The Most Famous
MILITARY PERSONNELS from North Korea
This page contains a list of the greatest North Korean Military Personnels. The pantheon dataset contains 1,468 Military Personnels, 2 of which were born in North Korea. This makes North Korea the birth place of the 65th most number of Military Personnels behind Venezuela and Luxembourg.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary North Korean Military Personnels of all time. This list of famous North Korean Military Personnels is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Yang Kyoungjong (1920 - 1992)
With an HPI of 55.84, Yang Kyoungjong is the most famous North Korean Military Personnel. His biography has been translated into 21 different languages on wikipedia.
Yang Kyoungjong (Korean: 양경종) was a Korean soldier who, according to some historians, fought in the Imperial Japanese Army, the Soviet Red Army, and later the German Wehrmacht during World War II.
2. Paik Sun-yup (1920 - 2020)
With an HPI of 54.97, Paik Sun-yup is the 2nd most famous North Korean Military Personnel. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Paik Sun-yup (Korean: 백선엽; Hanja: 白善燁; RR: Baek Seon-yeop; November 23, 1920 – July 10, 2020) was a South Korean military officer. Paik is best known for his service during the Korean War, for being the first four-star general in the history of the South Korean military, and for his service as a diplomat and statesman for South Korea.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as military personnels born between 1920 and 1920. Of these 2, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased military personnels include Yang Kyoungjong and Paik Sun-yup.
