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Willy Ley

1906 - 1969

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Willy Otto Oskar Ley (October 2, 1906 – June 24, 1969) was a German and American science writer and proponent of cryptozoology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Willy Ley has received more than 171,956 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Willy Ley is the 325th most popular engineer (down from 305th in 2019), the 5,174th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,568th in 2019) and the 36th most popular German Engineer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 170k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.07

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Willy Leys by language

Over the past year Willy Ley has had the most page views in the with 19,328 views, followed by German (2,333), and Russian (2,035). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (107.46%), Catalan (81.75%), and Simple English (71.43%)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Willy Ley ranks 325 out of 389. Before him are Hugh Latimer Dryden, Robert H. Dennard, John Monash, Ove Arup, T. Keith Glennan, and Jack Parsons. After him are Geoffrey de Havilland, Mario Theissen, Da-Wen Sun, Albert Auguste Perdonnet, Octave Chanute, and Aldo Costa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Willy Ley ranks 353. Before him are Vera Maretskaya, Satchel Paige, Hans Mock, Steve Anderson, G. Ledyard Stebbins, and Alberto Denegri. After him are Bruce Bennett, Arturo Fernández Meyzán, Helen Wainwright, Ilie Subășeanu, Erna Bogen-Bogáti, and Greta Nissen. Among people deceased in 1969, Willy Ley ranks 211. Before him are André Gaboriaud, Erkki Kataja, Barton MacLane, Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich, Hans Rademacher, and Barbara Bates. After him are Kazimierz Wierzyński, Heinrich Hax, Bess Meredyth, Miklós Szilvási, Ben Alexander, and Commodore Cochran.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Willy Ley ranks 5,174 out of 7,253. Before him are Bernard Knubel (1872), Chris Gueffroy (1968), Albert Zürner (1890), Fritz Riess (1922), Norbert Walter-Borjans (1952), and Hans-Emil Schuster (1934). After him are Gertrud Elisabeth Mara (1749), Ludwig von Brenner (1833), Heinz Hornig (1937), Richard Brauer (1901), Christian Streich (1965), and Paul Möhring (1710).

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Among ENGINEERS In Germany

Among engineers born in Germany, Willy Ley ranks 36. Before him are Oskar von Miller (1855), Gerhard Fieseler (1896), Arthur Rudolph (1906), Friedrich L. Bauer (1924), Peter Schreyer (1953), and Christopher Cockerell (1910). After him are Mario Theissen (1952), Willy Rampf (1953), Peter Hirsch (1925), and Matthias Ettrich (1972).

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