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Sidney Reilly

1873 - 1925

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Sidney George Reilly (; c. 1873 – 5 November 1925), known as the "Ace of Spies", was a Russian-born adventurer and secret agent employed by Scotland Yard's Special Branch and later by the Foreign Section of the British Secret Service Bureau, the precursor to the modern British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6/SIS). He is alleged to have spied for at least four different great powers, and documentary evidence indicates that he was involved in espionage activities in 1890s London among Russian émigré circles, in Manchuria on the eve of the Russo-Japanese War (1904–05), and in an abortive 1918 coup d'état against Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik government in Moscow. Reilly disappeared in Soviet Russia in the mid-1920s, lured by the Cheka's Operation Trust. British diplomat and journalist R. H. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sidney Reilly has received more than 1,117,538 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Sidney Reilly is the 5,760th most popular politician (up from 8,462nd in 2019), the 206th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 320th in 2019) and the 66th most popular Ukrainian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Sidney Reilly ranks 5,760 out of 15,577. Before him are Akhmet Baitursynov, Al-Muttaqi, Vologases III of Parthia, Hugo Banzer, Gaius Flaminius, and Prince Wilhelm of Prussia. After him are Qutalmish, Qakare Ibi, Emperor Wen of Liu Song, Emperor Heizei, Vasil Kolarov, and Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Sidney Reilly ranks 56. Before him are Arnold van Gennep, Leo Frobenius, Édouard Claparède, Mehmet Akif Ersoy, Hans Berger, and Max Adler. After him are Antonie Pannekoek, Thorvald Stauning, Jukums Vācietis, Nadežda Petrović, Viktor Chernov, and Valery Bryusov. Among people deceased in 1925, Sidney Reilly ranks 51. Before him are Nariman Narimanov, Robert Koldewey, Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, Antti Aarne, Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow, and Michel Verne. After him are Christian Michelsen, Khải Định, Cyril Genik, Pier Giorgio Frassati, René Viviani, and Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Sidney Reilly ranks 206 out of 1,083. Before him are Yukhym Zvyahilsky (1933), Władysław Tarnowski (1836), Volodymyr Shcherbytsky (1918), Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko (1883), Georgy Dobrovolsky (1928), and David Bronstein (1924). After him are Gregor Piatigorsky (1903), Israel Gelfand (1913), Lyudmila Gurchenko (1935), Polina Zhemchuzhina (1897), Petro Doroshenko (1627), and Mykola Lysenko (1842).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Sidney Reilly ranks 66. Before him are Yaropolk II of Kiev (1082), Batbayan (700), Aureolus (220), Yukhym Zvyahilsky (1933), Volodymyr Shcherbytsky (1918), and Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko (1883). After him are Polina Zhemchuzhina (1897), Petro Doroshenko (1627), Samuel Noah Kramer (1897), Cyril Genik (1857), Eugen Ehrlich (1862), and Alexandru Averescu (1859).

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