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MILITARY PERSONNEL

T. E. Lawrence

1888 - 1935

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Thomas Edward Lawrence (16 August 1888 – 19 May 1935) was a British archaeologist, army officer, diplomat, and writer who became renowned for his role in the Arab Revolt (1916–1918) and the Sinai and Palestine Campaign (1915–1918) against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. The breadth and variety of his activities and associations, and his ability to describe them vividly in writing, earned him international fame as Lawrence of Arabia, a title used for the 1962 film based on his wartime activities. He was born out of wedlock in August 1888 to Sarah Junner (1861–1959), a governess, and Sir Thomas Chapman, 7th Baronet (1846–1919), an Anglo-Irish aristocrat. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of T. E. Lawrence has received more than 10,485,139 page views. His biography is available in 75 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 73 in 2019). T. E. Lawrence is the 51st most popular military personnel (down from 34th in 2019), the 133rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 101st in 2019) and the 4th most popular British Military Personnel.

Lawrence is most famous for his novel "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom." He was a British writer, archaeologist, and military officer.

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  • 75

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, T. E. Lawrence ranks 51 out of 1,468Before him are Flavius Aetius, Gerd von Rundstedt, Alfred Dreyfus, Vasily Zaitsev, Isoroku Yamamoto, and Miltiades. After him are Alfred Jodl, Belisarius, Tughril, Otto Skorzeny, Bohdan Khmelnytsky, and Fedor von Bock.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, T. E. Lawrence ranks 3Before him are Heinz Guderian and Fernando Pessoa. After him are Dale Carnegie, John Logie Baird, José Raúl Capablanca, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Giorgio de Chirico, Otto Stern, Carl Schmitt, Nikolai Bukharin, and Nestor Makhno. Among people deceased in 1935, T. E. Lawrence ranks 4Before him are Kazimir Malevich, Alfred Dreyfus, and Fernando Pessoa. After him are Józef Piłsudski, Paul Signac, Emmy Noether, Arthur Henderson, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Alban Berg, Astrid of Sweden, and André Citroën.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, T. E. Lawrence ranks 133 out of 7,765Before him are Cary Grant (1904), Paul Dirac (1902), Christopher Lee (1922), Joseph Priestley (1733), Michael Caine (1933), and Henry Purcell (1659). After him are Olav V of Norway (1903), George Boole (1815), Æthelstan (895), J. J. Thomson (1856), William IV of the United Kingdom (1765), and John Venn (1834).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, T. E. Lawrence ranks 4Before him are William Wallace (1270), Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857), and Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (1758). After him are Bernard Montgomery (1887), Edward Smith (1850), Alexander Selkirk (1676), Rudolf Abel (1903), Gertrude Bell (1868), John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650), Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738), and John Franklin (1786).