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Percy Hobart

1885 - 1957

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Major-General Sir Percy Cleghorn Stanley Hobart, (14 June 1885 – 19 February 1957), also known as "Hobo", was a British military engineer noted for his command of the 79th Armoured Division during the Second World War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Percy Hobart has received more than 253,974 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Percy Hobart is the 302nd most popular engineer (down from 239th in 2019), the 656th most popular biography from India (down from 470th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Indian Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Percy Hobart ranks 302 out of 389. Before him are Hesham Qandil, Peter Schreyer, Yaakov Ziv, Mal Evans, Franciszek Rychnowski, and Frederick Terman. After him are Arthur E. Kennelly, Sam Eyde, Guenther Steiner, Isaac Roberts, Marina Popovich, and Ron Tauranac.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Percy Hobart ranks 205. Before him are Enrico Porro, José Durand Laguna, Leonida Tonelli, Lajos Tihanyi, Robert Liottel, and Henri Béraud. After him are Nils Hellsten, Georges Passerieu, Miroslav Kraljević, Frederic Zelnik, Karel Hartmann, and Fritz von Unruh. Among people deceased in 1957, Percy Hobart ranks 176. Before him are Patrick Abercrombie, Robert Esnault-Pelterie, Roger Vercel, Mikhail Gnessin, Wyndham Lewis, and Carl Størmer. After him are Devdas Gandhi, Anna Haava, Alfredo Gollini, Ken Wharton, Zenón Noriega Agüero, and Jimmy Dorsey.

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In India

Among people born in India, Percy Hobart ranks 656 out of 1,861. Before him are Shah Shuja (1616), Nana Patekar (1951), Cornelia Sorabji (1866), Farida Jalal (1949), Sheila Dikshit (1938), and Ismat Chughtai (1915). After him are Guru Dutt (1925), Arthur E. Kennelly (1861), Venkaiah Naidu (1949), Mahboob Ali Khan (1866), Yamini Krishnamurthy (1940), and Asha Parekh (1942).

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Among ENGINEERS In India

Among engineers born in India, Percy Hobart ranks 2. Before him are Verghese Kurien (1921). After him are Arthur E. Kennelly (1861), Rajeshwari Chatterjee (1922), and Tessy Thomas (1963).

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