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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Wu Sangui

1612 - 1678

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Wu Sangui (Chinese: 吳三桂; pinyin: Wú Sānguì; Wade–Giles: Wu San-kuei; 8 June 1612 – 2 October 1678), courtesy name Changbai (長白) or Changbo (長伯), was a Chinese military leader who played a key role in the fall of the Ming dynasty and the founding of the Qing dynasty. In Chinese folklore, Wu Sangui is regarded as a disreputable Han Chinese traitor for his surrender to the Manchu invaders, suppression of the Southern Ming resistance and execution of the Yongli Emperor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wu Sangui has received more than 428,472 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Wu Sangui is the 315th most popular military personnel (down from 243rd in 2019), the 203rd most popular biography from China (down from 155th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Chinese Military Personnel.

Wu Sangui is most famous for being the general who opened the gates of Beijing to the Manchu army, which led to the fall of the Ming Dynasty.

Memorability Metrics

  • 430k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.13

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Wu Sangui ranks 315 out of 1,468. Before him are Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg, John Franklin, Xiahou Dun, Qutayba ibn Muslim, and Maximilian von Spee. After him are Jiang Wei, Fyodor Tolbukhin, François Joseph Lefebvre, Sergey Sokolov, Nikolai Yudenich, and Andrei Grechko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1612, Wu Sangui ranks 5. Before him are Murad IV, Saskia van Uylenburgh, Dorgon, and Louis Le Vau. After him are Antoine Arnauld, Pierre Mignard, Jeremi Wiśniowiecki, Odoardo Farnese, Duke of Parma, Samuel Butler, Peter Stuyvesant, and Claude Françoise de Lorraine. Among people deceased in 1678, Wu Sangui ranks 3. Before him are Jacob Jordaens and Jan Brueghel the Younger. After him are Anna Maria van Schurman, Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten, François Pierre La Varenne, Louis VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Karel Dujardin, Catherine Charlotte de Gramont, Antoine III de Gramont, Christoph Bernhard von Galen, and Caesar van Everdingen.

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In China

Among people born in China, Wu Sangui ranks 203 out of 1,392. Before him are Yang Chen-Ning (1922), Xiahou Dun (155), Su Shi (1037), John Woo (1946), Emperor Ling of Han (156), and Li Peng (1928). After him are Jiang Wei (202), Emperor Ming of Han (28), Longqing Emperor (1537), Emperor Yingzong of Song (1032), Li Ka-shing (1928), and Emperor Dezong of Tang (742).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In China

Among military personnels born in China, Wu Sangui ranks 18. Before him are Han Xin (-231), Bai Qi (-250), Zhang Liao (169), Sun Bin (-401), Meng Tian (-250), and Xiahou Dun (155). After him are Jiang Wei (202), Huang Zhong (148), Xiahou Yuan (200), Ban Chao (32), Zhang He (167), and Lü Meng (178).

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