1920 - 2012
John Demjanjuk (born Ivan Mykolaiovych Demjanjuk; Ukrainian: Іван Миколайович Дем'янюк; 3 April 1920 – 17 March 2012) was a Ukrainian-American who served as a Trawniki man and Nazi camp guard at Sobibor extermination camp, Majdanek, and Flossenbürg. Demjanjuk became the center of global media attention in the 1980s, when he was tried and convicted in Israel after being misidentified as "Ivan the Terrible", a notoriously cruel watchman at Treblinka extermination camp. In 1993 the verdict was overturned. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Demjanjuk has received more than 6,197,454 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). John Demjanjuk is the 238th most popular military personnel (down from 20th in 2019), the 62nd most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 58th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Ukrainian Military Personnel.
John Demjanjuk is most famous for being falsely accused of being the Nazi death camp guard known as "Ivan the Terrible."
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Among military personnels, John Demjanjuk ranks 238 out of 1,468. Before him are Henning von Tresckow, Hasso von Manteuffel, Erwin von Witzleben, Gaius Claudius Glaber, Vasily Stalin, and Sejanus. After him are Tōgō Heihachirō, Kurt Meyer, Jean-Baptiste Kléber, Erich Hoepner, Hans von Seeckt, and Muhammad bin Qasim.
1901 - 1944
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 232
1897 - 1978
HPI: 65.52
Rank: 233
1881 - 1944
HPI: 65.49
Rank: 234
200 BC - 100 BC
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 235
1921 - 1962
HPI: 65.40
Rank: 236
20 BC - 31
HPI: 65.40
Rank: 237
1920 - 2012
HPI: 65.37
Rank: 238
1848 - 1934
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 239
1910 - 1961
HPI: 65.26
Rank: 240
1753 - 1800
HPI: 65.24
Rank: 241
1886 - 1944
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 242
1866 - 1936
HPI: 65.20
Rank: 243
695 - 715
HPI: 65.08
Rank: 244
Among people born in 1920, John Demjanjuk ranks 28. Before him are Montgomery Clift, Boris Vian, Owen Chamberlain, Richard von Weizsäcker, Walter Matthau, and Helmut Newton. After him are Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Ravi Shankar, Douglass North, Nicolaas Bloembergen, François Jacob, and Clarice Lispector. Among people deceased in 2012, John Demjanjuk ranks 20. Before him are Rita Levi-Montalcini, Yitzhak Shamir, Ernest Borgnine, Sylvia Kristel, Elinor Ostrom, and Robin Gibb. After him are Tony Scott, Roger Garaudy, Donna Summer, Ravi Shankar, Jean Giraud, and Sven Hassel.
1920 - 1966
HPI: 67.37
Rank: 22
1920 - 1959
HPI: 66.78
Rank: 23
1920 - 2006
HPI: 66.47
Rank: 24
1920 - 2015
HPI: 66.12
Rank: 25
1920 - 2000
HPI: 65.67
Rank: 26
1920 - 2004
HPI: 65.55
Rank: 27
1920 - 2012
HPI: 65.37
Rank: 28
1920 - 1975
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 29
1920 - 2012
HPI: 64.85
Rank: 30
1920 - 2015
HPI: 64.82
Rank: 31
1920 - 2017
HPI: 64.81
Rank: 32
1920 - 2013
HPI: 64.61
Rank: 33
1920 - 1977
HPI: 63.99
Rank: 34
1909 - 2012
HPI: 67.46
Rank: 14
1915 - 2012
HPI: 67.31
Rank: 15
1917 - 2012
HPI: 66.77
Rank: 16
1952 - 2012
HPI: 66.49
Rank: 17
1933 - 2012
HPI: 66.43
Rank: 18
1949 - 2012
HPI: 65.47
Rank: 19
1920 - 2012
HPI: 65.37
Rank: 20
1944 - 2012
HPI: 65.19
Rank: 21
1913 - 2012
HPI: 65.14
Rank: 22
1948 - 2012
HPI: 65.08
Rank: 23
1920 - 2012
HPI: 64.85
Rank: 24
1938 - 2012
HPI: 64.83
Rank: 25
1917 - 2012
HPI: 64.23
Rank: 26
Among people born in Ukraine, John Demjanjuk ranks 62 out of 1,083. Before him are Levi Eshkol (1895), Lesya Ukrainka (1871), Andrey Vyshinsky (1883), Nikolai Podgorny (1903), Selman Waksman (1888), and Daniel of Galicia (1201). After him are Andrzej Żuławski (1940), Isaac Babel (1894), Moshe Sharett (1894), Irène Némirovsky (1903), Larisa Latynina (1934), and Valeriy Lobanovskyi (1939).
1895 - 1969
HPI: 66.14
Rank: 56
1871 - 1913
HPI: 66.00
Rank: 57
1883 - 1954
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 58
1903 - 1983
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 59
1888 - 1973
HPI: 65.64
Rank: 60
1201 - 1264
HPI: 65.55
Rank: 61
1920 - 2012
HPI: 65.37
Rank: 62
1940 - 2016
HPI: 65.36
Rank: 63
1894 - 1940
HPI: 65.34
Rank: 64
1894 - 1965
HPI: 65.28
Rank: 65
1903 - 1942
HPI: 65.17
Rank: 66
1934 - Present
HPI: 65.15
Rank: 67
1939 - 2002
HPI: 65.10
Rank: 68
Among military personnels born in Ukraine, John Demjanjuk ranks 4. Before him are Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1595), Lyudmila Pavlichenko (1916), and Nestor Makhno (1888). After him are Andrey Yeryomenko (1892), Ivan Paskevich (1782), Alexander Samsonov (1859), Roman Shukhevych (1907), Mikhail Kirponos (1892), Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski (1895), Alfred Redl (1864), and Grigory Kulik (1890).
1595 - 1657
HPI: 72.90
Rank: 1
1916 - 1974
HPI: 71.38
Rank: 2
1888 - 1934
HPI: 69.68
Rank: 3
1920 - 2012
HPI: 65.37
Rank: 4
1892 - 1970
HPI: 64.76
Rank: 5
1782 - 1856
HPI: 62.77
Rank: 6
1859 - 1914
HPI: 61.81
Rank: 7
1907 - 1950
HPI: 61.42
Rank: 8
1892 - 1941
HPI: 60.65
Rank: 9
1895 - 1966
HPI: 60.14
Rank: 10
1864 - 1913
HPI: 60.03
Rank: 11
1890 - 1950
HPI: 59.37
Rank: 12