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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Hephaestion

356 BC - 324 BC

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Hephaestion (Ancient Greek: Ἡφαιστίων Hephaistíon; 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 2,156,918 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Hephaestion is the 97th most popular military personnel (down from 92nd in 2019), the 82nd most popular biography from Greece (down from 78th in 2019) 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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  • 70.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Hephaestion ranks 97 out of 1,468Before him are Subutai, Robert E. Lee, Albert Kesselring, John of Austria, Desmond Doss, and Konstantin Rokossovsky. After him are Hermann Hoth, Heinrich Müller, Vasily Chuikov, Võ Nguyên Giáp, Robert Peary, and Ubba.

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Contemporaries

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

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Hephaestion ranks 82 out of 936Before him are Ptolemy III Euergetes (-284), Alcaeus of Mytilene (-620), Paul of Greece (1901), Pope Dionysius (200), Hippias (-443), and Galla Placidia (388). After him are Archilochus (-680), Giorgio de Chirico (1888), Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (1882), Antigonus I Monophthalmus (-382), Aristides (-550), and Simonides of Ceos (-556).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Greece

Among military personnels born in Greece, Hephaestion ranks 8Before him are Spartacus (-109), Themistocles (-524), Ptolemy I Soter (-367), Pyrrhus of Epirus (-318), Miltiades (-540), and Seleucus I Nicator (-358). After him are Cimon (-510), Mardonius (-600), Djemal Pasha (1872), Parmenion (-400), Pausanias (null), and Craterus (-370).