1920 - 1993
Meliton Varlamis dze Kantaria or Kantariya (Georgian: მელიტონ ქანთარია, Russian: Мелитон Варламович Кантария; 5 October 1920 – 27 December 1993) was a Georgian sergeant of the Soviet Army credited with having hoisted a Soviet flag over the Reichstag on 30 April 1945, together with Mikhail Yegorov and Aleksey Berest. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Meliton Kantaria has received more than 178,954 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Meliton Kantaria is the 661st most popular military personnel (up from 789th in 2019), the 49th most popular biography from Georgia (up from 63rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Georgian Military Personnel.
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Among military personnels, Meliton Kantaria ranks 661 out of 1,468. Before him are Sergey Biryuzov, Sadao Araki, Henri Gatien Bertrand, Matthew Ridgway, Chris Kyle, and Mark W. Clark. After him are Eduard Roschmann, Maximilian von Prittwitz, Johan Laidoner, Charles Huntziger, Hans Karl von Diebitsch, and Iphicrates.
1904 - 1964
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 655
1877 - 1966
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 656
1773 - 1844
HPI: 57.49
Rank: 657
1895 - 1993
HPI: 57.48
Rank: 658
1974 - 2013
HPI: 57.48
Rank: 659
1896 - 1984
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 660
1920 - 1993
HPI: 57.45
Rank: 661
1908 - 1977
HPI: 57.40
Rank: 662
1848 - 1917
HPI: 57.39
Rank: 663
1884 - 1953
HPI: 57.37
Rank: 664
1880 - 1941
HPI: 57.37
Rank: 665
1785 - 1831
HPI: 57.36
Rank: 666
415 BC - 353 BC
HPI: 57.35
Rank: 667
Among people born in 1920, Meliton Kantaria ranks 95. Before him are Chiara Lubich, Edmond H. Fischer, Mehdi Ben Barka, Marcial Maciel, Gottfried Böhm, and P. D. James. After him are Väinö Linna, Jaan Kross, Hans Blumenberg, Ricardo Montalbán, Cornelis Johannes van Houten, and Henrietta Lacks. Among people deceased in 1993, Meliton Kantaria ranks 57. Before him are Léo Ferré, Kakuei Tanaka, Eddie Constantine, Helen Hayes, Bruno Pontecorvo, and Matthew Ridgway. After him are Ishirō Honda, Rahmon Nabiyev, György Sárosi, Kenneth E. Boulding, Dražen Petrović, and Tofiq Bahramov.
1920 - 2008
HPI: 57.86
Rank: 89
1920 - 2021
HPI: 57.76
Rank: 90
1920 - 1965
HPI: 57.61
Rank: 91
1920 - 2008
HPI: 57.56
Rank: 92
1920 - 2021
HPI: 57.49
Rank: 93
1920 - 2014
HPI: 57.45
Rank: 94
1920 - 1993
HPI: 57.45
Rank: 95
1920 - 1992
HPI: 57.40
Rank: 96
1920 - 2007
HPI: 57.38
Rank: 97
1920 - 1996
HPI: 57.13
Rank: 98
1920 - 2009
HPI: 57.05
Rank: 99
1920 - 2002
HPI: 56.88
Rank: 100
1920 - 1951
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 101
1916 - 1993
HPI: 58.26
Rank: 51
1918 - 1993
HPI: 58.24
Rank: 52
1913 - 1993
HPI: 58.02
Rank: 53
1900 - 1993
HPI: 57.84
Rank: 54
1913 - 1993
HPI: 57.57
Rank: 55
1895 - 1993
HPI: 57.48
Rank: 56
1920 - 1993
HPI: 57.45
Rank: 57
1911 - 1993
HPI: 57.24
Rank: 58
1930 - 1993
HPI: 57.01
Rank: 59
1912 - 1993
HPI: 56.89
Rank: 60
1910 - 1993
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 61
1964 - 1993
HPI: 56.83
Rank: 62
1925 - 1993
HPI: 56.76
Rank: 63
Among people born in Georgia, Meliton Kantaria ranks 49 out of 342. Before him are Mihrişah Sultan (1745), Heraclius II of Georgia (1720), Hümaşah Sultan (1634), Mirian III of Iberia (265), Otar Iosseliani (1934), and Rouben Mamoulian (1897). After him are Noe Zhordania (1868), George IV of Georgia (1191), Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich of Russia (1869), Tengiz Abuladze (1924), George XII of Georgia (1746), and Roustam Raza (1783).
1745 - 1805
HPI: 58.21
Rank: 43
1720 - 1798
HPI: 58.04
Rank: 44
1634 - 1672
HPI: 57.92
Rank: 45
265 - 361
HPI: 57.90
Rank: 46
1934 - 2023
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 47
1897 - 1987
HPI: 57.68
Rank: 48
1920 - 1993
HPI: 57.45
Rank: 49
1868 - 1953
HPI: 57.41
Rank: 50
1191 - 1223
HPI: 57.36
Rank: 51
1869 - 1918
HPI: 56.87
Rank: 52
1924 - 1994
HPI: 56.86
Rank: 53
1746 - 1800
HPI: 56.83
Rank: 54
1783 - 1845
HPI: 56.60
Rank: 55
Among military personnels born in Georgia, Meliton Kantaria ranks 4. Before him are Yakov Dzhugashvili (1907), Pyotr Bagration (1765), and Aleksei Brusilov (1853). After him are Roustam Raza (1783), Kakutsa Cholokashvili (1888), Abu Omar al-Shishani (1986), and Zaza Gogava (1971).
1907 - 1943
HPI: 68.81
Rank: 1
1765 - 1812
HPI: 67.36
Rank: 2
1853 - 1926
HPI: 66.73
Rank: 3
1920 - 1993
HPI: 57.45
Rank: 4
1783 - 1845
HPI: 56.60
Rank: 5
1888 - 1930
HPI: 49.71
Rank: 6
1986 - 2016
HPI: 42.69
Rank: 7
1971 - Present
HPI: 40.48
Rank: 8