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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Oliver Hazard Perry

1785 - 1819

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Oliver Hazard Perry (August 23, 1785 – August 23, 1819) was an American naval commander, born in South Kingstown, Rhode Island. A prominent member of the Perry family naval dynasty, he was the son of Sarah Wallace Alexander and United States Navy Captain Christopher Raymond Perry, and older brother of Commodore Matthew C. Perry. Perry served in the West Indies during the Quasi War of 1798–1800 against France, in the Mediterranean during the Barbary Wars of 1801–1815, and in the Caribbean fighting piracy and the slave trade, but is most noted for his role in the War of 1812 during the 1813 Battle of Lake Erie. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oliver Hazard Perry has received more than 990,723 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Oliver Hazard Perry is the 1,501st most popular military personnel (down from 1,364th in 2019), the 6,455th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,839th in 2019) and the 109th most popular American Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Oliver Hazard Perry ranks 1,501 out of 1,468Before him are Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford, Abu Ali al-Anbari, Harry Patch, Natalya Kovshova, Stefan Toshev, and Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans. After him are Henry Halleck, Friedrich Sixt von Armin, Nathan Hale, Murat Karayılan, Flora Sandes, and Kliment Boyadzhiev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1785, Oliver Hazard Perry ranks 47Before him are Anna Sundström, Étienne Constantin de Gerlache, Karol Kurpiński, William Beaumont, Martín Miguel de Güemes, and David Wilkie. After him are Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt, Per Georg Scheutz, Thomas Love Peacock, Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann, Arvid August Afzelius, and Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge. Among people deceased in 1819, Oliver Hazard Perry ranks 24Before him are Bodawpaya, Abbé Faria, Alexander Tormasov, Johan David Åkerblad, Valentin Vodnik, and John Playfair. After him are John Marshall, Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg, John Jeffries, Mary Moser, William Samuel Johnson, and John Langdon.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Oliver Hazard Perry ranks 6,455 out of 18,182Before him are Bob Welch (1945), David A. R. White (1970), Elizabeth Gertrude Britton (1858), Todd Haynes (1961), David Smith (1906), and Pia Zadora (1953). After him are Henry Halleck (1815), Eugene McCarthy (1916), Joan Mitchell (1925), Teddy Mayer (1935), Frederick Russell Burnham (1861), and Harry Shearer (1943).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Oliver Hazard Perry ranks 109Before him are J. D. Tippit (1924), Mark Milley (1958), Frederick Townsend Ward (1831), John Bell Hood (1831), Richard Bong (1920), and Richmond K. Turner (1885). After him are Henry Halleck (1815), Nathan Hale (1755), J. Lawton Collins (1896), John Pope (1822), Mickey Marcus (1901), and Raymond T. Odierno (1954).