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The Most Famous

MILITARY PERSONNELS from Vatican City

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This page contains a list of the greatest Military Personnels. The pantheon dataset contains 1,468 Military Personnels, 1 of which were born in Vatican City. This makes Vatican City the birth place of the 81st most number of Military Personnels behind Martinique and Angola.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Military Personnels of all time. This list of famous 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. Horatius Cocles (-600 - )

With an HPI of 61.76, Horatius Cocles is the most famous Military Personnel.  His biography has been translated into 21 different languages on wikipedia.

Publius Horatius Cocles was an officer in the army of the early Roman Republic who famously defended the Pons Sublicius from the invading army of Etruscan King Lars Porsena of Clusium in the late 6th century BC, during the war between Rome and Clusium. By defending the narrow end of the bridge, he and his companions were able to hold off the attacking army long enough to allow other Romans to destroy the bridge behind him, blocking the Etruscans' advance and saving the city.

Pantheon has 1 people classified as military personnels born between 600 BC and 600 BC. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased military personnels include Horatius Cocles.

Deceased Military Personnels

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