1955 - 2016
Piers John Sellers (11 April 1955 – 23 December 2016) was a British-American meteorologist, NASA astronaut and Director of the Earth Science Division at NASA/GSFC. He was a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions. Sellers attended Cranbrook School, Cranbrook, Kent, United Kingdom, until 1973, and achieved a bachelor's degree in ecological science from the University of Edinburgh in 1976. In 1981 he gained a doctorate in biometeorology from the University of Leeds. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Piers Sellers has received more than 344,082 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Piers Sellers is the 176th most popular astronaut (up from 207th in 2019), the 3,748th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,023rd in 2019) and the most popular British Astronaut.
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Among astronauts, Piers Sellers ranks 176 out of 524. Before him are Valeri Tokarev, Laurel Clark, Patrick Baudry, Yuri Malenchenko, Claudie Haigneré, and Robert Crippen. After him are Lodewijk van den Berg, Boris Morukov, Paolo Nespoli, Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov, Frank De Winne, and John Oliver Creighton.
1952 - Present
HPI: 45.90
Rank: 170
1961 - 2003
HPI: 45.78
Rank: 171
1946 - Present
HPI: 45.74
Rank: 172
1961 - Present
HPI: 45.74
Rank: 173
1957 - Present
HPI: 45.72
Rank: 174
1937 - Present
HPI: 45.67
Rank: 175
1955 - 2016
HPI: 45.62
Rank: 176
1932 - 2022
HPI: 45.61
Rank: 177
1950 - 2015
HPI: 45.61
Rank: 178
1957 - Present
HPI: 45.60
Rank: 179
1951 - Present
HPI: 45.53
Rank: 180
1961 - Present
HPI: 45.52
Rank: 181
1943 - Present
HPI: 45.46
Rank: 182
Among people born in 1955, Piers Sellers ranks 281. Before him are Francesco Guidolin, Patrick Achi, William Kentridge, Martin Hoffmann, Susi Sánchez, and Juliusz Machulski. After him are Bärbel Wöckel, Kristine Sutherland, Ásgeir Sigurvinsson, Darius Khondji, Karen Dotrice, and Yitang Zhang. Among people deceased in 2016, Piers Sellers ranks 350. Before him are James Joseph Dresnok, Bobby Vee, Tom M. Apostol, Amelia Bence, Adolf Born, and Henning Enoksen. After him are Tom Kibble, Frano Selak, Burt Kwouk, Roger Dumas, Howard Marks, and Hugh O'Brian.
1955 - Present
HPI: 45.76
Rank: 275
1955 - Present
HPI: 45.74
Rank: 276
1955 - Present
HPI: 45.73
Rank: 277
1955 - Present
HPI: 45.70
Rank: 278
1955 - Present
HPI: 45.68
Rank: 279
1955 - Present
HPI: 45.66
Rank: 280
1955 - 2016
HPI: 45.62
Rank: 281
1955 - Present
HPI: 45.61
Rank: 282
1955 - Present
HPI: 45.59
Rank: 283
1955 - Present
HPI: 45.55
Rank: 284
1955 - Present
HPI: 45.54
Rank: 285
1955 - Present
HPI: 45.48
Rank: 286
1955 - Present
HPI: 45.47
Rank: 287
1941 - 2016
HPI: 45.75
Rank: 344
1943 - 2016
HPI: 45.69
Rank: 345
1923 - 2016
HPI: 45.66
Rank: 346
1914 - 2016
HPI: 45.66
Rank: 347
1930 - 2016
HPI: 45.66
Rank: 348
1935 - 2016
HPI: 45.63
Rank: 349
1955 - 2016
HPI: 45.62
Rank: 350
1932 - 2016
HPI: 45.55
Rank: 351
1929 - 2016
HPI: 45.55
Rank: 352
1930 - 2016
HPI: 45.52
Rank: 353
1932 - 2016
HPI: 45.45
Rank: 354
1945 - 2016
HPI: 45.43
Rank: 355
1925 - 2016
HPI: 45.38
Rank: 356
Among people born in United Kingdom, Piers Sellers ranks 3,748 out of 7,765. Before him are John Braine (1922), Adolph Deutsch (1897), Will Champion (1978), William McGregor (1846), Henry Nicholas Ridley (1855), and Michael Rennie (1909). After him are Amy Macdonald (1987), William Powell Frith (1819), William Tenn (1920), William Robertson (1721), John Powell (1963), and William Rutter Dawes (1799).
1922 - 1986
HPI: 45.64
Rank: 3,742
1897 - 1980
HPI: 45.64
Rank: 3,743
1978 - Present
HPI: 45.64
Rank: 3,744
1846 - 1911
HPI: 45.64
Rank: 3,745
1855 - 1956
HPI: 45.63
Rank: 3,746
1909 - 1971
HPI: 45.63
Rank: 3,747
1955 - 2016
HPI: 45.62
Rank: 3,748
1987 - Present
HPI: 45.62
Rank: 3,749
1819 - 1909
HPI: 45.62
Rank: 3,750
1920 - 2010
HPI: 45.62
Rank: 3,751
1721 - 1793
HPI: 45.61
Rank: 3,752
1963 - Present
HPI: 45.61
Rank: 3,753
1799 - 1868
HPI: 45.61
Rank: 3,754
Among astronauts born in United Kingdom, Piers Sellers ranks 1. After him are Helen Sharman (1963), Michael Foale (1957), Gregory H. Johnson (1962), Tim Peake (1972), and Nicholas Patrick (1964).
1955 - 2016
HPI: 45.62
Rank: 1
1963 - Present
HPI: 38.09
Rank: 2
1957 - Present
HPI: 37.05
Rank: 3
1962 - Present
HPI: 29.83
Rank: 4
1972 - Present
HPI: 27.57
Rank: 5
1964 - Present
HPI: 27.26
Rank: 6