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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Ryszard Kukliński

1930 - 2004

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Ryszard Jerzy Kukliński (June 13, 1930 – February 11, 2004) was a Polish colonel and Cold War spy for NATO. He was posthumously promoted to the rank of brigadier general by Polish President Andrzej Duda. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ryszard Kukliński has received more than 375,586 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Ryszard Kukliński is the 1,113th most popular military personnel (up from 1,116th in 2019), the 598th most popular biography from Poland (up from 617th in 2019) and the 50th most popular Polish Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Ryszard Kukliński ranks 1,113 out of 1,468Before him are Quintus Fufius Calenus, Ignacio Allende, Ziba Ganiyeva, Henri Mathias Berthelot, Vitalian, and Doris Miller. After him are Polina Gelman, François de Créquy, George Dewey, Charles Robert Jenkins, Abdul Fatah Younis, and Adherbal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Ryszard Kukliński ranks 214Before him are Sa'dun Hammadi, Venantino Venantini, The Big Bopper, Eugenio Castellotti, Ahmad Jamal, and Goro Shimura. After him are Ignatius Moses I Daoud, Theodore Edgar McCarrick, Josef Hügi, David Huddleston, Adile Naşit, and Leslie Manigat. Among people deceased in 2004, Ryszard Kukliński ranks 111Before him are Joe Viterelli, Paul Winfield, Rafael Eitan, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Thomas Gold, and John Maynard Smith. After him are Hubert Selby Jr., Jozef Lenárt, Lucia Berlin, José Giovanni, Ann Miller, and Jesús Gil.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Ryszard Kukliński ranks 598 out of 1,454Before him are Michał Kazimierz Ogiński (1729), Ewa Kłobukowska (1946), Marek Janowski (1939), Frederick Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (1734), Franciszek Pieczka (1928), and Xaver Scharwenka (1850). After him are Joachim Lelewel (1786), Stanisław Ryłko (1945), Henryk Kasperczak (1946), Józef Wybicki (1747), Aleksander Fredro (1793), and Michał Sopoćko (1888).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Poland

Among military personnels born in Poland, Ryszard Kukliński ranks 50Before him are Hellmuth Stieff (1901), Zygmunt Berling (1896), Walther von Lüttwitz (1859), Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov (1793), Max von Gallwitz (1852), and Georg von der Marwitz (1856). After him are Tadeusz Kutrzeba (1885), Oskar Kummetz (1891), Remus von Woyrsch (1847), Jacob Heinrich von Flemming (1667), Walther Wever (1887), and Stefan Rowecki (1895).