MILITARY PERSONNEL

J. F. C. Fuller

1878 - 1966

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Major-General John Frederick Charles "Boney" Fuller (1 September 1878 – 10 February 1966) was a senior British Army officer, military historian, and strategist, known as an early theorist of modern armoured warfare, including categorising principles of warfare. With 45 books and many articles, he was a highly prolific author whose ideas reached army officers and the interested public. He explored the business of fighting, in terms of the relationship between warfare and social, political, and economic factors in the civilian sector. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of J. F. C. Fuller has received more than 435,913 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. J. F. C. Fuller is the 1,268th most popular military personnel (down from 977th in 2019), the 2,162nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,812th in 2019) and the 56th most popular British Military Personnel.

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  • 2.72

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, J. F. C. Fuller ranks 1,268 out of 2,058. Before him are Antonio Luna, Vitalian, Movses Silikyan, Illus, Claude Choules, and Orde Wingate. After him are Josef Kammhuber, Abdul Haris Nasution, Max Wünsche, Johann Peter Beaulieu, Máximo Gómez, and Attaces.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, J. F. C. Fuller ranks 109. Before him are Michel Théato, Anna Demidova, Egon Friedell, Carl Sandburg, Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova, and Myer Prinstein. After him are Clara Westhoff, Ioannis Rallis, Karl Buresch, Walther Ritz, Takeo Arishima, and Louis Marcoussis. Among people deceased in 1966, J. F. C. Fuller ranks 103. Before him are Otto von Knobelsdorff, Alfred Neuland, Stanisław Mikołajczyk, Guillermo Gorostiza, Fritz Bleyl, and Sutan Sjahrir. After him are Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Felix von Luckner, Gaspar Cassadó, Lenny Bruce, Vicente Rojo Lluch, and Natacha Rambova.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, J. F. C. Fuller ranks 2,162 out of 8,785. Before him are Maryam d'Abo (1960), Steve Jones (1955), Charles Kingsley (1819), Thomas Otway (1652), Claude Choules (1901), and Anthony Jenkinson (1529). After him are Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone (1874), William Kingdon Clifford (1845), Angela Carter (1940), Robert Burton (1577), Naomie Harris (1976), and Nevil Maskelyne (1732).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, J. F. C. Fuller ranks 56. Before him are Claude Auchinleck (1884), Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder (1890), Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg (1889), Ronald Speirs (1920), David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty (1871), and Claude Choules (1901). After him are John Paul Jones (1747), Gregor MacGregor (1786), David Stirling (1915), Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside (1880), Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet (1772), and Sidney Smith (1764).

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