ASTRONAUT

Ronald Evans

1933 - 1990

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Ronald Ellwin Evans Jr. (November 10, 1933 – April 7, 1990) was an American electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer, officer and aviator in the United States Navy, and NASA astronaut. As Command Module Pilot on Apollo 17 he was one of the 24 astronauts to fly to the Moon, and one of 12 people to fly to the Moon without landing. Before becoming an astronaut, Evans graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Kansas and joined the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ronald Evans has received more than 22,352 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Ronald Evans is the 55th most popular astronaut (up from 61st in 2019), the 2,685th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,010th in 2019) and the 27th most popular American Astronaut.

Memorability Metrics

  • 22k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.71

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Ronald Evans ranks 55 out of 556. Before him are Walter Cunningham, Vladimir Shatalov, Kalpana Chawla, Wally Schirra, Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, and Valentin Bondarenko. After him are Pavel Belyayev, Valentina Ponomaryova, Musa Manarov, Georgy Beregovoy, Jean-Loup Chrétien, and Jügderdemidiin Gürragchaa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Ronald Evans ranks 145. Before him are Mátyás Szűrös, Vassilis Vassilikos, Godfried Danneels, Bernadette Chirac, Asim Ferhatović, and Tetsuko Kuroyanagi. After him are Azeglio Vicini, Félicien Kabuga, Ahmad al-Khatib, Valentina Ponomaryova, Heather Armitage, and Edward Bunker. Among people deceased in 1990, Ronald Evans ranks 80. Before him are Georgy Flyorov, Nina Kulagina, Sergei Dovlatov, Joan Bennett, Taro Kagawa, and Attilio Demaría. After him are George de Mestral, Michel Leiris, Eduard Streltsov, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Thorbjørn Egner, and Tom Fogerty.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ronald Evans ranks 2,685 out of 20,380. Before him are Eric Schmidt (1955), William J. Burns (1956), Flannery O'Connor (1925), Suzanne Vega (1959), Laura Linney (1964), and Philip Sheridan (1831). After him are Sonny Boy Williamson I (1914), Jay Rockefeller (1937), Larry David (1947), Waylon Jennings (1937), James Mark Baldwin (1861), and Anna May Wong (1905).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Ronald Evans ranks 27. Before him are Fred Haise (1933), Bruce McCandless II (1937), John Young (1930), Ellison Onizuka (1946), Walter Cunningham (1932), and Wally Schirra (1923). After him are Richard F. Gordon Jr. (1929), Christa McAuliffe (1948), Karol J. Bobko (1937), Gordon Cooper (1927), Thomas P. Stafford (1930), and Michael J. Smith (1945).

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