MILITARY PERSONNEL

Lucius D. Clay

1898 - 1978

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Lucius Dubignon Clay (April 23, 1898 – April 16, 1978) was a senior officer of the United States Army who was known for his administration of occupied Germany after World War II. He served as the deputy to General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1945; deputy military governor, Germany, in 1946; Commander in Chief, United States Forces in Europe and military governor of the United States Zone, Germany, from 1947 to 1949. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lucius D. Clay has received more than 423,387 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Lucius D. Clay is the 1,256th most popular military personnel (down from 1,054th in 2019), the 3,673rd most popular biography from United States (down from 3,402nd in 2019) and the 57th most popular American Military Personnel.

Memorability Metrics

  • 420k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Lucius D. Clay has had the most page views in the with 57,417 views, followed by German (23,441), and Russian (6,374). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Ukrainian (40,900.00%), Egyptian Arabic (57.50%), and Spanish (20.40%)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Lucius D. Clay ranks 1,256 out of 2,058. Before him are Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle, Charles-Denis Bourbaki, Agustina de Aragón, Anne Hilarion de Tourville, Archduke Leo Karl of Austria, and Otto Ciliax. After him are Arleigh Burke, Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine, Ieronim Uborevich, Holland Smith, Karl Decker, and Antonio Luna.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Lucius D. Clay ranks 125. Before him are Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz, Irene Dunne, Benjamin Fondane, Vilhelm Moberg, José María Gil-Robles y Quiñones, and Warren Sturgis McCulloch. After him are Ben Shahn, Ira Sprague Bowen, Ada Blackjack, Walther von Hünersdorff, Leopold Okulicki, and Pavel Urysohn. Among people deceased in 1978, Lucius D. Clay ranks 105. Before him are Gig Young, Jacques Bergier, Ángel Bossio, Louis Prima, Warren Weaver, and Jean Acker. After him are Leo Ryan, Bernhard Karlgren, Julio Jaramillo, Carlos Chávez, Prince Sigismund of Prussia, and Zivia Lubetkin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lucius D. Clay ranks 3,673 out of 20,380. Before him are Anna Faris (1976), Herb Alpert (1935), Willie Dixon (1915), Joel Hastings Metcalf (1866), Rob Lowe (1964), and La Monte Young (1935). After him are Richard Anderson (1926), Horace Silver (1928), Robert Zoellick (1953), Christopher Meloni (1961), Albert Ghiorso (1915), and David Koch (1940).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Lucius D. Clay ranks 57. Before him are Ernest King (1878), Wesley Clark (1944), David Petraeus (1952), Robert Gould Shaw (1837), Doris Miller (1919), and Alexander Vandegrift (1887). After him are Arleigh Burke (1901), Holland Smith (1882), Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (1887), Albert Sidney Johnston (1803), Tommy Franks (1945), and Kit Carson (1809).

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