MILITARY PERSONNEL

Chiang Kai-shek

1887 - 1975

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Chiang Kai-shek (31 October 1887 – 5 April 1975) was a Chinese politician, revolutionary, and military commander who was the leader of the Nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) party and commander-in-chief and Generalissimo of the National Revolutionary Army (NRA) from 1926, and leader of the Republic of China (ROC) in mainland China from 1928. After Chiang was defeated in the Chinese Civil War by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1949, he continued to lead the Republic of China on the island of Taiwan until his death in 1975. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Chiang Kai-shek has received more than 12,471,661 page views. His biography is available in 119 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 115 in 2019). Chiang Kai-shek is the 18th most popular military personnel, the 17th most popular biography from China and the most popular Chinese Military Personnel.

Chiang Kai-shek was the leader of the Kuomintang and the Republic of China from 1928 to 1975. He was a nationalist who led China through much of the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II, and the Chinese Civil War.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Chiang Kai-shek ranks 18 out of 2,058. Before him are Oda Nobunaga, William Wallace, Jochi, Ptolemy I Soter, Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, and Charles XIV John of Sweden. After him are Themistocles, Manfred von Richthofen, Erich von Manstein, Cao Cao, Friedrich Paulus, and Arminius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Chiang Kai-shek ranks 5. Before him are Le Corbusier, Erwin Schrödinger, Marc Chagall, and Marcel Duchamp. After him are Erich von Manstein, Charles I of Austria, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Padre Pio, Ernst Röhm, Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, and Arthur Rubinstein. Among people deceased in 1975, Chiang Kai-shek ranks 4. Before him are Francisco Franco, Hannah Arendt, and Dmitri Shostakovich. After him are Ivo Andrić, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Umm Kulthum, Aristotle Onassis, Otto Skorzeny, Haile Selassie, Josephine Baker, and Arnold J. Toynbee.

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In China

Among people born in China, Chiang Kai-shek ranks 17 out of 1,610. Before him are Sima Qian (-145), 14th Dalai Lama (1935), Xi Jinping (1953), Kublai Khan (1215), Empress Dowager Cixi (1835), and Du Fu (712). After him are Wu Zetian (624), Cao Cao (155), Hu Jintao (1942), Xuanzang (602), Qianlong Emperor (1711), and Guan Yu (162).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In China

Among military personnels born in China, Chiang Kai-shek ranks 1. After him are Cao Cao (155), Guan Yu (162), Lü Bu (161), Zhang Fei (167), Dong Zhuo (139), Zhou Yu (175), Zhao Yun (168), Bai Qi (-250), Sun Jian (155), Yue Fei (1142), and Sun Ce (175).

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