MILITARY PERSONNEL

Violette Szabo

1921 - 1945

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Violette Reine Elizabeth Szabo, GC (née Bushell; 26 June 1921 – c. 5 February 1945) was a British-French Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent during the Second World War and a posthumous recipient of the George Cross. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Violette Szabo has received more than 1,088,613 page views. Her biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Violette Szabo is the 1,404th most popular military personnel (down from 1,009th in 2019), the 3,365th most popular biography from France (down from 2,675th in 2019) and the 127th most popular French Military Personnel.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Violette Szabo ranks 1,404 out of 2,058. Before her are Hans Jordan, Hugo Österman, Inigo Campioni, Erwin Rösener, Helmut Kunz, and Johann von Aldringen. After her are Al-Salih Hajji, Jānis Balodis, Wehib Pasha, Prince Frederick of Württemberg, Shōji Nishimura, and Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Violette Szabo ranks 193. Before her are Giorgio Strehler, Ernesto Vidal, Alain Mimoun, Oldřich Černík, Sergio Sollima, and Juan Zambudio Velasco. After her are Harry Carey Jr., Piero Piccioni, Carlo Furno, Willem Frederik Hermans, Augusto Monterroso, and Harry Schell. Among people deceased in 1945, Violette Szabo ranks 219. Before her are Demyan Bedny, Sekula Drljević, Archduchess Karoline Marie of Austria, Charles W. Gilmore, Julius Leber, and Harry Hillman. After her are Nikolai Tcherepnin, Walter Hohmann, Kurt von der Chevallerie, Emil von Reznicek, Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen, and Aris Velouchiotis.

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In France

Among people born in France, Violette Szabo ranks 3,365 out of 6,770. Before her are Antoine Caron (1521), Bernard Desclot (1201), Princess Maria Cristina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1877), Wolfgang Capito (1478), Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton (1716), and Henri-Montan Berton (1767). After her are Jean Domat (1625), Frédéric Beigbeder (1965), Henri-Alexandre Deslandres (1853), Jules Vallès (1832), Pierre Dartout (1954), and Boris Cyrulnik (1937).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, Violette Szabo ranks 127. Before her are Charles Henri Hector d'Estaing (1729), Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544), Adolphe Pégoud (1889), François de Créquy (1625), Amédée Courbet (1827), and Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud (1798). After her are Gabriel Jean Joseph Molitor (1770), Guillaume Philibert Duhesme (1766), Louis Faidherbe (1818), François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie (1671), Georges Mouton (1770), and Honoré Charles Reille (1775).

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