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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 and first Chief Scout of the world-wide Scout Movement, and founder, with his sister Agnes, of the world-wide Girl Guide/Girl Scout Movement. Baden-Powell authored the first editions of the seminal work Scouting for Boys, which was an inspiration for the Scout Movement.Educated at Charterhouse School, Baden-Powell served in the British Army from 1876 until 1910 in India and Africa. In 1899, during the Second Boer War in South Africa, Baden-Powell successfully defended the town in the Siege of Mafeking. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell has received more than 3,515,456 page views. His biography is available in 76 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 75 in 2019). Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell is the 15th most popular military personnel (up from 49th in 2019), the 65th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 130th 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 15 out of 1,468. Before him are Charles Martel, Adolf Eichmann, Themistocles, William Wallace, Khalid ibn al-Walid, and Romulus Augustulus. After him are Oda Nobunaga, Erich von Manstein, Chiang Kai-shek, Heinz Guderian, Arminius, and Ratko Mladić.

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Contemporaries

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

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell ranks 65 out of 7,765. Before him are William Wallace (1270), Herbert Spencer (1820), Charles Babbage (1791), Henry VII of England (1457), George VI (1895), and Virginia Woolf (1882). After him are Edward VI of England (1537), Lewis Carroll (1832), Alex Ferguson (1941), James VI and I (1566), Neville Chamberlain (1869), and David Livingstone (1813).

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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), Bernard Montgomery (1887), Edward Smith (1850), Alexander Selkirk (1676), Rudolf Abel (1903), Gertrude Bell (1868), John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650), Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738), and John Franklin (1786).

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