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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 2,370,204 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Charles George Gordon is the 49th most popular engineer (up from 68th in 2019), the 863rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 978th in 2019) and the 4th most popular British Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Charles George Gordon ranks 49 out of 323Before him are Sergey Ilyushin, Ernst Heinkel, Emil Škoda, Banū Mūsā, Henry Gantt, and William John Macquorn Rankine. After him are Bjarne Stroustrup, Gustaf de Laval, Kurt Gerstein, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Arthur Scherbius, and Walter Dornberger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1833, Charles George Gordon ranks 15Before him are Ferdinand von Richthofen, Félicien Rops, Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Léon Bonnat, Edward Burne-Jones, and Eugen Dühring. After him are Kido Takayoshi, Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, Carola of Vasa, Prince Gong, Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria, and Princess Adelheid-Marie of Anhalt-Dessau. Among people deceased in 1885, Charles George Gordon ranks 10Before him are Muhammad Ahmad, Jens Peter Jacobsen, Ferdinand II of Portugal, Alexander Karađorđević, Prince of Serbia, Carl Spitzweg, and L'Inconnue de la Seine. After him are Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern, Rosalía de Castro, Iwasaki Yatarō, Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, and Moses Montefiore.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles George Gordon ranks 863 out of 7,765Before him are Harthacnut I of Denmark (880), John Hawkins (1532), Kevin Keegan (1951), Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland (1915), Duncan I of Scotland (1001), and Bernard Hill (1944). After him are Rosamunde Pilcher (1924), Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1884), Bernard Lee (1908), Gladwyn Jebb (1900), Patrick White (1912), and Graham Chapman (1941).

Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, Charles George Gordon ranks 4Before him are Godfrey Hounsfield (1919), John Ambrose Fleming (1849), and William John Macquorn Rankine (1820). After him are Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806), Colin Chapman (1928), Ross Brawn (1954), Henry Royce (1863), Charles Rolls (1877), George Cayley (1773), Patrick Head (1946), and Adrian Newey (1958).