MILITARY PERSONNEL

Eddie Chapman

1914 - 1997

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Edward Arnold Chapman (16 November 1914 – 11 December 1997) was an English criminal and wartime spy. During the Second World War he offered his services to Nazi Germany as a spy and subsequently became a British double agent. His British Secret Service handlers codenamed him Agent Zigzag in acknowledgement of his erratic personal history. He had a number of criminal aliases known by the British police, amongst them Edward Edwards, Arnold Thompson and Edward Simpson. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eddie Chapman is the 1,828th most popular military personnel (down from 1,770th in 2019), the 4,091st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,452nd in 2019) and the 101st most popular British Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Eddie Chapman ranks 1,828 out of 2,058. Before him are Aleksei Evert, Dmitry Lavrinenko, Sam Manekshaw, Jacob L. Devers, Peter Pace, and Walter Krueger. After him are Vladimir Alexeyevich Kornilov, Henning von Holtzendorff, Myronides, August Emil Fieldorf, Richard Bong, and Juan Aldama.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Eddie Chapman ranks 309. Before him are Charles Régnier, Sam Manekshaw, Louis Chaillot, Ersilio Tonini, Martí de Riquer i Morera, and Karel Kolský. After him are Béatrix Beck, Václav Mottl, Walter Behrendt, Edgar Reinhardt, Fiorenzo Marini, and Qin Jiwei. Among people deceased in 1997, Eddie Chapman ranks 232. Before him are Kiki Kogelnik, Norris Bradbury, Cheddi Jagan, Laura Nyro, Billie Dove, and Julian Jaynes. After him are Jean Dréville, Albín Brunovský, Walter Behrendt, Luther Allison, Helene Hanff, and Qin Jiwei.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Eddie Chapman ranks 4,092 out of 8,785. Before him are Brendan Rodgers (1973), Piers Morgan (1965), George Cohen (1939), Martin Gilbert (1936), Adolph Deutsch (1897), and Carey Mulligan (1985). After him are Shirley Manson (1966), John Bodkin Adams (1899), Francis Crozier (1796), Christopher Middleton (1690), Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923), and Louis Fraser (1810).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Eddie Chapman ranks 101. Before him are Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe (1726), Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex (1591), Lawrence Oates (1880), Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth (1757), Andy Green (1962), and John Byng (1704). After him are Christopher Cradock (1862), George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan (1800), Miles Dempsey (1896), Boston Corbett (1832), Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer (1857), and Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton (1663).

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