1914 - 1986
Tenzing Norgay (; Sherpa: བསྟན་འཛིན་ནོར་རྒྱས tendzin norgyé; May 1914 – 9 May 1986), born Namgyal Wangdi, and also referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepalese-Indian Sherpa mountaineer. He was one of the first two people known to certainly reach the summit of Mount Everest, which he accomplished with Edmund Hillary on 29 May 1953. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tenzing Norgay has received more than 4,015,687 page views. His biography is available in 89 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 83 in 2019). Tenzing Norgay is the 3rd most popular mountaineer, the 2nd most popular biography from Nepal and the most popular Nepalese Mountaineer.
Tenzing Norgay is most famous for being the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
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Among mountaineers, Tenzing Norgay ranks 3 out of 45. Before him are Edmund Hillary and Reinhold Messner. After him are Heinrich Harrer, George Mallory, Jerzy Kukuczka, Junko Tabei, Horace Bénédict de Saussure, Hermann Buhl, Edward Whymper, Wanda Rutkiewicz, and Green Boots.
1919 - 2008
HPI: 73.20
Rank: 1
1944 - Present
HPI: 70.91
Rank: 2
1914 - 1986
HPI: 70.53
Rank: 3
1912 - 2006
HPI: 70.20
Rank: 4
1886 - 1924
HPI: 65.56
Rank: 5
1948 - 1989
HPI: 63.16
Rank: 6
1939 - 2016
HPI: 62.53
Rank: 7
1740 - 1799
HPI: 61.18
Rank: 8
1924 - 1957
HPI: 60.32
Rank: 9
1840 - 1911
HPI: 60.26
Rank: 10
1943 - 1992
HPI: 59.36
Rank: 11
HPI: 59.28
Rank: 12
Among people born in 1914, Tenzing Norgay ranks 7. Before him are Louis de Funès, Yuri Andropov, Tove Jansson, Thor Heyerdahl, Hedy Lamarr, and Mohammed Zahir Shah. After him are Marguerite Duras, Jiang Qing, Michael Wittmann, Aribert Heim, Alec Guinness, and Romain Gary. Among people deceased in 1986, Tenzing Norgay ranks 11. Before him are Vyacheslav Molotov, Andrei Tarkovsky, Cary Grant, Frank Herbert, Jiddu Krishnamurti, and Mircea Eliade. After him are Joseph Beuys, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jean Genet, Harold Macmillan, Urho Kekkonen, and Cliff Burton.
1914 - 1983
HPI: 78.46
Rank: 1
1914 - 1984
HPI: 77.66
Rank: 2
1914 - 2001
HPI: 74.65
Rank: 3
1914 - 2002
HPI: 73.16
Rank: 4
1914 - 2000
HPI: 73.16
Rank: 5
1914 - 2007
HPI: 72.54
Rank: 6
1914 - 1986
HPI: 70.53
Rank: 7
1914 - 1996
HPI: 69.97
Rank: 8
1914 - 1991
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 9
1914 - 1944
HPI: 68.94
Rank: 10
1914 - 1992
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 11
1914 - 2000
HPI: 68.65
Rank: 12
1914 - 1980
HPI: 68.56
Rank: 13
1890 - 1986
HPI: 76.27
Rank: 5
1932 - 1986
HPI: 74.26
Rank: 6
1904 - 1986
HPI: 73.56
Rank: 7
1920 - 1986
HPI: 73.46
Rank: 8
1895 - 1986
HPI: 71.26
Rank: 9
1907 - 1986
HPI: 71.05
Rank: 10
1914 - 1986
HPI: 70.53
Rank: 11
1921 - 1986
HPI: 69.49
Rank: 12
1887 - 1986
HPI: 69.39
Rank: 13
1910 - 1986
HPI: 68.70
Rank: 14
1894 - 1986
HPI: 68.34
Rank: 15
1900 - 1986
HPI: 67.61
Rank: 16
1962 - 1986
HPI: 67.39
Rank: 17
Among people born in Nepal, Tenzing Norgay ranks 2 out of 55. Before him are Gautama Buddha (-566). After him are Sita (null), Maya (-600), Rāhula (-534), Yaśodharā (-600), Śuddhodana (-590), Mahapajapati Gotami (-600), Janaka (null), Chandra Bahadur Dangi (1939), Gyanendra of Nepal (1947), and Prithvi Narayan Shah (1723).
566 BC - 452 BC
HPI: 90.82
Rank: 1
1914 - 1986
HPI: 70.53
Rank: 2
HPI: 70.29
Rank: 3
600 BC - 600 BC
HPI: 69.19
Rank: 4
534 BC - 500 BC
HPI: 68.57
Rank: 5
600 BC - Present
HPI: 68.11
Rank: 6
590 BC - Present
HPI: 66.69
Rank: 7
600 BC - Present
HPI: 63.46
Rank: 8
HPI: 58.69
Rank: 9
1939 - 2015
HPI: 58.09
Rank: 10
1947 - Present
HPI: 56.86
Rank: 11
1723 - 1775
HPI: 56.39
Rank: 12
Among mountaineers born in Nepal, Tenzing Norgay ranks 1. After him are Ang Rita (1948), Apa Sherpa (1960), and Nirmal Purja (1983).
1914 - 1986
HPI: 70.53
Rank: 1
1948 - 2020
HPI: 46.23
Rank: 2
1960 - Present
HPI: 45.32
Rank: 3
1983 - Present
HPI: 42.67
Rank: 4