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Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander

1909 - 1974

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Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander (19 April 1909 – 15 February 1974), known as Hugh Alexander and C. H. O'D. Alexander, was an Irish-born British cryptanalyst, chess player, and chess writer. He worked on the German Enigma machine at Bletchley Park during the Second World War, and was later the head of the cryptanalysis division at GCHQ for 25 years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander has received more than 1,117,861 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander is the 102nd most popular chess player (down from 86th in 2019), the 171st most popular biography from Ireland (down from 137th in 2019) and the most popular Irish Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander ranks 102 out of 461. Before him are Alexander Beliavsky, Ernst Grünfeld, Georg Marco, Ossip Bernstein, Igor Bondarevsky, and András Adorján. After him are Alexander Khalifman, Peter Romanovsky, Wolfgang Uhlmann, Richard Teichmann, Leonid Stein, and Petar Trifunović.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander ranks 227. Before him are David Murray, Heinz Erhardt, Durgabai Deshmukh, Robert Hugo, Duke of Parma, Kató Lomb, and Bernabé Ferreyra. After him are Song Renqiong, Claude Chevalley, Tatiana Proskouriakoff, Roberto Battaglia, Theodor Tolsdorff, and Shura Cherkassky. Among people deceased in 1974, Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander ranks 152. Before him are Alexander P. de Seversky, Elisabeth Abegg, Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, Robert Hugo, Duke of Parma, Jack Benny, and Kick Smit. After him are Emil Väre, Clyde Cowan, Gheorghe Albu, Françoise Rosay, Arnaud Denjoy, and Zaharia Stancu.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander ranks 171 out of 549. Before him are George Allman (1812), Ronan Keating (1977), Geraldine Fitzgerald (1913), Violet Gibson (1876), Sinéad Cusack (1948), and Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne (1880). After him are Patrick Hillery (1923), Enda Kenny (1951), Elizabeth Bowen (1899), Catald (700), Pat McDonald (1878), and Seán O'Casey (1880).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Ireland

Among chess players born in Ireland, Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander ranks 1. 

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