1888 - 1935
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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Among military personnels, T. E. Lawrence ranks 51 out of 1,468. Before 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.
390 - 454
HPI: 74.06
Rank: 45
1875 - 1953
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 46
1859 - 1935
HPI: 73.95
Rank: 47
1915 - 1991
HPI: 73.63
Rank: 48
1884 - 1943
HPI: 73.54
Rank: 49
540 BC - 488 BC
HPI: 73.36
Rank: 50
1888 - 1935
HPI: 73.17
Rank: 51
1890 - 1946
HPI: 73.13
Rank: 52
505 - 565
HPI: 73.10
Rank: 53
990 - 1063
HPI: 73.10
Rank: 54
1908 - 1975
HPI: 73.06
Rank: 55
1595 - 1657
HPI: 72.90
Rank: 56
1880 - 1945
HPI: 72.90
Rank: 57
Among people born in 1888, T. E. Lawrence ranks 3. Before 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 4. Before 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.
1888 - 1954
HPI: 76.75
Rank: 1
1888 - 1935
HPI: 73.69
Rank: 2
1888 - 1935
HPI: 73.17
Rank: 3
1888 - 1955
HPI: 73.13
Rank: 4
1888 - 1946
HPI: 72.45
Rank: 5
1888 - 1942
HPI: 70.74
Rank: 6
1888 - 1975
HPI: 70.19
Rank: 7
1888 - 1978
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 8
1888 - 1969
HPI: 69.91
Rank: 9
1888 - 1985
HPI: 69.86
Rank: 10
1888 - 1938
HPI: 69.74
Rank: 11
1888 - 1934
HPI: 69.68
Rank: 12
1879 - 1935
HPI: 75.00
Rank: 1
1859 - 1935
HPI: 73.95
Rank: 2
1888 - 1935
HPI: 73.69
Rank: 3
1888 - 1935
HPI: 73.17
Rank: 4
1867 - 1935
HPI: 72.75
Rank: 5
1863 - 1935
HPI: 72.58
Rank: 6
1882 - 1935
HPI: 71.39
Rank: 7
1863 - 1935
HPI: 70.61
Rank: 8
1857 - 1935
HPI: 70.34
Rank: 9
1885 - 1935
HPI: 70.23
Rank: 10
1905 - 1935
HPI: 68.98
Rank: 11
1878 - 1935
HPI: 68.66
Rank: 12
Among people born in United Kingdom, T. E. Lawrence ranks 133 out of 7,765. Before 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).
1904 - 1986
HPI: 73.56
Rank: 127
1902 - 1984
HPI: 73.53
Rank: 128
1922 - 2015
HPI: 73.45
Rank: 129
1733 - 1804
HPI: 73.42
Rank: 130
1933 - Present
HPI: 73.26
Rank: 131
1659 - 1695
HPI: 73.25
Rank: 132
1888 - 1935
HPI: 73.17
Rank: 133
1903 - 1991
HPI: 73.07
Rank: 134
1815 - 1864
HPI: 73.05
Rank: 135
895 - 939
HPI: 73.02
Rank: 136
1856 - 1940
HPI: 73.01
Rank: 137
1765 - 1837
HPI: 72.99
Rank: 138
1834 - 1923
HPI: 72.95
Rank: 139
Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, T. E. Lawrence ranks 4. Before 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).
1270 - 1305
HPI: 78.17
Rank: 1
1857 - 1941
HPI: 77.50
Rank: 2
1758 - 1805
HPI: 74.60
Rank: 3
1888 - 1935
HPI: 73.17
Rank: 4
1887 - 1976
HPI: 71.76
Rank: 5
1850 - 1912
HPI: 71.44
Rank: 6
1676 - 1721
HPI: 69.52
Rank: 7
1903 - 1971
HPI: 67.52
Rank: 8
1868 - 1926
HPI: 67.52
Rank: 9
1650 - 1722
HPI: 66.13
Rank: 10
1738 - 1805
HPI: 63.79
Rank: 11
1786 - 1847
HPI: 63.20
Rank: 12