The Most Famous
MILITARY PERSONNELS from Angola
This page contains a list of the greatest Angolan Military Personnels. The pantheon dataset contains 1,468 Military Personnels, 1 of which were born in Angola. This makes Angola the birth place of the 80th most number of Military Personnels behind Kosovo and Martinique.
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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Angolan Military Personnels of all time. This list of famous Angolan Military Personnels is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Jonas Savimbi (1934 - 2002)
With an HPI of 62.37, Jonas Savimbi is the most famous Angolan Military Personnel. His biography has been translated into 43 different languages on wikipedia.
Jonas Malheiro Savimbi (Portuguese: [ˈʒɔnɐʃ ˈsavĩbi]; 3 August 1934 – 22 February 2002) was an Angolan revolutionary, politician, and rebel military leader who founded and led the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). UNITA was one of several groups which waged a guerrilla war against Portuguese colonial rule from 1966 to 1974. Once independence was achieved, it then became an anti-communist group which confronted the ruling People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) during the Angolan Civil War. Savimbi had extensive contact with anti-communist activists in the United States, including Jack Abramoff and was one of the leading anti-communist voices in the world. Savimbi was killed in a clash with government troops in 2002.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as military personnels born between 1934 and 1934. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased military personnels include Jonas Savimbi.
