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Charles Pahud de Mortanges

1896 - 1971

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Charles Ferdinand Pahud de Mortanges (13 May 1896 in The Hague – 8 April 1971 in Leiden) was a Dutch horse rider who competed at the 1924, 1928, 1932 and 1936 Olympics and was the flag bearer for the Netherlands in 1932. He is only one of three equestrians (with Mark Todd and Michael Jung) to win two consecutive Olympic titles in the individual three-day event. Besides his riding achievements, de Mortanges was president or vice president of the National Olympic Committee (1946–1961) and a member of the International Olympic Committee (1946–1964). He was also a top commanding officer of the Royal Netherlands Motorized Infantry Brigade in 1944–1945 and later a senior army official overseeing the official ceremonies involving the Dutch royal family. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Pahud de Mortanges is the 15,662nd most popular politician (up from 16,266th in 2019), the 824th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 927th in 2019) and the 114th most popular Dutch Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Charles Pahud de Mortanges ranks 15,662 out of 19,576. Before him are Jean Eyeghé Ndong, John Lilburne, Manuel Menéndez, José María Urvina, Aman Tuleyev, and Pierre Moscovici. After him are Pauline Marois, Manuel Pardo, Zoran Živković, Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, Jhala Nath Khanal, and Pedro Blanco Soto.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Charles Pahud de Mortanges ranks 230. Before him are Okuro Oikawa, Alberto Vargas, Luiz Vinhaes, Natalie Talmadge, Esteban Canal, and Ralph Bagnold. After him are Virgil Thomson, Miles Dempsey, Ramón Eguiazábal, John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton, Blanche Sweet, and Jack Pickford. Among people deceased in 1971, Charles Pahud de Mortanges ranks 201. Before him are Bebe Daniels, Billy Gilbert, Werner Peters, Victor Leemans, Tor Johnson, and Lauro Amadò. After him are Basil Dearden, Fernando Quiroga Palacios, Ángel Médici, Wolfgang Krull, Frederick Sheffield, and Louis Armand.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Charles Pahud de Mortanges ranks 824 out of 1,646. Before him are John van Loen (1965), Berry van Aerle (1962), Ronald Brautigam (1954), Janine Jansen (1978), Wim van der Voort (1923), and Ryan Babel (1986). After him are Jan van Beveren (1948), Adrie van Kraay (1953), Antonius van den Broek (1870), Renée Soutendijk (1957), Jopie Selbach (1918), and Ewine van Dishoeck (1955).

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Among POLITICIANS In Netherlands

Among politicians born in Netherlands, Charles Pahud de Mortanges ranks 114. Before him are Princess Mabel of Orange-Nassau (1968), Pieter Cort van der Linden (1846), Badr Hari (1984), Hans van Mierlo (1931), Jacob van Zuylen van Nijevelt (1816), and Frans Andriessen (1929). After him are Atje Keulen-Deelstra (1938), Wilhelmina Drucker (1847), Jan Kappeyne van de Coppello (1822), Gijsbert van Tienhoven (1841), Joan Röell (1844), and Els Borst (1932).

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