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Virginia Hall

1906 - 1982

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Virginia Hall Goillot DSC, Croix de Guerre, (April 6, 1906 – July 8, 1982), code named Marie and Diane, was an American who worked with the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) and the American Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in France during World War II. The objective of SOE and OSS was to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in occupied Europe against the Axis powers, especially Nazi Germany. SOE and OSS agents in France allied themselves with resistance groups and supplied them with weapons and equipment parachuted in from England. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Virginia Hall has received more than 1,807,585 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Virginia Hall is the 14,204th most popular politician (down from 9,212th in 2019), the 6,439th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,328th in 2019) and the 415th most popular American Politician.

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  • 1.8M

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  • 48.33

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Virginia Hall ranks 14,204 out of 19,576. Before her are José Ballivián, Boris Ponomarev, Eugene Burton Ely, Paavo Väyrynen, Charles Bolden, and Al-Muhtadee Billah. After her are Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Roque González Garza, Elise Ottesen-Jensen, Helen of Zadar, Gopinath Bordoloi, and Juan Bautista Pérez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Virginia Hall ranks 275. Before her are Boris Papandopulo, Erwin Geschonneck, Lee Barnes, Victor Hasselblad, Thelma Todd, and Gerardo Romero. After her are Wilfred Jackson, Hans Walzhofer, Wolfgang Koeppen, Vilmos Kohut, Carl Benjamin Boyer, and Jānis Ivanovs. Among people deceased in 1982, Virginia Hall ranks 188. Before her are Percy Williams, Eino Penttilä, Marie Rambert, BP Koirala, Victor Buono, and Dominique Dunne. After her are Marie Braun, Hércules de Miranda, Victor Jory, Josef Bradl, Hitoshi Sasaki, and Jean Batten.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Virginia Hall ranks 6,439 out of 20,380. Before her are Damon Knight (1922), Bobo Brazil (1924), Charles Bolden (1946), Audrey Munson (1891), Walt Frazier (1945), and Jonathan M. Wainwright (1883). After her are Roscoe Lockwood (1875), Aaron Sorkin (1961), William Dwight Whitney (1827), Earl Tupper (1907), Preston Sturges (1898), and Charles Stark Draper (1901).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Virginia Hall ranks 415. Before her are Marvin Hart (1876), Stephen Hopkins (1707), Edwin Stanton (1814), George Tenet (1953), Eugene Burton Ely (1886), and Charles Bolden (1946). After her are John Armstrong Jr. (1758), Timothy Pickering (1745), Abigail Fillmore (1798), Pete Ricketts (1964), David Dinkins (1927), and James G. Blaine (1830).

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