1843 - 1882
Mikhail Dmitriyevich Skobelev (Russian: Михаил Дмитриевич Скобелев; 29 September 1843 – 7 July 1882), a Russian general, became famous for his conquest of Central Asia and for his heroism during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878. Dressed in a white uniform and mounted on a white horse, and always in the thickest of the fray, he was known and adored by his soldiers as the "White General" (and by the Turks as the "White Pasha"). Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mikhail Skobelev has received more than 155,653 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Mikhail Skobelev is the 651st most popular military personnel (up from 688th in 2019), the 550th most popular biography from Russia (up from 586th in 2019) and the 51st most popular Russian Military Personnel.
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Among military personnels, Mikhail Skobelev ranks 651 out of 1,468. Before him are Wolfgang Lüth, Wilhelm Schepmann, Hubert Lyautey, Giovanni Andrea Doria, Heinz Reinefarth, and Peucestas. After him are Oda Nobuhide, Otozō Yamada, François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg, Sergey Biryuzov, Sadao Araki, and Henri Gatien Bertrand.
1913 - 1945
HPI: 57.66
Rank: 645
1894 - 1970
HPI: 57.62
Rank: 646
1854 - 1934
HPI: 57.61
Rank: 647
1539 - 1606
HPI: 57.56
Rank: 648
1903 - 1979
HPI: 57.56
Rank: 649
390 BC - 330 BC
HPI: 57.55
Rank: 650
1843 - 1882
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 651
1510 - 1551
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 652
1881 - 1965
HPI: 57.52
Rank: 653
1628 - 1695
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 654
1904 - 1964
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 655
1877 - 1966
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 656
1773 - 1844
HPI: 57.49
Rank: 657
Among people born in 1843, Mikhail Skobelev ranks 31. Before him are Hans Richter, Mariano Rampolla, Elizabeth Stride, Henryk Siemiradzki, Teófilo Braga, and Infanta Maria Anna of Portugal. After him are Anton von Werner, David Popper, Robert Todd Lincoln, Karl Michael Ziehrer, Antonio Labriola, and Lydia Koidula. Among people deceased in 1882, Mikhail Skobelev ranks 25. Before him are Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Henri Giffard, Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, and Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play. After him are Karl-Maria Kertbeny, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Hill Green, Henry Draper, Joachim Raff, and Princess Marie of Waldeck and Pyrmont.
1843 - 1916
HPI: 58.22
Rank: 25
1843 - 1913
HPI: 58.15
Rank: 26
1843 - 1888
HPI: 58.08
Rank: 27
1843 - 1902
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 28
1843 - 1924
HPI: 57.74
Rank: 29
1843 - 1884
HPI: 57.74
Rank: 30
1843 - 1882
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 31
1843 - 1915
HPI: 57.33
Rank: 32
1843 - 1913
HPI: 56.89
Rank: 33
1843 - 1926
HPI: 56.43
Rank: 34
1843 - 1922
HPI: 56.11
Rank: 35
1843 - 1904
HPI: 55.81
Rank: 36
1843 - 1886
HPI: 55.75
Rank: 37
1849 - 1882
HPI: 59.46
Rank: 19
1807 - 1882
HPI: 59.18
Rank: 20
1825 - 1882
HPI: 58.45
Rank: 21
1822 - 1882
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 22
1803 - 1882
HPI: 58.05
Rank: 23
1806 - 1882
HPI: 58.00
Rank: 24
1843 - 1882
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 25
1824 - 1882
HPI: 57.45
Rank: 26
1815 - 1882
HPI: 55.90
Rank: 27
1836 - 1882
HPI: 55.72
Rank: 28
1837 - 1882
HPI: 55.54
Rank: 29
1822 - 1882
HPI: 55.45
Rank: 30
1857 - 1882
HPI: 55.43
Rank: 31
Among people born in Russia, Mikhail Skobelev ranks 550 out of 3,262. Before him are Ivan Ilyin (1883), Nicolas de Staël (1914), Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark (1888), Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia (1896), Tode Mongke (1282), and Yuri Averbakh (1922). After him are Konstantin Makovsky (1839), Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev (1906), Grigory Sokolov (1950), Sergey Biryuzov (1904), Nikolai Chernykh (1931), and Aleksandr Mikhailovich of Tver (1301).
1883 - 1954
HPI: 57.68
Rank: 544
1914 - 1955
HPI: 57.66
Rank: 545
1888 - 1940
HPI: 57.64
Rank: 546
1896 - 1978
HPI: 57.63
Rank: 547
1282 - 1287
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 548
1922 - 2022
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 549
1843 - 1882
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 550
1839 - 1915
HPI: 57.52
Rank: 551
1906 - 1989
HPI: 57.51
Rank: 552
1950 - Present
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 553
1904 - 1964
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 554
1931 - 2004
HPI: 57.48
Rank: 555
1301 - 1339
HPI: 57.47
Rank: 556
Among military personnels born in Russia, Mikhail Skobelev ranks 51. Before him are Mikhail Alekseyev (1857), Sergey Akhromeyev (1923), Nikolay Gumilyov (1886), Werner Kempf (1886), Sergei Skripal (1951), and Ivan Panfilov (1893). After him are Sergey Biryuzov (1904), Nikolai Ogarkov (1917), Markian Popov (1902), Vasily Petrov (1917), Walter Weiß (1890), and Iosif Gurko (1828).
1857 - 1918
HPI: 58.23
Rank: 45
1923 - 1991
HPI: 58.21
Rank: 46
1886 - 1921
HPI: 58.09
Rank: 47
1886 - 1964
HPI: 57.91
Rank: 48
1951 - Present
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 49
1893 - 1941
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 50
1843 - 1882
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 51
1904 - 1964
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 52
1917 - 1994
HPI: 57.33
Rank: 53
1902 - 1969
HPI: 57.03
Rank: 54
1917 - 2014
HPI: 56.98
Rank: 55
1890 - 1967
HPI: 56.67
Rank: 56
1828 - 1901
HPI: 56.34
Rank: 57