MILITARY PERSONNEL

Adolphe Pégoud

1889 - 1915

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Adolphe Célestin Pégoud (13 June 1889 – 31 August 1915) was a French aviator and flight instructor who became the first fighter ace in history during World War I. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adolphe Pégoud is the 1,237th most popular military personnel (up from 1,309th in 2019), the 3,108th most popular biography from France (up from 3,186th in 2019) and the 115th most popular French Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Adolphe Pégoud ranks 1,237 out of 2,058. Before him are Juan Yagüe, Claude Choules, Bardas Phokas the Younger, George Dewey, Maximilian Njegovan, and Roussel de Bailleul. After him are Nina Lobkovskaya, Hans Graf von Sponeck, Peisander, Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, and Grigory Shtern.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Adolphe Pégoud ranks 130. Before him are Lev Mekhlis, Baba Sali, Manuel Prado Ugarteche, Dietrich von Hildebrand, James Stephenson, and Abdelhamid Ben Badis. After him are Vasiliy Ulrikh, Jānis K. Bērziņš, Bernhard Karlgren, Azem Galica, Pavel Dybenko, and Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro. Among people deceased in 1915, Adolphe Pégoud ranks 58. Before him are Otto Weddigen, Vazha-Pshavela, Inoue Kaoru, Richard Lydekker, Eugène Jansson, and Serafino Vannutelli. After him are Gabriel von Max, Nagakura Shinpachi, Henry Roscoe, Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild, Morgan Robertson, and Hendrik Willem Mesdag.

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In France

Among people born in France, Adolphe Pégoud ranks 3,108 out of 6,770. Before him are Louise Weiss (1893), Edita Piekha (1937), Philip I of Namur (1174), Jean-Pierre Ricard (1944), Roussel de Bailleul (1100), and Marie Marvingt (1875). After him are Louise Bertin (1805), Élisabeth de Bourbon (1614), Bernard Chiarelli (1934), Marie Antoinette Murat (1793), Alain Finkielkraut (1949), and Djibril Cissé (1981).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, Adolphe Pégoud ranks 115. Before him are Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud (1798), Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon (1765), Soliman Pasha al-Faransawi (1788), Charles Mangin (1866), Claude François de Malet (1754), and Roussel de Bailleul (1100). After him are Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval (1715), François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie (1671), Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544), François Joseph Westermann (1751), Amédée Courbet (1827), and Violette Szabo (1921).

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