MILITARY PERSONNEL

John Shalikashvili

1936 - 2011

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John Malchase David Shalikashvili (Georgian: ჯონ მალხაზ დავით შალიკაშვილი, romanized: jon malkhaz davit shalik'ashvili, IPA: [ʃalikʼaʃʷili]; June 27, 1936 – July 23, 2011) was a United States Army general who served as Supreme Allied Commander Europe from 1992 to 1993 and the 13th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1993 to 1997. He was born in Warsaw, Poland, in the family of émigré Georgian officer Dimitri Shalikashvili and his Polish wife Maria Rüdiger-Belyaeva. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Shalikashvili has received more than 484,457 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. John Shalikashvili is the 1,771st most popular military personnel (down from 1,476th in 2019), the 981st most popular biography from Poland (down from 874th in 2019) and the 78th most popular Polish Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, John Shalikashvili ranks 1,771 out of 2,058Before him are John Byng, Boston Corbett, Johannes Block, James Jesus Angleton, Eddie Chapman, and Ruben Lagus. After him are Bazilio Olara-Okello, Paul von Plehwe, John Pope, Gustaf Dyrssen, Richard Bong, and Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, John Shalikashvili ranks 364Before him are Gerald Guralnik, Michał Heller, Vladimir Maslachenko, James Jamerson, Med Hondo, and Larry Cohen. After him are Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud, John P. Ryan, James Lee Burke, Hans Zender, Georg Sterzinsky, and Nikos Xilouris. Among people deceased in 2011, John Shalikashvili ranks 299Before him are Mamoni Raisom Goswami, Michael Sarrazin, Bert Jansch, Mark Blaug, Stig Sundqvist, and Robert Ettinger. After him are Aleksandar Petaković, Finn Helgesen, Vittorio De Seta, Andrej Bajuk, Mario Echandi Jiménez, and Daniel Quillen.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, John Shalikashvili ranks 981 out of 1,694Before him are Sam Spiegel (1901), Janusz Kamiński (1959), Jerzy Gorgoń (1949), Jan Andrzej Morsztyn (1621), Johannes Block (1894), and Joseph Schröter (1837). After him are Karol Kurpiński (1785), Antoni Piechniczek (1942), Danuta Wałęsa (1949), Paweł Mąciwoda (1967), Łukasz Piszczek (1985), and Adalbert Krueger (1832).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Poland

Among military personnels born in Poland, John Shalikashvili ranks 78Before him are Wilhelm Hasse (1894), August Emil Fieldorf (1895), Theodor Tolsdorff (1909), Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff (1905), Hyman G. Rickover (1900), and Johannes Block (1894). After him are Walter Krueger (1881), Maria Wittek (1899), and Franciszek Gągor (1951).