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Felix Dzerzhinsky

1877 - 1926

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Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky (Russian: Феликс Эдмундович Дзержинский; Polish: Feliks Edmundowicz Dzierżyński [ˈfɛliks ɛdmundɔvʲiʈ͡ʂ d͡ʑɛrʐɨj̃skʲi]; 11 September [O.S. 30 August] 1877 – 20 July 1926), nicknamed "Iron Felix", was a Soviet revolutionary and politician of Polish origin. From 1917 until his death in 1926, he led the first two Soviet secret police organizations, the Cheka and the OGPU, establishing state security organs for the Bolshevik government. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Felix Dzerzhinsky has received more than 1,743,956 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). Felix Dzerzhinsky is the 681st most popular politician (up from 766th in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Belarus and the 4th most popular Belarusian Politician.

Felix Dzerzhinsky is most famous for being the founder of the Cheka, the Soviet secret police.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Felix Dzerzhinsky ranks 681 out of 19,576. Before him are Sargon II, Shunzhi Emperor, Musa I of Mali, Frederick William II of Prussia, Louis the Stammerer, and Baudouin of Belgium. After him are Ivan III of Russia, Christian I of Denmark, Giorgio Napolitano, Hans Frank, Anthony Eden, and Baldwin I of Jerusalem.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Felix Dzerzhinsky ranks 3. Before him are Hermann Hesse, and Isadora Duncan. After him are Wilhelm Frick, Charles Glover Barkla, Joan Gamper, Frederick Soddy, Muhammad Iqbal, Francis William Aston, Heinrich Otto Wieland, G. H. Hardy, and Louis Renault. Among people deceased in 1926, Felix Dzerzhinsky ranks 9. Before him are Rainer Maria Rilke, Mehmed VI, Harry Houdini, Emperor Taishō, Rudolf Christoph Eucken, and Mary Cassatt. After him are Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Camillo Golgi, Sunjong of Korea, Symon Petliura, Emil Kraepelin, and Louise of Sweden.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Felix Dzerzhinsky ranks 6 out of 368. Before him are Shimon Peres (1923), Marc Chagall (1887), Lev Vygotsky (1896), Menachem Begin (1913), and Chaim Weizmann (1874). After him are Tadeusz Kościuszko (1746), Alexander Lukashenko (1954), Stanisław August Poniatowski (1732), Andrei Gromyko (1909), Simon Kuznets (1901), and Chaim Soutine (1893).

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Among POLITICIANS In Belarus

Among politicians born in Belarus, Felix Dzerzhinsky ranks 4. Before him are Shimon Peres (1923), Menachem Begin (1913), and Chaim Weizmann (1874). After him are Alexander Lukashenko (1954), Stanisław August Poniatowski (1732), Andrei Gromyko (1909), Zalman Shazar (1889), Sviatopolk I of Kiev (978), Mstislav I of Kiev (1076), Isser Harel (1912), and Maria Kaczyńska (1942).

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