PILOT

Ivan Kozhedub

1920 - 1991

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Marshal of Aviation Ivan Nikitovich Kozhedub or Ivan Mykytovych Kozhedub (Russian: Иван Hикитович Кожедуб; Ukrainian: Іван Микитович Кожедуб; 8 June 1920 – 8 August 1991) was a Soviet World War II fighter ace. Universally credited with over 60 solo victories, he is considered to be the highest scoring Soviet and Allied fighter pilot of World War II. He is one of the few pilots to have shot down a Messerschmitt Me 262 jet, and the first Soviet pilot to have done so. He was made a Hero of the Soviet Union on three occasions (4 February 1944, 19 August 1944, and 18 August 1945). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ivan Kozhedub has received more than 425,714 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Ivan Kozhedub is the 11th most popular pilot (up from 12th in 2019), the 152nd most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 126th in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Pilot.

Ivan Kozhedub is most famous for his victories in World War II. He is credited with shooting down 352 aircraft, which is the most of any Allied fighter pilot.

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Among PILOTS

Among pilots, Ivan Kozhedub ranks 11 out of 71. Before him are Hanna Reitsch, Adolf Galland, Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, Ernst Udet, Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet, and Francis Gary Powers. After him are Hermann Graf, Chesley Sullenberger, Chuck Yeager, Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi, Marina Raskova, and Joseph Kittinger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Ivan Kozhedub ranks 69. Before him are Tom of Finland, Gene Tierney, Richard Farnsworth, Isaac Stern, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, and Cornelis Johannes van Houten. After him are César Rodríguez Álvarez, Albert Barillé, Robert Whittaker, Abe Lenstra, Takashi Kano, and Arthur Hailey. Among people deceased in 1991, Ivan Kozhedub ranks 44. Before him are Leo Fender, Don Siegel, Gino Colaussi, James Irwin, Tom of Finland, and Gene Tierney. After him are Salvador Luria, Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Shapour Bakhtiar, Richard Stone, Tony Richardson, and Robert Maxwell.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Ivan Kozhedub ranks 152 out of 1,365. Before him are Isaac Stern (1920), Alfred Redl (1864), Kunigunda of Halych (1245), Jan Łukasiewicz (1878), Zinaida Serebriakova (1884), and Ida Rubinstein (1883). After him are Oleksandr Turchynov (1964), Jeremi Wiśniowiecki (1612), Catherine Dolgorukov (1847), Ewelina Hańska (1805), Konstanty Ostrogski (1460), and Valentin Glushko (1908).

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Among PILOTS In Ukraine

Among pilots born in Ukraine, Ivan Kozhedub ranks 1. After him are Janina Lewandowska (1908), Igor Volk (1937), Polina Osipenko (1907), and Natalya Meklin (1922).

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