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Guy Burgess

1911 - 1963

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Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess (16 April 1911 – 30 August 1963) was a British diplomat and Soviet double agent, and a member of the Cambridge Five spy ring that operated from the mid-1930s to the early years of the Cold War era. His defection in 1951 to the Soviet Union, with his fellow spy Donald Maclean, led to a serious breach in Anglo-United States intelligence co-operation, and caused long-lasting disruption and demoralisation in Britain's foreign and diplomatic services. Born into an upper middle class English family, Burgess was educated at Eton College, the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, and Trinity College, Cambridge. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Guy Burgess has received more than 1,815,677 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Guy Burgess is the 158th most popular extremist, the 2,142nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,493rd in 2019) and the 9th most popular British Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Guy Burgess ranks 158 out of 209Before him are Robert Ford, Kōzō Okamoto, Mary Bell, Tsutomu Miyazaki, Yoo Young-chul, and John Wesley Hardin. After him are Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, Jan-Carl Raspe, Ibn al-Khattab, Nancy Spungen, and John List.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Guy Burgess ranks 130Before him are Anatoly Rybakov, Grote Reber, Theodore Romzha, Barbara West, Prince Carl Bernadotte, and José María Arguedas. After him are Son Sann, John C. Woods, Hervé Bazin, Gabriel Almond, Leah Goldberg, and Mark Bernes. Among people deceased in 1963, Guy Burgess ranks 84Before him are Ernst Marischka, Gustave Garrigou, Pascual Ortiz Rubio, Luis Cernuda, Elmore James, and Adolphe Menjou. After him are Maria Tănase, Richard Kohn, Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg, Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Ivan Bek, and Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Guy Burgess ranks 2,142 out of 7,765Before him are John Bull (1562), Eleanor, Fair Maid of Brittany (1182), William of Malmesbury (1080), Damien Hirst (1965), Harold Abrahams (1899), and Herbert Chapman (1878). After him are Robert Brown (1921), Alan Price (1942), Paul Greengrass (1955), John Baskerville (1706), Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon (1863), and Allan Holdsworth (1946).

Among EXTREMISTS In United Kingdom

Among extremists born in United Kingdom, Guy Burgess ranks 9Before him are Harold Shipman (1946), Dennis Nilsen (1945), Peter Sutcliffe (1946), Mary Ann Cotton (1832), John Adams (1767), and Mary Bell (1957). After him are Fred West (1941), John Haigh (1909), John Christie (1899), John Bodkin Adams (1899), Jonathan Wild (1683), and Dick Turpin (1705).