1934 - 1968
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space. Travelling in the Vostok 1 capsule, Gagarin completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yuri Gagarin has received more than 8,180,149 page views. His biography is available in 151 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 147 in 2019). Yuri Gagarin is the most popular astronaut, the 6th most popular biography from Russia (up from 7th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Astronaut.
Yuri Gagarin was the first human to travel into space.
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Among astronauts, Yuri Gagarin ranks 1 out of 524. After him are Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Valentina Tereshkova, Buzz Aldrin, Gene Cernan, Vladimir Komarov, Pete Conrad, Alexei Leonov, Alan Shepard, John Glenn, and Gherman Titov.
1934 - 1968
HPI: 88.58
Rank: 1
1930 - 2012
HPI: 87.58
Rank: 2
1930 - Present
HPI: 82.36
Rank: 3
1937 - Present
HPI: 81.67
Rank: 4
1930 - Present
HPI: 79.13
Rank: 5
1934 - 2017
HPI: 78.79
Rank: 6
1927 - 1967
HPI: 76.56
Rank: 7
1930 - 1999
HPI: 76.13
Rank: 8
1934 - 2019
HPI: 75.98
Rank: 9
1923 - 1998
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 10
1921 - 2016
HPI: 73.11
Rank: 11
1935 - 2000
HPI: 72.87
Rank: 12
Among people born in 1934, Yuri Gagarin ranks 1. After him are Charles Manson, Brigitte Bardot, Sophia Loren, Leonard Cohen, Maggie Smith, Giorgio Armani, Albert II of Belgium, Carl Sagan, Judi Dench, Gene Cernan, and Nana Mouskouri. Among people deceased in 1968, Yuri Gagarin ranks 1. After him are Martin Luther King Jr., Marcel Duchamp, Helen Keller, John Steinbeck, Padre Pio, Lise Meitner, Robert F. Kennedy, Otto Hahn, Trygve Lie, Konstantin Rokossovsky, and Lev Landau.
1934 - 1968
HPI: 88.58
Rank: 1
1934 - 2017
HPI: 85.08
Rank: 2
1934 - Present
HPI: 84.41
Rank: 3
1934 - Present
HPI: 83.42
Rank: 4
1934 - 2016
HPI: 82.10
Rank: 5
1934 - Present
HPI: 81.09
Rank: 6
1934 - Present
HPI: 80.08
Rank: 7
1934 - Present
HPI: 79.89
Rank: 8
1934 - 1996
HPI: 79.53
Rank: 9
1934 - Present
HPI: 79.14
Rank: 10
1934 - 2017
HPI: 78.79
Rank: 11
1934 - Present
HPI: 77.96
Rank: 12
1934 - 1968
HPI: 88.58
Rank: 1
1929 - 1968
HPI: 84.34
Rank: 2
1887 - 1968
HPI: 83.03
Rank: 3
1880 - 1968
HPI: 82.77
Rank: 4
1902 - 1968
HPI: 80.60
Rank: 5
1887 - 1968
HPI: 79.99
Rank: 6
1878 - 1968
HPI: 79.30
Rank: 7
1925 - 1968
HPI: 78.74
Rank: 8
1879 - 1968
HPI: 78.68
Rank: 9
1896 - 1968
HPI: 77.48
Rank: 10
1896 - 1968
HPI: 77.13
Rank: 11
1908 - 1968
HPI: 76.65
Rank: 12
Among people born in Russia, Yuri Gagarin ranks 6 out of 2,688. Before him are Immanuel Kant (1724), Vladimir Lenin (1870), Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821), Leo Tolstoy (1828), and Mikhail Gorbachev (1931). After him are Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840), Dmitri Mendeleev (1834), Anton Chekhov (1860), Peter the Great (1672), Alexander Pushkin (1799), and Vladimir Putin (1952).
1724 - 1804
HPI: 93.13
Rank: 1
1870 - 1924
HPI: 92.52
Rank: 2
1821 - 1881
HPI: 91.42
Rank: 3
1828 - 1910
HPI: 90.13
Rank: 4
1931 - Present
HPI: 89.08
Rank: 5
1934 - 1968
HPI: 88.58
Rank: 6
1840 - 1893
HPI: 88.38
Rank: 7
1834 - 1907
HPI: 88.11
Rank: 8
1860 - 1904
HPI: 88.01
Rank: 9
1672 - 1725
HPI: 87.89
Rank: 10
1799 - 1837
HPI: 87.86
Rank: 11
1952 - Present
HPI: 87.64
Rank: 12
Among astronauts born in Russia, Yuri Gagarin ranks 1. After him are Valentina Tereshkova (1937), Vladimir Komarov (1927), Alexei Leonov (1934), Gherman Titov (1935), Andriyan Nikolayev (1929), Svetlana Savitskaya (1948), Valery Bykovsky (1934), Valeri Polyakov (1942), Valeri Kubasov (1935), Vladislav Volkov (1935), and Pavel Belyayev (1925).
1934 - 1968
HPI: 88.58
Rank: 1
1937 - Present
HPI: 81.67
Rank: 2
1927 - 1967
HPI: 76.56
Rank: 3
1934 - 2019
HPI: 75.98
Rank: 4
1935 - 2000
HPI: 72.87
Rank: 5
1929 - 2004
HPI: 69.33
Rank: 6
1948 - Present
HPI: 68.96
Rank: 7
1934 - 2019
HPI: 67.90
Rank: 8
1942 - Present
HPI: 67.58
Rank: 9
1935 - 2014
HPI: 67.24
Rank: 10
1935 - 1971
HPI: 66.71
Rank: 11
1925 - 1970
HPI: 65.66
Rank: 12