1873 - 1925
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, 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.
1872 - 1937
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 5,754
908 - 968
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 5,755
100 - 200
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 5,756
1926 - 2002
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 5,757
265 BC - 217 BC
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 5,758
1783 - 1851
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 5,759
1873 - 1925
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 5,760
1001 - 1099
HPI: 57.45
Rank: 5,761
2181 BC - 2055 BC
HPI: 57.45
Rank: 5,762
407 - 453
HPI: 57.45
Rank: 5,763
773 - 824
HPI: 57.45
Rank: 5,764
1877 - 1950
HPI: 57.45
Rank: 5,765
1772 - 1806
HPI: 57.45
Rank: 5,766
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.
1873 - 1957
HPI: 58.06
Rank: 50
1873 - 1938
HPI: 58.03
Rank: 51
1873 - 1940
HPI: 57.72
Rank: 52
1873 - 1936
HPI: 57.63
Rank: 53
1873 - 1941
HPI: 57.59
Rank: 54
1873 - 1937
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 55
1873 - 1925
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 56
1873 - 1960
HPI: 56.79
Rank: 57
1873 - 1942
HPI: 56.68
Rank: 58
1873 - 1938
HPI: 56.31
Rank: 59
1873 - 1915
HPI: 56.16
Rank: 60
1873 - 1952
HPI: 56.12
Rank: 61
1873 - 1924
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 62
1870 - 1925
HPI: 59.13
Rank: 45
1855 - 1925
HPI: 59.07
Rank: 46
1876 - 1925
HPI: 58.58
Rank: 47
1867 - 1925
HPI: 58.07
Rank: 48
1865 - 1925
HPI: 57.98
Rank: 49
1861 - 1925
HPI: 57.80
Rank: 50
1873 - 1925
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 51
1857 - 1925
HPI: 57.10
Rank: 52
1885 - 1925
HPI: 57.03
Rank: 53
1857 - 1925
HPI: 57.02
Rank: 54
1901 - 1925
HPI: 56.31
Rank: 55
1862 - 1925
HPI: 55.61
Rank: 56
1853 - 1925
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 57
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).
1933 - 2021
HPI: 57.65
Rank: 200
1836 - 1878
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 201
1918 - 1990
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 202
1883 - 1938
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 203
1928 - 1971
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 204
1924 - 2006
HPI: 57.49
Rank: 205
1873 - 1925
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 206
1903 - 1976
HPI: 57.41
Rank: 207
1913 - 2009
HPI: 57.35
Rank: 208
1935 - 2011
HPI: 57.35
Rank: 209
1897 - 1970
HPI: 57.26
Rank: 210
1627 - 1698
HPI: 57.17
Rank: 211
1842 - 1912
HPI: 57.16
Rank: 212
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).
1082 - 1139
HPI: 58.45
Rank: 60
700 - 690
HPI: 58.29
Rank: 61
220 - 268
HPI: 57.74
Rank: 62
1933 - 2021
HPI: 57.65
Rank: 63
1918 - 1990
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 64
1883 - 1938
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 65
1873 - 1925
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 66
1897 - 1970
HPI: 57.26
Rank: 67
1627 - 1698
HPI: 57.17
Rank: 68
1897 - 1990
HPI: 57.05
Rank: 69
1857 - 1925
HPI: 57.02
Rank: 70
1862 - 1922
HPI: 56.93
Rank: 71
1859 - 1938
HPI: 56.80
Rank: 72