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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Frederick Browning

1896 - 1965

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Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Arthur Montague "Boy" Browning, (20 December 1896 – 14 March 1965) was a senior officer of the British Army who has been called the "father of the British airborne forces". He was also an Olympic bobsleigh competitor, and the husband of author Daphne du Maurier. Educated at Eton College and then at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Browning was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Grenadier Guards in 1915. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frederick Browning has received more than 721,198 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Frederick Browning is the 1,491st most popular military personnel (down from 1,337th in 2019), the 3,352nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,266th in 2019) and the 89th most popular British Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Frederick Browning ranks 1,491 out of 1,468Before him are John Bell Hood, Dragan Vasiljković, Gérard Leman, Billy Bishop, Richard Bong, and Billy Mitchell. After him are Hyman G. Rickover, Richmond K. Turner, Leo Phokas the Younger, Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford, Abu Ali al-Anbari, and Harry Patch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Frederick Browning ranks 183Before him are Anton Walbrook, Louis Bromfield, Mordecai Ardon, Sofya Yanovskaya, Nikolai Tikhonov, and Kostas Karyotakis. After him are Esteban Canal, Walter Lang, J. Lawton Collins, Constantin Rădulescu, Horacio Muñoz, and Agustín Sancho. Among people deceased in 1965, Frederick Browning ranks 137Before him are Kōsaku Yamada, Tommy Hampson, Nancy Carroll, Ingrid Jonker, Louise Dresser, and Jeanette MacDonald. After him are David Smith, Hamo Beknazarian, Eleanor Farjeon, Francisco Garza Gutiérrez, Myra Hess, and Jacques Audiberti.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Frederick Browning ranks 3,352 out of 7,765Before him are Gary Lewis (1957), Tony Kaye (1952), Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835), Brian Redman (1937), John Walter Gregory (1864), and Graeme Souness (1953). After him are John Farey Sr. (1766), Grace Aguilar (1816), Jane Marcet (1769), Donald Rayfield (1942), Michael Hurst (1957), and Rupert Friend (1981).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Frederick Browning ranks 89Before him are Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood (1724), David Stirling (1915), George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney (1718), Charles Lee (1731), Timothy Laurence (1955), and Guy Simonds (1903). After him are Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford (1827), Harry Patch (1898), Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans (1880), Flora Sandes (1876), John Byng (1704), and William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim (1891).