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Orde Wingate

1903 - 1944

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Major General Orde Charles Wingate, (26 February 1903 – 24 March 1944) was a senior British Army officer known for his creation of the Chindit deep-penetration missions in Japanese-held territory during the Burma Campaign of the Second World War. Wingate was an exponent of unconventional military thinking and the value of surprise tactics. Wingate was a dedicated Christian Zionist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Orde Wingate has received more than 897,669 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Orde Wingate is the 1,268th most popular military personnel (up from 1,283rd in 2019), the 379th most popular biography from India (up from 392nd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Indian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Orde Wingate ranks 1,268 out of 2,058. Before him are Karl Decker, Antonio Luna, Vitalian, Movses Silikyan, Illus, and Claude Choules. After him are J. F. C. Fuller, Josef Kammhuber, Abdul Haris Nasution, Max Wünsche, Johann Peter Beaulieu, and Máximo Gómez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Orde Wingate ranks 150. Before him are Takiji Kobayashi, Ona Munson, Anne Revere, Maria Giuseppa Robucci, Márton Bukovi, and Antanas Sniečkus. After him are Bix Beiderbecke, Russell Bufalino, Earl Hines, Vincent Richards, W. V. D. Hodge, and Fumiko Hayashi. Among people deceased in 1944, Orde Wingate ranks 171. Before him are Martin Kutta, Ramón Castillo, Lou Henry Hoover, Benjamin Fondane, Endre Kabos, and Gabriel Hanotaux. After him are Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven, Miklós Radnóti, Adolf Diekmann, Hans Graf von Sponeck, and George David Birkhoff.

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In India

Among people born in India, Orde Wingate ranks 379 out of 1,861. Before him are K. Shivaram Karanth (1902), Gupta (240), Baba Amte (1914), M. N. Roy (1887), Tyagaraja (1767), and Bhikaiji Cama (1861). After him are Mad Mike Hoare (1919), Rani Padmini (null), The Great Khali (1972), Ashraf Ali Thanwi (1863), Maithili Sharan Gupt (1886), and Ramananda (1400).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In India

Among military personnels born in India, Orde Wingate ranks 5. Before him are Kim Philby (1912), Baji Rao I (1700), Tatya Tope (1814), and Rash Behari Bose (1886). After him are Mad Mike Hoare (1919), Sam Manekshaw (1914), Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts (1832), John Frost (1912), Somnath Sharma (1923), William Birdwood (1865), and Bakht Khan (1797).

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