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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 1,704,660 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Virginia Hall is the 9,239th most popular politician, the 3,336th most popular biography from United States and the 210th most popular American Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.10

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Virginia Hall ranks 9,239 out of 15,577. Before her are Tini Beg, Theodore Eustace, Count Palatine of Sulzbach, Valérie Pécresse, Marino Grimani, Ken Tyrrell, and Johan Nygaardsvold. After her are Eutharic, Masaniello, Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scots, Ivica Račan, Osachi Hamaguchi, and An Dương Vương.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Virginia Hall ranks 138. Before her are T. H. White, Jim Thompson, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, Francisco Ayala, Jørgen Juve, and Gabriel Ramanantsoa. After her are Missak Manouchian, Alec Issigonis, Eddie Albert, Ladislao Vajda, Igor Moiseyev, and J. R. Jayewardene. Among people deceased in 1982, Virginia Hall ranks 103. Before her are Riccardo Paletti, Savitri Devi, Taisen Deshimaru, Anatoly Solonitsyn, Jakov Gotovac, and Anandamayi Ma. After her are Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, Eduard Tubin, Ngaio Marsh, John Cheever, Helene Deutsch, and Abba P. Lerner.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Virginia Hall ranks 3,336 out of 18,182. Before her are Anne Archer (1947), Dan Castellaneta (1957), Pat Riley (1945), La Toya Jackson (1956), Robert Monroe (1915), and Al Green (1946). After her are Carmen Argenziano (1943), Gordon Bunshaft (1909), Moses Malone (1955), Julia Robinson (1919), Brian Weiss (1944), and Harold Robbins (1916).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Virginia Hall ranks 210. Before her are Kamehameha IV (1834), George M. Dallas (1792), Jay Rockefeller (1937), Maurice Hilleman (1919), Edith Head (1897), and Garret Hobart (1844). After her are Charles J. Guiteau (1841), Lynne Cheney (1941), Bill Nelson (1942), Leon Panetta (1938), Ross Perot (1930), and Ignacio Zaragoza (1829).

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