MILITARY PERSONNEL

Hyman G. Rickover

1900 - 1986

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Hyman G. Rickover (January 27, 1900 – July 8, 1986) was an admiral in the United States Navy. He directed the original development of naval nuclear propulsion and controlled its operations for three decades as director of the U.S. Naval Reactors office. In addition, he oversaw the development of the Shippingport Atomic Power Station, the world's first commercial pressurized water reactor used for generating electricity. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hyman G. Rickover has received more than 1,359,319 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Hyman G. Rickover is the 1,743rd most popular military personnel (down from 1,490th in 2019), the 940th most popular biography from Poland (down from 892nd in 2019) and the 76th most popular Polish Military Personnel.

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  • 21

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  • 3.61

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Hyman G. Rickover ranks 1,743 out of 2,058. Before him are Lionel Dunsterville, Peisander, Milivoj Ašner, Gustav von Alvensleben, James Van Fleet, and Ala-ud-Din Bahman Shah. After him are Ludwig von Falkenhausen, John Kourkouas, James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, Lewis Powell, Flora Sandes, and Karl Freiherr von Müffling.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Hyman G. Rickover ranks 203. Before him are Pyotr Gavrilov, René Guillot, Marie Bell, Vladimir Tributs, Arnold Bode, and Nicolas Hoydonckx. After him are Mica Todorović, Ioannis Andreou, Ioannis Theodoropoulos, Pedro Arispe, Natalio Perinetti, and Hermann Kesten. Among people deceased in 1986, Hyman G. Rickover ranks 186. Before him are Alicia Moreau de Justo, Michal Vičan, Guillermo Eizaguirre, Floyd Gottfredson, Kunio Maekawa, and Aleksei Arbuzov. After him are Ludwig Biermann, Leif Erickson, Reinhold Münzenberg, Jacques Plante, André Tassin, and Herbert Runge.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Hyman G. Rickover ranks 940 out of 1,694. Before him are Wilhelm Hemprich (1796), Bolesław Leśmian (1877), Dariusz Wolski (1956), Duke Eugen of Württemberg (1820), Zbigniew Pietrzykowski (1934), and O. E. Hasse (1903). After him are Daniel Harrwitz (1823), Karl von Holtei (1798), Heinrich Göppert (1800), Elżbieta Krzesińska (1934), Łukasz Górnicki (1527), and Adam Asnyk (1838).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Poland

Among military personnels born in Poland, Hyman G. Rickover ranks 76. Before him are Alfred Saalwächter (1883), Michał Gedeon Radziwiłł (1778), Wilhelm Hasse (1894), August Emil Fieldorf (1895), Theodor Tolsdorff (1909), and Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff (1905). After him are Johannes Block (1894), John Shalikashvili (1936), Walter Krueger (1881), Maria Wittek (1899), and Franciszek Gągor (1951).

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