michael Collins ranks 85 out of 5,161. Before him are Ennio Morricone (1928), Catherine de' Medici (1519), Giorgio Vasari (1511), Pope Pius V (1504), Pope Pius XI (1857), and Benedict of Nursia (480). After him are Pope Gregory XIII (1502), Pope Sylvester I (300), Masaccio (1401), Sonia Gandhi (1946), Pope Benedict XV (1854), and Livy (-59).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Italy

Among astronauts born in Italy, Michael Collins ranks 1. After him are Samantha Cristoforetti (1977), Paolo Nespoli (1957), Roberto Vittori (1964), Umberto Guidoni (1954), Maurizio Cheli (1959), and Luca Parmitano (1976).

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