1915 - 2007
Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. (23 February 1915 – 1 November 2007) was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Tibbets has received more than 2,047,594 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Tibbets is the 172nd most popular military personnel (down from 163rd in 2019), the 473rd most popular biography from United States (down from 440th in 2019) and the 8th most popular American Military Personnel.
Paul Tibbets was most famous for being the pilot of the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
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Among military personnels, Paul Tibbets ranks 172 out of 1,466. Before him are Alfred von Schlieffen, Matilda of Tuscany, August von Mackensen, Lavr Kornilov, John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, and Mikhail Frunze. After him are Felix Steiner, Dragut, Anton Denikin, Wilhelm List, Joachim Peiper, and Charles V, Duke of Lorraine.
1833 - 1913
HPI: 74.92
Rank: 166
1046 - 1115
HPI: 74.89
Rank: 167
1849 - 1945
HPI: 74.87
Rank: 168
1870 - 1918
HPI: 74.84
Rank: 169
1650 - 1722
HPI: 74.73
Rank: 170
1885 - 1925
HPI: 74.71
Rank: 171
1915 - 2007
HPI: 74.69
Rank: 172
1896 - 1966
HPI: 74.68
Rank: 173
1485 - 1565
HPI: 74.67
Rank: 174
1872 - 1947
HPI: 74.67
Rank: 175
1880 - 1971
HPI: 74.61
Rank: 176
1915 - 1976
HPI: 74.57
Rank: 177
1643 - 1690
HPI: 74.54
Rank: 178
Among people born in 1915, Paul Tibbets ranks 17. Before him are Arthur Miller, Eli Wallach, Paul Samuelson, Yitzhak Shamir, Jerome Bruner, and Sviatoslav Richter. After him are Joachim Peiper, Saul Bellow, Billie Holiday, Hu Yaobang, Fred Hoyle, and Les Paul. Among people deceased in 2007, Paul Tibbets ranks 13. Before him are Karlheinz Stockhausen, Carlo Ponti, Mstislav Rostropovich, Kurt Vonnegut, Mohammed Zahir Shah, and Marcel Marceau. After him are Sidney Sheldon, Maurice Béjart, Albert Ellis, Deborah Kerr, Ryszard Kapuściński, and Jean-Pierre Cassel.
1915 - 2005
HPI: 77.18
Rank: 11
1915 - 2014
HPI: 76.69
Rank: 12
1915 - 2009
HPI: 76.63
Rank: 13
1915 - 2012
HPI: 75.75
Rank: 14
1915 - 2016
HPI: 75.23
Rank: 15
1915 - 1997
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 16
1915 - 2007
HPI: 74.69
Rank: 17
1915 - 1976
HPI: 74.57
Rank: 18
1915 - 2005
HPI: 74.57
Rank: 19
1915 - 1959
HPI: 74.23
Rank: 20
1915 - 1989
HPI: 73.95
Rank: 21
1915 - 2001
HPI: 73.79
Rank: 22
1915 - 2009
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 23
1928 - 2007
HPI: 76.01
Rank: 7
1912 - 2007
HPI: 75.89
Rank: 8
1927 - 2007
HPI: 75.88
Rank: 9
1922 - 2007
HPI: 75.16
Rank: 10
1914 - 2007
HPI: 74.84
Rank: 11
1923 - 2007
HPI: 74.71
Rank: 12
1915 - 2007
HPI: 74.69
Rank: 13
1917 - 2007
HPI: 74.54
Rank: 14
1927 - 2007
HPI: 74.06
Rank: 15
1913 - 2007
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 16
1921 - 2007
HPI: 73.40
Rank: 17
1932 - 2007
HPI: 72.78
Rank: 18
1932 - 2007
HPI: 72.29
Rank: 19
Among people born in United States, Paul Tibbets ranks 473 out of 15,968. Before him are Mickey Rourke (1952), Barbara McClintock (1902), Ernest Lawrence (1901), Edward Drinker Cope (1840), T. S. Eliot (1888), and John Cazale (1935). After him are Theodore Dreiser (1871), Faye Dunaway (1941), Sarah Palin (1964), John Bardeen (1908), Susan Sontag (1933), and Tennessee Williams (1911).
1952 - Present
HPI: 74.75
Rank: 467
1902 - 1992
HPI: 74.74
Rank: 468
1901 - 1958
HPI: 74.73
Rank: 469
1840 - 1897
HPI: 74.71
Rank: 470
1888 - 1965
HPI: 74.70
Rank: 471
1935 - 1978
HPI: 74.70
Rank: 472
1915 - 2007
HPI: 74.69
Rank: 473
1871 - 1945
HPI: 74.69
Rank: 474
1941 - Present
HPI: 74.67
Rank: 475
1964 - Present
HPI: 74.67
Rank: 476
1908 - 1991
HPI: 74.67
Rank: 477
1933 - 2004
HPI: 74.66
Rank: 478
1911 - 1983
HPI: 74.65
Rank: 479
Among military personnels born in United States, Paul Tibbets ranks 8. Before him are George S. Patton (1885), Desmond Doss (1919), Robert Peary (1856), Chester W. Nimitz (1885), Robert E. Lee (1807), and George Armstrong Custer (1839). After him are Matthew C. Perry (1794), Omar Bradley (1893), John J. Pershing (1860), Yonatan Netanyahu (1946), Richard Winters (1918), and Raymond A. Spruance (1886).
1885 - 1945
HPI: 77.79
Rank: 2
1919 - 2006
HPI: 77.03
Rank: 3
1856 - 1920
HPI: 76.48
Rank: 4
1885 - 1966
HPI: 75.89
Rank: 5
1807 - 1870
HPI: 75.75
Rank: 6
1839 - 1876
HPI: 75.56
Rank: 7
1915 - 2007
HPI: 74.69
Rank: 8
1794 - 1858
HPI: 73.03
Rank: 9
1893 - 1981
HPI: 72.62
Rank: 10
1860 - 1948
HPI: 71.41
Rank: 11
1946 - 1976
HPI: 70.37
Rank: 12
1918 - 2011
HPI: 70.13
Rank: 13
1886 - 1969
HPI: 69.84
Rank: 14