MILITARY PERSONNEL

Lü Bu

161 - 199

Lü Bu

Lü Bu (pronunciation ) (Son of the people) (died 7 February 199), courtesy name Fengxian, was a military general and warlord who lived during the late Eastern Han dynasty of Imperial China. Originally a subordinate of a minor warlord Ding Yuan, he betrayed and murdered Ding Yuan and defected to Dong Zhuo, the warlord who controlled the Han central government in the early 190s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lü Bu has received more than 1,745,787 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Lü Bu is the 52nd most popular military personnel (up from 57th in 2019), the 37th most popular biography from China (up from 40th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Chinese Military Personnel.

Lü Bu is most famous for being a general in the Three Kingdoms period of China. He was an important figure in the events leading up to the end of the Han Dynasty and the fall of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

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1.7M
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79.26
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
27
Languages Editions (L)
7.55
Effective Languages (L*)
2.00
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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Lü Bu ranks 52 out of 1,466. Before him are Vasily Zaitsev, Germanicus, Belisarius, Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, Miltiades, and Erich Ludendorff. After him are Charles XIV John of Sweden, Otto Skorzeny, Bernard Montgomery, Fedor von Bock, Walter Model, and Albrecht von Wallenstein.

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1915 - 1991
HPI: 79.95
Rank: 46
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15 BC - 19
HPI: 79.76
Rank: 47
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505 - 565
HPI: 79.63
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Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
1857 - 1941
HPI: 79.60
Rank: 49
Miltiades
540 BC - 488 BC
HPI: 79.55
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Erich Ludendorff
1865 - 1937
HPI: 79.38
Rank: 51
Lü Bu
161 - 199
HPI: 79.26
Rank: 52
Charles XIV John of Sweden
1763 - 1844
HPI: 79.18
Rank: 53
Otto Skorzeny
1908 - 1975
HPI: 79.17
Rank: 54
Bernard Montgomery
1887 - 1976
HPI: 79.03
Rank: 55
Fedor von Bock
1880 - 1945
HPI: 78.85
Rank: 56
Walter Model
1891 - 1945
HPI: 78.85
Rank: 57
Albrecht von Wallenstein
1583 - 1634
HPI: 78.85
Rank: 58

Contemporaries

Among people born in 161, Lü Bu ranks 3. Before him are Commodus and Liu Bei. Among people deceased in 199, Lü Bu ranks 1. After him are Pope Victor I, Yuan Shu, Gao Shun, Gongsun Zan, and Suro of Geumgwan Gaya.