ASTRONAUT

Sunita Williams

1965 - Today

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Sunita Lyn Williams (née Pandya; born September 19, 1965), nicknamed Suni in the United States and Sončka in Slovenia, is an American astronaut, United States Navy officer, and former record holder for most spacewalks by a woman (seven) and most spacewalk time for a woman (50 hours, 40 minutes). Williams was assigned to the International Space Station as a member of Expedition 14 and Expedition 15. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sunita Williams has received more than 5,655,152 page views. Her biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Sunita Williams is the 134th most popular astronaut (down from 96th in 2019), the 5,177th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,123rd in 2019) and the 50th most popular American Astronaut.

Memorability Metrics

  • 5.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 54

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Sunita Williams by language

Over the past year Sunita Williams has had the most page views in the with 557,652 views, followed by Hindi (68,573), and Marathi (24,715). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Turkish (1,245.49%), Assamese (610.84%), and Maithili (115.27%)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Sunita Williams ranks 134 out of 556Before her are Anatoly Solovyev, Georgy Shonin, Oleg Kononenko, Valery Rozhdestvensky, Gennadi Strekalov, and Vance D. Brand. After her are Gennady Sarafanov, Dumitru Prunariu, Roberta Bondar, Mae Jemison, Ulf Merbold, and Kenneth Cockrell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1965, Sunita Williams ranks 156Before her are Amanda Tapping, Jocelyn Angloma, Sergi López, Mario Lemieux, Tommy Flanagan, and Ice MC. After her are Cem Özdemir, Mazinho Oliveira, Suge Knight, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Peter Greene, and Mick Doohan.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sunita Williams ranks 5,177 out of 20,380Before her are Nancy Kerrigan (1969), William Hickey (1927), Stephen Allen Benson (1816), Taylor Lautner (1992), Jimmy Fallon (1974), and Alexis Bledel (1981). After her are Benjamin Rush (1745), Kelly LeBrock (1960), Brenda Strong (1960), Louis C.K. (1967), Elizabeth Wilson (1921), and Jeff Conaway (1950).

Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Sunita Williams ranks 50Before her are Deke Slayton (1924), Scott Carpenter (1925), Gregory Jarvis (1944), Joseph A. Walker (1921), Jeffrey A. Hoffman (1944), and Vance D. Brand (1931). After her are Mae Jemison (1956), Kenneth Cockrell (1950), William R. Pogue (1930), Edward Gibson (1936), Peggy Whitson (1960), and William Shepherd (1949).