ASTRONAUT

Wally Schirra

1923 - 2007

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Walter Marty Schirra Jr. (, March 12, 1923 – May 3, 2007) was an American naval aviator, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. In 1959, he became one of the original seven astronauts chosen for Project Mercury, which was the United States' first effort to put humans into space. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wally Schirra has received more than 1,596,631 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Wally Schirra is the 52nd most popular astronaut (down from 49th in 2019), the 2,582nd most popular biography from United States (up from 2,589th in 2019) and the 26th most popular American Astronaut.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.03

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 43

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Wally Schirras by language

Over the past year Wally Schirra has had the most page views in the with 148,184 views, followed by German (13,014), and French (6,851). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Indonesian (334.48%), Malagasy (148.85%), and Belarusian (89.62%)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Wally Schirra ranks 52 out of 556. Before him are Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, Vladimir Dzhanibekov, Ellison Onizuka, Walter Cunningham, Vladimir Shatalov, and Kalpana Chawla. After him are Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, Valentin Bondarenko, Ronald Evans, Pavel Belyayev, Valentina Ponomaryova, and Musa Manarov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Wally Schirra ranks 120. Before him are Dimitrios Ioannidis, Igor Shafarevich, Carlos Páez Vilaró, Ziba Ganiyeva, Andrés Rodríguez, and Gloria Grahame. After him are Alexander Yakovlev, Koji Miyata, Antonio Quarracino, Zlatko Čajkovski, Judith Kerr, and Bert Kaempfert. Among people deceased in 2007, Wally Schirra ranks 110. Before him are Steve Fossett, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Mikhail Ulyanov, Guy de Rothschild, Jerzy Kawalerowicz, and Julien Gracq. After him are Henri Debehogne, Barry Nelson, Jean-Marie Lustiger, Lothar-Günther Buchheim, Raul Hilberg, and Emiliano Mercado del Toro.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Wally Schirra ranks 2,582 out of 20,380. Before him are William Henry Pickering (1858), Sal Mineo (1939), Terry Crews (1968), Charles Napier (1936), Bonnie Bedelia (1948), and Kelly Bishop (1944). After him are Joan Cusack (1962), Lily Tomlin (1939), Pat Metheny (1954), Lewis Hine (1874), Robert Gates (1943), and Roscoe Arbuckle (1887).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Wally Schirra ranks 26. Before him are Charles Duke (1935), Fred Haise (1933), Bruce McCandless II (1937), John Young (1930), Ellison Onizuka (1946), and Walter Cunningham (1932). After him are Ronald Evans (1933), Richard F. Gordon Jr. (1929), Christa McAuliffe (1948), Karol J. Bobko (1937), Gordon Cooper (1927), and Thomas P. Stafford (1930).

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