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MILITARY PERSONNEL

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. Assigned to Mandatory Palestine, he became a supporter of Zionism and set up a joint British–Jewish counter-insurgency unit. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Orde Wingate has received more than 813,776 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Orde Wingate is the 1,284th most popular military personnel (down from 1,162nd in 2019), the 395th most popular biography from India (down from 343rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Indian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Orde Wingate ranks 1,284 out of 1,468. Before him are Ludwig Andreas von Khevenhüller, Caupolicán, Mikhail Diterikhs, Alfons Rebane, Albrecht Brandi, and Dmitry Milyutin. After him are Juana Azurduy de Padilla, Richard Montgomery, Adolphe Marbot, Nelson A. Miles, Aris Velouchiotis, and Ali Aaltonen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Orde Wingate ranks 169. Before him are W. V. D. Hodge, Felice Bonetto, André Maschinot, Ivar Johansson, Corrado Bafile, and Gʻafur Gʻulom. After him are Preston Tucker, Issa Pliyev, Hans Hedtoft, Fernando Paternoster, John Williams, and Misuzu Kaneko. Among people deceased in 1944, Orde Wingate ranks 195. Before him are Gabriel Hanotaux, Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, Leonid Mandelstam, Tokutaro Ukon, Dénes Kőnig, and Edith Durham. After him are Maurice Paléologue, Luigi Maglione, Vladimir Baranov-Rossine, Edwin Lutyens, Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau, and Martin Kutta.

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In India

Among people born in India, Orde Wingate ranks 395 out of 1,493. Before him are Kalyan Singh (1932), Durgabai Deshmukh (1909), Bal Thackeray (1926), Malik Kafur (1250), Shibli Nomani (1857), and Ivan Dias (1936). After him are Man Singh I (1550), Anish Kapoor (1954), Bhupen Hazarika (1926), Satya Nadella (1967), Asima Chatterjee (1917), and Sundar Pichai (1972).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In India

Among military personnels born in India, Orde Wingate ranks 7. Before him are Kim Philby (1912), Baji Rao I (1700), Tatya Tope (1814), Rash Behari Bose (1886), Mad Mike Hoare (1919), and Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts (1832). After him are Bipin Rawat (1958), Andrew Scott Waugh (1810), John Frost (1912), Sam Manekshaw (1914), John Hunt, Baron Hunt (1910), and Kenneth Anderson (1891).

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