MILITARY PERSONNEL

Alexander Marinesko

1913 - 1963

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Alexander Ivanovich Marinesko (Russian: Александр Иванович Маринеско, Ukrainian: Олександр Іванович Марiнеско, Romanian: Alexandru Marinescu; 15 January [O.S. 2 January] 1913 – 25 November 1963) was a Soviet career naval officer. During the last year of World War II, he became known as the captain of the submarine S-13, which sank the German military transport ship Wilhelm Gustloff in the Baltic Sea in January 1945. Passengers included civilians and women and children being evacuated from East Prussia, in addition to military and related personnel. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Marinesko has received more than 209,858 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Alexander Marinesko is the 756th most popular military personnel (down from 728th in 2019), the 254th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 230th in 2019) and the 27th most popular Ukrainian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Alexander Marinesko ranks 756 out of 2,058. Before him are Fritz Freitag, Abu Bakr ibn Umar, Chen Youliang, Oswald Boelcke, Wakisaka Yasuharu, and Jukums Vācietis. After him are Albert Leo Schlageter, Khaydhar ibn Kawus al-Afshin, Fritz von Below, Saad el-Shazly, Lala Şahin Pasha, and Otozō Yamada.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Alexander Marinesko ranks 93. Before him are Alexander Pokryshkin, Pinetop Perkins, Heinz Kohut, Pierre Werner, Mary Leakey, and Franck Pourcel. After him are Willi Hennig, Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark, Georgy Flyorov, Álvaro Cunhal, Lucien Goldmann, and Maurice Wilkes. Among people deceased in 1963, Alexander Marinesko ranks 52. Before him are Karl von Terzaghi, Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel, Ferenc Fricsay, William Carlos Williams, Princess Alexandra of Hanover, and Fritz Reiner. After him are Camille Chautemps, Gustaf Gründgens, Rikidōzan, Dinah Washington, Garrett Morgan, and Georg Lindemann.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Alexander Marinesko ranks 254 out of 1,365. Before him are Maurycy Gottlieb (1856), David Burliuk (1882), Igor Belanov (1960), Adam Zagajewski (1945), Polina Zhemchuzhina (1897), and Ludwik Fleck (1896). After him are Vasyl Stus (1938), Lyudmila Rudenko (1904), Vsevolod II of Kiev (1104), Igor Markevitch (1912), Volodymyr Vynnychenko (1880), and Zbigniew Cybulski (1927).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Ukraine

Among military personnels born in Ukraine, Alexander Marinesko ranks 27. Before him are Jarosław Dąbrowski (1836), Pavel Sudoplatov (1907), Grigory Kulik (1890), Sergey Gorshkov (1910), Stanisław Sosabowski (1892), and Ivan Bohun (1618). After him are Sergey Kamenev (1881), Nikolay Shchors (1895), Alexander Matrosov (1924), Grigory Shtern (1900), Stanisław Maczek (1892), and Pavel Rybalko (1894).

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