1883 - 1950
Field Marshal Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, (5 May 1883 – 24 May 1950) was a senior officer of the British Army. He served in the Second Boer War, the Bazar Valley Campaign and the First World War, during which he was wounded in the Second Battle of Ypres. In the Second World War, he served initially as Commander-in-Chief Middle East, in which role he led British forces to victory over the Italian Army in Eritrea-Abyssinia, western Egypt and eastern Libya during Operation Compass in December 1940, only to be defeated by Erwin Rommel's Panzer Army Africa in the Western Desert in April 1941. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell has received more than 884,493 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell is the 589th most popular military personnel (up from 641st in 2019), the 1,110th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,260th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular British Military Personnel.
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Among military personnels, Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell ranks 589 out of 1,468. Before him are Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard, Woodes Rogers, Ernst Barkmann, Nobutake Kondō, Fritz Bayerlein, and Ikrima ibn Abi Jahl. After him are Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt, Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria, Thersites, Nguyễn Ngọc Loan, Mikhail Alekseyev, and Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier.
1476 - 1524
HPI: 58.40
Rank: 583
1679 - 1732
HPI: 58.33
Rank: 584
1919 - 2009
HPI: 58.33
Rank: 585
1886 - 1953
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 586
1899 - 1970
HPI: 58.28
Rank: 587
598 - 636
HPI: 58.26
Rank: 588
1883 - 1950
HPI: 58.26
Rank: 589
1659 - 1719
HPI: 58.26
Rank: 590
1833 - 1905
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 591
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 592
1930 - 1998
HPI: 58.24
Rank: 593
1857 - 1918
HPI: 58.23
Rank: 594
1742 - 1819
HPI: 58.23
Rank: 595
Among people born in 1883, Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell ranks 65. Before him are Nikolay Krestinsky, Richard von Mises, Bernhard Rust, Prince Konrad of Bavaria, Mauritz Stiller, and Gusztáv Jány. After him are Fritz Gerlich, Lauri Kristian Relander, William Carlos Williams, Alfredo Casella, Ernest Ansermet, and Ichirō Hatoyama. Among people deceased in 1950, Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell ranks 46. Before him are Constantin Carathéodory, Francesco Cilea, Melitta Bentz, Liane de Pougy, Emil Abderhalden, and Eliel Saarinen. After him are Salvatore Giuliano, Alfred Korzybski, Ryuzo Shimizu, Charles Koechlin, Vasil Kolarov, and Fevzi Çakmak.
1883 - 1938
HPI: 59.36
Rank: 59
1883 - 1953
HPI: 59.31
Rank: 60
1883 - 1945
HPI: 59.03
Rank: 61
1883 - 1969
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 62
1883 - 1928
HPI: 58.73
Rank: 63
1883 - 1947
HPI: 58.52
Rank: 64
1883 - 1950
HPI: 58.26
Rank: 65
1883 - 1934
HPI: 57.90
Rank: 66
1883 - 1942
HPI: 57.88
Rank: 67
1883 - 1963
HPI: 57.80
Rank: 68
1883 - 1947
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 69
1883 - 1969
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 70
1883 - 1959
HPI: 57.72
Rank: 71
1873 - 1950
HPI: 59.12
Rank: 40
1866 - 1950
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 41
1873 - 1950
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 42
1869 - 1950
HPI: 58.54
Rank: 43
1877 - 1950
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 44
1873 - 1950
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 45
1883 - 1950
HPI: 58.26
Rank: 46
1922 - 1950
HPI: 57.69
Rank: 47
1879 - 1950
HPI: 57.58
Rank: 48
1902 - 1950
HPI: 57.57
Rank: 49
1867 - 1950
HPI: 57.49
Rank: 50
1877 - 1950
HPI: 57.45
Rank: 51
1876 - 1950
HPI: 57.35
Rank: 52
Among people born in United Kingdom, Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell ranks 1,110 out of 7,765. Before him are J. B. S. Haldane (1892), Clive Granger (1934), Kenny Baker (1934), Colin Dexter (1930), Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk (1517), and Thomas Lawrence (1769). After him are Matthew Lewis (1775), Kiefer Sutherland (1966), Rick Astley (1966), Robert Faurisson (1929), Joan Robinson (1903), and Emily Blunt (1983).
1892 - 1964
HPI: 58.29
Rank: 1,104
1934 - 2009
HPI: 58.28
Rank: 1,105
1934 - 2016
HPI: 58.27
Rank: 1,106
1930 - 2017
HPI: 58.27
Rank: 1,107
1517 - 1559
HPI: 58.26
Rank: 1,108
1769 - 1830
HPI: 58.26
Rank: 1,109
1883 - 1950
HPI: 58.26
Rank: 1,110
1775 - 1818
HPI: 58.26
Rank: 1,111
1966 - Present
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 1,112
1966 - Present
HPI: 58.24
Rank: 1,113
1929 - 2018
HPI: 58.23
Rank: 1,114
1903 - 1983
HPI: 58.23
Rank: 1,115
1983 - Present
HPI: 58.23
Rank: 1,116
Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell ranks 23. Before him are William Bligh (1754), Harold Lowe (1882), Paddy Roy Bates (1921), Jack Phillips (1887), Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (1891), and Woodes Rogers (1679). After him are Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (1861), William Stuart-Houston (1911), Melita Norwood (1912), Joseph Boxhall (1884), Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald (1775), and Bertram Ramsay (1883).
1754 - 1817
HPI: 59.54
Rank: 17
1882 - 1944
HPI: 59.44
Rank: 18
1921 - 2012
HPI: 59.05
Rank: 19
1887 - 1912
HPI: 58.77
Rank: 20
1891 - 1969
HPI: 58.72
Rank: 21
1679 - 1732
HPI: 58.33
Rank: 22
1883 - 1950
HPI: 58.26
Rank: 23
1861 - 1928
HPI: 58.06
Rank: 24
1911 - 1987
HPI: 57.13
Rank: 25
1912 - 2005
HPI: 56.73
Rank: 26
1884 - 1967
HPI: 56.21
Rank: 27
1775 - 1860
HPI: 55.88
Rank: 28
1883 - 1945
HPI: 55.24
Rank: 29