1899 - 1984
Raoul Albin Louis Salan (French pronunciation: [ʁaul salɑ̃]; 10 June 1899 – 3 July 1984) was a French Army general and the founder of the Organisation armée secrète, a clandestine terrorist organisation that sought to defend the French colonial empire by preventing Algerian independence. He served as the fourth French commanding general during the First Indochina War. He was one of four retired generals who organized the 1961 Algiers Putsch operation. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Raoul Salan has received more than 352,657 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Raoul Salan is the 623rd most popular military personnel (down from 599th in 2019), the 1,675th most popular biography from France (up from 1,700th in 2019) and the 68th most popular French Military Personnel.
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Among military personnels, Raoul Salan ranks 623 out of 1,468. Before him are Zhuge Jin, Israel Tal, Werner Kempf, Casimir Pulaski, Giorgio Basta, and Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours. After him are Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld, Živojin Mišić, Takijirō Ōnishi, Artur Phleps, Ma Dai, and Sergei Skripal.
174 - Present
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 617
1924 - 2010
HPI: 57.95
Rank: 618
1886 - 1964
HPI: 57.91
Rank: 619
1745 - 1779
HPI: 57.90
Rank: 620
1550 - 1607
HPI: 57.90
Rank: 621
1489 - 1512
HPI: 57.89
Rank: 622
1899 - 1984
HPI: 57.87
Rank: 623
1651 - 1722
HPI: 57.87
Rank: 624
1855 - 1921
HPI: 57.86
Rank: 625
1891 - 1945
HPI: 57.81
Rank: 626
1881 - 1944
HPI: 57.79
Rank: 627
183 - 300
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 628
1951 - Present
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 629
Among people born in 1899, Raoul Salan ranks 68. Before him are Andrei Platonov, Aksel Sandemose, Franz Jonas, Nadezhda Mandelstam, Fritz Bayerlein, and Hans Jeschonnek. After him are Princess Margaretha of Sweden, Hayato Ikeda, Walter Lantz, Michał Kalecki, Adam Rainer, and Ida Kamińska. Among people deceased in 1984, Raoul Salan ranks 54. Before him are Jiro Miyake, Count Basie, Hans Speidel, Fikret Amirov, Chaïm Perelman, and José Mauro de Vasconcelos. After him are Rodrigo Lara, Jerzy Popiełuszko, Eduardo De Filippo, Mark W. Clark, Walter Tevis, and Marcel Janco.
1899 - 1951
HPI: 59.21
Rank: 62
1899 - 1965
HPI: 59.14
Rank: 63
1899 - 1974
HPI: 59.10
Rank: 64
1899 - 1980
HPI: 58.86
Rank: 65
1899 - 1970
HPI: 58.28
Rank: 66
1899 - 1943
HPI: 58.14
Rank: 67
1899 - 1984
HPI: 57.87
Rank: 68
1899 - 1977
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 69
1899 - 1965
HPI: 57.20
Rank: 70
1899 - 1994
HPI: 57.06
Rank: 71
1899 - 1970
HPI: 56.79
Rank: 72
1899 - 1950
HPI: 56.75
Rank: 73
1899 - 1980
HPI: 56.65
Rank: 74
1900 - 1984
HPI: 58.52
Rank: 48
1904 - 1984
HPI: 58.47
Rank: 49
1897 - 1984
HPI: 58.21
Rank: 50
1922 - 1984
HPI: 57.98
Rank: 51
1912 - 1984
HPI: 57.93
Rank: 52
1920 - 1984
HPI: 57.91
Rank: 53
1899 - 1984
HPI: 57.87
Rank: 54
1946 - 1984
HPI: 57.76
Rank: 55
1947 - 1984
HPI: 57.73
Rank: 56
1900 - 1984
HPI: 57.56
Rank: 57
1896 - 1984
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 58
1928 - 1984
HPI: 57.02
Rank: 59
1895 - 1984
HPI: 56.96
Rank: 60
Among people born in France, Raoul Salan ranks 1,675 out of 6,011. Before him are Jean Chapelain (1595), Berengar of Tours (998), Elliott Erwitt (1928), Jean-Baptiste Carrier (1756), Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours (1489), and Pierre Puget (1620). After him are Matilda of Boulogne (1103), Adhemar of Le Puy (1055), Natalia Pavlovna Paley (1905), Georges Delerue (1925), Christiane Martel (1936), and Christian III, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (1674).
1595 - 1674
HPI: 57.90
Rank: 1,669
998 - 1088
HPI: 57.90
Rank: 1,670
1928 - 2023
HPI: 57.89
Rank: 1,671
1756 - 1794
HPI: 57.89
Rank: 1,672
1489 - 1512
HPI: 57.89
Rank: 1,673
1620 - 1694
HPI: 57.88
Rank: 1,674
1899 - 1984
HPI: 57.87
Rank: 1,675
1103 - 1152
HPI: 57.87
Rank: 1,676
1055 - 1098
HPI: 57.85
Rank: 1,677
1905 - 1981
HPI: 57.84
Rank: 1,678
1925 - 1992
HPI: 57.83
Rank: 1,679
1936 - Present
HPI: 57.83
Rank: 1,680
1674 - 1735
HPI: 57.83
Rank: 1,681
Among military personnels born in France, Raoul Salan ranks 68. Before him are Joseph Gallieni (1849), Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon (1754), Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard (1476), Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier (1742), Barthélemy Catherine Joubert (1769), and Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours (1489). After him are Henri de la Rochejaquelein (1772), Dominique Vandamme (1770), Hubert Lyautey (1854), François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg (1628), Henri Gatien Bertrand (1773), and Charles Huntziger (1880).
1849 - 1916
HPI: 58.66
Rank: 62
1754 - 1818
HPI: 58.54
Rank: 63
1476 - 1524
HPI: 58.40
Rank: 64
1742 - 1819
HPI: 58.23
Rank: 65
1769 - 1799
HPI: 58.19
Rank: 66
1489 - 1512
HPI: 57.89
Rank: 67
1899 - 1984
HPI: 57.87
Rank: 68
1772 - 1794
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 69
1770 - 1830
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 70
1854 - 1934
HPI: 57.61
Rank: 71
1628 - 1695
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 72
1773 - 1844
HPI: 57.49
Rank: 73
1880 - 1941
HPI: 57.37
Rank: 74