1941 - Today
Ulf Dietrich Merbold (German: [ʊlf ˈdiːtrɪç ˈmɛrbɔlt]; born 20 June 1941) is a German physicist and astronaut who flew to space three times, becoming the first West German citizen in space and the first non-American to fly on a NASA spacecraft. Merbold flew on two Space Shuttle missions and on a Russian mission to the space station Mir, spending a total of 49 days in space. Merbold's father was imprisoned in NKVD special camp Nr. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ulf Merbold has received more than 209,849 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Ulf Merbold is the 93rd most popular astronaut (up from 96th in 2019), the 3,148th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,042nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular German Astronaut.
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Among astronauts, Ulf Merbold ranks 93 out of 524. Before him are Pyotr Klimuk, Stuart Roosa, Alfred Worden, Gennady Padalka, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov, and Walter Cunningham. After him are Vladimir Lyakhov, Nikolay Rukavishnikov, Sunita Williams, Toyohiro Akiyama, Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, and Muhammed Faris.
1942 - Present
HPI: 51.66
Rank: 87
1933 - 1994
HPI: 51.61
Rank: 88
1932 - 2020
HPI: 51.57
Rank: 89
1958 - Present
HPI: 51.51
Rank: 90
1948 - Present
HPI: 51.47
Rank: 91
1932 - 2023
HPI: 51.31
Rank: 92
1941 - Present
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 93
1941 - 2018
HPI: 51.19
Rank: 94
1932 - 2002
HPI: 51.18
Rank: 95
1965 - Present
HPI: 51.16
Rank: 96
1942 - Present
HPI: 51.07
Rank: 97
1933 - 2003
HPI: 50.93
Rank: 98
1951 - Present
HPI: 50.92
Rank: 99
Among people born in 1941, Ulf Merbold ranks 250. Before him are John Williams, Gregory Benford, Lothar Bisky, Lothar Emmerich, Vlado Milunić, and Pino Donaggio. After him are Vladimir Lyakhov, Tania Mallet, Jacques Simon, Margitta Gummel, Martine Beswick, and Cristina Peri Rossi.
1941 - Present
HPI: 51.38
Rank: 244
1941 - Present
HPI: 51.37
Rank: 245
1941 - 2013
HPI: 51.32
Rank: 246
1941 - 2003
HPI: 51.30
Rank: 247
1941 - 2022
HPI: 51.27
Rank: 248
1941 - Present
HPI: 51.26
Rank: 249
1941 - Present
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 250
1941 - 2018
HPI: 51.19
Rank: 251
1941 - 2019
HPI: 51.08
Rank: 252
1941 - 2017
HPI: 51.06
Rank: 253
1941 - 2021
HPI: 51.03
Rank: 254
1941 - Present
HPI: 51.02
Rank: 255
1941 - Present
HPI: 51.02
Rank: 256
Among people born in Germany, Ulf Merbold ranks 3,148 out of 6,142. Before him are Count Palatine Joseph Charles of Sulzbach (1694), Hermann Prey (1929), Bernhard Kellermann (1879), Princess Friederike of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1811), Mats Hummels (1988), and Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg (1802). After him are Georg Franz Hoffmann (1760), Annalena Baerbock (1980), Andrzej Seweryn (1946), Erich Salomon (1886), Georg Pencz (1500), and Holger Osieck (1948).
1694 - 1729
HPI: 51.21
Rank: 3,142
1929 - 1998
HPI: 51.21
Rank: 3,143
1879 - 1951
HPI: 51.21
Rank: 3,144
1811 - 1902
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 3,145
1988 - Present
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 3,146
1802 - 1872
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 3,147
1941 - Present
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 3,148
1760 - 1826
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 3,149
1980 - Present
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 3,150
1946 - Present
HPI: 51.19
Rank: 3,151
1886 - 1944
HPI: 51.19
Rank: 3,152
1500 - 1550
HPI: 51.19
Rank: 3,153
1948 - Present
HPI: 51.19
Rank: 3,154
Among astronauts born in Germany, Ulf Merbold ranks 2. Before him are Sigmund Jähn (1937). After him are Hans Schlegel (1951), Thomas Reiter (1958), Ernst Messerschmid (1945), Klaus-Dietrich Flade (1952), Jean-Jacques Favier (1949), Ulrich Walter (1954), Reinhold Ewald (1956), Gerhard Thiele (1953), and Alexander Gerst (1976).
1937 - 2019
HPI: 60.31
Rank: 1
1941 - Present
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 2
1951 - Present
HPI: 44.14
Rank: 3
1958 - Present
HPI: 42.97
Rank: 4
1945 - Present
HPI: 42.31
Rank: 5
1952 - Present
HPI: 40.29
Rank: 6
1949 - 2023
HPI: 40.10
Rank: 7
1954 - Present
HPI: 39.93
Rank: 8
1956 - Present
HPI: 39.56
Rank: 9
1953 - Present
HPI: 39.18
Rank: 10
1976 - Present
HPI: 38.22
Rank: 11