MILITARY PERSONNEL

Melita Norwood

1912 - 2005

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Melita Stedman Norwood (née Sirnis Latvian: [zirnis]; 25 March 1912 – 2 June 2005) was a British civil servant, Communist Party of Great Britain member and KGB spy. Born to a British mother and Latvian father, Norwood is most famous for supplying the Soviet Union with state secrets concerning the development of atomic weapons from her job at the British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association, where she worked for 40 years. Despite the high strategic value of the information she passed to the Soviets, she refused to accept any financial rewards for her work. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Melita Norwood has received more than 1,544,965 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Melita Norwood is the 1,144th most popular military personnel (down from 715th in 2019), the 1,956th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,312th in 2019) and the 46th most popular British Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Melita Norwood ranks 1,144 out of 2,058. Before her are Drogo of Hauteville, Huijong of Goryeo, Bardas Phokas the Younger, Anton Haus, Oreste Baratieri, and Harold Bride. After her are Abraham Duquesne, Pavel Grachev, Cristóbal de Olid, Ludwig Kübler, Nuri Killigil, and Jirō Minami.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Melita Norwood ranks 147. Before her are Vladimir Bakarić, Michele Andreolo, Roy Sullivan, Hamengkubuwono IX, Henry Armstrong, and Ichiji Otani. After her are John Cheever, Béla Király, Günter Wand, Jacques Bergier, Lev Kopelev, and Naoto Tajima. Among people deceased in 2005, Melita Norwood ranks 108. Before her are Jair da Rosa Pinto, Johnny Carson, Andrea Dworkin, Tilly Fleischer, John DeLorean, and Monica Zetterlund. After her are Polina Astakhova, Ralph Erskine, Frits Philips, Romano Scarpa, John Mills, and Teresa Wright.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Melita Norwood ranks 1,956 out of 8,785. Before her are Alan Stacey (1933), Mary Ward (1585), Harold Bride (1890), Stuart Lewis-Evans (1930), John Hughlings Jackson (1835), and Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694). After her are Mary Astell (1666), Joan Hickson (1906), Rachel Kempson (1910), Elias Ashmole (1617), George Frederic Watts (1817), and Lindsay Kemp (1938).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Melita Norwood ranks 46. Before her are FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (1788), Arthur Percival (1887), James Wolfe (1727), Arthur Rostron (1869), Edward Vernon (1684), and Harold Bride (1890). After her are Hugh Dowding (1882), John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort (1886), John Burgoyne (1722), Claude Auchinleck (1884), Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder (1890), and Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg (1889).

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