MILITARY PERSONNEL

Helmut Lent

1918 - 1944

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Helmut Lent (13 June 1918 – 7 October 1944) was a German night-fighter ace in World War II. Lent shot down 110 aircraft, 102 of them at night. Born into a devoutly religious family, he showed an early passion for glider flying; against his father's wishes, he joined the Luftwaffe in 1936. After completing his training, he was assigned to the 1. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Helmut Lent has received more than 216,537 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Helmut Lent is the 1,005th most popular military personnel (down from 858th in 2019), the 526th most popular biography from Poland (down from 449th in 2019) and the 50th most popular Polish Military Personnel.

Memorability Metrics

  • 220k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.14

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Helmut Lents by language

Over the past year Helmut Lent has had the most page views in the with 19,005 views, followed by German (14,213), and Chinese (2,891). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Persian (102.27%), Catalan (98.26%), and Finnish (30.59%)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Helmut Lent ranks 1,005 out of 2,058. Before him are Nagakura Shinpachi, Paddy Roy Bates, Quintus Titurius Sabinus, Semyon Bogdanov, Tomoji Tanabe, and Eugen Ritter von Schobert. After him are Ivan Yefimovich Petrov, Carl Brashear, George Rooke, Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, Martin Gottfried Weiss, and Theodor Wisch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Helmut Lent ranks 110. Before him are Ian Stevenson, Joseph Wiseman, Aldo van Eyck, Borys Paton, Arthur Chung, and George Lincoln Rockwell. After him are Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV, Robert Walker, Bobby Riggs, Raimon Panikkar, Adolfo Pedernera, and Willi Graf. Among people deceased in 1944, Helmut Lent ranks 135. Before him are Hellmuth Stieff, Israel Joshua Singer, Heinz Brandt, Kosta Pećanac, Fritz Witt, and Alime Abdenanova. After him are Charles Diehl, J. Walter Christie, Riccardo Zandonai, Joseph Caillaux, Noor Inayat Khan, and Paul Hazard.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Helmut Lent ranks 526 out of 1,694. Before him are Jack Tramiel (1928), Gustav Flatow (1875), Bronisław Huberman (1882), Nikita Ivanovich Panin (1718), George Adamski (1891), and Stefan Żeromski (1864). After him are Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser (1855), John Albert Vasa (1612), Wanda Wasilewska (1905), Bolesław II the Horned (1217), Count Kasimir Felix Badeni (1846), and Klaus Roth (1925).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Poland

Among military personnels born in Poland, Helmut Lent ranks 50. Before him are Zygmunt Berling (1896), Friedrich Graf von Wrangel (1784), Walther von Lüttwitz (1859), Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufmann (1818), Hellmuth Stieff (1901), and Georg von der Marwitz (1856). After him are Oskar Kummetz (1891), Tadeusz Kutrzeba (1885), Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov (1793), Otto Lasch (1893), Aleksander Zawadzki (1899), and Karl Decker (1897).

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