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Wally Funk

1939 - Today

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Mary Wallace Funk (born February 1, 1939) is an American aviator, commercial astronaut, and Goodwill Ambassador. She was the first female air safety investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board, the first female civilian flight instructor at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and the first female Federal Aviation Agency inspector, as well as one of the Mercury 13. Funk became the oldest person to go to space on July 20, 2021, at age 82, flying on Blue Origin's New Shepard spacecraft during its suborbital flight, breaking a record held by John Glenn for 23 years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wally Funk has received more than 958,466 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Wally Funk is the 61st most popular pilot (down from 52nd in 2019), the 7,863rd most popular biography from United States (down from 7,399th in 2019) and the 11th most popular American Pilot.

Memorability Metrics

  • 960k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.40

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PILOTS

Among pilots, Wally Funk ranks 61 out of 71. Before her are Gregorio Fuentes, Viktor Talalikhin, Mikhail Gromov, Stasys Girėnas, Maryse Bastié, and Harry Cobby. After her are Adrienne Bolland, Hélène Boucher, Charles Kingsford Smith, Lydia Zvereva, Yves Rossy, and Péter Besenyei.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Wally Funk ranks 437. Before her are Robert Kramer, Max Lorenz, John W. Snow, Ivan Vutsov, István Nagy, and Antal Szentmihályi. After her are Hilário, Alfredo Bryce, Babben Enger-Damon, Dion DiMucci, Janet Suzman, and Zhanna Yorkina.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Wally Funk ranks 7,863 out of 20,380. Before her are Scott Weiland (1967), Mary Welsh Hemingway (1908), Jim Root (1971), Lindsay Crouse (1948), Herb Kohl (1935), and Judd Nelson (1959). After her are Jamie Kennedy (1970), Warren Frost (1925), Oliver Macdonald (1904), Fischer Black (1938), Randy Jones (1952), and Dorothy Hansine Andersen (1901).

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Among PILOTS In United States

Among pilots born in United States, Wally Funk ranks 11. Before her are Chuck Yeager (1923), Joseph Kittinger (1928), Claire Lee Chennault (1890), Bessie Coleman (1892), Jacqueline Cochran (1906), and Jerrie Cobb (1931). After her are Cornelia Fort (1919), and Blanche Stuart Scott (1884).

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