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 348,159 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Dudley Pound is the 1,803rd most popular military personnel (down from 1,529th in 2019), the 3,627th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,670th in 2019) and the 95th most popular British Military Personnel.

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.33

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  • 3.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Dudley Pound ranks 1,803 out of 2,058. Before him are John Moore, John F. Reynolds, Mindarus, Arseny Golovko, Yekaterina Mikhailova-Demina, and Adasi. After him are George Anson, 1st Baron Anson, Richard S. Ewell, Richard Marcinko, John Eisenhower, William Birdwood, and Luigi Capello.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Dudley Pound ranks 147. Before him are Roelof Klein, Ioannis Persakis, Otto Gebühr, Ernst Wetter, Patrick Leahy, and Yan Huiqing. After him are W. D. Ross, Consuelo Vanderbilt, Maud Wagner, Andrejs Upīts, Charles Collignon, and Winifred McNair. Among people deceased in 1943, Dudley Pound ranks 178. Before him are W. W. Jacobs, Jenő Rejtő, Prince Hubertus of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Otto Modersohn, Franz Cisar, and Akilles Järvinen. After him are Frank Schlesinger, Otto Rühle, Rupert Julian, Willoughby Hamilton, Beatrice Webb, and Betty Nansen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Dudley Pound ranks 3,627 out of 8,785. Before him are Virginia Wade (1945), Thomas Dekker (1572), Emily Ratajkowski (1991), Cormac Murphy-O'Connor (1932), Rowan Williams (1950), and Kelly Macdonald (1976). After him are W. D. Ross (1877), Frank Hadow (1855), Richard Hughes (1900), Ron Geesin (1943), A. E. Housman (1859), and Gerry Anderson (1929).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Dudley Pound ranks 95. Before him are Miles Dempsey (1896), John Byng (1704), Boston Corbett (1832), Eddie Chapman (1914), Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford (1827), and John Moore (1761). After him are George Anson, 1st Baron Anson (1697), Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex (1591), Captain Tom (1920), Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe (1726), George Milne, 1st Baron Milne (1866), and Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton (1663).

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