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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Matthew Ridgway

1895 - 1993

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General Matthew Bunker Ridgway (March 3, 1895 – July 26, 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 "All American" 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 1,261,108 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Matthew Ridgway is the 658th most popular military personnel (up from 727th in 2019), the 1,959th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,299th in 2019) and the 26th most popular American Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Matthew Ridgway ranks 658 out of 1,468. Before him are Oda Nobuhide, Otozō Yamada, François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg, Sergey Biryuzov, Sadao Araki, and Henri Gatien Bertrand. After him are Chris Kyle, Mark W. Clark, Meliton Kantaria, Eduard Roschmann, Maximilian von Prittwitz, and Johan Laidoner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Matthew Ridgway ranks 88. Before him are Dino Grandi, Archduke Wilhelm of Austria, Princess Margaret of Denmark, Dickinson W. Richards, Archduke Maximilian Eugen of Austria, and Sheng Shicai. After him are Alexander Orlov, Lewis Mumford, Kurt Schumacher, Max Koegel, Marcel Janco, and Prescott Bush. Among people deceased in 1993, Matthew Ridgway ranks 56. Before him are Leonid Gaidai, Léo Ferré, Kakuei Tanaka, Eddie Constantine, Helen Hayes, and Bruno Pontecorvo. After him are Meliton Kantaria, Ishirō Honda, Rahmon Nabiyev, György Sárosi, Kenneth E. Boulding, and Dražen Petrović.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Matthew Ridgway ranks 1,959 out of 18,182. Before him are Burt Bacharach (1928), Robert Mapplethorpe (1946), Chris Evert (1954), Ted Turner (1938), Carol Gilligan (1936), and Alfred Vail (1807). After him are Chris Kyle (1974), Robert Lefkowitz (1943), Bill Paxton (1955), Ken Norton (1943), Mark W. Clark (1896), and Mandy Patinkin (1952).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Matthew Ridgway ranks 26. Before him are William Westmoreland (1914), Husband E. Kimmel (1882), Benedict Arnold (1741), Creighton Abrams (1914), Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (1915), and Wild Bill Hickok (1837). After him are Chris Kyle (1974), Mark W. Clark (1896), Charles Sweeney (1919), P. G. T. Beauregard (1818), William Halsey Jr. (1882), and Abner Doubleday (1819).

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