MILITARY PERSONNEL

Miguel Grau Seminario

1834 - 1879

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Miguel María Grau Seminario (27 July 1834 – 8 October 1879) was a Peruvian Navy officer and politician best known for his actions during the War of the Pacific. He was nicknamed "Gentleman of the Seas" for his kind and chivalrous treatment of defeated enemies and is held in high esteem by both Peruvians and Chileans. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Miguel Grau Seminario has received more than 208,281 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Miguel Grau Seminario is the 1,421st most popular military personnel (down from 1,267th in 2019), the 56th most popular biography from Peru (up from 57th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Peruvian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Miguel Grau Seminario ranks 1,421 out of 2,058. Before him are Bernardo de Gálvez, Pavle Jurišić Šturm, Alexander Chavchavadze, Dmitry Lelyushenko, Marc Mitscher, and Nikolai Nebogatov. After him are Lengvenis, Frank Serpico, Prince Moriyoshi, Momčilo Perišić, Kurt von der Chevallerie, and Sam Manekshaw.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Miguel Grau Seminario ranks 51. Before him are Albert Niemann, Adrien Proust, Paul Kummer, Majid bin Said of Zanzibar, Serafino Vannutelli, and Valtazar Bogišić. After him are Étienne Laspeyres, Grigoriy Myasoyedov, Edwin Klebs, Peter Benoit, Prince William of Schaumburg-Lippe, and Georg Hermann Quincke. Among people deceased in 1879, Miguel Grau Seminario ranks 35. Before him are Ludwig Reichenbach, Jakob Dubs, William Kingdon Clifford, Sergey Solovyov, Michel Chevalier, and Jeanne Jugan. After him are Joseph Poelaert, Nikolai Zaremba, Duke William of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Anthony Panizzi, Paul Gervais, and Aleksandr Baryatinsky.

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In Peru

Among people born in Peru, Miguel Grau Seminario ranks 56 out of 287. Before him are Pedro Barreto (1944), Alex Olmedo (1936), José María Arguedas (1911), Agustín Gamarra (1785), Ramón Castilla (1797), and Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro (1889). After him are Ollanta Humala (1962), Manuel Prado Ugarteche (1889), Pedro Castillo (1969), Augusto B. Leguía (1863), Teodoro Fernández (1913), and Óscar R. Benavides (1876).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Peru

Among military personnels born in Peru, Miguel Grau Seminario ranks 2. Before him are Andrés Avelino Cáceres (1836).

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