MILITARY PERSONNEL

Saad el-Shazly

1922 - 2011

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Saad el-Din Mohamed el-Husseiny el-Shazly (Arabic: سعد الدين محمد الحسيني الشاذلي, IPA: [sæʕd edˈdiːn elħoˈseːni eʃˈʃæzli])‎ (1 April 1922 – 10 February 2011) was an Egyptian military officer. He was Egypt's chief of staff during the Yom Kippur War. He is credited with the equipping and preparation of the Egyptian Armed Forces in the years prior to the successful capture of the Israeli Bar-Lev line at the start of the Yom Kippur War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Saad el-Shazly has received more than 178,639 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Saad el-Shazly is the 760th most popular military personnel (up from 1,184th in 2019), the 293rd most popular biography from Egypt (up from 372nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Egyptian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Saad el-Shazly ranks 760 out of 2,058. Before him are Wakisaka Yasuharu, Jukums Vācietis, Alexander Marinesko, Albert Leo Schlageter, Khaydhar ibn Kawus al-Afshin, and Fritz von Below. After him are Lala Şahin Pasha, Otozō Yamada, Friedrich Hossbach, Yağısıyan, Princess Pingyang, and Meliton Kantaria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Saad el-Shazly ranks 117. Before him are Serge Reggiani, Yuri Knorozov, Günter Behnisch, Paul Marcinkus, Kim Hunter, and Eileen Essell. After him are Hussein Onn, Bernardin Gantin, Leo Tindemans, Manuel Fraga, Guy Hamilton, and Guy Thys. Among people deceased in 2011, Saad el-Shazly ranks 92. Before him are Lyudmila Gurchenko, Farley Granger, Harold Garfinkel, Juan María Bordaberry, Danielle Mitterrand, and Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Massy. After him are Cy Twombly, Frans Sammut, Ján Popluhár, Robert Brout, Jesús María Pereda, and Loriot.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Saad el-Shazly ranks 293 out of 642. Before him are Rifa'a al-Tahtawi (1801), Arnuwanda II (-1400), Al-Mansur Ali (1242), Abū Kāmil Shujāʿ ibn Aslam (850), Al-Mu'azzam Isa (1176), and Hassan Fathy (1900). After him are Alexander II Zabinas (-190), Hesychius of Alexandria (500), Neferneferure (-1400), Herodas (-300), Berenice (-300), and Edmond Jabès (1912).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Egypt

Among military personnels born in Egypt, Saad el-Shazly ranks 4. Before him are Eli Cohen (1924), Ashraf Marwan (1944), and Jawhar (911). After him are Walther von Hünersdorff (1898), Sayf al-Din Khushqadam (1413), Al-Ashraf Kujuk (1334), and Al-Salih Hajji (1372).

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