MILITARY PERSONNEL

George Dewey

1837 - 1917

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George Dewey (December 26, 1837 – January 16, 1917) was Admiral of the Navy, the only person in United States history to have attained that rank. He is best known for his victory at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish–American War, with the loss of only a single crewman on the American side. Dewey was born in Montpelier, Vermont. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Dewey has received more than 1,148,143 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). George Dewey is the 1,014th most popular military personnel (up from 1,116th in 2019), the 2,926th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,599th in 2019) and the 49th most popular American Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, George Dewey ranks 1,014 out of 2,058. Before him are George Rooke, Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, Martin Gottfried Weiss, Theodor Wisch, Ramón de Cardona, and Fritz Klingenberg. After him are Ernst-Günther Baade, Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg, Yekaterina Budanova, Jure Francetić, Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven, and Presian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, George Dewey ranks 50. Before him are Mubarak Al-Sabah, Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau, Ernest Guiraud, Itagaki Taisuke, Carolus-Duran, and Prince Albert of Prussia. After him are Liu Yongfu, Tippu Tip, John Wesley Hyatt, Hans von Marées, Zhang Zhidong, and Robert Gould Shaw. Among people deceased in 1917, George Dewey ranks 51. Before him are Duke Philipp of Württemberg, Eric Campbell, Carolus-Duran, Spyridon Samaras, Édouard Drumont, and Eugène Grasset. After him are Liu Yongfu, Maksim Bahdanovič, Eduardo di Capua, Yikuang, Boris Stürmer, and Léon Flameng.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George Dewey ranks 2,926 out of 20,380. Before him are William Peter Blatty (1928), Natalie Cole (1950), Winfield Scott (1786), Jerry Seinfeld (1954), Douglas Hofstadter (1945), and Elizabeth Loftus (1944). After him are Terry Bisson (1942), Smokey Robinson (1940), Paul Strand (1890), John Lasseter (1957), Ivy Lee (1877), and Rebecca De Mornay (1959).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, George Dewey ranks 49. Before him are John Basilone (1916), Philip Sheridan (1831), Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. (1886), Chris Kyle (1974), Charles Robert Jenkins (1940), and Carl Brashear (1931). After him are Walton Walker (1889), Ernest King (1878), Wesley Clark (1944), David Petraeus (1952), Robert Gould Shaw (1837), and Doris Miller (1919).

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