1887 - 1973
Fritz Erich Georg Eduard von Manstein (24 November 1887 – 9 June 1973) was a German commander of the Wehrmacht, Nazi Germany's armed forces during the Second World War. He attained the rank of field marshal. Born into an aristocratic Prussian family with a long history of military service, Manstein joined the army at a young age and saw service on both the Western and Eastern Front during the First World War (1914–18). Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Erich von Manstein has received more than 1,849,617 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Erich von Manstein is the 17th most popular military personnel (up from 18th in 2019), the 69th most popular biography from Germany (up from 71st in 2019) and the 4th most popular German Military Personnel.
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Among military personnels, Erich von Manstein ranks 17 out of 1,466. Before him are William Wallace, Chiang Kai-shek, Themistocles, Khalid ibn al-Walid, Cao Cao, and Heinz Guderian. After him are Prince Eugene of Savoy, Pyrrhus of Epirus, Ptolemy I Soter, Wilhelm Keitel, Friedrich Paulus, and Oda Nobunaga.
1270 - 1305
HPI: 84.66
Rank: 11
1887 - 1975
HPI: 84.65
Rank: 12
524 BC - 459 BC
HPI: 84.08
Rank: 13
592 - 642
HPI: 83.09
Rank: 14
155 - 220
HPI: 82.78
Rank: 15
1888 - 1954
HPI: 82.66
Rank: 16
1887 - 1973
HPI: 82.42
Rank: 17
1663 - 1736
HPI: 82.26
Rank: 18
318 BC - 272 BC
HPI: 82.20
Rank: 19
367 BC - 283 BC
HPI: 82.09
Rank: 20
1882 - 1946
HPI: 82.01
Rank: 21
1890 - 1957
HPI: 81.92
Rank: 22
1534 - 1582
HPI: 81.88
Rank: 23
Among people born in 1887, Erich von Manstein ranks 8. Before him are Chiang Kai-shek, Marc Chagall, Erwin Schrödinger, Marcel Duchamp, Charles I of Austria, and Srinivasa Ramanujan. After him are Ernst Röhm, Padre Pio, Bernard Montgomery, Vidkun Quisling, Wilhelm Canaris, and Arthur Rubinstein. Among people deceased in 1973, Erich von Manstein ranks 7. Before him are Pablo Picasso, J. R. R. Tolkien, Bruce Lee, Pablo Neruda, David Ben-Gurion, and Salvador Allende. After him are Lyndon B. Johnson, Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, Fulgencio Batista, Pearl S. Buck, Henri Charrière, and Ivan Konev.
1887 - 1975
HPI: 84.65
Rank: 2
1887 - 1985
HPI: 84.42
Rank: 3
1887 - 1961
HPI: 83.20
Rank: 4
1887 - 1968
HPI: 83.03
Rank: 5
1887 - 1922
HPI: 82.58
Rank: 6
1887 - 1920
HPI: 82.47
Rank: 7
1887 - 1973
HPI: 82.42
Rank: 8
1887 - 1934
HPI: 80.35
Rank: 9
1887 - 1968
HPI: 79.99
Rank: 10
1887 - 1976
HPI: 79.03
Rank: 11
1887 - 1945
HPI: 78.45
Rank: 12
1887 - 1945
HPI: 78.26
Rank: 13
1887 - 1982
HPI: 77.29
Rank: 14
1881 - 1973
HPI: 92.24
Rank: 1
1892 - 1973
HPI: 91.11
Rank: 2
1940 - 1973
HPI: 86.73
Rank: 3
1904 - 1973
HPI: 84.05
Rank: 4
1886 - 1973
HPI: 83.25
Rank: 5
1908 - 1973
HPI: 82.65
Rank: 6
1887 - 1973
HPI: 82.42
Rank: 7
1908 - 1973
HPI: 81.33
Rank: 8
1882 - 1973
HPI: 80.61
Rank: 9
1901 - 1973
HPI: 79.27
Rank: 10
1892 - 1973
HPI: 79.07
Rank: 11
1906 - 1973
HPI: 78.95
Rank: 12
1897 - 1973
HPI: 78.41
Rank: 13
Among people born in Germany, Erich von Manstein ranks 69 out of 5,289. Before him are Jacques Offenbach (1819), Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762), Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714), Karl Lagerfeld (1933), Ludwig Feuerbach (1804), and Erich Maria Remarque (1898). After him are Richard Strauss (1864), Konrad Adenauer (1876), Charles the Bald (823), Heinrich Schliemann (1822), Caspar David Friedrich (1774), and Karl Jaspers (1883).
1819 - 1880
HPI: 82.74
Rank: 63
1762 - 1814
HPI: 82.73
Rank: 64
1714 - 1787
HPI: 82.68
Rank: 65
1933 - 2019
HPI: 82.64
Rank: 66
1804 - 1872
HPI: 82.63
Rank: 67
1898 - 1970
HPI: 82.62
Rank: 68
1887 - 1973
HPI: 82.42
Rank: 69
1864 - 1949
HPI: 82.41
Rank: 70
1876 - 1967
HPI: 82.37
Rank: 71
823 - 877
HPI: 82.34
Rank: 72
1822 - 1890
HPI: 82.29
Rank: 73
1774 - 1840
HPI: 82.26
Rank: 74
1883 - 1969
HPI: 82.13
Rank: 75
Among military personnels born in Germany, Erich von Manstein ranks 4. Before him are Erwin Rommel (1891), Karl Dönitz (1891), and Adolf Eichmann (1906). After him are Wilhelm Keitel (1882), Friedrich Paulus (1890), Baron Munchausen (1720), Arminius (-17), Ernst Röhm (1887), Alfred Jodl (1890), Gerd von Rundstedt (1875), and Walter Model (1891).
1891 - 1944
HPI: 85.58
Rank: 1
1891 - 1980
HPI: 85.11
Rank: 2
1906 - 1962
HPI: 84.94
Rank: 3
1887 - 1973
HPI: 82.42
Rank: 4
1882 - 1946
HPI: 82.01
Rank: 5
1890 - 1957
HPI: 81.92
Rank: 6
1720 - 1797
HPI: 80.60
Rank: 7
17 BC - 21
HPI: 80.46
Rank: 8
1887 - 1934
HPI: 80.35
Rank: 9
1890 - 1946
HPI: 80.12
Rank: 10
1875 - 1953
HPI: 79.97
Rank: 11
1891 - 1945
HPI: 78.85
Rank: 12