1802 - 1869
Adolphe Niel (4 October 1802 – 13 August 1869) was a French Army general and statesman. He was born at Muret, Haute-Garonne and entered the École Polytechnique in 1821. Niel entered the engineer school at Metz, became lieutenant in the Engineers Corps in 1827, and captain in 1833. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adolphe Niel has received more than 35,960 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Adolphe Niel is the 1,329th most popular military personnel (down from 1,171st in 2019), the 3,450th most popular biography from France (down from 3,117th in 2019) and the 124th most popular French Military Personnel.
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Among military personnels, Adolphe Niel ranks 1,329 out of 1,468. Before him are Gaius Furius Sabinius Aquila Timesitheus, Henri Dentz, Douglas Bader, Hal Moore, Endel Puusepp, and Jinichi Kusaka. After him are Guido Starhemberg, William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford, Harry Crerar, Semyon Bogdanov, Pavel Chichagov, and Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke.
190 - 243
HPI: 50.10
Rank: 1,323
1881 - 1945
HPI: 50.07
Rank: 1,324
1910 - 1982
HPI: 50.05
Rank: 1,325
1922 - 2017
HPI: 50.03
Rank: 1,326
1909 - 1996
HPI: 50.02
Rank: 1,327
1888 - 1972
HPI: 50.00
Rank: 1,328
1802 - 1869
HPI: 49.98
Rank: 1,329
1657 - 1737
HPI: 49.94
Rank: 1,330
1020 - 1071
HPI: 49.93
Rank: 1,331
1888 - 1965
HPI: 49.92
Rank: 1,332
1894 - 1960
HPI: 49.92
Rank: 1,333
1767 - 1849
HPI: 49.92
Rank: 1,334
1883 - 1963
HPI: 49.87
Rank: 1,335
Among people born in 1802, Adolphe Niel ranks 41. Before him are Duchess Elisabeth Alexandrine of Württemberg, August Friedrich Pott, Louis Niedermeyer, Robert Chambers, Leopold Fitzinger, and Adolphe d'Archiac. After him are Edwin Landseer, Benoît Fourneyron, Ion Heliade Rădulescu, Louis Augustus Karl Frederick Emil, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen, Adolphe Nourrit, and Nicholas Wiseman. Among people deceased in 1869, Adolphe Niel ranks 37. Before him are Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély, Juan Almonte, Jean René Constant Quoy, Vladimir Odoyevsky, Giulia Grisi, and Johann Georg von Hahn. After him are Théophile Thoré-Bürger, Ōmura Masujirō, Gheorghe Asachi, Otto Jahn, Princess Ida of Waldeck and Pyrmont, and Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov.
1802 - 1864
HPI: 50.95
Rank: 35
1802 - 1887
HPI: 50.83
Rank: 36
1802 - 1861
HPI: 50.68
Rank: 37
1802 - 1871
HPI: 50.57
Rank: 38
1802 - 1884
HPI: 50.56
Rank: 39
1802 - 1868
HPI: 50.14
Rank: 40
1802 - 1869
HPI: 49.98
Rank: 41
1802 - 1873
HPI: 49.91
Rank: 42
1802 - 1867
HPI: 49.90
Rank: 43
1802 - 1872
HPI: 49.56
Rank: 44
1802 - 1818
HPI: 49.23
Rank: 45
1802 - 1839
HPI: 49.18
Rank: 46
1802 - 1865
HPI: 48.75
Rank: 47
1817 - 1869
HPI: 51.68
Rank: 31
1803 - 1869
HPI: 50.64
Rank: 32
1790 - 1869
HPI: 50.60
Rank: 33
1803 - 1869
HPI: 50.48
Rank: 34
1811 - 1869
HPI: 50.44
Rank: 35
1811 - 1869
HPI: 50.30
Rank: 36
1802 - 1869
HPI: 49.98
Rank: 37
1807 - 1869
HPI: 49.96
Rank: 38
1824 - 1869
HPI: 49.75
Rank: 39
1788 - 1869
HPI: 48.87
Rank: 40
1813 - 1869
HPI: 48.38
Rank: 41
1796 - 1869
HPI: 48.18
Rank: 42
1815 - 1869
HPI: 47.98
Rank: 43
Among people born in France, Adolphe Niel ranks 3,450 out of 6,011. Before him are Louis Charles Delescluze (1809), Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre (1752), Laurent Terzieff (1935), René Huyghe (1906), Gisèle Casadesus (1914), and Tony Robert-Fleury (1837). After him are Harry Schell (1921), Olivier Blanchard (1948), Jules Simon (1814), Marie-Dominique Chenu (1895), Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau (1851), and Suzanne Flon (1918).
1809 - 1871
HPI: 50.01
Rank: 3,444
1752 - 1804
HPI: 50.01
Rank: 3,445
1935 - 2010
HPI: 50.00
Rank: 3,446
1906 - 1997
HPI: 49.99
Rank: 3,447
1914 - 2017
HPI: 49.99
Rank: 3,448
1837 - 1912
HPI: 49.98
Rank: 3,449
1802 - 1869
HPI: 49.98
Rank: 3,450
1921 - 1960
HPI: 49.98
Rank: 3,451
1948 - Present
HPI: 49.97
Rank: 3,452
1814 - 1896
HPI: 49.97
Rank: 3,453
1895 - 1990
HPI: 49.97
Rank: 3,454
1851 - 1944
HPI: 49.97
Rank: 3,455
1918 - 2005
HPI: 49.97
Rank: 3,456
Among military personnels born in France, Adolphe Niel ranks 124. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval (1715), Honoré Charles Reille (1775), Adolphe Marbot (1781), Louis Faidherbe (1818), Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544), and Henri Dentz (1881). After him are Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke (1883), Charles Henri Hector d'Estaing (1729), François Perrier (1833), Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires (1753), Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu (1889), and François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie (1671).
1715 - 1789
HPI: 51.50
Rank: 118
1775 - 1860
HPI: 50.98
Rank: 119
1781 - 1844
HPI: 50.57
Rank: 120
1818 - 1889
HPI: 50.32
Rank: 121
1544 - 1590
HPI: 50.22
Rank: 122
1881 - 1945
HPI: 50.07
Rank: 123
1802 - 1869
HPI: 49.98
Rank: 124
1883 - 1963
HPI: 49.87
Rank: 125
1729 - 1794
HPI: 49.81
Rank: 126
1833 - 1888
HPI: 49.75
Rank: 127
1753 - 1810
HPI: 49.68
Rank: 128
1889 - 1964
HPI: 49.30
Rank: 129
1671 - 1745
HPI: 48.63
Rank: 130