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Felix Dzerzhinsky

1877 - 1926

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Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky (Russian: Феликс Эдмундович Дзержинский; Polish: Feliks Dzierżyński [ˈfɛliɡz d͡ʑɛrˈʐɨj̃skʲi]; 11 September [O.S. 30 August] 1877 – 20 July 1926), nicknamed "Iron Felix", was a Bolshevik revolutionary and politician. 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 post-revolutionary Soviet regime. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Felix Dzerzhinsky has received more than 1,642,407 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019). Felix Dzerzhinsky is the 767th most popular politician (down from 673rd 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 767 out of 15,577. Before him are Alexandra of Denmark, Antiochus III the Great, Vasili IV of Russia, Merovech, Queen Seondeok of Silla, and Mary of Hungary. After him are Zubayr ibn al-Awam, Roger II of Sicily, Louis VI of France, Al-Ma'mun, Anton Drexler, and Baudouin of Belgium.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Felix Dzerzhinsky ranks 4. Before him are Hermann Hesse, Isadora Duncan, and Hjalmar Schacht. After him are Wilhelm Frick, Frederick Soddy, Francis William Aston, Joan Gamper, Charles Glover Barkla, Muhammad Iqbal, Louis Renault, and Edgar Cayce. Among people deceased in 1926, Felix Dzerzhinsky ranks 9. Before him are Mehmed VI, Rainer Maria Rilke, Harry Houdini, Emperor Taishō, Rudolf Christoph Eucken, and Heike Kamerlingh Onnes. After him are Camillo Golgi, Mary Cassatt, Emil Kraepelin, Sunjong of Korea, Gertrude Bell, and Rudolph Valentino.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Felix Dzerzhinsky ranks 6 out of 330. Before him are Marc Chagall (1887), Lev Vygotsky (1896), Shimon Peres (1923), Menachem Begin (1913), and Alexander Lukashenko (1954). After him are Tadeusz Kościuszko (1746), Stanisław August Poniatowski (1732), Andrei Gromyko (1909), Chaim Weizmann (1874), Simon Kuznets (1901), and Yitzhak Shamir (1915).

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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 Alexander Lukashenko (1954). After him are Stanisław August Poniatowski (1732), Andrei Gromyko (1909), Chaim Weizmann (1874), Yitzhak Shamir (1915), Sviatopolk I of Kiev (978), Hacı I Giray (1397), Mstislav I of Kiev (1076), and Stanislav Shushkevich (1934).

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