1872 - 1958
Maurice Gustave Gamelin (French pronunciation: [mɔʁis ɡystav ɡamlɛ̃]; 20 September 1872 – 18 April 1958) was a French general. He is remembered for his disastrous command (until 17 May 1940) of the French military during the Battle of France in World War II and his steadfast defence of republican values. The Commander-in-chief of the French Armed Forces at the start of World War II, Gamelin was viewed as a man with significant intellectual ability. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maurice Gamelin has received more than 582,227 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Maurice Gamelin is the 246th most popular military personnel (up from 248th in 2019), the 700th most popular biography from France (up from 730th in 2019) and the 26th most popular French Military Personnel.
Maurice Gamelin was a French general during World War II. He is most famous for his failure to stop the German invasion of France in 1940.
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Among military personnels, Maurice Gamelin ranks 246 out of 1,468. Before him are Kurt Meyer, Jean-Baptiste Kléber, Erich Hoepner, Hans von Seeckt, Muhammad bin Qasim, and Tokugawa Yoshinobu. After him are Werner Mölders, Pedro de Alvarado, Marcus Claudius Marcellus, Jan Henryk Dąbrowski, Zhang Liao, and Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque.
1910 - 1961
HPI: 65.26
Rank: 240
1753 - 1800
HPI: 65.24
Rank: 241
1886 - 1944
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 242
1866 - 1936
HPI: 65.20
Rank: 243
695 - 715
HPI: 65.08
Rank: 244
1837 - 1913
HPI: 65.06
Rank: 245
1872 - 1958
HPI: 65.04
Rank: 246
1913 - 1941
HPI: 65.03
Rank: 247
1485 - 1541
HPI: 65.02
Rank: 248
268 BC - 208 BC
HPI: 65.01
Rank: 249
1755 - 1818
HPI: 64.96
Rank: 250
169 - 222
HPI: 64.93
Rank: 251
1902 - 1947
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 252
Among people born in 1872, Maurice Gamelin ranks 19. Before him are Djemal Pasha, Anton Denikin, Sergei Diaghilev, Richard Willstätter, Louis Blériot, and Charles Greeley Abbot. After him are Helena Rubinstein, Sri Aurobindo, Aubrey Beardsley, Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar, Habibullah Khan, and Jože Plečnik. Among people deceased in 1958, Maurice Gamelin ranks 15. Before him are Maurice de Vlaminck, Faisal II of Iraq, Kurt Alder, Ernest Lawrence, Lion Feuchtwanger, and Juan Ramón Jiménez. After him are Milutin Milanković, G. E. Moore, Giacomo Balla, Rudolf von Laban, Georges Rouault, and Ole Kirk Christiansen.
1872 - 1922
HPI: 66.83
Rank: 13
1872 - 1947
HPI: 66.55
Rank: 14
1872 - 1929
HPI: 66.34
Rank: 15
1872 - 1942
HPI: 65.71
Rank: 16
1872 - 1936
HPI: 65.55
Rank: 17
1872 - 1973
HPI: 65.13
Rank: 18
1872 - 1958
HPI: 65.04
Rank: 19
1872 - 1965
HPI: 64.24
Rank: 20
1872 - 1950
HPI: 64.19
Rank: 21
1872 - 1898
HPI: 63.30
Rank: 22
1872 - 1925
HPI: 63.27
Rank: 23
1872 - 1919
HPI: 62.98
Rank: 24
1872 - 1957
HPI: 62.94
Rank: 25
1876 - 1958
HPI: 67.02
Rank: 9
1935 - 1958
HPI: 66.65
Rank: 10
1902 - 1958
HPI: 66.55
Rank: 11
1901 - 1958
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 12
1884 - 1958
HPI: 65.37
Rank: 13
1881 - 1958
HPI: 65.27
Rank: 14
1872 - 1958
HPI: 65.04
Rank: 15
1879 - 1958
HPI: 65.04
Rank: 16
1873 - 1958
HPI: 64.68
Rank: 17
1871 - 1958
HPI: 64.65
Rank: 18
1879 - 1958
HPI: 64.40
Rank: 19
1871 - 1958
HPI: 64.34
Rank: 20
1891 - 1958
HPI: 62.47
Rank: 21
Among people born in France, Maurice Gamelin ranks 700 out of 6,011. Before him are Frédéric Bastiat (1801), Roger Garaudy (1913), Catherine Labouré (1806), Jean Meslier (1664), François Guizot (1787), and Nadia Boulanger (1887). After him are Ausonius (310), Isabella of Angoulême (1188), Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (1279), Louise of Savoy (1476), Eugène Sue (1804), and Aristide Maillol (1861).
1801 - 1850
HPI: 65.17
Rank: 694
1913 - 2012
HPI: 65.14
Rank: 695
1806 - 1876
HPI: 65.13
Rank: 696
1664 - 1729
HPI: 65.13
Rank: 697
1787 - 1874
HPI: 65.11
Rank: 698
1887 - 1979
HPI: 65.06
Rank: 699
1872 - 1958
HPI: 65.04
Rank: 700
310 - 395
HPI: 65.02
Rank: 701
1188 - 1246
HPI: 65.01
Rank: 702
1279 - 1341
HPI: 65.00
Rank: 703
1476 - 1531
HPI: 65.00
Rank: 704
1804 - 1857
HPI: 65.00
Rank: 705
1861 - 1944
HPI: 64.97
Rank: 706
Among military personnels born in France, Maurice Gamelin ranks 26. Before him are Jean-de-Dieu Soult (1769), Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine (1712), Bertrand du Guesclin (1320), Emmanuel de Grouchy, marquis de Grouchy (1766), Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Viscount of Turenne (1611), and Jean-Baptiste Kléber (1753). After him are Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque (1902), Oenomaus (-105), Nicolas Oudinot (1767), Jean Victor Marie Moreau (1763), Robert Nivelle (1856), and François Christophe de Kellermann (1735).
1769 - 1851
HPI: 66.50
Rank: 20
1712 - 1780
HPI: 66.40
Rank: 21
1320 - 1380
HPI: 66.00
Rank: 22
1766 - 1847
HPI: 65.64
Rank: 23
1611 - 1675
HPI: 65.59
Rank: 24
1753 - 1800
HPI: 65.24
Rank: 25
1872 - 1958
HPI: 65.04
Rank: 26
1902 - 1947
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 27
105 BC - 70 BC
HPI: 64.17
Rank: 28
1767 - 1848
HPI: 63.76
Rank: 29
1763 - 1813
HPI: 63.70
Rank: 30
1856 - 1924
HPI: 63.53
Rank: 31
1735 - 1820
HPI: 63.42
Rank: 32