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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 leader. He was the head of the Nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) party, the Generalissimo of the National Revolutionary Army, and the leader of the Republic of China (ROC) in mainland China from 1928 until 1949. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Chiang Kai-shek has received more than 11,404,434 page views. His biography is available in 115 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 114 in 2019). Chiang Kai-shek is the 18th most popular military personnel (down from 12th in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from China (down from 9th in 2019) 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 1,468Before him are William Wallace, Khalid ibn al-Walid, Romulus Augustulus, Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, Oda Nobunaga, and Erich von Manstein. After him are Heinz Guderian, Arminius, Ratko Mladić, Ptolemy I Soter, Pyrrhus of Epirus, and Cao Cao.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Chiang Kai-shek ranks 6Before him are Le Corbusier, Erwin Schrödinger, Marc Chagall, Charles I of Austria, and Erich von Manstein. After him are Marcel Duchamp, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Ernst Röhm, Padre Pio, Arthur Rubinstein, and Bernard Montgomery. Among people deceased in 1975, Chiang Kai-shek ranks 4Before him are Francisco Franco, Hannah Arendt, and Dmitri Shostakovich. After him are Haile Selassie, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ivo Andrić, Josephine Baker, Aristotle Onassis, Otto Skorzeny, Umm Kulthum, and Arnold J. Toynbee.

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In China

Among people born in China, Chiang Kai-shek ranks 17 out of 1,392Before him are Kublai Khan (1215), Sima Qian (-145), Xi Jinping (1953), Puyi (1906), Hu Jintao (1942), and Empress Dowager Cixi (1835). After him are Du Fu (712), Cao Cao (155), Wu Zetian (624), Qianlong Emperor (1711), Ip Man (1893), and Xuanzang (602).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In China

Among military personnels born in China, Chiang Kai-shek ranks 1After him are Cao Cao (155), Lü Bu (161), Guan Yu (162), Zhang Fei (167), Zhao Yun (168), Dong Zhuo (139), Yue Fei (1142), Sun Jian (155), Zhou Yu (175), Sun Ce (175), and Han Xin (-231).