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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 1,084,963 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). George Dewey is the 1,116th most popular military personnel (up from 1,189th in 2019), the 3,609th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,378th in 2019) and the 56th most popular American Military Personnel.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, George Dewey ranks 1,116 out of 1,468. Before him are Henri Mathias Berthelot, Vitalian, Doris Miller, Ryszard Kukliński, Polina Gelman, and François de Créquy. After him are Charles Robert Jenkins, Abdul Fatah Younis, Adherbal, Neoptolemus, Abdul Haris Nasution, and Augustín Malár.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, George Dewey ranks 55. Before him are John Wesley Hyatt, Franz Overbeck, Mubarak Al-Sabah, Moritz Kaposi, Yohannes IV, and Sanjō Sanetomi. After him are Hans von Marées, Zhang Zhidong, Nicolás Avellaneda, Dwight L. Moody, Kabayama Sukenori, and Horace Parnell Tuttle. Among people deceased in 1917, George Dewey ranks 62. Before him are Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, Eduardo di Capua, Madge Syers, Enric Prat de la Riba, Teresa Carreño, and Émile Boirac. After him are Léon Flameng, Titu Maiorescu, Marian Smoluchowski, Judith Gautier, Ber Borochov, and Federico Zandomeneghi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George Dewey ranks 3,609 out of 18,182. Before him are Spotted Elk (1826), Linda Fiorentino (1958), Frederic Forrest (1936), Leon Spinks (1953), Michael Winslow (1958), and Ethel Kennedy (1928). After him are L. Sprague de Camp (1907), T-Bone Walker (1910), Brooke Adams (1949), Jessie Royce Landis (1896), Joan Copeland (1922), and Alan Dershowitz (1938).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, George Dewey ranks 56. Before him are Holland Smith (1882), Monte Melkonian (1957), Lucius D. Clay (1898), Alexander Vandegrift (1887), Kit Carson (1809), and Doris Miller (1919). After him are Charles Robert Jenkins (1940), Thomas C. Kinkaid (1888), Marc Mitscher (1887), James M. Gavin (1907), John C. Woods (1911), and Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (1887).

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