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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. In 1996, he was the first recipient of the Naval War College Distinguished Graduate Leadership Award.Shalikashvili was the first, and as of 2023 only, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff not born in the United States. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Shalikashvili has received more than 442,713 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). John Shalikashvili is the 1,478th most popular military personnel (down from 1,340th in 2019), the 874th most popular biography from Poland (down from 821st in 2019) and the 66th most popular Polish Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, John Shalikashvili ranks 1,478 out of 1,468Before him are Frederick Townsend Ward, Nozu Michitsura, Timothy Laurence, Perseus, Richard O'Connor, and Nikola Ivanov. After him are Axel von dem Bussche, Lionel Dunsterville, Ivan Maslennikov, Walter Krueger, Guy Simonds, and Gaston Billotte.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, John Shalikashvili ranks 336Before him are José Torres, Karol Divín, Héctor Núñez, Aharon Barak, Evelyn Fox Keller, and Mike Spence. After him are Peter Cook, Gavriil Popov, Mary Travers, Alfredo Zitarrosa, Nikos Xilouris, and Manuel Alegre. Among people deceased in 2011, John Shalikashvili ranks 255Before him are Jean Tabary, Theodore Roszak, Luiz Bueno, Tura Satana, Nusrat Bhutto, and Andrej Bajuk. After him are Vittorio De Seta, Peter Post, Kenneth Mars, Marco Simoncelli, Abderrahmane Mahjoub, and Max van der Stoel.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, John Shalikashvili ranks 874 out of 1,454Before him are Bogdan Borusewicz (1949), Heinrich von Kittlitz (1799), Hertha Sponer (1895), Heinrich von Stephan (1831), Jan T. Gross (1947), and Fritz Laband (1925). After him are Wilhelm Hemprich (1796), Sofiya Nalepinska-Boychuk (1884), Adam Asnyk (1838), Elżbieta Krzesińska (1934), Łukasz Górnicki (1527), and Walter Krueger (1881).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Poland

Among military personnels born in Poland, John Shalikashvili ranks 66Before him are Karl Decker (1897), Kurt Feldt (1897), Hermann Boehm (1884), August Emil Fieldorf (1895), Yitzhak Sadeh (1890), and Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin (1922). After him are Walter Krueger (1881), Hyman G. Rickover (1900), and Franciszek Gągor (1951).