1928 - 2021
Ion Mihai Pacepa (Romanian pronunciation: [iˈon miˈhaj paˈt͡ʃepa]; 28 October 1928 – 14 February 2021) was a Romanian lieutenant general in the Securitate, the secret police of the Socialist Republic of Romania, who defected to the United States in July 1978 following President Jimmy Carter's approval of his request for political asylum. He was the highest-ranking defector from the former Eastern Bloc, and wrote books and articles on the inner workings of communist intelligence services. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ion Mihai Pacepa has received more than 474,960 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Ion Mihai Pacepa is the 509th most popular military personnel (up from 628th in 2019), the 81st most popular biography from Romania (up from 97th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Romanian Military Personnel.
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Among military personnels, Ion Mihai Pacepa ranks 509 out of 1,468. Before him are Duško Popov, Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, Andreas Hofer, Tamon Yamaguchi, Harold Lowe, and Husein Gradaščević. After him are Yu Jin, Max Hoffmann, Gongsun Zan, Kenji Doihara, Theodor Busse, and Fyodor Ushakov.
1912 - 1981
HPI: 59.47
Rank: 503
1911 - 1986
HPI: 59.46
Rank: 504
1767 - 1810
HPI: 59.46
Rank: 505
1892 - 1942
HPI: 59.44
Rank: 506
1882 - 1944
HPI: 59.44
Rank: 507
1802 - 1834
HPI: 59.43
Rank: 508
1928 - 2021
HPI: 59.41
Rank: 509
200 - 221
HPI: 59.41
Rank: 510
1869 - 1927
HPI: 59.41
Rank: 511
HPI: 59.40
Rank: 512
1883 - 1948
HPI: 59.40
Rank: 513
1897 - 1986
HPI: 59.37
Rank: 514
1745 - 1817
HPI: 59.37
Rank: 515
Among people born in 1928, Ion Mihai Pacepa ranks 88. Before him are Desmond Morris, Wolfgang von Trips, Marco Ferreri, Gene Sharp, Gaston Thorn, and Patrick McGoohan. After him are Fats Domino, James Earl Ray, Musa al-Sadr, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Cy Twombly, and Hans Modrow. Among people deceased in 2021, Ion Mihai Pacepa ranks 92. Before him are Antony Hewish, Mamnoon Hussain, Milva, Yuriy Sedykh, José Freire Falcão, and Hannu Mikkola. After him are Clive Sinclair, Jorge Medina, Max Mosley, Viktor Bryukhanov, Alexandre José Maria dos Santos, and Lamine Diack.
1928 - Present
HPI: 59.68
Rank: 82
1928 - 1961
HPI: 59.66
Rank: 83
1928 - 1997
HPI: 59.60
Rank: 84
1928 - 2018
HPI: 59.58
Rank: 85
1928 - 2007
HPI: 59.53
Rank: 86
1928 - 2009
HPI: 59.48
Rank: 87
1928 - 2021
HPI: 59.41
Rank: 88
1928 - 2017
HPI: 59.28
Rank: 89
1928 - 1998
HPI: 59.14
Rank: 90
1928 - 1978
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 91
1928 - 2021
HPI: 59.08
Rank: 92
1928 - 2011
HPI: 58.98
Rank: 93
1928 - 2023
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 94
1924 - 2021
HPI: 60.00
Rank: 86
1940 - 2021
HPI: 59.93
Rank: 87
1939 - 2021
HPI: 59.90
Rank: 88
1955 - 2021
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 89
1925 - 2021
HPI: 59.48
Rank: 90
1942 - 2021
HPI: 59.45
Rank: 91
1928 - 2021
HPI: 59.41
Rank: 92
1940 - 2021
HPI: 59.38
Rank: 93
1926 - 2021
HPI: 59.33
Rank: 94
1940 - 2021
HPI: 59.31
Rank: 95
1935 - 2021
HPI: 59.25
Rank: 96
1924 - 2021
HPI: 59.24
Rank: 97
1933 - 2021
HPI: 59.18
Rank: 98
Among people born in Romania, Ion Mihai Pacepa ranks 81 out of 665. Before him are Ștefan Kovács (1920), Princess Ileana of Romania (1909), Chivu Stoica (1908), Petru Groza (1884), Peter Mogila (1596), and Iolanda Balaș (1936). After him are Petru Rareș (1487), Valentin Ceaușescu (1948), Ion Țiriac (1939), Nicu Ceaușescu (1951), Vladimir Cosma (1940), and Olga Szabó-Orbán (1938).
1920 - 1995
HPI: 60.14
Rank: 75
1909 - 1991
HPI: 60.10
Rank: 76
1908 - 1975
HPI: 60.05
Rank: 77
1884 - 1958
HPI: 59.77
Rank: 78
1596 - 1647
HPI: 59.57
Rank: 79
1936 - 2016
HPI: 59.46
Rank: 80
1928 - 2021
HPI: 59.41
Rank: 81
1487 - 1546
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 82
1948 - Present
HPI: 58.97
Rank: 83
1939 - Present
HPI: 58.91
Rank: 84
1951 - 1996
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 85
1940 - Present
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 86
1938 - 2022
HPI: 58.81
Rank: 87
Among military personnels born in Romania, Ion Mihai Pacepa ranks 3. Before him are Alexander Löhr (1885) and Petre Dumitrescu (1882). After him are Artur Phleps (1881), Ecaterina Teodoroiu (1894), Arthur Arz von Straußenburg (1857), Constantin Prezan (1861), Franz Rohr von Denta (1854), Hermann Kusmanek von Burgneustädten (1860), Michael von Melas (1729), and Constantin Constantinescu-Claps (1884).
1885 - 1947
HPI: 63.23
Rank: 1
1882 - 1950
HPI: 60.59
Rank: 2
1928 - 2021
HPI: 59.41
Rank: 3
1881 - 1944
HPI: 57.79
Rank: 4
1894 - 1917
HPI: 54.56
Rank: 5
1857 - 1935
HPI: 53.81
Rank: 6
1861 - 1943
HPI: 53.39
Rank: 7
1854 - 1927
HPI: 52.09
Rank: 8
1860 - 1934
HPI: 51.78
Rank: 9
1729 - 1806
HPI: 51.74
Rank: 10
1884 - 1961
HPI: 51.12
Rank: 11