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Karel Doorman

1889 - 1942

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Karel Willem Frederik Marie Doorman (23 April 1889 – 28 February 1942) was a Dutch naval officer who during World War II commanded remnants of the short-lived American-British-Dutch-Australian Command naval strike forces in the Battle of the Java Sea. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karel Doorman has received more than 272,582 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Karel Doorman is the 886th most popular military personnel (down from 746th in 2019), the 319th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 270th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Dutch Military Personnel.

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  • 54.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.11

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  • 2.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Karel Doorman ranks 886 out of 1,468. Before him are Baji Rao I, Hermann Breith, Marcellin Marbot, Bruno Loerzer, Mario Terán, and Hellmuth Stieff. After him are Radko Dimitriev, Xanthippus of Carthage, Alexander Haig, Artabazos I of Phrygia, Wolfgang Lotz, and Oskar von Hutier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Karel Doorman ranks 83. Before him are Erhard Raus, Kenwa Mabuni, Reşat Nuri Güntekin, Emil Brunner, Mile Budak, and Azem Galica. After him are Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi, Thomas Midgley Jr., Maria Bochkareva, Walton Walker, Jānis K. Bērziņš, and Pierre-Étienne Flandin. Among people deceased in 1942, Karel Doorman ranks 84. Before him are Georges Politzer, Henk Sneevliet, Avraham Stern, Atsushi Nakajima, Cesare Mori, and Georg Alexander Pick. After him are Walter Sickert, Leonid Kulik, A. E. Waite, Vera Figner, Harro Schulze-Boysen, and Titus Brandsma.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Karel Doorman ranks 319 out of 1,427. Before him are Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau (1743), Mart Stam (1899), Ton Koopman (1944), Jean Malouel (1370), John Goodricke (1764), and Johanna van Gogh-Bonger (1862). After him are Isaac Beeckman (1588), Hendrik Casimir (1909), Mark van Bommel (1977), Jan Gies (1905), Karel Dujardin (1622), and Phillip Cocu (1970).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Netherlands

Among military personnels born in Netherlands, Karel Doorman ranks 5. Before him are Michiel de Ruyter (1607), Jan Pieterszoon Coen (1587), Maarten Tromp (1598), and Henri Winkelman (1876). After him are Charles II, Duke of Guelders (1467).

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