600 BC - 479 BC
Mardonius (Ancient Greek: Μαρδόνιος Mardonios, Old Persian: 𐎶𐎼𐎯𐎢𐎴𐎡𐎹, Marduniya, literally: "the mild one"; died 479 BC) was a leading Persian military commander during the Persian Wars with Greece in the early 5th century BC who died at the Battle of Plataea. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mardonius has received more than 132,922 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia. Mardonius is the 144th most popular military personnel (up from 145th in 2019), the 104th most popular biography from Greece and the 9th most popular Greek Military Personnel.
Mardonius is most famous for his role in the Battle of Thermopylae, where he led the Persian army against the Greek defenders.
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Among military personnels, Mardonius ranks 144 out of 1,466. Before him are Axel von Fersen the Younger, André Masséna, Antipater, Miloš Obilić, Chūichi Nagumo, and Aleksandr Vasilevsky. After him are Hermann Fegelein, Djemal Pasha, Ernst Busch, Erwin von Witzleben, Helmuth Weidling, and Semyon Budyonny.
1755 - 1810
HPI: 75.52
Rank: 138
1758 - 1817
HPI: 75.50
Rank: 139
397 BC - 319 BC
HPI: 75.49
Rank: 140
1350 - 1389
HPI: 75.43
Rank: 141
1887 - 1944
HPI: 75.40
Rank: 142
1895 - 1977
HPI: 75.35
Rank: 143
600 BC - 479 BC
HPI: 75.34
Rank: 144
1906 - 1945
HPI: 75.31
Rank: 145
1872 - 1922
HPI: 75.30
Rank: 146
1885 - 1945
HPI: 75.28
Rank: 147
1881 - 1944
HPI: 75.26
Rank: 148
1891 - 1955
HPI: 75.24
Rank: 149
1883 - 1973
HPI: 75.23
Rank: 150
Among people born in 600 BC, Mardonius ranks 16. Before him are Cambyses I, Polycrates, Alexander I of Macedon, Lucius Junius Brutus, Maya, and Pheidippides. After him are Hippasus, Chilon of Sparta, Thespis, Hippias, Bias of Priene, and Nahum. Among people deceased in 479 BC, Mardonius ranks 2. Before him is Confucius.
600 BC - 559 BC
HPI: 76.36
Rank: 10
600 BC - 515 BC
HPI: 76.00
Rank: 11
600 BC - 454 BC
HPI: 75.94
Rank: 12
600 BC - 509 BC
HPI: 75.84
Rank: 13
600 BC - 600 BC
HPI: 75.73
Rank: 14
600 BC - 490 BC
HPI: 75.64
Rank: 15
600 BC - 479 BC
HPI: 75.34
Rank: 16
600 BC - 500 BC
HPI: 74.83
Rank: 17
600 BC - 520 BC
HPI: 74.63
Rank: 18
600 BC - 560 BC
HPI: 74.41
Rank: 19
600 BC - 490 BC
HPI: 73.62
Rank: 20
600 BC - 530 BC
HPI: 73.55
Rank: 21
600 BC - Present
HPI: 72.84
Rank: 22
Among people born in Greece, Mardonius ranks 104 out of 855. Before him are Alexander of Greece (1893), Philomena (291), Pope Hyginus (100), Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt (1789), Ephialtes of Trachis (-550), and Theo Angelopoulos (1935). After him are Djemal Pasha (1872), Phaedrus (-20), Dionysius the Areopagite (100), Perseus of Macedon (-212), Pope Eleutherius (171), and Melissus of Samos (-470).
1893 - 1920
HPI: 75.60
Rank: 98
291 - 304
HPI: 75.60
Rank: 99
100 - 142
HPI: 75.59
Rank: 100
1789 - 1848
HPI: 75.53
Rank: 101
550 BC - 480 BC
HPI: 75.52
Rank: 102
1935 - 2012
HPI: 75.40
Rank: 103
600 BC - 479 BC
HPI: 75.34
Rank: 104
1872 - 1922
HPI: 75.30
Rank: 105
20 BC - 50
HPI: 75.25
Rank: 106
100 - 100
HPI: 75.23
Rank: 107
212 BC - 166 BC
HPI: 75.23
Rank: 108
171 - 189
HPI: 75.22
Rank: 109
470 BC - 430 BC
HPI: 75.22
Rank: 110
Among military personnels born in Greece, Mardonius ranks 9. Before him are Themistocles (-524), Pyrrhus of Epirus (-318), Miltiades (-540), Seleucus I Nicator (-358), Hephaestion (-356), and Cimon (-510). After him are Djemal Pasha (1872), Pittacus of Mytilene (-650), Parmenion (-400), Lysander (-401), Craterus (-370), and Pausanias (null).
524 BC - 459 BC
HPI: 84.08
Rank: 3
318 BC - 272 BC
HPI: 82.20
Rank: 4
540 BC - 488 BC
HPI: 79.55
Rank: 5
358 BC - 281 BC
HPI: 78.48
Rank: 6
356 BC - 324 BC
HPI: 77.02
Rank: 7
510 BC - 450 BC
HPI: 76.45
Rank: 8
600 BC - 479 BC
HPI: 75.34
Rank: 9
1872 - 1922
HPI: 75.30
Rank: 10
650 BC - 570 BC
HPI: 73.94
Rank: 11
400 BC - 329 BC
HPI: 73.81
Rank: 12
401 BC - 395 BC
HPI: 73.81
Rank: 13
370 BC - 321 BC
HPI: 73.42
Rank: 14
HPI: 73.32
Rank: 15