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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Mark W. Clark

1896 - 1984

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Mark Wayne Clark (May 1, 1896 – April 17, 1984) was a United States Army officer who saw service during World War I, World War II, and the Korean War. He was the youngest four-star general in the US Army during World War II. During World War I, he was a company commander and served in France in 1918, as a 22-year-old captain, where he was seriously wounded by shrapnel. After the war, the future US Army Chief of Staff, General George C. Marshall, noticed Clark's abilities. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mark W. Clark has received more than 1,250,915 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Mark W. Clark is the 660th most popular military personnel (down from 616th in 2019), the 1,964th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,906th in 2019) and the 28th most popular American Military Personnel.

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  • 57.46

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Mark W. Clark ranks 660 out of 1,468. Before him are François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg, Sergey Biryuzov, Sadao Araki, Henri Gatien Bertrand, Matthew Ridgway, and Chris Kyle. After him are Meliton Kantaria, Eduard Roschmann, Maximilian von Prittwitz, Johan Laidoner, Charles Huntziger, and Hans Karl von Diebitsch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Mark W. Clark ranks 75. Before him are Morarji Desai, Heo Jeong, Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff, Boris Skossyreff, Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia, and A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. After him are Salim Ali, Agustín Muñoz Grandes, Tadj ol-Molouk, Ruth Gordon, Hinrich Lohse, and Mao Dun. Among people deceased in 1984, Mark W. Clark ranks 58. Before him are Chaïm Perelman, José Mauro de Vasconcelos, Raoul Salan, Rodrigo Lara, Jerzy Popiełuszko, and Eduardo De Filippo. After him are Walter Tevis, Marcel Janco, George Gallup, Yigael Yadin, Pierre Gemayel, and Kim Sung-gan.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mark W. Clark ranks 1,964 out of 18,182. Before him are Alfred Vail (1807), Matthew Ridgway (1895), Chris Kyle (1974), Robert Lefkowitz (1943), Bill Paxton (1955), and Ken Norton (1943). After him are Mandy Patinkin (1952), Christopher A. Sims (1942), Bo Diddley (1928), Liberace (1919), Linda Evans (1942), and Paul Marcinkus (1922).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Mark W. Clark ranks 28. Before him are Benedict Arnold (1741), Creighton Abrams (1914), Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (1915), Wild Bill Hickok (1837), Matthew Ridgway (1895), and Chris Kyle (1974). After him are Charles Sweeney (1919), P. G. T. Beauregard (1818), William Halsey Jr. (1882), Abner Doubleday (1819), Frank Jack Fletcher (1885), and Paul Revere (1735).

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