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Alexandros Papagos

1883 - 1955

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Alexandros Papagos (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Παπάγος; 9 December 1883 – 4 October 1955) was a Greek army officer who led the Hellenic Army in World War II and the later stages of the subsequent Greek Civil War. The only Greek career officer to rise to the rank of Field Marshal, Papagos became the first Chief of the Hellenic National Defence General Staff from 1950 until his resignation the following year. He then entered politics, founding the nationalist Greek Rally party and becoming the country's Prime Minister after his victory in the 1952 elections. His premiership was shaped by the Cold War and the aftermath of the Greek Civil War, and was defined by several key events, including Greece becoming a member of NATO; U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexandros Papagos has received more than 214,637 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Alexandros Papagos is the 4,335th most popular politician (down from 4,214th in 2019), the 272nd most popular biography from Greece (down from 265th in 2019) and the 113th most popular Greek Politician.

Alexandros Papagos was a Greek general who led Greece in World War II. He was most famous for leading Greece to victory in the Greco-Italian War and the Battle of the Metaxas Line.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Alexandros Papagos ranks 4,335 out of 19,576. Before him are Karel Čurda, Henry V, Duke of Bavaria, Anna von Schweidnitz, Amintore Fanfani, Eumenes I, and Gentius. After him are Maria Luisa, Duchess of Lucca, Pentawer, Harpalus, Stephanus of Byzantium, Harthacnut I of Denmark, and Olave Baden-Powell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Alexandros Papagos ranks 51. Before him are Gino Severini, Georgios Papanikolaou, Gottfried Feder, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Max Linder, and Adolph Joffe. After him are Ida Rubinstein, Erich Heckel, José Clemente Orozco, Ivan Ilyin, Richard von Mises, and Nikolay Krestinsky. Among people deceased in 1955, Alexandros Papagos ranks 38. Before him are Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, Mammad Amin Rasulzadeh, Princess Clémentine of Belgium, Cordell Hull, Alexander Wienerberger, and John Mott. After him are Yves Tanguy, Theda Bara, Henri Delaunay, Emmett Till, Olga Khokhlova, and Otto Braun.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Alexandros Papagos ranks 272 out of 1,024. Before him are George Maniakes (998), Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark (1872), Vicky Leandros (1949), Theodore Komnenos Doukas (1180), Agis II (-490), and Ugo Foscolo (1778). After him are Cyril Lucaris (1572), Euphronios (-520), Cylon of Athens (-700), Theaetetus (-417), Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark (1870), and Callias II (-515).

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Among POLITICIANS In Greece

Among politicians born in Greece, Alexandros Papagos ranks 113. Before him are Philopoemen (-253), Andocides (-440), Cynisca (-430), Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark (1872), Theodore Komnenos Doukas (1180), and Agis II (-490). After him are Euphronios (-520), Cylon of Athens (-700), Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark (1870), Callias II (-515), Phocion (-402), and Antiochus X Eusebes (-200).

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