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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Reginald Dyer

1864 - 1927

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Colonel Reginald Edward Harry Dyer, (9 October 1864 – 23 July 1927) was an officer of the Bengal Army and later the newly constituted British Indian Army. His military career began in the regular British Army but he soon transferred to the presidency armies of India. As a temporary brigadier-general, he was responsible for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre that took place on 13 April 1919 in Amritsar (in the province of Punjab). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Reginald Dyer has received more than 2,671,766 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Reginald Dyer is the 1,554th most popular military personnel (down from 1,395th in 2019), the 76th most popular biography from Pakistan (down from 75th in 2019) and the most popular Pakistani Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Reginald Dyer ranks 1,554 out of 1,468. Before him are Charles Leclerc, Rufina Gasheva, John F. Reynolds, Michael Mullen, George W. Casey Jr., and Issam Zahreddine. After him are Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer, Miles Dempsey, Eddie Rickenbacker, Alexandros Othonaios, A. P. Hill, and Aviv Kochavi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Reginald Dyer ranks 140. Before him are F. C. S. Schiller, William S. Hart, Miina Härma, Stanley Maude, Alice Davenport, and Willoughby Hamilton. After him are Tully Marshall, Alfred John Keene, Arthur Smith Woodward, Anna Golubkina, George Hillyard, and George Nichols. Among people deceased in 1927, Reginald Dyer ranks 116. Before him are Ricardo Güiraldes, Leonard Nelson, J. B. Bury, Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos, Pedro Nel Ospina Vázquez, and Klaus Berntsen. After him are Anna Golubkina, Max Weiss, Edward Henry Potthast, George Nichols, Feliciano Viera, and Ödön Bodor.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Reginald Dyer ranks 76 out of 180. Before him are Muhammad Mian Soomro (1950), Gulzar (1934), Art Malik (1952), Vinod Khanna (1946), Yousaf Raza Gillani (1952), and Manoj Kumar (1937). After him are Margaret Lockwood (1916), Muhammad Khan Junejo (1932), Shahid Khan (1950), Noor Jehan (1926), Balraj Sahni (1913), and Zafarullah Khan Jamali (1944).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Pakistan

Among military personnels born in Pakistan, Reginald Dyer ranks 1. After him are Ashfaq Parvez Kayani (1952).

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