MILITARY PERSONNEL

Frank Serpico

1936 - Today

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Francesco Vincent "Frank" Serpico ( SUR-pik-oh; born April 14, 1936) is an American retired New York Police Department detective, best known for whistleblowing on police corruption. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was a plainclothes police officer working in Brooklyn, the Bronx and Manhattan to expose vice racketeering. In 1967, he reported credible evidence of widespread police corruption, to no effect. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frank Serpico has received more than 3,545,130 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Frank Serpico is the 1,423rd most popular military personnel (down from 1,252nd in 2019), the 4,194th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,230th in 2019) and the 65th most popular American Military Personnel.

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  • 52.10

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  • 22

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  • 2.76

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  • 3.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Frank Serpico ranks 1,423 out of 2,058. Before him are Alexander Chavchavadze, Dmitry Lelyushenko, Marc Mitscher, Nikolai Nebogatov, Miguel Grau Seminario, and Lengvenis. After him are Prince Moriyoshi, Momčilo Perišić, Kurt von der Chevallerie, Sam Manekshaw, Alexander Kutepov, and Nicholas, Count of Salm.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Frank Serpico ranks 246. Before him are Im Kwon-taek, Ivonka Survilla, José Policarpo, Lino Banfi, Birthe Wilke, and Aribert Reimann. After him are Stanislav Govorukhin, Toralf Engan, Carla Fracci, W. D. Hamilton, Edvard Radzinsky, and Paul Shenar.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Frank Serpico ranks 4,194 out of 20,380. Before him are Adrienne Barbeau (1945), Jennifer Warnes (1947), Ona Zee (1951), Harrison Ford (1884), Son House (1902), and Charles Jencks (1939). After him are Paul Thomas Anderson (1970), Anne Francis (1930), Lindsey Graham (1955), Alexandra Daddario (1986), Huey Long (1893), and Lois Smith (1930).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Frank Serpico ranks 65. Before him are Holland Smith (1882), Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (1887), Albert Sidney Johnston (1803), Tommy Franks (1945), Kit Carson (1809), and Marc Mitscher (1887). After him are Anthony McAuliffe (1898), William Calley (1943), James Longstreet (1821), Walter Short (1880), Hugh Thompson Jr. (1943), and Thomas C. Kinkaid (1888).

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