MILITARY PERSONNEL

P. G. T. Beauregard

1818 - 1893

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Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard (May 28, 1818 – February 20, 1893) was an American military officer known as being the Confederate General who started the American Civil War at the battle of Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861. Today, he is commonly referred to as P. G. T. Beauregard, but he rarely used his first name as an adult. He signed correspondence as G. T. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of P. G. T. Beauregard has received more than 2,022,757 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia. P. G. T. Beauregard is the 835th most popular military personnel (down from 685th in 2019), the 2,448th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,056th in 2019) and the 38th most popular American Military Personnel.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, P. G. T. Beauregard ranks 835 out of 2,058. Before him are Henri Gouraud, Ōtani Yoshitsugu, Chabrias, Walter Heitz, Sylvester Stadler, and Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa. After him are Ivan Panfilov, Bertram Ramsay, Ardaric, Wilhelm Adam, Hitoshi Imamura, and Magnus Stenbock.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1818, P. G. T. Beauregard ranks 42. Before him are Max Joseph von Pettenkofer, Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Prince August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Heinrich Göbel, Marie of Saxe-Altenburg, and Marco Minghetti. After him are Franciscus Donders, Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville, Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufmann, Eduard Totleben, Louis Gerhard De Geer, and Petar Preradović. Among people deceased in 1893, P. G. T. Beauregard ranks 27. Before him are Abner Doubleday, Alexander Cunningham, George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Heinrich Göbel, Leland Stanford, and Princess Margherita of Bourbon-Parma. After him are George Tupou I, Aleksandra Potanina, Ford Madox Brown, José Zorrilla, Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, and Rudolf Wolf.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, P. G. T. Beauregard ranks 2,448 out of 20,380. Before him are Jaclyn Smith (1945), W. E. B. Du Bois (1868), John Milnor (1931), Henry Winkler (1945), Dan Quayle (1947), and Henry George (1839). After him are Robert James Waller (1939), Grace Moore (1898), John G. Thompson (1932), Al Oerter (1936), Jeb Bush (1953), and Neil Sedaka (1939).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, P. G. T. Beauregard ranks 38. Before him are Doc Holliday (1851), Joseph E. Johnston (1807), Frank Jack Fletcher (1885), Henry H. Arnold (1886), Alexander Haig (1924), and David Farragut (1801). After him are Joseph Stilwell (1883), Matthew Ridgway (1895), John C. Woods (1911), Monte Melkonian (1957), John Basilone (1916), and Philip Sheridan (1831).

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