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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 the Second World War 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 the Second World War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Noor Inayat Khan has received more than 2,795,332 page views. Her biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Noor Inayat Khan is the 2,424th most popular writer (down from 1,965th in 2019), the 882nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 730th in 2019) and the 107th most popular Russian Writer.

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  • 4.70

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Noor Inayat Khan ranks 2,424 out of 7,302. Before her are Charlotte Buff, Aelred of Rievaulx, Kate Chopin, Olaudah Equiano, Peter of Dusburg, and Ugo Betti. After her are Niccolò Tommaseo, Paul Hazard, Dominique Lapierre, Philippe de Mornay, Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse, and Ibn Kemal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Noor Inayat Khan ranks 118. Before her are Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr., Erich Topp, Woody Strode, Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven, Domènec Balmanya, and George Volkoff. After her are Yahya Khan, Taisen Deshimaru, Sun Ra, Lyman Spitzer, Koichi Oita, and Brunó Ferenc Straub. Among people deceased in 1944, Noor Inayat Khan ranks 140. Before her are Alime Abdenanova, Helmut Lent, Charles Diehl, J. Walter Christie, Riccardo Zandonai, and Joseph Caillaux. After her are Paul Hazard, Patriarch Sergius of Moscow, Léon Brunschvicg, Franz Kutschera, Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, and Alois Musil.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Noor Inayat Khan ranks 882 out of 3,761. Before her are George Volkoff (1914), Sergei Korsakoff (1854), Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov (1907), Natalia Makarova (1940), Eugene Botkin (1865), and Viktor Gorbatko (1934). After her are Malyuta Skuratov (1600), Patriarch Sergius of Moscow (1867), Catherine of Brandenburg (1604), Vasily Livanov (1935), Grigory Margulis (1946), and Konstantin Somov (1869).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Noor Inayat Khan ranks 107. Before her are Sergei Nilus (1862), Leah Goldberg (1911), Andrei Voznesensky (1933), Aino Kallas (1878), Kristijonas Donelaitis (1714), and Nikolay Kostomarov (1817). After her are Andrey Kurbsky (1528), Sergey Aksakov (1791), Eeva Kilpi (1928), Şihabetdin Märcani (1818), Ivan Yefremov (1908), and Konstantin Batyushkov (1787).

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