MILITARY PERSONNEL

Giovanni Messe

1883 - 1968

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Giovanni Messe (10 December 1883 – 18 December 1968) was an Italian field marshal and politician. In the Second World War, he was captured in Tunisia but made chief of staff of the Italian Co-belligerent Army after the armistice of September 1943. Later, he was an elected representative in the Italian Senate. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giovanni Messe has received more than 411,313 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Giovanni Messe is the 374th most popular military personnel (down from 339th in 2019), the 1,050th most popular biography from Italy (down from 957th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Italian Military Personnel.

Giovanni Messe was a general in the Italian army during World War II. He led the troops in the Battle of Monte Cassino and was later made commander of the Italian Expeditionary Force in Russia.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Giovanni Messe ranks 374 out of 2,058. Before him are Alexander Yegorov, Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen, Leonid Govorov, François Achille Bazaine, Ashraf Marwan, and Gerhard von Scharnhorst. After him are Zhang He, Luigi Cadorna, Vasily Arkhipov, Otto Kretschmer, Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, and Sergey Sokolov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Giovanni Messe ranks 38. Before him are Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Peter Kürten, Mohammed Nadir Shah, A. S. Neill, Nina Ricci, and Alexander Yegorov. After him are Zaifeng, Prince Chun, Ivan Meštrović, Döme Sztójay, Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov, Marie Laurencin, and Joseph Pilates. Among people deceased in 1968, Giovanni Messe ranks 32. Before him are Pitirim Sorokin, Ivan Ribar, Neal Cassady, Alice Guy-Blaché, Kirill Meretskov, and Alexandre Kojève. After him are Vittorio Pozzo, Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, Vasily Sokolovsky, Lucio Fontana, Romano Guardini, and Arnold Zweig.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giovanni Messe ranks 1,050 out of 5,161. Before him are Vincenzo Viviani (1622), Nicola Porpora (1686), Bartolomeo Ammannati (1511), Stanislao Cannizzaro (1826), Sebastian Cabot (1484), and Oscar Luigi Scalfaro (1918). After him are Luigi Cadorna (1850), Roberto Cavalli (1940), Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti (1774), Constance of Sicily, Queen of Aragon (1249), Charles Felix of Sardinia (1765), and Bruttia Crispina (164).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Italy

Among military personnels born in Italy, Giovanni Messe ranks 18. Before him are Raimondo Montecuccoli (1609), Federico da Montefeltro (1422), Titus Labienus (-100), Sejanus (-20), Emilio De Bono (1866), and Italo Gariboldi (1879). After him are Luigi Cadorna (1850), Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli (1856), Prince Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aosta (1869), Erasmo of Narni (1370), Gaius Claudius Glaber (-200), and Armando Diaz (1861).

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