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 defection over 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 469,188 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Wu Sangui is the 244th most popular military personnel (up from 315th in 2019), the 165th most popular biography from China (up from 202nd in 2019) and the 15th 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.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 2.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Wu Sangui ranks 244 out of 2,058. Before him are Władysław Sikorski, Albert Pike, Pausanias, Desmond Doss, Bertrand du Guesclin, and Valery Gerasimov. After him are Jan Henryk Dąbrowski, Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Vasily Stalin, Eumenes, Roger de Flor, and Matthew C. Perry.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1612, Wu Sangui ranks 3. Before him are Murad IV, and Dorgon. After him are Louis Le Vau, Saskia van Uylenburgh, Antoine Arnauld, Pierre Mignard, Şehzade Bayezid, Samuel Butler, Jeremi Wiśniowiecki, Peter Stuyvesant, and Claude Françoise de Lorraine. Among people deceased in 1678, Wu Sangui ranks 2. Before him is Jacob Jordaens. After him are Jan Brueghel the Younger, Anna Maria van Schurman, Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten, François Pierre La Varenne, Catherine Charlotte de Gramont, Karel Dujardin, Louis VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Antonio de Pereda, Giovanni Maria Bononcini, and Erasmus Quellinus the Younger.

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In China

Among people born in China, Wu Sangui ranks 165 out of 1,610. Before him are Yang Chen-Ning (1922), Liu Shan (207), Su Shi (1037), Wang Wei (699), Sun Bin (-401), and Tsung-Dao Lee (1926). After him are Tianqi Emperor (1605), Emperor Taizong of Song (939), Zhu De (1886), Taichang Emperor (1582), King Zhou of Shang (-1105), and Yuan Shu (155).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In China

Among military personnels born in China, Wu Sangui ranks 15. Before him are Bai Qi (-250), Sun Jian (155), Yue Fei (1142), Sun Ce (175), Han Xin (-231), and Sun Bin (-401). After him are Zhang Liao (169), Jiang Wei (202), Xiahou Dun (155), Meng Tian (-250), Huang Zhong (148), and Ban Chao (32).

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