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 2,733,517 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Paul Tibbets is the 175th most popular military personnel (down from 172nd in 2019), the 464th most popular biography from United States (up from 473rd 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 175 out of 1,468. Before him are Joseph Joffre, Ernst Busch, Joachim Peiper, Auguste de Marmont, Dietrich von Choltitz, and George Armstrong Custer. After him are Józef Poniatowski, Hans Krebs, Oskar Dirlewanger, Akechi Mitsuhide, Johannes Blaskowitz, and Djemal Pasha.
1852 - 1931
HPI: 67.31
Rank: 169
1885 - 1945
HPI: 67.30
Rank: 170
1915 - 1976
HPI: 67.29
Rank: 171
1774 - 1852
HPI: 67.19
Rank: 172
1894 - 1966
HPI: 67.13
Rank: 173
1839 - 1876
HPI: 67.11
Rank: 174
1915 - 2007
HPI: 67.09
Rank: 175
1763 - 1813
HPI: 67.07
Rank: 176
1898 - 1945
HPI: 66.94
Rank: 177
1895 - 1945
HPI: 66.89
Rank: 178
1526 - 1582
HPI: 66.86
Rank: 179
1883 - 1948
HPI: 66.86
Rank: 180
1872 - 1922
HPI: 66.83
Rank: 181
Among people born in 1915, Paul Tibbets ranks 19. Before him are Billie Holiday, Arthur Miller, Jerome Bruner, Stanley Matthews, Yitzhak Shamir, and Joachim Peiper. After him are Aung San, Sviatoslav Richter, Saul Bellow, Fred Hoyle, Hu Yaobang, and Les Paul. Among people deceased in 2007, Paul Tibbets ranks 12. Before him are Jean Baudrillard, Marcel Marceau, Kurt Waldheim, Carlo Ponti, Mstislav Rostropovich, and Ève Curie. After him are Karlheinz Stockhausen, Kurt Vonnegut, Albert Ellis, Sidney Sheldon, Maurice Béjart, and Benazir Bhutto.
1915 - 1959
HPI: 69.32
Rank: 13
1915 - 2005
HPI: 69.18
Rank: 14
1915 - 2016
HPI: 68.13
Rank: 15
1915 - 2000
HPI: 67.83
Rank: 16
1915 - 2012
HPI: 67.31
Rank: 17
1915 - 1976
HPI: 67.29
Rank: 18
1915 - 2007
HPI: 67.09
Rank: 19
1915 - 1947
HPI: 66.65
Rank: 20
1915 - 1997
HPI: 66.63
Rank: 21
1915 - 2005
HPI: 66.32
Rank: 22
1915 - 2001
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 23
1915 - 1989
HPI: 66.15
Rank: 24
1915 - 2009
HPI: 64.24
Rank: 25
1929 - 2007
HPI: 70.57
Rank: 6
1923 - 2007
HPI: 70.24
Rank: 7
1918 - 2007
HPI: 69.82
Rank: 8
1912 - 2007
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 9
1927 - 2007
HPI: 67.24
Rank: 10
1904 - 2007
HPI: 67.22
Rank: 11
1915 - 2007
HPI: 67.09
Rank: 12
1928 - 2007
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 13
1922 - 2007
HPI: 66.52
Rank: 14
1913 - 2007
HPI: 66.06
Rank: 15
1917 - 2007
HPI: 66.02
Rank: 16
1927 - 2007
HPI: 65.82
Rank: 17
1953 - 2007
HPI: 65.78
Rank: 18
Among people born in United States, Paul Tibbets ranks 464 out of 18,182. Before him are Dennis Hopper (1936), Julianne Moore (1960), Michelle Pfeiffer (1958), Terry Gilliam (1940), George Armstrong Custer (1839), and Diana Ross (1944). After him are Robert Kiyosaki (1947), Jon Brower Minnoch (1941), Yehudi Menuhin (1916), Oprah Winfrey (1954), Lauren Bacall (1924), and Wilt Chamberlain (1936).
1936 - 2010
HPI: 67.19
Rank: 458
1960 - Present
HPI: 67.18
Rank: 459
1958 - Present
HPI: 67.14
Rank: 460
1940 - Present
HPI: 67.12
Rank: 461
1839 - 1876
HPI: 67.11
Rank: 462
1944 - Present
HPI: 67.10
Rank: 463
1915 - 2007
HPI: 67.09
Rank: 464
1947 - Present
HPI: 67.02
Rank: 465
1941 - 1983
HPI: 66.99
Rank: 466
1916 - 1999
HPI: 66.98
Rank: 467
1954 - Present
HPI: 66.96
Rank: 468
1924 - 2014
HPI: 66.94
Rank: 469
1936 - 1999
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 470
Among military personnels born in United States, Paul Tibbets ranks 8. Before him are Robert E. Lee (1807), Desmond Doss (1919), Robert Peary (1856), George S. Patton (1885), Chester W. Nimitz (1885), and George Armstrong Custer (1839). After him are Matthew C. Perry (1794), Omar Bradley (1893), John J. Pershing (1860), Albert Pike (1809), William Tecumseh Sherman (1820), and Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821).
1807 - 1870
HPI: 70.62
Rank: 2
1919 - 2006
HPI: 70.38
Rank: 3
1856 - 1920
HPI: 69.94
Rank: 4
1885 - 1945
HPI: 69.00
Rank: 5
1885 - 1966
HPI: 68.20
Rank: 6
1839 - 1876
HPI: 67.11
Rank: 7
1915 - 2007
HPI: 67.09
Rank: 8
1794 - 1858
HPI: 64.36
Rank: 9
1893 - 1981
HPI: 64.24
Rank: 10
1860 - 1948
HPI: 63.26
Rank: 11
1809 - 1891
HPI: 62.56
Rank: 12
1820 - 1891
HPI: 61.44
Rank: 13
1821 - 1877
HPI: 61.13
Rank: 14