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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Rudolf Abel

1903 - 1971

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Rudolf Ivanovich Abel (Russian: Рудольф Иванович Абель), real name William August Fisher (11 July 1903 – 15 November 1971), was a Soviet intelligence officer. He adopted his alias when arrested on charges of conspiracy by the FBI in 1957. Fisher was born and grew up in Newcastle upon Tyne in the North East of England in the United Kingdom to Russian émigré parents. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rudolf Abel has received more than 4,776,669 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Rudolf Abel is the 162nd most popular military personnel (up from 190th in 2019), the 331st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 396th in 2019) and the 8th most popular British Military Personnel.

Rudolf Abel was a Soviet spy who was arrested in 1957 and sentenced to 30 years in prison.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Rudolf Abel ranks 162 out of 1,468. Before him are Helmuth Weidling, Mardonius, Semyon Budyonny, Charles V, Duke of Lorraine, Alfred von Schlieffen, and José de San Martín. After him are Gertrude Bell, Andrey Vlasov, Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Abraha, Pyotr Bagration, and Louis-Alexandre Berthier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Rudolf Abel ranks 17. Before him are Mark Rothko, Kane Tanaka, Habib Bourguiba, Fernandel, Galeazzo Ciano, and Marguerite Yourcenar. After him are Andrey Kolmogorov, Yasujirō Ozu, Anaïs Nin, Adolf Butenandt, C. F. Powell, and José Antonio Primo de Rivera. Among people deceased in 1971, Rudolf Abel ranks 12. Before him are György Lukács, Hermann Hoth, Audie Murphy, Lawrence Bragg, Fernandel, and Theodor Svedberg. After him are Paul Karrer, Lin Biao, Mátyás Rákosi, Wilhelm List, Gotthard Heinrici, and Arne Tiselius.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Rudolf Abel ranks 331 out of 7,765. Before him are George Eliot (1819), G. K. Chesterton (1874), William Crookes (1832), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828), Llywelyn ap Gruffudd (1220), and Ian McShane (1942). After him are Gertrude Bell (1868), Anne, Princess Royal (1950), Bartholomew Roberts (1682), Rod Stewart (1945), Henry Moseley (1887), and William Hogarth (1697).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Rudolf Abel ranks 8. Before him are Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857), Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (1758), T. E. Lawrence (1888), Bernard Montgomery (1887), Edward Smith (1850), and Alexander Selkirk (1676). After him are Gertrude Bell (1868), John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650), Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738), John Franklin (1786), Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (1861), and John Hanning Speke (1827).

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