MILITARY PERSONNEL

John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough

1650 - 1722

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General John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, 1st Prince of Mindelheim, 1st Count of Nellenburg, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, (26 May 1650 – 16 June 1722 O.S.) was an English soldier and statesman. From a gentry family, he served as a page at the court of the House of Stuart under James, Duke of York, through the 1670s and early 1680s, earning military and political advancement through his courage and diplomatic skill. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough has received more than 2,714,708 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough is the 181st most popular military personnel (up from 212th in 2019), the 342nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 401st in 2019) and the 8th most popular British Military Personnel.

John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, is most famous for his military career as a general in the British Army. He served in the Nine Years' War, the War of the Spanish Succession, and the War of the Quadruple Alliance.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough ranks 181 out of 2,058. Before him are Jean-de-Dieu Soult, Akechi Mitsuhide, Michiel de Ruyter, Hans Krebs, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, and Khalifa Haftar. After him are Parmenion, Felix Steiner, Mardonius, Josip Jelačić, Mikhail Frunze, and Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1650, John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough ranks 2. Before him is William III of England. After him are Thomas Savery, Ahmad Khani, Jean Bart, Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel, Giovanni Battista Bassani, Frederick Casimir Kettler, Vincenzo Coronelli, Joachim Neander, Robert de Visée, and George Rooke. Among people deceased in 1722, John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough ranks 3. Before him are Kangxi Emperor, and Elizabeth Charlotte, Madame Palatine. After him are Bartholomew Roberts, John Toland, Johann Adam Reincken, Johann Kuhnau, Pierre Varignon, Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld, Marie Anne de La Trémoille, princesse des Ursins, Éléonore Desmier d'Olbreuse, and Claude Gillot.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough ranks 342 out of 8,785. Before him are Norman Haworth (1883), Margaret Tudor (1489), Ecgberht, King of Wessex (800), Ian McShane (1942), William Baffin (1584), and Benjamin Britten (1913). After him are David Beckham (1975), Malcolm McDowell (1943), Chaim Herzog (1918), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828), William Henry Bragg (1862), and G. K. Chesterton (1874).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough ranks 8. Before him are Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857), Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (1758), T. E. Lawrence (1888), Edward Smith (1850), Bernard Montgomery (1887), and Alexander Selkirk (1676). After him are Gertrude Bell (1868), Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (1861), Rudolf Abel (1903), James Paul Moody (1887), John Franklin (1786), and Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738).

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