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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 261,899 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford is the 348th most popular engineer (down from 321st in 2019), the 5,222nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,876th 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 348 out of 389. Before him are Robert Zubrin, Pavel Pavel, Vladimir Barmin, Rajeshwari Chatterjee, Viktor Kozin, and Ivan Artobolevsky. After him are Ralph Bagnold, Tom Dowd, Sergey Volkov, Mehdi Jomaa, Gordon Bell, and Kevin Warwick.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford ranks 261. Before him are Marie Pujmanová, Leatrice Joy, Tashi Namgyal, Dorothy Thompson, Feroz Khan Noon, and Gladys Brockwell. After him are Alfred Engelsen, Grace Cunard, John P. Marquand, Irving Bacon, Harley Earl, and Saunders Lewis. Among people deceased in 1971, Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford ranks 235. Before him are Jan Palouš, Clare Dennis, Otto Authén, Jimmy Gallagher, Cyril Burt, and Robert Lowery. After him are Bill Thompson, Stuart Holmes, Spring Byington, Erwin Keller, Cecil Parker, and Ferenc Erdei.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford ranks 5,222 out of 8,785. Before him are Charlotte Riley (1981), Basil Heatley (1933), Kenny Acheson (1957), China Miéville (1972), R. D. Blackmore (1825), and Joseph Wedderburn (1882). After him are Mary Lamb (1764), John Cannon (1933), Charles Lapworth (1842), Lionel Jeffries (1926), Archie Scott Brown (1927), and Nick Frost (1972).

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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), Geoffrey de Havilland (1882), R. J. Mitchell (1895), Tommy Flowers (1905), and Harry Ricardo (1885). After him are Ralph Bagnold (1896), Kevin Warwick (1954), Pat Fry (1964), John Lombe (1693), James Allison (1968), and Sydney Camm (1893).

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