1905 - 2002
Simo Häyhä (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈsimo ˈhæy̯hæ] ; 17 December 1905 – 1 April 2002), often referred to by his nickname, The White Death (Finnish: Valkoinen kuolema; Russian: Белая смерть, romanized: Belaya smert’), was a Finnish military sniper in World War II during the 1939–1940 Winter War against the Soviet Union. He used a Finnish-produced M/28-30 (a variant of the Mosin–Nagant rifle) and a Suomi KP/-31 submachine gun. He is believed to have killed over 500 enemy soldiers during the Winter War, the highest number of sniper kills in any major war. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Simo Häyhä has received more than 9,587,284 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia. Simo Häyhä is the 27th most popular military personnel (down from 25th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Finland (down from 2nd in 2019) and the most popular Finnish Military Personnel.
Simo Häyhä is most famous for his service in the Winter War, where he was credited with killing over 500 Soviet soldiers.
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Among military personnels, Simo Häyhä ranks 27 out of 1,468. Before him are Ratko Mladić, Ptolemy I Soter, Pyrrhus of Epirus, Cao Cao, Charles XIV John of Sweden, and Cesare Borgia. After him are Jochi, Wilhelm Keitel, Friedrich Paulus, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Vercingetorix, and Douglas MacArthur.
1942 - Present
HPI: 76.54
Rank: 21
367 BC - 283 BC
HPI: 76.47
Rank: 22
318 BC - 272 BC
HPI: 76.16
Rank: 23
155 - 220
HPI: 76.13
Rank: 24
1763 - 1844
HPI: 76.10
Rank: 25
1475 - 1507
HPI: 76.08
Rank: 26
1905 - 2002
HPI: 76.07
Rank: 27
1181 - 1227
HPI: 75.99
Rank: 28
1882 - 1946
HPI: 75.91
Rank: 29
1890 - 1957
HPI: 75.89
Rank: 30
1542 - 1616
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 31
80 BC - 46 BC
HPI: 75.08
Rank: 32
1880 - 1964
HPI: 75.02
Rank: 33
Among people born in 1905, Simo Häyhä ranks 5. Before him are Jean-Paul Sartre, Howard Hughes, Ayn Rand, and Albert Speer. After him are Christian Dior, Viktor Frankl, Greta Garbo, Elias Canetti, Dag Hammarskjöld, Henry Fonda, and Mikhail Sholokhov. Among people deceased in 2002, Simo Häyhä ranks 4. Before him are Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, and Astrid Lindgren. After him are Pierre Bourdieu, Thor Heyerdahl, Hans-Georg Gadamer, John Rawls, Billy Wilder, Richard Harris, Vavá, and Prince Claus of the Netherlands.
1905 - 1980
HPI: 84.51
Rank: 1
1905 - 1976
HPI: 80.44
Rank: 2
1905 - 1982
HPI: 78.45
Rank: 3
1905 - 1981
HPI: 76.11
Rank: 4
1905 - 2002
HPI: 76.07
Rank: 5
1905 - 1957
HPI: 75.30
Rank: 6
1905 - 1997
HPI: 74.55
Rank: 7
1905 - 1990
HPI: 74.46
Rank: 8
1905 - 1994
HPI: 74.04
Rank: 9
1905 - 1961
HPI: 72.92
Rank: 10
1905 - 1982
HPI: 71.52
Rank: 11
1905 - 1984
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 12
1900 - 2002
HPI: 79.31
Rank: 1
1930 - 2002
HPI: 78.57
Rank: 2
1907 - 2002
HPI: 78.36
Rank: 3
1905 - 2002
HPI: 76.07
Rank: 4
1930 - 2002
HPI: 75.53
Rank: 5
1914 - 2002
HPI: 73.16
Rank: 6
1900 - 2002
HPI: 72.39
Rank: 7
1921 - 2002
HPI: 71.69
Rank: 8
1906 - 2002
HPI: 71.23
Rank: 9
1930 - 2002
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 10
1934 - 2002
HPI: 67.98
Rank: 11
1926 - 2002
HPI: 67.45
Rank: 12
Among people born in Finland, Simo Häyhä ranks 3 out of 642. Before him are Alvar Aalto (1898) and Jean Sibelius (1865). After him are Tove Jansson (1914), Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (1867), Paavo Nurmi (1897), Sauli Niinistö (1948), Tarja Halonen (1943), Urho Kekkonen (1900), Mika Waltari (1908), Frans Eemil Sillanpää (1888), and Juho Kusti Paasikivi (1870).
1898 - 1976
HPI: 77.09
Rank: 1
1865 - 1957
HPI: 76.20
Rank: 2
1905 - 2002
HPI: 76.07
Rank: 3
1914 - 2001
HPI: 74.65
Rank: 4
1867 - 1951
HPI: 74.19
Rank: 5
1897 - 1973
HPI: 69.81
Rank: 6
1948 - Present
HPI: 69.68
Rank: 7
1943 - Present
HPI: 68.22
Rank: 8
1900 - 1986
HPI: 67.61
Rank: 9
1908 - 1979
HPI: 67.35
Rank: 10
1888 - 1964
HPI: 66.55
Rank: 11
1870 - 1956
HPI: 66.19
Rank: 12
Among military personnels born in Finland, Simo Häyhä ranks 1. After him are Ernst Linder (1868), Ilmari Juutilainen (1914), Carl Johan Adlercreutz (1759), Erik Heinrichs (1890), Paavo Talvela (1897), Ali Aaltonen (1884), and Aaro Pajari (1897).
1905 - 2002
HPI: 76.07
Rank: 1
1868 - 1943
HPI: 58.06
Rank: 2
1914 - 1999
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 3
1759 - 1815
HPI: 51.58
Rank: 4
1890 - 1965
HPI: 51.46
Rank: 5
1897 - 1973
HPI: 51.44
Rank: 6
1884 - 1918
HPI: 50.54
Rank: 7
1897 - 1949
HPI: 46.22
Rank: 8