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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 1,194,304 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Sidney Reilly is the 7,657th most popular politician (down from 5,745th in 2019), the 296th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 204th in 2019) and the 90th most popular Ukrainian Politician.

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  • 56.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Sidney Reilly ranks 7,657 out of 19,576. Before him are Camille Huysmans, Yizhixie, Jovan Divjak, Prince Francis Xavier of Saxony, Ukita Hideie, and Maria of Serbia, Queen of Bosnia. After him are Sidney Sonnino, Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais, Nikolai Krylenko, William IV, Duke of Aquitaine, Sergio Pininfarina, and Sanghamitta.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Sidney Reilly ranks 67. Before him are Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg, Jukums Vācietis, Viktor Chernov, Moisei Uritsky, Elena Stasova, and Valery Bryusov. After him are Hasan Prishtina, Rudolf Rocker, Sante Geronimo Caserio, Kyōka Izumi, Józef Haller, and Félix d'Herelle. Among people deceased in 1925, Sidney Reilly ranks 59. Before him are René Viviani, Moritz Moszkowski, Cyril Genik, Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Thomas R. Marshall, and Francis Darwin. After him are Sheikh Said, Princess Françoise of Orléans, Chittaranjan Das, Louis Feuillade, Hidesaburō Ueno, and John French, 1st Earl of Ypres.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Sidney Reilly ranks 296 out of 1,365. Before him are Vasyl Sukhomlynsky (1918), Shaul Tchernichovsky (1875), Maxim Berezovsky (1745), Sholem Schwarzbard (1886), Ahad Ha'am (1856), and Vsevolod Garshin (1855). After him are Igor Shafarevich (1923), Sergey Kamenev (1881), Viacheslav Chornovil (1937), Jerzy Kawalerowicz (1922), Gregor Piatigorsky (1903), and Nikolay Shchors (1895).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Sidney Reilly ranks 90. Before him are Moisei Uritsky (1873), Grigori Sokolnikov (1888), Denys Shmyhal (1975), Emanuel Ringelblum (1900), Efim Geller (1925), and Olena Zelenska (1978). After him are Viacheslav Chornovil (1937), Yaroslav Stetsko (1912), Eugen Ehrlich (1862), Rostislav I of Kiev (1110), Dmitry Manuilsky (1883), and Igor Sergeyev (1938).

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