MILITARY PERSONNEL

Alfred Dreyfus

1859 - 1935

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Alfred Dreyfus (French: [alfʁɛd dʁɛfys], German: [ˈalfʁeːt ˈdʁaɪfuːs]; 9 October 1859 – 12 July 1935) was a French artillery officer of Alsatian origin and Jewish ethnicity and faith. In 1894, he fell victim to a judicial conspiracy that sparked a major political crisis during the Third Republic, known as the Dreyfus Affair (1894–1906), when he was wrongfully accused and convicted, due to antisemitism, of being a spy for the German Empire. Upon his arrest, he was sentenced to degradation and deported to the penal colony on Devil's Island to be imprisoned until his death. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfred Dreyfus has received more than 2,465,897 page views. His biography is available in 64 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Alfred Dreyfus is the 35th most popular military personnel (up from 47th in 2019), the 157th most popular biography from France (up from 190th in 2019) and the 5th most popular French Military Personnel.

Alfred Dreyfus was a French military officer who was falsely accused of treason in 1894. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison on Devil's Island.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Alfred Dreyfus ranks 35 out of 2,058. Before him are Guan Yu, Vercingetorix, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Eugène de Beauharnais, Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, and Belisarius. After him are Simo Häyhä, Pyrrhus of Epirus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, T. E. Lawrence, Douglas MacArthur, and Lü Bu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Alfred Dreyfus ranks 10. Before him are Henri Bergson, Knut Hamsun, L. L. Zamenhof, Edmund Husserl, John Dewey, and Svante Arrhenius. After him are Georges Seurat, Yuan Shikai, Billy the Kid, Sholem Aleichem, Verner von Heidenstam, and Jean Jaurès. Among people deceased in 1935, Alfred Dreyfus ranks 2. Before him is Jane Addams. After him are Kazimir Malevich, T. E. Lawrence, Józef Piłsudski, Fernando Pessoa, Paul Signac, Emmy Noether, Arthur Henderson, Alban Berg, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, and Astrid of Sweden.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alfred Dreyfus ranks 157 out of 6,770. Before him are Pope John XXII (1244), Zinedine Zidane (1972), Henry II of England (1133), Petronius (27), Évariste Galois (1811), and Jean-François Millet (1814). After him are Georges Pompidou (1911), Pierre Bourdieu (1930), François Viète (1540), Jacques Cartier (1491), Peter Abelard (1079), and Philip VI of France (1293).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, Alfred Dreyfus ranks 5. Before him are Joan of Arc (1412), Charles de Gaulle (1890), Charles XIV John of Sweden (1763), and Eugène de Beauharnais (1781). After him are Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663), Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan (1611), Ferdinand Foch (1851), Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757), Theodor Eicke (1892), Louis-Nicolas Davout (1770), and Jean Lannes (1769).

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