1958 - Today
Neil deGrasse Tyson (US: or UK: ; born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator. Tyson studied at Harvard University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Columbia University. From 1991 to 1994, he was a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Neil deGrasse Tyson has received more than 12,905,615 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 65 in 2019). Neil deGrasse Tyson is the 18th most popular astronomer (up from 19th in 2019), the 293rd most popular biography from United States (up from 337th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular American Astronomer.
Neil deGrasse Tyson is most famous for being an astrophysicist, science communicator, and science popularizer. He is the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City.
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Among astronomers, Neil deGrasse Tyson ranks 18 out of 531. Before him are Hipparchus, Ole Rømer, Ja'far al-Sadiq, Carl Sagan, Giovanni Domenico Cassini, and Aryabhata. After him are Edmond Halley, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Robert Woodrow Wilson, Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, Charles Messier, and Giuseppe Piazzi.
190 BC - 120 BC
HPI: 74.29
Rank: 12
1644 - 1710
HPI: 73.77
Rank: 13
702 - 765
HPI: 73.30
Rank: 14
1934 - 1996
HPI: 71.94
Rank: 15
1625 - 1712
HPI: 70.97
Rank: 16
476 - 550
HPI: 70.32
Rank: 17
1958 - Present
HPI: 69.43
Rank: 18
1656 - 1742
HPI: 69.10
Rank: 19
1943 - Present
HPI: 68.68
Rank: 20
1936 - Present
HPI: 68.38
Rank: 21
903 - 986
HPI: 68.26
Rank: 22
1730 - 1817
HPI: 67.99
Rank: 23
1746 - 1826
HPI: 67.50
Rank: 24
Among people born in 1958, Neil deGrasse Tyson ranks 7. Before him are Michael Jackson, Madonna, Ursula von der Leyen, Olaf Scholz, Alec Baldwin, and Andrea Bocelli. After him are Albert II, Prince of Monaco, Tim Burton, Gary Oldman, Viggo Mortensen, Sharon Stone, and Michelle Pfeiffer.
1958 - 2009
HPI: 82.75
Rank: 1
1958 - Present
HPI: 74.41
Rank: 2
1958 - Present
HPI: 73.69
Rank: 3
1958 - Present
HPI: 71.62
Rank: 4
1958 - Present
HPI: 71.61
Rank: 5
1958 - Present
HPI: 70.27
Rank: 6
1958 - Present
HPI: 69.43
Rank: 7
1958 - Present
HPI: 69.03
Rank: 8
1958 - Present
HPI: 68.61
Rank: 9
1958 - Present
HPI: 68.50
Rank: 10
1958 - Present
HPI: 67.62
Rank: 11
1958 - Present
HPI: 67.27
Rank: 12
1958 - Present
HPI: 67.14
Rank: 13
Among people born in United States, Neil deGrasse Tyson ranks 293 out of 18,182. Before him are Geraldine Chaplin (1944), Norbert Wiener (1894), Shirley MacLaine (1934), Mario Puzo (1920), Raymond Chandler (1888), and Gloria Stuart (1910). After him are Edward Hopper (1882), Georgia O'Keeffe (1887), Eli Wallach (1915), Billie Holiday (1915), Lawrence Kohlberg (1927), and Jack Kerouac (1922).
1944 - Present
HPI: 69.53
Rank: 287
1894 - 1964
HPI: 69.52
Rank: 288
1934 - Present
HPI: 69.51
Rank: 289
1920 - 1999
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 290
1888 - 1959
HPI: 69.48
Rank: 291
1910 - 2010
HPI: 69.44
Rank: 292
1958 - Present
HPI: 69.43
Rank: 293
1882 - 1967
HPI: 69.39
Rank: 294
1887 - 1986
HPI: 69.39
Rank: 295
1915 - 2014
HPI: 69.35
Rank: 296
1915 - 1959
HPI: 69.32
Rank: 297
1927 - 1987
HPI: 69.30
Rank: 298
1922 - 1969
HPI: 69.29
Rank: 299
Among astronomers born in United States, Neil deGrasse Tyson ranks 3. Before him are Edwin Hubble (1889) and Carl Sagan (1934). After him are Robert Woodrow Wilson (1936), William Alfred Fowler (1911), Charles Greeley Abbot (1872), Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868), Asaph Hall (1829), Clyde Tombaugh (1906), Vera Rubin (1928), Percival Lowell (1855), and Russell Alan Hulse (1950).
1889 - 1953
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 1
1934 - 1996
HPI: 71.94
Rank: 2
1958 - Present
HPI: 69.43
Rank: 3
1936 - Present
HPI: 68.38
Rank: 4
1911 - 1995
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 5
1872 - 1973
HPI: 65.13
Rank: 6
1868 - 1921
HPI: 64.48
Rank: 7
1829 - 1907
HPI: 64.25
Rank: 8
1906 - 1997
HPI: 63.75
Rank: 9
1928 - 2016
HPI: 62.19
Rank: 10
1855 - 1916
HPI: 62.08
Rank: 11
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.16
Rank: 12