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Bjarni Tryggvason

1945 - 2022

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Bjarni Valdimar Tryggvason (September 21, 1945 – April 5, 2022) was an Icelandic-born Canadian engineer and a NRC/CSA astronaut. He served as a Payload Specialist on Space Shuttle mission STS-85 in 1997, a nearly 12-day mission to study changes in the Earth's atmosphere. Bjarni is the first, and as of 2024, only Canadian astronaut of Icelandic birth. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bjarni Tryggvason is the 303rd most popular astronaut (down from 241st in 2019), the 93rd most popular biography from Iceland (down from 82nd in 2019) and the most popular Icelander Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Bjarni Tryggvason ranks 303 out of 556. Before him are José M. Hernández, Roberto Vittori, Aleksandr Lazutkin, Paolo Nespoli, Ellen Ochoa, and Oleg Kotov. After him are Janice E. Voss, S. David Griggs, John M. Lounge, Millie Hughes-Fulford, Nicole Aunapu Mann, and Bryan D. O'Connor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Bjarni Tryggvason ranks 595. Before him are Besarion Gugushvili, Herman Cain, Kinza Clodumar, Ghiță Licu, Ousmane Issoufi Maïga, and Georg Volkert. After him are Shatrughan Sinha, Susan Haack, Uri Rosenthal, Simon Schama, Gianfranco Bedin, and Javed Akhtar. Among people deceased in 2022, Bjarni Tryggvason ranks 566. Before him are Ronald Lopatni, Jürgen Sundermann, Jolán Kleiber-Kontsek, Gerhard Roth, Dorothy E. Smith, and Raymond Briggs. After him are Mike Hodges, Rodney Stark, Naomi Judd, Javier Cárdenas, Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga, and Txetxu Rojo.

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In Iceland

Among people born in Iceland, Bjarni Tryggvason ranks 93 out of 190. Before him are Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson (1963), Arnór Guðjohnsen (1961), Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson (1962), Björn Þórðarson (1879), Emil Jónsson (1902), and Eiríkur Hauksson (1959). After him are Emilíana Torrini (1977), Gyrðir Elíasson (1961), Guðmundur Guðmundsson (1960), Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson (1975), Atli Eðvaldsson (1957), and Jón Gnarr (1967).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Iceland

Among astronauts born in Iceland, Bjarni Tryggvason ranks 1. 

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