1912 - 1988
Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby (1 January 1912 – 11 May 1988) was a British intelligence officer and a double agent for the Soviet Union. In 1963 he was revealed to be a member of the Cambridge Five, a spy ring which had divulged British secrets to the Soviets during World War II and in the early stages of the Cold War. Of the five, Philby is believed to have been most successful in providing secret information to the Soviets.Born in British India, Philby was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kim Philby has received more than 3,861,746 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia. Kim Philby is the 218th most popular military personnel (up from 363rd in 2019), the 62nd most popular biography from India (up from 96th in 2019) and the most popular Indian Military Personnel.
Kim Philby was a British intelligence officer who was a member of the Cambridge Five spy ring. He was a double agent for the Soviet Union and is most famous for his espionage work.
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Among military personnels, Kim Philby ranks 218 out of 1,468. Before him are Pedro de Valdivia, Nikolai Vatutin, Kurt Student, Han Xin, Otto Carius, and Bai Qi. After him are Karl-Otto Koch, Pausanias, Emmanuel de Grouchy, marquis de Grouchy, Craterus, Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Viscount of Turenne, and Otto Günsche.
1497 - 1553
HPI: 65.90
Rank: 212
1901 - 1944
HPI: 65.90
Rank: 213
1890 - 1978
HPI: 65.84
Rank: 214
231 BC - 196 BC
HPI: 65.83
Rank: 215
1922 - 2015
HPI: 65.82
Rank: 216
250 BC - 257 BC
HPI: 65.71
Rank: 217
1912 - 1988
HPI: 65.70
Rank: 218
1897 - 1945
HPI: 65.68
Rank: 219
HPI: 65.65
Rank: 220
1766 - 1847
HPI: 65.64
Rank: 221
370 BC - 321 BC
HPI: 65.62
Rank: 222
1611 - 1675
HPI: 65.59
Rank: 223
1917 - 2003
HPI: 65.58
Rank: 224
Among people born in 1912, Kim Philby ranks 25. Before him are Khalid of Saudi Arabia, Chuck Jones, Adolf Galland, Millvina Dean, Hanna Reitsch, and Gene Kelly. After him are James Callaghan, Konrad Emil Bloch, Robert Doisneau, Maria Mandl, Alois Brunner, and Pierre Boulle. Among people deceased in 1988, Kim Philby ranks 13. Before him are Chet Baker, Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Robert A. Heinlein, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Nikolaas Tinbergen, and Chiang Ching-kuo. After him are Roy Orbison, Raymond Carver, Juan Pujol García, Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad, Virginia Satir, and Gert Fröbe.
1912 - 1982
HPI: 68.28
Rank: 19
1912 - 2002
HPI: 66.66
Rank: 20
1912 - 1996
HPI: 66.15
Rank: 21
1912 - 2009
HPI: 66.06
Rank: 22
1912 - 1979
HPI: 65.87
Rank: 23
1912 - 1996
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 24
1912 - 1988
HPI: 65.70
Rank: 25
1912 - 2005
HPI: 65.18
Rank: 26
1912 - 2000
HPI: 65.04
Rank: 27
1912 - 1994
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 28
1912 - 1948
HPI: 64.74
Rank: 29
1912 - 2010
HPI: 64.43
Rank: 30
1912 - 1994
HPI: 64.02
Rank: 31
1929 - 1988
HPI: 68.21
Rank: 7
1904 - 1988
HPI: 67.61
Rank: 8
1907 - 1988
HPI: 66.60
Rank: 9
1898 - 1988
HPI: 66.32
Rank: 10
1907 - 1988
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 11
1910 - 1988
HPI: 65.90
Rank: 12
1912 - 1988
HPI: 65.70
Rank: 13
1936 - 1988
HPI: 64.39
Rank: 14
1938 - 1988
HPI: 63.40
Rank: 15
1912 - 1988
HPI: 63.24
Rank: 16
1927 - 1988
HPI: 63.18
Rank: 17
1916 - 1988
HPI: 62.64
Rank: 18
1913 - 1988
HPI: 62.36
Rank: 19
Among people born in India, Kim Philby ranks 62 out of 1,493. Before him are Vallabhbhai Patel (1875), Savitribai Phule (1831), Salman Khan (1965), Vyasa (-390), Premchand (1880), and Aśvaghoṣa (80). After him are Ronald Ross (1857), Satyajit Ray (1921), Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904), Ram Mohan Roy (1772), Kasturba Gandhi (1869), and Ghalib (1797).
1875 - 1950
HPI: 66.81
Rank: 56
1831 - 1897
HPI: 66.77
Rank: 57
1965 - Present
HPI: 66.53
Rank: 58
390 BC - 310 BC
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 59
1880 - 1936
HPI: 65.90
Rank: 60
80 - 150
HPI: 65.75
Rank: 61
1912 - 1988
HPI: 65.70
Rank: 62
1857 - 1932
HPI: 65.63
Rank: 63
1921 - 1992
HPI: 65.52
Rank: 64
1904 - 1966
HPI: 65.45
Rank: 65
1772 - 1833
HPI: 65.33
Rank: 66
1869 - 1944
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 67
1797 - 1869
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 68
Among military personnels born in India, Kim Philby ranks 1. After him are Baji Rao I (1700), Tatya Tope (1814), Rash Behari Bose (1886), Mad Mike Hoare (1919), Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts (1832), Orde Wingate (1903), Bipin Rawat (1958), John Frost (1912), Sam Manekshaw (1914), John Hunt, Baron Hunt (1910), and Kenneth Anderson (1891).
1912 - 1988
HPI: 65.70
Rank: 1
1700 - 1740
HPI: 54.88
Rank: 2
1814 - 1859
HPI: 54.29
Rank: 3
1886 - 1945
HPI: 53.01
Rank: 4
1919 - 2020
HPI: 52.72
Rank: 5
1832 - 1914
HPI: 51.46
Rank: 6
1903 - 1944
HPI: 50.59
Rank: 7
1958 - 2021
HPI: 48.67
Rank: 8
1912 - 1993
HPI: 47.64
Rank: 9
1914 - 2008
HPI: 43.48
Rank: 10
1910 - 1998
HPI: 42.64
Rank: 11
1891 - 1959
HPI: 40.63
Rank: 12