MILITARY PERSONNEL

Bob Denard

1929 - 2007

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Robert Denard (born Gilbert Bourgeaud;: 133  7 April 1929 – 13 October 2007) was a French soldier of fortune and mercenary. He served as the de facto military leader of the Comoros twice with him first serving from 13 May 1978 to 15 December 1989 and again briefly from the 28th of September to the 5th of October in 1995. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bob Denard has received more than 748,070 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Bob Denard is the 557th most popular military personnel (down from 538th in 2019), the 1,525th most popular biography from France (down from 1,453rd in 2019) and the 55th most popular French Military Personnel.

Memorability Metrics

  • 750k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.54

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Bob Denards by language

Over the past year Bob Denard has had the most page views in the with 144,770 views, followed by English (80,397), and Russian (23,640). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Belarusian (229.81%), Malagasy (86.78%), and Basque (77.32%)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Bob Denard ranks 557 out of 2,058. Before him are Karl Silberbauer, Harpagus, Franz von Hipper, Kawakami Gensai, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, and Seishirō Itagaki. After him are Oenomaus, Hans Baur, Kurt Franz, Adolf Heusinger, Jisaburō Ozawa, and Saburō Sakai.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Bob Denard ranks 105. Before him are David Kelly, Paul Lauterbur, Věra Chytilová, Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, José Santamaría, and Alasdair MacIntyre. After him are Georgi Markov, Vera Miles, André Previn, Antonio Carbajal, Menahem Golan, and Carlos Lacoste. Among people deceased in 2007, Bob Denard ranks 52. Before him are John Backus, E. Howard Hunt, Taha Yassin Ramadan, Paul Lauterbur, Petar Stambolić, and Michel Serrault. After him are Rudolf Arnheim, Robert Adler, Ian Smith, Magda Szabó, Jaan Kross, and Abbé Pierre.

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In France

Among people born in France, Bob Denard ranks 1,525 out of 6,770. Before him are Hubert Robert (1733), Amadeus VII, Count of Savoy (1360), Michel Serrault (1928), Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (1893), Louis de Bonald (1754), and Henri Delaunay (1883). After him are Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt (1240), Oenomaus (-105), Raymond of Burgundy (1070), Bertrand Tavernier (1941), Charles, Duke of Mayenne (1554), and Claude of France (1547).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, Bob Denard ranks 55. Before him are Jean-Charles Pichegru (1761), Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard (1476), François Joseph Lefebvre (1755), Pierre Cambronne (1770), Jacques MacDonald (1765), and Henri de la Rochejaquelein (1772). After him are Oenomaus (-105), Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon (1754), Louis-Gabriel Suchet (1770), Joseph Gallieni (1849), Henri Gatien Bertrand (1773), and Walter Krüger (1890).

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