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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 751,421 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke is the 1,589th most popular military personnel (down from 1,334th in 2019), the 3,826th most popular biography from France (down from 3,466th in 2019) and the 140th most popular French Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke ranks 1,589 out of 2,058. Before him are William D. Leahy, Eugene Sledge, Karl-Jesko von Puttkamer, Jalil Zandi, Antonina Makarova, and Hermann Kusmanek von Burgneustädten. After him are Edward Braddock, Mark Milley, Cort Adeler, Georgi Todorov, John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, and John de Robeck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke ranks 162. Before him are Madan Lal Dhingra, Raimu, Trần Trọng Kim, Pavel Filonov, Sylvanus Morley, and Thubten Choekyi Nyima, 9th Panchen Lama. After him are Hjalmar Bergman, William J. Donovan, Alfred Saalwächter, Max Fleischer, Abel Bonnard, and Charles Demuth. Among people deceased in 1963, Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke ranks 118. Before him are József Nagy, Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, John Farrow, Benny Moré, Gustav Machatý, and Jean Decoux. After him are Nadejda Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven, Mary Agnes Chase, August Rei, Aleksandr Gauk, Louis Bastien, and Henry Daniell.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke ranks 3,826 out of 6,770. Before him are Marie de Nemours (1625), Paul Chocque (1910), Louis Hersent (1777), Michel Audiard (1920), André-Pierre Gignac (1985), and Marcel Cachin (1869). After him are Jean-Pierre Thiollet (1956), Guy Patin (1601), Maria Deraismes (1828), Nadejda Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven (1896), Michèle Alliot-Marie (1946), and Marc Riboud (1923).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke ranks 140. Before him are Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires (1753), Adolphe Niel (1802), Michel-Joseph Maunoury (1847), Erich Buschenhagen (1895), Jean Decoux (1884), and Henri Dentz (1881). After him are Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu (1889), François Perrier (1833), Gaston Billotte (1875), Jean-Baptiste Marchand (1863), Fernand de Langle de Cary (1849), and François Fournier-Sarlovèze (1773).

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