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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Melita Norwood

1912 - 2005

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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

Among military personnels, Melita Norwood ranks 715 out of 1,468Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Melita Norwood ranks 96Before 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 74Before 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.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Melita Norwood ranks 1,316 out of 7,765Before 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).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Melita Norwood ranks 26Before 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).