MILITARY PERSONNEL

Hephaestion

356 BC - 324 BC

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Hephaestion (Ancient Greek: Ἡφαιστίων Hēphaistíōn; c. 356 BC – October 324 BC), son of Amyntor, was an ancient Macedonian nobleman of probable "Attic or Ionian extraction" and a general in the army of Alexander the Great. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hephaestion has received more than 2,295,308 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Hephaestion is the 91st most popular military personnel (up from 97th in 2019), the 82nd most popular biography from Greece and the 8th most popular Greek Military Personnel.

Hephaestion is most famous for being Alexander the Great's closest friend and confidant.

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  • 70.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Hephaestion ranks 91 out of 2,058. Before him are Võ Nguyên Giáp, Ivan Konev, Subutai, Erich Hartmann, Hattori Hanzō, and Walther von Brauchitsch. After him are Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Nero Claudius Drusus, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Albert Kesselring, Heinrich Müller, and Bernard Montgomery.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 356 BC, Hephaestion ranks 2. Before him is Alexander the Great. After him are Nearchus, King Huiwen of Qin, and Leonnatus. Among people deceased in 324 BC, Hephaestion ranks 1. After him is Lycurgus of Athens.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Hephaestion ranks 82 out of 1,024. Before him are George II of Greece (1890), Antigonus I Monophthalmus (-382), Mikis Theodorakis (1925), Philip III of Macedon (-359), Pope Dionysius (200), and Paul of Greece (1901). After him are Mahfiruz Hatun (1590), Hippias (-443), Irene Papas (1929), Galla Placidia (388), Giorgio de Chirico (1888), and Creon (null).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Greece

Among military personnels born in Greece, Hephaestion ranks 8. Before him are Spartacus (-109), Ptolemy I Soter (-367), Themistocles (-524), Pyrrhus of Epirus (-318), Miltiades (-540), and Seleucus I Nicator (-358). After him are Cimon (-510), Pittacus of Mytilene (-650), Parmenion (-400), Mardonius (-600), Djemal Pasha (1872), and Lysander (-401).

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