1895 - 1944
Richard Sorge (4 October 1895 – 7 November 1944) was a German journalist and Soviet military intelligence officer who was active before and during World War II and worked undercover as a German journalist in both Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. His codename was "Ramsay" (Russian: Рамза́й). Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Sorge has received more than 660,532 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Richard Sorge is the 2nd most popular journalist (up from 4th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Azerbaijan (up from 5th in 2019) and the most popular Azerbaijani Journalist.
Richard Sorge was a Soviet spy who was instrumental in exposing the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union.
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Among journalists, Richard Sorge ranks 2 out of 129. Before him are Robert Capa. After him are Oriana Fallaci, François-Noël Babeuf, Joseph Pulitzer, Gianni Rodari, Gerda Taro, Sebastião Salgado, Dorothea Lange, John Reed, Julian Assange, and Anna Politkovskaya.
1913 - 1954
HPI: 78.89
Rank: 1
1895 - 1944
HPI: 78.80
Rank: 2
1929 - 2006
HPI: 76.33
Rank: 3
1760 - 1797
HPI: 76.03
Rank: 4
1847 - 1911
HPI: 75.65
Rank: 5
1920 - 1980
HPI: 75.35
Rank: 6
1910 - 1937
HPI: 73.92
Rank: 7
1944 - Present
HPI: 72.76
Rank: 8
1895 - 1965
HPI: 72.58
Rank: 9
1887 - 1920
HPI: 72.06
Rank: 10
1971 - Present
HPI: 72.00
Rank: 11
1958 - 2006
HPI: 70.80
Rank: 12
Among people born in 1895, Richard Sorge ranks 6. Before him are George VI, Carl Orff, Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia, Juan Perón, and Anna Freud. After him are Buster Keaton, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Nikolai Yezhov, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Max Horkheimer. Among people deceased in 1944, Richard Sorge ranks 10. Before him are Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Romain Rolland, Claus von Stauffenberg, Abdulmejid II, and Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom. After him are Günther von Kluge, Reza Shah, William James Sidis, Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, Michael Wittmann, and Ludwig Beck.
1895 - 1952
HPI: 83.04
Rank: 1
1895 - 1982
HPI: 80.75
Rank: 2
1895 - 1918
HPI: 80.38
Rank: 3
1895 - 1974
HPI: 79.67
Rank: 4
1895 - 1982
HPI: 79.48
Rank: 5
1895 - 1944
HPI: 78.80
Rank: 6
1895 - 1966
HPI: 78.71
Rank: 7
1895 - 1986
HPI: 78.43
Rank: 8
1895 - 1978
HPI: 77.68
Rank: 9
1895 - 1940
HPI: 77.53
Rank: 10
1895 - 1975
HPI: 77.45
Rank: 11
1895 - 1973
HPI: 77.36
Rank: 12
1866 - 1944
HPI: 85.01
Rank: 4
1872 - 1944
HPI: 84.62
Rank: 5
1866 - 1944
HPI: 83.80
Rank: 6
1907 - 1944
HPI: 81.27
Rank: 7
1868 - 1944
HPI: 79.40
Rank: 8
1857 - 1944
HPI: 79.14
Rank: 9
1895 - 1944
HPI: 78.80
Rank: 10
1882 - 1944
HPI: 78.58
Rank: 11
1878 - 1944
HPI: 78.19
Rank: 12
1898 - 1944
HPI: 77.55
Rank: 13
1882 - 1944
HPI: 77.02
Rank: 14
1914 - 1944
HPI: 76.58
Rank: 15
1880 - 1944
HPI: 76.29
Rank: 16
Among people born in Azerbaijan, Richard Sorge ranks 2 out of 159. Before him are Nizami Ganjavi (1141). After him are Heydar Aliyev (1923), Lev Landau (1908), Mstislav Rostropovich (1927), Imadaddin Nasimi (1369), Zecharia Sitchin (1920), Garry Kasparov (1963), Arghun (1250), Ilham Aliyev (1961), Nadezhda Alliluyeva (1901), and Ivan Bagramyan (1897).
1141 - 1209
HPI: 79.50
Rank: 1
1895 - 1944
HPI: 78.80
Rank: 2
1923 - 2003
HPI: 77.89
Rank: 3
1908 - 1968
HPI: 76.65
Rank: 4
1927 - 2007
HPI: 75.88
Rank: 5
1369 - 1417
HPI: 74.60
Rank: 6
1920 - 2010
HPI: 74.54
Rank: 7
1963 - Present
HPI: 73.98
Rank: 8
1250 - 1291
HPI: 73.67
Rank: 9
1961 - Present
HPI: 72.98
Rank: 10
1901 - 1932
HPI: 72.98
Rank: 11
1897 - 1982
HPI: 71.60
Rank: 12
Among journalists born in Azerbaijan, Richard Sorge ranks 1. After him are Khadija Ismayilova (1976).