MILITARY PERSONNEL

Peter Townsend

1914 - 1995

Peter Townsend

Group Captain Peter Wooldridge Townsend, (22 November 1914 – 19 June 1995) was a British Royal Air Force officer, flying ace, courtier and author. He was equerry to King George VI from 1944 to 1952 and held the same position for Elizabeth II from 1952 to 1953. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Townsend has received more than 131,598 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Peter Townsend is the 478th most popular military personnel (down from 394th in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from Myanmar (Burma) (down from 5th in 2019) and the most popular Burmese Military Personnel.

Memorability Metrics

130k
Page Views (PV)
60.66
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
17
Languages Editions (L)
4.51
Effective Languages (L*)
2.45
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Peter Townsends by language

Over the past year Peter Townsend has had the most page views in the Spanish wikipedia edition with 86,030 views, followed by German (84,202), and French (70,106). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Indonesian (605.52%), Afrikaans (25.05%), and Ukrainian (−0.89%)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Peter Townsend ranks 478 out of 2,058. Before him are Norman Schwarzkopf Jr., Alfred Redl, Honda Tadakatsu, Karl von Bülow, Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov, and Tamon Yamaguchi. After him are Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Erich Fellgiebel, Alfred von Waldersee, Yu Jin, Adolf Strauss, and Aegidius.

Most Popular Military Personnels in Wikipedia

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Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.
1934 - 2012
HPI: 60.72
Rank: 472
Alfred Redl
1864 - 1913
HPI: 60.71
Rank: 473
Honda Tadakatsu
1548 - 1610
HPI: 60.70
Rank: 474
Karl von Bülow
1846 - 1921
HPI: 60.69
Rank: 475
Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov
1737 - 1808
HPI: 60.69
Rank: 476
Tamon Yamaguchi
1892 - 1942
HPI: 60.66
Rank: 477
Peter Townsend
1914 - 1995
HPI: 60.66
Rank: 478
Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba
1453 - 1515
HPI: 60.52
Rank: 479
Erich Fellgiebel
1886 - 1944
HPI: 60.51
Rank: 480
Alfred von Waldersee
1832 - 1904
HPI: 60.49
Rank: 481
Yu Jin
200 - 221
HPI: 60.48
Rank: 482
Adolf Strauss
1879 - 1973
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 483
Aegidius
450 - 465
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 484

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Peter Townsend ranks 47. Before him are Dylan Thomas, George Dantzig, Asger Jorn, María Félix, Jean Tatlock, and Boris Christoff. After him are Pavle, Serbian Patriarch, Norman Borlaug, Adolfo Bioy Casares, William Westmoreland, Robert Wise, and Alan Hodgkin. Among people deceased in 1995, Peter Townsend ranks 51. Before him are Lita Grey, Carlos Monzón, Ștefan Kovács, Siad Barre, Ernest Gellner, and Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. After him are Miklós Rózsa, Don Cherry, César Rodríguez Álvarez, Georges J. F. Köhler, Rose Kennedy, and Bob Ross.

Others Born in 1914

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Dylan Thomas
WRITER
1914 - 1953
HPI: 61.06
Rank: 41
George Dantzig
COMPUTER SCIENTIST
1914 - 2005
HPI: 60.92
Rank: 42
Asger Jorn
PAINTER
1914 - 1973
HPI: 60.91
Rank: 43
María Félix
ACTOR
1914 - 2002
HPI: 60.89
Rank: 44
Jean Tatlock
PSYCHOLOGIST
1914 - 1944
HPI: 60.80
Rank: 45
Boris Christoff
SINGER
1914 - 1993
HPI: 60.69
Rank: 46
Peter Townsend
MILITARY PERSONNEL
1914 - 1995
HPI: 60.66
Rank: 47
Pavle, Serbian Patriarch
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1914 - 2009
HPI: 60.59
Rank: 48
Norman Borlaug
BIOLOGIST
1914 - 2009
HPI: 60.57
Rank: 49
Adolfo Bioy Casares
WRITER
1914 - 1999
HPI: 60.49
Rank: 50
William Westmoreland
MILITARY PERSONNEL
1914 - 2005
HPI: 60.24
Rank: 51
Robert Wise
FILM DIRECTOR
1914 - 2005
HPI: 60.18
Rank: 52
Alan Hodgkin
PHYSICIAN
1914 - 1998
HPI: 60.15
Rank: 53