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Charles George Gordon

1833 - 1885

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Major-General Charles George Gordon CB (28 January 1833 – 26 January 1885), also known as Chinese Gordon, Gordon Pasha, and Gordon of Khartoum, was a British Army officer and administrator. He saw action in the Crimean War as an officer in the British Army. However, he made his military reputation in China, where he was placed in command of the "Ever Victorious Army", a force of Chinese soldiers led by European officers which was instrumental in putting down the Taiping Rebellion, regularly defeating much larger forces. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles George Gordon has received more than 2,540,856 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia. Charles George Gordon is the 53rd most popular engineer (down from 48th in 2019), the 847th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 862nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular British Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Charles George Gordon ranks 53 out of 389. Before him are Lu Ban, John Ambrose Fleming, Arthur Scherbius, Godfrey Hounsfield, Gustaf de Laval, and Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener. After him are Alexander Wienerberger, Bjarne Stroustrup, Viktor Belenko, Masaru Ibuka, Loránd Eötvös, and Henry Gantt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1833, Charles George Gordon ranks 15. Before him are Alfred von Schlieffen, Ferdinand von Richthofen, Edwin Booth, Félicien Rops, Eugen Dühring, and Léon Bonnat. After him are Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, Edward Burne-Jones, Prince Gong, Jonas Lie, Kido Takayoshi, and Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria. Among people deceased in 1885, Charles George Gordon ranks 9. Before him are Alfonso XII of Spain, Muhammad Ahmad, Alexander Karađorđević, Prince of Serbia, Carl Spitzweg, Ferdinand II of Portugal, and Jens Peter Jacobsen. After him are Iwasaki Yatarō, Rosalía de Castro, L'Inconnue de la Seine, Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern, Edmond François Valentin About, and Peter Christen Asbjørnsen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles George Gordon ranks 847 out of 8,785. Before him are Pete Postlethwaite (1946), Imelda Staunton (1956), James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell (1534), Charlotte, Princess Royal (1766), Prince John of the United Kingdom (1905), and Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony (1156). After him are Rex Harrison (1908), William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (1520), Edmund Spenser (1552), Edward B. Titchener (1867), Ian Stewart (1938), and Michael York (1942).

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Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, Charles George Gordon ranks 4. Before him are William John Macquorn Rankine (1820), John Ambrose Fleming (1849), and Godfrey Hounsfield (1919). After him are Colin Chapman (1928), Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806), Henry Royce (1863), Charles Rolls (1877), Alexander Cunningham (1814), George Cayley (1773), Hertha Ayrton (1854), and Adrian Newey (1958).

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