MILITARY PERSONNEL

Adrian Carton de Wiart

1880 - 1963

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Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart, (; 5 May 1880 – 5 June 1963) was an officer in the British Army. He was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" in various Commonwealth countries. He served in the Boer War, First World War, and Second World War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adrian Carton de Wiart has received more than 3,567,815 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Adrian Carton de Wiart is the 1,414th most popular military personnel (down from 678th in 2019), the 459th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 203rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Belgian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Adrian Carton de Wiart ranks 1,414 out of 2,058. Before him are Shōji Nishimura, Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet, Gabriel Jean Joseph Molitor, Godfrid, Duke of Frisia, Bardas Phokas the Elder, and Werner Voss. After him are Bernardo de Gálvez, Pavle Jurišić Šturm, Alexander Chavchavadze, Dmitry Lelyushenko, Marc Mitscher, and Nikolai Nebogatov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Adrian Carton de Wiart ranks 113. Before him are Alfred J. Lotka, Mirza Kuchik Khan, B. C. Forbes, Hans Hofmann, Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside, and Duchess Jutta of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. After him are Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani, Walter Hohmann, Samuel Jones, Jeannette Rankin, Walter Short, and Eugen Slutsky. Among people deceased in 1963, Adrian Carton de Wiart ranks 98. Before him are Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Fernando Tambroni, Maria Tănase, Patsy Cline, Shinobu Ishihara, and Alan Gardiner. After him are Barnum Brown, Lee Wallard, Richard Oswald, André Maschinot, Guy Burgess, and Pierre Blanchar.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Adrian Carton de Wiart ranks 459 out of 1,190. Before him are Corneille Guillaume Beverloo (1922), Louis Gallait (1810), Raoul Servais (1928), Constant Permeke (1886), Hélène Dutrieu (1877), and Adrien-François Servais (1807). After him are Princess Amalia of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1830), Bobbejaan Schoepen (1925), Nicholas, Count of Salm (1459), Joseph Poelaert (1817), Jan Frans van Bloemen (1662), and Gustaaf Wappers (1803).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Belgium

Among military personnels born in Belgium, Adrian Carton de Wiart ranks 7. Before him are Charles Martel (688), Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly (1559), Maxime Weygand (1867), Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz (1787), Charles Eugène de Croÿ (1651), and Johann Peter Beaulieu (1725). After him are Nicholas, Count of Salm (1459), Gérard Leman (1851), and William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford (1020).

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