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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Dudley Pound

1877 - 1943

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Admiral of the Fleet Sir Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound, (29 August 1877 – 21 October 1943) was a British senior officer of the Royal Navy. He served in the First World War as a battleship commander, taking part in the Battle of Jutland with notable success, contributing to the sinking of the German cruiser Wiesbaden. He served as First Sea Lord, the professional head of the Royal Navy, for the first four years of the Second World War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dudley Pound has received more than 296,517 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Dudley Pound is the 1,532nd most popular military personnel (down from 1,377th in 2019), the 3,678th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,683rd in 2019) and the 99th most popular British Military Personnel.

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  • 45.82

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.98

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Dudley Pound ranks 1,532 out of 1,468. Before him are Aurélio de Lira Tavares, William T. Anderson, Márcio Melo, Martin Dempsey, Reginald Wingate, and Robert L. Eichelberger. After him are James Joseph Dresnok, John Kourkouas, Sergey Gritsevets, Stanley A. McChrystal, Afanasy Beloborodov, and Jean Baptiste Point du Sable.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Dudley Pound ranks 138. Before him are Elena Guro, Charles Collignon, Roelof Klein, Abelardo Olivier, Johannes Schmidt, and Bill Robinson. After him are Joseph Stella, Vladimir Gardin, Ioannis Persakis, Georges Johin, Leopold Skulski, and W. D. Ross. Among people deceased in 1943, Dudley Pound ranks 165. Before him are Johan Ludwig Mowinckel, Akilles Järvinen, Helene Stöcker, George Underwood, Lucien Démanet, and Alice Tegnér. After him are Eva Kotchever, Ioannis Persakis, Hector Goetinck, Marsden Hartley, Wilhelm Geiger, and Peider Lansel.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Dudley Pound ranks 3,678 out of 7,765. Before him are Simone Perrotta (1977), Paul Kossoff (1950), Doug Bradley (1954), Reginald Wingate (1861), Imogen Heap (1977), and Ranulph Fiennes (1944). After him are Kunal Nayyar (1981), Acker Bilk (1929), Jonny Greenwood (1971), Gerald Finzi (1901), George Crabbe (1754), and Ethel Thomson Larcombe (1879).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Dudley Pound ranks 99. Before him are Flora Sandes (1876), John Byng (1704), William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim (1891), Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth (1757), Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex (1591), and Reginald Wingate (1861). After him are Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer (1857), Miles Dempsey (1896), Oliver Leese (1894), John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton (1896), John Dill (1881), and John André (1750).

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