The Most Famous

MILITARY PERSONNELS from Moldova

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This page contains a list of the greatest Moldovan Military Personnels. The pantheon dataset contains 2,058 Military Personnels, 4 of which were born in Moldova. This makes Moldova the birth place of the 45th most number of Military Personnels behind Denmark, and Egypt.

Top 2

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Moldovan Military Personnels of all time. This list of famous Moldovan Military Personnels is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Iona Yakir (1896 - 1937)

With an HPI of 56.82, Iona Yakir is the most famous Moldovan Military Personnel.  His biography has been translated into 23 different languages on wikipedia.

Iona Emmanuilovich Yakir (Russian: Ио́на Эммануи́лович Яки́р; 3 August 1896 – 12 June 1937) was a Red Army commander and one of the world's major military reformers between World War I and World War II. He was an early and major military victim of the Great Purge, alongside Mikhail Tukhachevsky.

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2. Grigory Kotovsky (1881 - 1925)

With an HPI of 53.83, Grigory Kotovsky is the 2nd most famous Moldovan Military Personnel.  His biography has been translated into 20 different languages.

Grigory Ivanovich Kotovsky (Russian: Григо́рий Ива́нович Кото́вский, Romanian: Grigore Kotovski; June 24 [O.S. June 12] 1881 – August 6, 1925) was a Soviet military officer and political activist, and participant in the Russian Civil War. He made a career from being a gangster and bank robber to eventually becoming a Red Army commander and member of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union.

People

Pantheon has 2 people classified as Moldovan military personnels born between 1881 and 1896. Of these 2, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Moldovan military personnels include Iona Yakir, and Grigory Kotovsky.

Deceased Moldovan Military Personnels

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