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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Sudirman

1916 - 1950

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Sudirman (Old Spelling: Soedirman; 24 January 1916 – 29 January 1950) was a high-ranking Indonesian military officer during the Indonesian National Revolution. The first commander of the Indonesian National Armed Forces, he continues to be widely respected in the country. Born in Purbalingga, Dutch East Indies, Sudirman moved to Cilacap in 1916 and was raised by his uncle. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sudirman has received more than 492,340 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Sudirman is the 1,358th most popular military personnel, the 43rd most popular biography from Indonesia and the 2nd most popular Indonesian Military Personnel.

Memorability Metrics

  • 490k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.56

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.21

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Sudirman ranks 1,358 out of 1,468Before him are Leo Tornikios, Sittas, Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires, Nikolaos Trikoupis, Arabo, and Raúl Reyes. After him are Curt Haase, Józef Chłopicki, Yakov Smushkevich, Hermann Boehm, James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, and John Burgoyne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Sudirman ranks 154Before him are Carlo Rustichelli, Herbert Norkus, Françoise Giroud, José López Rega, Lars Korvald, and Bernard Heuvelmans. After him are Anne Hébert, Evelyn Keyes, Antonio Buero Vallejo, Giuseppe Taddei, Gino Bianco, and Runer Jonsson. Among people deceased in 1950, Sudirman ranks 114Before him are Alykul Osmonov, Pavel Bazhov, Sergei Khudyakov, Adolf Meyer, George Kingsley Zipf, and Carlos Delgado Chalbaud. After him are Dirk Coster, Guilhermina Suggia, Konrad von Preysing, Recep Peker, László Cseh, and Théodore Steeg.

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In Indonesia

Among people born in Indonesia, Sudirman ranks 43 out of 126Before him are Iskandar Muda (1583), Prabowo Subianto (1951), Agus Salim (1884), Arie de Jong (1865), Amir Hamzah (1911), and Anneke Grönloh (1942). After him are Chairil Anwar (1922), Wage Rudolf Supratman (1903), Xenia Stad-de Jong (1922), Amir Sjarifuddin (1907), I Gusti Ngurah Rai (1917), and Beb Bakhuys (1909).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Indonesia

Among military personnels born in Indonesia, Sudirman ranks 2Before him are Abdul Haris Nasution (1918). After him are I Gusti Ngurah Rai (1917).