MILITARY PERSONNEL

John Dill

1881 - 1944

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Field Marshal Sir John Greer Dill, (25 December 1881 – 4 November 1944) was a senior British Army officer with service in both the First World War and the Second World War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Dill has received more than 317,360 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. John Dill is the 1,895th most popular military personnel (down from 1,569th in 2019), the 4,463rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,264th in 2019) and the 111th most popular British Military Personnel.

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, John Dill ranks 1,895 out of 2,058. Before him are Augustin Bizimungu, Henning von Holtzendorff, Chesty Puller, Lloyd Fredendall, Brice Oligui Nguema, and Leo Tornikios. After him are Andrei Sukhovetsky, Bakht Khan, Henry Wirz, Pierre Bosquet, Razi Mousavi, and Carl Gustav Fleischer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, John Dill ranks 207. Before him are Paul Le Flem, David Hammond, Sir George Thomas, 7th Baronet, Yngvar Bryn, John Svanberg, and Thomas Lewis. After him are James Cecil Parke, Eugène Olivier, Lou Tellegen, William Z. Foster, Marion Leonard, and Polydore Veirman. Among people deceased in 1944, John Dill ranks 285. Before him are Carl Eduard Hellmayr, Juliette Atkinson, Lev Shcherba, Eoin O'Duffy, Margaret Woodrow Wilson, and Endre Steiner. After him are Katri Vala, Octav Băncilă, Toni Merkens, Divna Veković, Józef Kałuża, and Chandramukhi Basu.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Dill ranks 4,463 out of 8,785. Before him are James Quibell (1867), Frederick Rolfe (1860), Jesse Lingard (1992), Alice Eve (1982), Martin Wolf (1946), and George Coulouris (1903). After him are Steve McQueen (1969), Pauline Baynes (1922), David Mitchell (1969), Alan Ayckbourn (1939), Howard Jones (1955), and Simon Schama (1945).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, John Dill ranks 111. Before him are Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer (1857), Albert Ball (1896), John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent (1735), Andrew Scott Waugh (1810), Oliver Leese (1894), and John Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey (1885). After him are John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton (1896), Guy Simonds (1903), Arnold Jackson (1891), George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan (1800), Hubert Gough (1870), and Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy (1862).

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