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Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke

1883 - 1963

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Field Marshal Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, (23 July 1883 – 17 June 1963), was a senior officer of the British Army. He was Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS), the professional head of the British Army, during the Second World War, and was promoted to field marshal on 1 January 1944. As chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee, Brooke was the foremost military advisor to Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and had the role of co-ordinator of the British military efforts in the Allies' victory in 1945. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke has received more than 699,820 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke is the 1,335th most popular military personnel (down from 1,242nd in 2019), the 3,480th most popular biography from France (down from 3,351st in 2019) and the 125th most popular French Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke ranks 1,335 out of 1,468. Before him are Adolphe Niel, Guido Starhemberg, William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford, Harry Crerar, Semyon Bogdanov, and Pavel Chichagov. After him are Filipp Oktyabrsky, Walter von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt, Carl Spaatz, Maher al-Assad, Charles Warren, and Charles Henri Hector d'Estaing.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke ranks 153. Before him are Thubten Choekyi Nyima, 9th Panchen Lama, Imogen Cunningham, Marion Lorne, Pavel Filonov, Maximilian Steinberg, and Trần Trọng Kim. After him are Charles Demuth, Raimu, Rube Goldberg, Gheorghe Argeșanu, Luigi Ganna, and William J. Donovan. Among people deceased in 1963, Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke ranks 104. Before him are Julius Edgar Lilienfeld, Vissarion Shebalin, Nadejda Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven, Sabu Dastagir, Lee Wallard, and Aleksandr Gauk. After him are Pierre Blanchar, Patsy Cline, Dick Powell, Fernando Tambroni, Erich Ollenhauer, and Melville J. Herskovits.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke ranks 3,480 out of 6,011. Before him are Pasquier Quesnel (1634), Andrée Brunet (1901), Benoît Fourneyron (1802), Augustin-Alexandre Dumont (1801), Bernard Maris (1946), and René Louis de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson (1694). After him are Louis Réard (1897), Hubertine Auclert (1848), Tignous (1957), Claude Bourgelat (1712), Maurice de Guérin (1810), and Sylvestre François Lacroix (1765).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke ranks 125. Before him are Honoré Charles Reille (1775), Adolphe Marbot (1781), Louis Faidherbe (1818), Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544), Henri Dentz (1881), and Adolphe Niel (1802). After him are Charles Henri Hector d'Estaing (1729), François Perrier (1833), Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires (1753), Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu (1889), François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie (1671), and Jean-Baptiste Marchand (1863).

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