1947 - 2023
Viktor Ivanovich Belenko (Russian: Виктор Иванович Беленко, February 15, 1947 – September 24, 2023) was a Russian-born American aerospace engineer and Soviet pilot who defected in 1976 to the West while flying his MiG-25 "Foxbat" jet interceptor and landed in Hakodate, Japan. George H. W. Bush, the Director of Central Intelligence at the time, called the opportunity to examine the plane up close an "intelligence bonanza" for the West. Belenko later became a U.S. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Viktor Belenko has received more than 1,217,284 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 23 in 2019). Viktor Belenko is the 72nd most popular engineer (up from 80th in 2019), the 493rd most popular biography from Russia (down from 470th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Russian Engineer.
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Among engineers, Viktor Belenko ranks 72 out of 323. Before him are Jimmy Doolittle, Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt, Paul Cornu, Marcel Dassault, Ross Brawn, and Henry Royce. After him are Loránd Eötvös, Adam Czerniaków, Nikolay Zhukovsky, Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Jack Swigert, and Marcel Renault.
1896 - 1993
HPI: 59.00
Rank: 66
1240 - 1300
HPI: 58.86
Rank: 67
1881 - 1944
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 68
1892 - 1986
HPI: 58.63
Rank: 69
1954 - Present
HPI: 58.59
Rank: 70
1863 - 1933
HPI: 58.57
Rank: 71
1947 - 2023
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 72
1848 - 1919
HPI: 58.38
Rank: 73
1880 - 1942
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 74
1847 - 1921
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 75
1850 - 1916
HPI: 58.28
Rank: 76
1931 - 1982
HPI: 58.23
Rank: 77
1872 - 1903
HPI: 58.22
Rank: 78
Among people born in 1947, Viktor Belenko ranks 88. Before him are Temple Grandin, Roy Hodgson, Richard Jenkins, Roger D. Kornberg, James Patterson, and Jeffrey DeMunn. After him are Rod Evans, Anne Wiazemsky, Mitt Romney, Ian Anderson, Joe Mantegna, and Klaus Schulze. Among people deceased in 2023, Viktor Belenko ranks 65. Before him are Leiji Matsumoto, Hans Modrow, László Sólyom, Matthew Perry, Sixto Rodriguez, and Marisa Pavan. After him are Françoise Gilot, Amancio Amaro, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Elliott Erwitt, Otar Iosseliani, and Gianni Vattimo.
1947 - Present
HPI: 58.68
Rank: 82
1947 - Present
HPI: 58.61
Rank: 83
1947 - Present
HPI: 58.55
Rank: 84
1947 - Present
HPI: 58.46
Rank: 85
1947 - Present
HPI: 58.45
Rank: 86
1947 - Present
HPI: 58.42
Rank: 87
1947 - 2023
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 88
1947 - Present
HPI: 58.30
Rank: 89
1947 - 2017
HPI: 58.21
Rank: 90
1947 - Present
HPI: 58.15
Rank: 91
1947 - Present
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 92
1947 - Present
HPI: 58.07
Rank: 93
1947 - 2022
HPI: 58.07
Rank: 94
1938 - 2023
HPI: 58.98
Rank: 59
1928 - 2023
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 60
1942 - 2023
HPI: 58.94
Rank: 61
1969 - 2023
HPI: 58.67
Rank: 62
1942 - 2023
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 63
1932 - 2023
HPI: 58.50
Rank: 64
1947 - 2023
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 65
1921 - 2023
HPI: 58.40
Rank: 66
1939 - 2023
HPI: 58.37
Rank: 67
1929 - 2023
HPI: 57.99
Rank: 68
1928 - 2023
HPI: 57.89
Rank: 69
1934 - 2023
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 70
1936 - 2023
HPI: 57.67
Rank: 71
Among people born in Russia, Viktor Belenko ranks 493 out of 3,262. Before him are Mikhail of Tver (1271), Alexander Pokryshkin (1913), Yevgeny Mravinsky (1903), Valery Gerasimov (1955), Ivan Bilibin (1876), and Sacha Guitry (1885). After him are Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov (1890), Urie Bronfenbrenner (1917), Maria Spiridonova (1884), Ivan Maisky (1884), Leonid Gaidai (1923), and Nikolay Zhukovsky (1847).
1271 - 1318
HPI: 58.54
Rank: 487
1913 - 1985
HPI: 58.52
Rank: 488
1903 - 1988
HPI: 58.50
Rank: 489
1955 - Present
HPI: 58.46
Rank: 490
1876 - 1942
HPI: 58.44
Rank: 491
1885 - 1957
HPI: 58.44
Rank: 492
1947 - 2023
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 493
1890 - 1946
HPI: 58.39
Rank: 494
1917 - 2005
HPI: 58.37
Rank: 495
1884 - 1941
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 496
1884 - 1975
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 497
1923 - 1993
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 498
1847 - 1921
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 499
Among engineers born in Russia, Viktor Belenko ranks 7. Before him are Mikhail Kalashnikov (1919), Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857), Anatoly Dyatlov (1931), Alexei Kosygin (1904), Andrei Tupolev (1888), and Sergey Ilyushin (1894). After him are Nikolay Zhukovsky (1847), Vasily Degtyaryov (1880), Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev (1906), Ivan Sechenov (1829), Mikhail Gurevich (1892), and Nikolai Polikarpov (1892).
1919 - 2013
HPI: 76.61
Rank: 1
1857 - 1935
HPI: 70.34
Rank: 2
1931 - 1995
HPI: 68.50
Rank: 3
1904 - 1980
HPI: 67.95
Rank: 4
1888 - 1972
HPI: 65.03
Rank: 5
1894 - 1977
HPI: 61.11
Rank: 6
1947 - 2023
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 7
1847 - 1921
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 8
1880 - 1949
HPI: 57.72
Rank: 9
1906 - 1989
HPI: 57.51
Rank: 10
1829 - 1905
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 11
1892 - 1976
HPI: 57.32
Rank: 12
1892 - 1944
HPI: 56.81
Rank: 13