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MILITARY PERSONNEL

William Rosecrans

1819 - 1898

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William Starke Rosecrans (September 6, 1819 – March 11, 1898) was an American inventor, coal-oil company executive, diplomat, politician, and U.S. Army officer. He gained fame for his role as a Union general during the American Civil War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Rosecrans has received more than 551,287 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). William Rosecrans is the 1,576th most popular military personnel (down from 1,412th in 2019), the 8,488th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,314th in 2019) and the 139th most popular American Military Personnel.

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  • 550k

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  • 43.62

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, William Rosecrans ranks 1,576 out of 1,468. Before him are John Sedgwick, John Abizaid, John Dill, Gilad Shalit, John C. Pemberton, and Christy Mathewson. After him are Mohammad Ali Jafari, Leonid Khabarov, Carl Gustav Fleischer, Mikhail Tolstykh, John André, and Chesty Puller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, William Rosecrans ranks 86. Before him are Yakov Polonsky, James Spriggs Payne, Ion Emanuel Florescu, Joaquín Jovellar y Soler, Cyrus West Field, and Alexandru G. Golescu. After him are Joseph Bazalgette, Alexander Melville Bell, Henry Tate, George Salmon, Monier Monier-Williams, and John W. Geary. Among people deceased in 1898, William Rosecrans ranks 74. Before him are Princess Marie of Saxe-Altenburg, Henry Liddell, Yakov Polonsky, Don Carlos Buell, Osbert Salvin, and Luiza Pesjak. After him are Wilford Woodruff, Benjamin Mountfort, Georg Bühler, Samuel Plimsoll, Frances Willard, and Thomas F. Bayard.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William Rosecrans ranks 8,488 out of 18,182. Before him are Edward Dillon (1879), Laila Ali (1977), Harold Eugene Edgerton (1903), Cedric the Entertainer (1964), Rick Carlisle (1959), and Eric Christian Olsen (1977). After him are Peter Jurasik (1950), Alan Rachins (1942), Connie Sellecca (1955), Alan Oppenheimer (1930), Leslie David Baker (1958), and Una Merkel (1903).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, William Rosecrans ranks 139. Before him are Don Carlos Buell (1818), William Alexander Morgan (1928), John Sedgwick (1813), John Abizaid (1951), John C. Pemberton (1814), and Christy Mathewson (1880). After him are Chesty Puller (1898), Stephen Decatur (1779), Frank Buckles (1901), Anthony Wayne (1745), Daniel Harvey Hill (1821), and Joseph Dunford (1955).

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