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Noor Inayat Khan

1914 - 1944

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Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan, GC (1 January 1914 – 13 September 1944), also known as Nora Inayat-Khan and Nora Baker, was a British resistance agent in France in World War II who served in the Special Operations Executive (SOE). The purpose of SOE was to conduct espionage, sabotage, and reconnaissance in countries occupied by the Axis powers, especially those occupied by Nazi Germany. As an SOE agent under the codename Madeleine she became the first female wireless operator to be sent from the UK into occupied France to aid the French Resistance during World War II. Inayat Khan was betrayed and captured, and executed at Dachau concentration camp. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Noor Inayat Khan has received more than 2,652,267 page views. Her biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Noor Inayat Khan is the 1,971st most popular writer (up from 2,269th in 2019), the 732nd most popular biography from Russia (up from 764th in 2019) and the 91st most popular Russian Writer.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.82

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Noor Inayat Khan ranks 1,971 out of 5,755. Before her are Chuck Palahniuk, Katia Mann, Karen Armstrong, Moschus, Musa Cälil, and Daqiqi. After her are Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Philippe Sollers, Israel Joshua Singer, Isaeus, Arkady Gaidar, and Ivan Mažuranić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Noor Inayat Khan ranks 105. Before her are Ferenc Fricsay, Kirill Kondrashin, Álvaro del Portillo, Marcos Pérez Jiménez, Vladimir Chelomey, and Arthur Kennedy. After her are Lyman Spitzer, Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven, Akira Matsunaga, Edward Schillebeeckx, Hortensia Bussi, and Annie Fischer. Among people deceased in 1944, Noor Inayat Khan ranks 118. Before her are Kaj Munk, Paul Masson, Lina Cavalieri, Frank Marshall, Nikolai Kuznetsov, and Musa Cälil. After her are Israel Joshua Singer, Arsen Kotsoyev, Charles Diehl, Helmut Lent, Józef Beck, and Rudolf Schmundt.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Noor Inayat Khan ranks 732 out of 3,262. Before her are Nikolai Kuznetsov (1911), Talabuga (1300), Nikolai Berzarin (1904), Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia (1861), Musa Cälil (1906), and Elena Stasova (1873). After her are Arkady Gaidar (1904), Arsen Kotsoyev (1872), Alexander Yakovlev (1923), Ivan Yefimovich Petrov (1896), Alexander Gradsky (1949), and Prince John Konstantinovich of Russia (1886).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Noor Inayat Khan ranks 91. Before her are Zinaida Gippius (1869), Denis Fonvizin (1745), Bella Akhmadulina (1937), Countess of Ségur (1799), Olga Rozanova (1886), and Musa Cälil (1906). After her are Arkady Gaidar (1904), Arsen Kotsoyev (1872), Samuil Marshak (1887), Kristijonas Donelaitis (1714), Ivan Yefremov (1908), and Sergei Nilus (1862).

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