MILITARY PERSONNEL

András Toma

1925 - 2004

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András Toma (5 December 1925 – 30 March 2004) was a Hungarian soldier taken prisoner by the Red Army in 1944, then discovered living in a Russian psychiatric hospital in 2000. He was most likely the last prisoner of war from the Second World War to be repatriated. Because Toma never learned Russian and nobody at the hospital spoke Hungarian, he had apparently not had a single conversation in over 50 years, a situation of great interest for the fields of psychiatry and psycholinguistics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. András Toma is the 1,755th most popular military personnel (up from 1,789th in 2019), the 548th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 531st in 2019) and the 8th most popular Hungarian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, András Toma ranks 1,755 out of 2,058. Before him are Harry Patch, Theodor Hoffmann, Guo Boxiong, Henry Gunther, Yekaterina Zelenko, and Wilhelm Heye. After him are Leonid Ivashov, Lewis Powell, Gustav von Alvensleben, Gurgen Dalibaltayan, Dudley Pound, and José de Palafox y Melci, 1st Duke of Zaragoza.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, András Toma ranks 337. Before him are Geraldine Brooks, Wolfgang Unzicker, P. Bhanumathi, Carlo Annovazzi, Abel Muzorewa, and William Wharton. After him are Bruce Kirby, Brent Scowcroft, Anne Jackson, Leslie Laing, Angelo Conterno, and Gustav Winckler. Among people deceased in 2004, András Toma ranks 216. Before him are Carlo Di Palma, Oscar Heisserer, Paul Sweezy, Pat Roach, Jacques Noël, and Alan Bullock. After him are Tini Wagner, Natalya Baranskaya, Alicia Markova, Abdul Rahman Munif, Skeeter Davis, and José Luis Cuciuffo.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, András Toma ranks 548 out of 1,077. Before him are József Katona (1791), János Sajnovics (1733), Lajos Koltai (1946), Zoltan Sarosy (1906), Győző Forintos (1935), and Katarina Ivanović (1811). After him are Vera T. Sós (1930), Ágnes Hranitzky (1945), László Papp (1905), Tibor Tatai (1944), László Kovács (1939), and György Bródy (1908).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Hungary

Among military personnels born in Hungary, András Toma ranks 8. Before him are Gusztáv Jány (1883), Gyula Cseszneky (1914), Archduke Stephen, Palatine of Hungary (1817), Ludwig von Benedek (1804), Maximilian de Angelis (1889), and Karl von Pflanzer-Baltin (1855).

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