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Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford

1893 - 1971

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Marshal of the Royal Air Force Charles Frederick Algernon Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford, (21 May 1893 – 22 April 1971) was a senior Royal Air Force officer. He served as a bomber pilot in the First World War, and rose to become first a flight commander and then a squadron commander, flying light bombers on the Western Front. In the early stages of the Second World War he was commander-in-chief of Bomber Command. He was an advocate of strategic area bombing against German industrial areas, and viewed it as a war winning strategy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford is the 339th most popular engineer (up from 348th in 2019), the 4,966th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 5,222nd in 2019) and the 37th most popular British Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford ranks 339 out of 389. Before him are Verghese Kurien, John Monash, Da-Wen Sun, Isaac Roberts, Hugh Latimer Dryden, and Octave Chanute. After him are T. Keith Glennan, Julius Kühn, R. J. Mitchell, Harry Ricardo, Anatoly Blagonravov, and Pat Symonds.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford ranks 257. Before him are Nuriye Ulviye Mevlan Civelek, Betty Blythe, Katharine Cornell, Aksel Berg, Victor Verschueren, and Harry Warren. After him are Marie Pujmanová, Patricio Arabolaza, Giovanni Scatturin, Leatrice Joy, Alfred Engelsen, and Bert McCaffrey. Among people deceased in 1971, Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford ranks 222. Before him are Clare Dennis, Hugo Black, Usmar Ismail, Cliff Edwards, Thawi Bunyaket, and Nikolay Rubtsov. After him are Glenda Farrell, Dorothy Comingore, Elemér Szathmáry, Jan Palouš, Erwin Keller, and Chesty Puller.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford ranks 4,967 out of 8,785. Before him are Wallace Ford (1898), Skin (1967), William Friese-Greene (1855), Phil Foden (2000), Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire (1868), and Andy Mackay (1946). After him are Augustus John (1878), Chris Menges (1940), Chris Bonington (1934), Calum Scott (1988), Mark Ronson (1975), and John Gardner (1926).

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Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford ranks 37. Before him are Mal Evans (1935), Ralph Bagnold (1896), Geoffrey de Havilland (1882), Ove Arup (1895), Jesse Ramsden (1735), and Isaac Roberts (1829). After him are R. J. Mitchell (1895), Harry Ricardo (1885), Pat Symonds (1953), Tommy Flowers (1905), Bob Bell (1958), and John Lombe (1693).

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