MILITARY PERSONNEL

Lü Bu

161 - 199

Lü Bu

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 3,694,300 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Lü Bu is the 41st most popular military personnel (down from 34th in 2019), the 30th most popular biography from China (down from 25th 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.

Memorability Metrics

3.7M
Page Views (PV)
74.47
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
31
Languages Editions (L)
9.74
Effective Languages (L*)
1.80
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Lü Bu ranks 41 out of 2,058. Before him are Alfred Dreyfus, Simo Häyhä, Pyrrhus of Epirus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, T. E. Lawrence, and Douglas MacArthur. After him are Ratko Mladić, Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Tariq ibn Ziyad, Tughril, Romulus Augustulus, and Isoroku Yamamoto.

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Alfred Dreyfus
1859 - 1935
HPI: 74.75
Rank: 35
Simo Häyhä
1905 - 2002
HPI: 74.70
Rank: 36
Pyrrhus of Epirus
318 BC - 272 BC
HPI: 74.66
Rank: 37
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa
63 BC - 12 BC
HPI: 74.64
Rank: 38
T. E. Lawrence
1888 - 1935
HPI: 74.56
Rank: 39
Douglas MacArthur
1880 - 1964
HPI: 74.55
Rank: 40
Lü Bu
161 - 199
HPI: 74.47
Rank: 41
Ratko Mladić
1942 - Present
HPI: 74.44
Rank: 42
Bohdan Khmelnytsky
1595 - 1657
HPI: 74.41
Rank: 43
Tariq ibn Ziyad
670 - 720
HPI: 74.30
Rank: 44
Tughril
990 - 1063
HPI: 73.90
Rank: 45
Romulus Augustulus
460 - 527
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 46
Isoroku Yamamoto
1884 - 1943
HPI: 73.79
Rank: 47

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.