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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Lü Bu

161 - 199

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Lü Bu (; died 7 February 199), courtesy name Fengxian, was a Chinese military general, politician, 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 3,520,735 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Lü Bu is the 34th most popular military personnel (up from 52nd in 2019), the 25th most popular biography from China (up from 37th in 2019) and the 3rd 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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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Lü Bu ranks 34 out of 1,468Before him are Jochi, Wilhelm Keitel, Friedrich Paulus, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Vercingetorix, and Douglas MacArthur. After him are Baron Munchausen, Guan Yu, Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, Tariq ibn Ziyad, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, and Ernst Röhm.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 161, Lü Bu ranks 2Before him is Commodus. After him is Liu Bei. Among people deceased in 199, Lü Bu ranks 1After him are Pope Victor I, Yuan Shu, Gongsun Zan, Gao Shun, and Suro of Geumgwan Gaya.

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In China

Among people born in China, Lü Bu ranks 25 out of 1,392Before him are Cao Cao (155), Wu Zetian (624), Qianlong Emperor (1711), Ip Man (1893), Xuanzang (602), and Cai Lun (48). After him are Guan Yu (162), Kangxi Emperor (1654), Liu Bei (161), Yongle Emperor (1360), Li Ching-Yuen (1677), and Mencius (-372).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In China

Among military personnels born in China, Lü Bu ranks 3Before him are Chiang Kai-shek (1887) and Cao Cao (155). After him are Guan Yu (162), Zhang Fei (167), Zhao Yun (168), Dong Zhuo (139), Yue Fei (1142), Sun Jian (155), Zhou Yu (175), Sun Ce (175), and Han Xin (-231).