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Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay

1887 - 1965

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General Hastings Lionel "Pug" Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay (21 June 1887 – 17 December 1965) was a British politician, diplomat and general in the British Indian Army who was the first secretary general of NATO. He also was Winston Churchill's chief military assistant during the Second World War. Ismay was born in Nainital, India, in 1887, and educated in the United Kingdom at Charterhouse School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. After Sandhurst, he joined the Indian Army as an officer of the 21st Prince Albert Victor's Own Cavalry. During the First World War, he served with the Camel Corps in British Somaliland, where he joined in the British fight against the "Mad Mullah", Mohammed Abdullah Hassan. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay is the 8,592nd most popular politician (down from 6,974th in 2019), the 308th most popular biography from India (down from 226th in 2019) and the 104th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay ranks 8,592 out of 19,576. Before him are Euthydemus I, Agesilaus I, Shō Hashi, Ankhwennefer, Jia Chong, and Leopold II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau. After him are Chen Gongbo, Chiang Wei-kuo, Elisabeth Hevelius, Vitaliy Masol, Peter II of Cyprus, and Héctor José Cámpora.

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Among people born in 1887, Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay ranks 100. Before him are Octave Lapize, Louis Jouvet, Miklós Kállay, Hanns Kerrl, Antanas Merkys, and Mario Roatta. After him are Georg Heym, Lil Dagover, Prince Yasuhiko Asaka, Samuil Marshak, Josef Frings, and Edelmiro Julián Farrell. Among people deceased in 1965, Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay ranks 69. Before him are Oskar R. Lange, Shirley Jackson, Ladislas Starevich, Kōdō Sawaki, La Belle Otero, and Harry Babcock. After him are Louis Harold Gray, Frederick, Prince of Hohenzollern, Leopold Figl, Odile Defraye, Erik Heinrichs, and Alfredo Guzzoni.

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In India

Among people born in India, Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay ranks 308 out of 1,861. Before him are Andal (800), Sankardev (1449), Guru Amar Das (1479), Abdul Karim (1863), Kuvempu (1904), and Jaya Bachchan (1948). After him are Michael Radford (1946), Shantanu (null), C. Rajagopalachari (1878), Karamchand Gandhi (1822), Gupta (240), and Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (1856).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay ranks 104. Before him are Chand Bibi (1550), Afzal-ud-Daulah (1827), Tarabai (1675), Jaswant Singh (1938), Charan Singh (1902), and Abdul Karim (1863). After him are Shantanu (null), Karamchand Gandhi (1822), Gupta (240), Phoolan Devi (1963), Bahadur Shah I (1643), and Nizamuddin Auliya (1238).

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