MILITARY PERSONNEL

Matthew Ridgway

1895 - 1993

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General Matthew Bunker Ridgway (3 March 1895 – 26 July 1993) was a senior officer in the United States Army, who served as Supreme Allied Commander Europe (1952–1953) and the 19th Chief of Staff of the United States Army (1953–1955). Although he saw no combat service in World War I, he was intensively involved in World War II, where he was the first Commanding General (CG) of the 82nd Airborne Division, leading it in action in Sicily, Italy and Normandy, before taking command of the newly formed XVIII Airborne Corps in August 1944. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Matthew Ridgway has received more than 1,411,710 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Matthew Ridgway is the 896th most popular military personnel (down from 658th in 2019), the 2,594th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,958th in 2019) and the 40th most popular American Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Matthew Ridgway ranks 896 out of 2,058. Before him are Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, Oda Nobutaka, Charles II, Duke of Guelders, Heinrich von Plauen, Otto Wöhler, and José Miaja. After him are Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, 2nd Count of Bucquoy, Marcantonio Colonna, John C. Woods, Prince Charles of Hesse-Kassel, Fakhri Pasha, and Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Matthew Ridgway ranks 107. Before him are Martin Luther, Liaquat Ali Khan, Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Nikolay Shchors, Heinrich Eberbach, and Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva. After him are Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Hans Loritz, Josef Bürckel, René Mayer, Rolf Nevanlinna, and Ernst Kantorowicz. Among people deceased in 1993, Matthew Ridgway ranks 78. Before him are Salah Jadid, Myrna Loy, John Connally, Maurice Yaméogo, Ishirō Honda, and Tatiana Nikolayeva. After him are Héctor Lavoe, Godfrey Chitalu, Marian Anderson, Monte Melkonian, Wolfgang Lotz, and René Pleven.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Matthew Ridgway ranks 2,594 out of 20,380. Before him are Roscoe Arbuckle (1887), Herbert Blumer (1900), Erle Stanley Gardner (1889), Miguel Ferrer (1955), KRS-One (1965), and John Philip Sousa (1854). After him are George Kelly (1905), Ben Johnson (1918), John Glover (1944), Alicia Rhett (1915), Cindy Sherman (1954), and Jennifer Coolidge (1961).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Matthew Ridgway ranks 40. Before him are Frank Jack Fletcher (1885), Henry H. Arnold (1886), Alexander Haig (1924), David Farragut (1801), P. G. T. Beauregard (1818), and Joseph Stilwell (1883). After him are John C. Woods (1911), Monte Melkonian (1957), John Basilone (1916), Philip Sheridan (1831), Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. (1886), and Chris Kyle (1974).

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