1912 - 2005
Melita Stedman Norwood (née Sirnis; 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. She rejected the Soviets' offer of a pension, and argued that her disclosures of classified work helped to avoid the possibility of a third world war involving the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union.In The Mitrokhin Archive: The K.G.B. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Melita Norwood has received more than 1,465,110 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Melita Norwood is the 715th most popular military personnel (up from 1,040th in 2019), the 1,316th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,066th in 2019) and the 26th most popular British Military Personnel.
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Among military personnels, Melita Norwood ranks 715 out of 1,468. Before her are Archduke Stephen, Palatine of Hungary, Fritz Klingenberg, Minamoto no Yoshitomo, Sosthenes of Macedon, Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg, and Stanisław Sosabowski. After her are Süleyman Hüsnü Pasha, Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke, Hikmat Mirzayev, Christian de Castries, Walter Weiß, and Erich Rudorffer.
1817 - 1867
HPI: 56.77
Rank: 709
1912 - 1945
HPI: 56.77
Rank: 710
1123 - 1160
HPI: 56.74
Rank: 711
400 BC - 277 BC
HPI: 56.74
Rank: 712
1886 - 1974
HPI: 56.74
Rank: 713
1892 - 1967
HPI: 56.73
Rank: 714
1912 - 2005
HPI: 56.73
Rank: 715
1838 - 1892
HPI: 56.73
Rank: 716
1889 - 1968
HPI: 56.70
Rank: 717
HPI: 56.69
Rank: 718
1902 - 1991
HPI: 56.69
Rank: 719
1890 - 1967
HPI: 56.67
Rank: 720
1917 - 2016
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 721
Among people born in 1912, Melita Norwood ranks 96. Before her are Jean Améry, Jiří Trnka, Igor Markevitch, György Sárosi, Fritz Klingenberg, and Kim Sung-gan. After her are Petar Stambolić, Samuel Fuller, Axel Springer, Khertek Anchimaa-Toka, Nereo Rocco, and Fritz Fischer. Among people deceased in 2005, Melita Norwood ranks 74. Before her are Yao Wenyuan, Aenne Burda, Jef Raskin, Narriman Sadek, Maurice Trintignant, and Vincent Schiavelli. After her are Amrish Puri, Charly Gaul, Augusto Roa Bastos, Álvaro Cunhal, John Garang, and Erich Topp.
1912 - 1978
HPI: 56.97
Rank: 90
1912 - 1969
HPI: 56.92
Rank: 91
1912 - 1983
HPI: 56.91
Rank: 92
1912 - 1993
HPI: 56.89
Rank: 93
1912 - 1945
HPI: 56.77
Rank: 94
1912 - 1984
HPI: 56.76
Rank: 95
1912 - 2005
HPI: 56.73
Rank: 96
1912 - 2007
HPI: 56.70
Rank: 97
1912 - 1997
HPI: 56.56
Rank: 98
1912 - 1985
HPI: 56.32
Rank: 99
1912 - 2008
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 100
1912 - 1979
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 101
1912 - 2003
HPI: 56.23
Rank: 102
1931 - 2005
HPI: 57.49
Rank: 68
1909 - 2005
HPI: 57.37
Rank: 69
1943 - 2005
HPI: 57.17
Rank: 70
1933 - 2005
HPI: 57.01
Rank: 71
1917 - 2005
HPI: 56.98
Rank: 72
1948 - 2005
HPI: 56.77
Rank: 73
1912 - 2005
HPI: 56.73
Rank: 74
1932 - 2005
HPI: 56.61
Rank: 75
1932 - 2005
HPI: 56.61
Rank: 76
1917 - 2005
HPI: 56.54
Rank: 77
1913 - 2005
HPI: 56.24
Rank: 78
1945 - 2005
HPI: 56.10
Rank: 79
1914 - 2005
HPI: 55.90
Rank: 80
Among people born in United Kingdom, Melita Norwood ranks 1,316 out of 7,765. Before her are Ted Hughes (1930), Iain Glen (1961), Edward Frankland (1825), M. Stanley Whittingham (1941), Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (1935), and Ruth Rendell (1930). After her are Jon Anderson (1944), Bill Shankly (1913), Ceawlin of Wessex (600), Jeremy Clarkson (1960), Gideon Mantell (1790), and Smithson Tennant (1761).
1930 - 1998
HPI: 56.80
Rank: 1,310
1961 - Present
HPI: 56.79
Rank: 1,311
1825 - 1899
HPI: 56.78
Rank: 1,312
1941 - Present
HPI: 56.76
Rank: 1,313
1935 - Present
HPI: 56.76
Rank: 1,314
1930 - 2015
HPI: 56.74
Rank: 1,315
1912 - 2005
HPI: 56.73
Rank: 1,316
1944 - Present
HPI: 56.73
Rank: 1,317
1913 - 1981
HPI: 56.73
Rank: 1,318
600 - 593
HPI: 56.72
Rank: 1,319
1960 - Present
HPI: 56.72
Rank: 1,320
1790 - 1852
HPI: 56.71
Rank: 1,321
1761 - 1815
HPI: 56.69
Rank: 1,322
Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Melita Norwood ranks 26. Before her are Jack Phillips (1887), Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (1891), Woodes Rogers (1679), Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell (1883), Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (1861), and William Stuart-Houston (1911). After her are Joseph Boxhall (1884), Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald (1775), Bertram Ramsay (1883), Edward Vernon (1684), Harold Bride (1890), and John French, 1st Earl of Ypres (1852).
1887 - 1912
HPI: 58.77
Rank: 20
1891 - 1969
HPI: 58.72
Rank: 21
1679 - 1732
HPI: 58.33
Rank: 22
1883 - 1950
HPI: 58.26
Rank: 23
1861 - 1928
HPI: 58.06
Rank: 24
1911 - 1987
HPI: 57.13
Rank: 25
1912 - 2005
HPI: 56.73
Rank: 26
1884 - 1967
HPI: 56.21
Rank: 27
1775 - 1860
HPI: 55.88
Rank: 28
1883 - 1945
HPI: 55.24
Rank: 29
1684 - 1757
HPI: 54.71
Rank: 30
1890 - 1956
HPI: 54.55
Rank: 31
1852 - 1925
HPI: 54.43
Rank: 32