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MILITARY PERSONNEL

George Pickett

1825 - 1875

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George Edward Pickett (January 16, 1825 – July 30, 1875) was a career United States Army officer who became a major general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He is best remembered for being one of the commanders at Pickett's Charge, the futile and bloody Confederate offensive on the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg that bears his name. Pickett graduated last out of 59 cadets in the United States Military Academy class of 1846. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Pickett has received more than 1,331,439 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. George Pickett is the 1,395th most popular military personnel (down from 1,254th in 2019), the 5,223rd most popular biography from United States (down from 4,934th in 2019) and the 90th most popular American Military Personnel.

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  • 22

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  • 2.22

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  • 3.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, George Pickett ranks 1,395 out of 1,468. Before him are Cleitus the White, Maria Quitéria, Leonhard Kaupisch, Mikhail Yegorov, Henri Saint Cyr, and Anthony McAuliffe. After him are Leo of Tripoli, Nikolai Ruzsky, Yevgeniya Rudneva, Antonio Luna, Riad al-Asaad, and Dmitry Lavrinenko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1825, George Pickett ranks 55. Before him are Benedetto Cairoli, Giuseppe Prinzi, Jules Barbier, Bernardo Guimarães, Aníbal Pinto, and Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup. After him are Prince Hermann of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt, Domingo Santa María, Francesco Faà di Bruno, Pashko Vasa, and Emil Welti. Among people deceased in 1875, George Pickett ranks 57. Before him are Charles Kingsley, Francisco Coll Guitart, Leopold III, Prince of Lippe, Richard Christopher Carrington, Carl Jakob Sundevall, and Duke Eugen of Württemberg. After him are Atanasio Aguirre, Mikhail Pogodin, José María Ventura Casas, Zecharias Frankel, Fyodor Bruni, and John Gardner Wilkinson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George Pickett ranks 5,223 out of 18,182. Before him are Ted Neeley (1943), Frank Churchill (1901), Nathanael West (1903), Robert Taylor (1932), Barnum Brown (1873), and Moe Tucker (1944). After him are Paul W. Merrill (1887), Nathan East (1955), T. C. Boyle (1948), Biz Stone (1974), Carol Burnett (1933), and Charles Bolden (1946).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, George Pickett ranks 90. Before him are Benjamin Briggs (1835), Tommy Franks (1945), William D. Leahy (1875), Richard Marcinko (1940), Walter Bedell Smith (1895), and Anthony McAuliffe (1898). After him are Irvin McDowell (1818), Nathanael Greene (1742), Arthur MacArthur Jr. (1845), Moe Berg (1902), Lewis Powell (1844), and Jonathan M. Wainwright (1883).

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