1936 - 2011
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, John Shalikashvili ranks 1,478 out of 1,468. Before 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.
1831 - 1862
HPI: 47.59
Rank: 1,472
1840 - 1908
HPI: 47.59
Rank: 1,473
1955 - Present
HPI: 47.49
Rank: 1,474
HPI: 47.46
Rank: 1,475
1889 - 1981
HPI: 47.44
Rank: 1,476
1861 - 1940
HPI: 47.35
Rank: 1,477
1936 - 2011
HPI: 47.29
Rank: 1,478
1919 - 1993
HPI: 47.29
Rank: 1,479
1865 - 1946
HPI: 47.29
Rank: 1,480
1900 - 1954
HPI: 47.23
Rank: 1,481
1881 - 1967
HPI: 47.22
Rank: 1,482
1903 - 1974
HPI: 47.21
Rank: 1,483
1875 - 1940
HPI: 47.18
Rank: 1,484
Among people born in 1936, John Shalikashvili ranks 336. Before 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 255. Before 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.
1936 - 2009
HPI: 47.71
Rank: 330
1936 - 2022
HPI: 47.69
Rank: 331
1936 - 2011
HPI: 47.62
Rank: 332
1936 - Present
HPI: 47.62
Rank: 333
1936 - 2023
HPI: 47.35
Rank: 334
1936 - 1968
HPI: 47.34
Rank: 335
1936 - 2011
HPI: 47.29
Rank: 336
1936 - Present
HPI: 47.27
Rank: 337
1936 - Present
HPI: 47.22
Rank: 338
1936 - 2009
HPI: 47.20
Rank: 339
1936 - 1989
HPI: 47.17
Rank: 340
1936 - 1980
HPI: 47.16
Rank: 341
1936 - Present
HPI: 46.99
Rank: 342
1930 - 2011
HPI: 47.56
Rank: 249
1933 - 2011
HPI: 47.42
Rank: 250
1937 - 2011
HPI: 47.39
Rank: 251
1938 - 2011
HPI: 47.36
Rank: 252
1929 - 2011
HPI: 47.35
Rank: 253
1943 - 2011
HPI: 47.33
Rank: 254
1936 - 2011
HPI: 47.29
Rank: 255
1923 - 2011
HPI: 47.22
Rank: 256
1933 - 2011
HPI: 47.16
Rank: 257
1935 - 2011
HPI: 47.16
Rank: 258
1987 - 2011
HPI: 47.16
Rank: 259
1929 - 2011
HPI: 47.11
Rank: 260
1924 - 2011
HPI: 47.07
Rank: 261
Among people born in Poland, John Shalikashvili ranks 874 out of 1,454. Before 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).
1949 - Present
HPI: 47.47
Rank: 868
1799 - 1874
HPI: 47.43
Rank: 869
1895 - 1968
HPI: 47.39
Rank: 870
1831 - 1897
HPI: 47.36
Rank: 871
1947 - Present
HPI: 47.36
Rank: 872
1925 - 1982
HPI: 47.35
Rank: 873
1936 - 2011
HPI: 47.29
Rank: 874
1796 - 1825
HPI: 47.29
Rank: 875
1884 - 1937
HPI: 47.28
Rank: 876
1838 - 1897
HPI: 47.27
Rank: 877
1934 - 2015
HPI: 47.24
Rank: 878
1527 - 1603
HPI: 47.23
Rank: 879
1881 - 1967
HPI: 47.22
Rank: 880
Among military personnels born in Poland, John Shalikashvili ranks 66. Before 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).
1897 - 1945
HPI: 50.74
Rank: 60
1897 - 1970
HPI: 50.26
Rank: 61
1884 - 1972
HPI: 49.46
Rank: 62
1895 - 1953
HPI: 49.15
Rank: 63
1890 - 1952
HPI: 49.11
Rank: 64
1922 - 2013
HPI: 48.50
Rank: 65
1936 - 2011
HPI: 47.29
Rank: 66
1881 - 1967
HPI: 47.22
Rank: 67
1900 - 1986
HPI: 47.01
Rank: 68
1951 - 2010
HPI: 41.10
Rank: 69