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Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford

1893 - 1971

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Marshal of the Royal Air Force Charles Frederick Algernon Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford, (21 May 1893 – 22 April 1971) was a senior Royal Air Force officer. He served as a bomber pilot in the First World War, and rose to become first a flight commander and then a squadron commander, flying light bombers on the Western Front. In the early stages of the Second World War he was commander-in-chief of Bomber Command. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford has received more than 241,138 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford is the 323rd most popular engineer (down from 301st in 2019), the 4,888th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,465th in 2019) and the 39th most popular British Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford ranks 323 out of 323. Before him are John Monash, Pat Fry, Robert Zubrin, Viktor Kozin, Tommy Flowers, and Vladimir Barmin. After him are C. H. Douglas, Tom Dowd, Bob Bell, Sydney Camm, John Lombe, and Mehdi Jomaa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford ranks 236. Before him are Betty Blythe, Maja Berezowska, Tommaso Lequio di Assaba, Victor Verschueren, Leatrice Joy, and Tashi Namgyal. After him are Richard Dix, Tom Forman, Grace Cunard, Sydney Camm, Feroz Khan Noon, and Saunders Lewis. Among people deceased in 1971, Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford ranks 208. Before him are Lucien Hubbard, Luigi Piotti, Cecil Parker, Richard Mulcahy, Dorothy Comingore, and Bill Thompson. After him are Joseph Pletincx, Thomas Gomez, Glenda Farrell, Raymond Hatton, Nora Stanton Barney, and John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford ranks 4,888 out of 7,765. Before him are Sydney Parkinson (1745), Kevin Macdonald (1967), Caroline Bliss (1961), Archibald Menzies (1754), Joe Elliott (1959), and Thomas Pennant (1726). After him are Angie Sage (1952), Nicky Butt (1975), Helen Bannerman (1862), Edmund Rubbra (1901), Ellie Goulding (1986), and Jim Lea (1949).

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Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford ranks 39. Before him are Joseph Bazalgette (1819), Ove Arup (1895), Kevin Warwick (1954), Pat Symonds (1953), Pat Fry (1964), and Tommy Flowers (1905). After him are C. H. Douglas (1879), Bob Bell (1958), Sydney Camm (1893), John Lombe (1693), Thomas Sopwith (1888), and James Allison (1968).

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