MILITARY PERSONNEL

James Joseph Dresnok

1941 - 2016

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James Joseph Dresnok (Korean: 제임스 조새프 드레스녹, November 24, 1941 – November 2016) was an American defector to North Korea, one of seven U.S. soldiers to defect after the Korean War. After defecting, Dresnok worked as an actor in propaganda films, some directed by Kim Jong Il, and as an English teacher in Pyongyang. He was featured on the CBS magazine program 60 Minutes on January 28, 2007, as the last U.S. defector alive in North Korea. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Joseph Dresnok has received more than 1,915,596 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). James Joseph Dresnok is the 1,711th most popular military personnel (down from 1,530th in 2019), the 5,934th most popular biography from United States (up from 7,083rd in 2019) and the 104th most popular American Military Personnel.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of James Joseph Dresnoks by language

Over the past year James Joseph Dresnok has had the most page views in the with 274,609 views, followed by Japanese (17,426), and German (13,083). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (275.93%), German (167.77%), and Polish (150.23%)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, James Joseph Dresnok ranks 1,711 out of 2,058. Before her are Ivan Maslennikov, Gérard Leman, Tolmides, Charles Lee, Alfred Keller, and Felix Graf von Bothmer. After her are Peter Cosgrove, Kiichiro Higuchi, Sefer Halilović, Juan Aldama, Guo Boxiong, and Mikhail Mizintsev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, James Joseph Dresnok ranks 371. Before her are Ikuo Matsumoto, Roy Harper, Christine Delphy, Robert Pine, John Steiner, and G. A. Cohen. After her are Eberhard Diepgen, Gérard Corbiau, John Thomas, Kurt Raab, Jesús Moncada, and Jean Dockx. Among people deceased in 2016, James Joseph Dresnok ranks 292. Before her are Fritz Stern, Georges Balandier, Akhtar Mansour, Pierre Aubert, Prince Buster, and Nina Ponomaryova. After her are Alexander Esenin-Volpin, Lúcio Lara, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz, José Parra Martínez, Muhamed Mujić, and Doreen Massey.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James Joseph Dresnok ranks 5,934 out of 20,380. Before her are Ned Block (1942), Colleen Camp (1953), George O. Abell (1927), Lou Rawls (1933), John du Pont (1938), and Shawn Michaels (1965). After her are Edward Douglass White (1845), Jonelle Allen (1944), David Keith (1954), Mark Cuban (1958), Jerry Sloan (1942), and Simon Bolivar Buckner (1823).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, James Joseph Dresnok ranks 104. Before her are J. Lawton Collins (1896), Hal Moore (1922), Mickey Marcus (1901), Nelson A. Miles (1839), Arthur MacArthur Jr. (1845), and George Pickett (1825). After her are James Van Fleet (1892), Lewis Powell (1844), Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806), Jonathan M. Wainwright (1883), James Jesus Angleton (1917), and John Pope (1822).

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