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Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell

1857 - 1941

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Lieutenant-General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, ( BAY-dən POH-əl; 22 February 1857 – 8 January 1941) was a British Army officer, writer, founder of The Boy Scouts Association and its first Chief Scout, and founder, with his sister Agnes, of The Girl Guides Association. Baden-Powell wrote Scouting for Boys, which, with his previous books, his 1884 Reconnaissance and Scouting and his 1899 Aids to Scouting for N.-C.Os and Men (intended for the military) and The Scout magazine helped the rapid growth of the Scout Movement. Educated at Charterhouse School, Baden-Powell served in the British Army from 1876 until 1910 in India and Africa. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell has received more than 3,740,360 page views. His biography is available in 78 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 76 in 2019). Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell is the 16th most popular military personnel (down from 15th in 2019), the 67th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 65th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular British Military Personnel.

Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell was most famous for founding the Scouting movement in 1907.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell ranks 16 out of 2,058. Before him are Spartacus, Adolf Eichmann, Oda Nobunaga, William Wallace, Jochi, and Ptolemy I Soter. After him are Charles XIV John of Sweden, Chiang Kai-shek, Themistocles, Manfred von Richthofen, Erich von Manstein, and Cao Cao.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell ranks 3. Before him are Ferdinand de Saussure, and Pope Pius XI. After him are Heinrich Hertz, Edward Elgar, Clara Zetkin, Joseph Conrad, Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Alfonso XII of Spain, Henrik Pontoppidan, and Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. Among people deceased in 1941, Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell ranks 6. Before him are Wilhelm II, German Emperor, Rabindranath Tagore, Henri Bergson, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf. After him are Alfonso XIII of Spain, Maurice Leblanc, Maximilian Kolbe, Emanuel Lasker, Walther Nernst, and Arthur Evans.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell ranks 67 out of 8,785. Before him are William Wallace (1270), Edward Jenner (1749), Virginia Woolf (1882), Charles, Prince of Wales (1948), Harold Harefoot (1016), and Thomas Robert Malthus (1766). After him are John Stuart Mill (1806), Alex Ferguson (1941), James Clerk Maxwell (1831), Edward Heath (1916), Ridley Scott (1937), and John Dee (1527).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell ranks 2. Before him are William Wallace (1270). After him are Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (1758), T. E. Lawrence (1888), Edward Smith (1850), Bernard Montgomery (1887), Alexander Selkirk (1676), John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650), Gertrude Bell (1868), Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (1861), Rudolf Abel (1903), and James Paul Moody (1887).

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