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Fawzi al-Qawuqji

1890 - 1977

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Fawzi al-Qawuqji (Arabic: فوزي القاوقجي, Turkish: Fevzi Kavukçu;‎ 19 January 1890 – 5 June 1977) was a Lebanese-born Arab nationalist military figure in the interwar period. He served briefly in Palestine in 1936 fighting the British Mandatory suppression of the Palestinian Revolt. A political decision by the British enabled him to flee the country in 1937. He was a colonel in the Nazi Wehrmacht during World War II, and served as the Arab Liberation Army (ALA) field commander during the 1948 Palestine War. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Fawzi al-Qawuqji is the 1,114th most popular military personnel (down from 849th in 2019), the 70th most popular biography from Lebanon (down from 57th in 2019) and the most popular Lebanese Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Fawzi al-Qawuqji ranks 1,114 out of 2,058. Before him are Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Raden Wijaya, Dan Halutz, Abraham Duquesne, Alfred Wünnenberg, and Zdravko Tolimir. After him are Yitzhak Sadeh, Hermann Breith, Nureddin Pasha, Mahmud Shevket Pasha, Otto Weddigen, and David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Fawzi al-Qawuqji ranks 110. Before him are Emilio Portes Gil, Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen, Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger, Duke Kahanamoku, Harry Hopkins, and Clarence Brown. After him are Yitzhak Sadeh, Phetsarath Ratanavongsa, Erwin Jaenecke, Jüri Uluots, Paul Strand, and Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz. Among people deceased in 1977, Fawzi al-Qawuqji ranks 105. Before him are Ba Maw, Pan Yuliang, Ronnie Van Zant, Marie-Thérèse Walter, Isaac Boleslavsky, and Kinuyo Tanaka. After him are Jim Thompson, Sergei Kruglov, Richard Carlson, Hanns Martin Schleyer, Son Ngoc Thanh, and Delmer Daves.

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In Lebanon

Among people born in Lebanon, Fawzi al-Qawuqji ranks 70 out of 145. Before him are Selim Hoss (1929), Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir (1920), Imad Mughniyah (1962), Philo of Byblos (64), Callinicus of Heliopolis (700), and Abd al-Rahman al-Awza'i (707). After him are Samir Geagea (1952), Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī (1547), Élias Sarkis (1924), Ahmad Shukeiri (1908), Gabriel Yared (1949), and Abdalonymus (-305).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Lebanon

Among military personnels born in Lebanon, Fawzi al-Qawuqji ranks 1. 

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