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John Shalikashvili

1936 - 2011

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John Malchase David Shalikashvili (Georgian: ჯონ მალხაზ დავით შალიკაშვილი, romanized: jon malkhaz davit shalik'ashvili, IPA: [ʃalikʼaʃʷili]; 27 June 1936 – 23 July 2011) was a United States Army general who served as Supreme Allied Commander Europe from 1992 to 1993 and the 13th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1993 to 1997. He was born in Warsaw, Poland, in the family of émigré Georgian officer Dimitri Shalikashvili and his naturalized-Polish wife Maria Rüdiger-Belyaeva. In 1996, he was the first recipient of the Naval War College Distinguished Graduate Leadership Award. Shalikashvili was the first, and as of 2023 only, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff not born in the United States. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Shalikashvili is the 1,800th most popular military personnel (down from 1,772nd in 2019), the 1,013th most popular biography from Poland (down from 981st in 2019) and the 77th most popular Polish Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, John Shalikashvili ranks 1,800 out of 2,058. Before him are Lawrence Oates, Rahim Ademi, Eugene Sledge, Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, Stefan Toshev, and Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. After him are Ludwig von Falkenhausen, Aurélio de Lira Tavares, Zhanna Yorkina, Luigi Capello, Mizuno Tadakuni, and Friedrich von Scholtz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, John Shalikashvili ranks 385. Before him are Guillermo Escalada, Míriam Colón, Carlos Blixen, Vladimir Maslachenko, James Darren, and Tony Nash. After him are Revaz Gabriadze, Stephen E. Ambrose, Georg Sterzinsky, Darlene Hard, Manuel Alegre, and Loren Acton. Among people deceased in 2011, John Shalikashvili ranks 308. Before him are Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Charles Jarrott, Amparo Muñoz, Hans Kalt, Marie Ljalková, and Waldemar Baszanowski. After him are Ferenc Szojka, Andrzej Lepper, Oldřich Machač, Georg Sterzinsky, Garret FitzGerald, and Mikhail Kozakov.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, John Shalikashvili ranks 1,013 out of 1,694. Before him are Stanisław Wielgus (1939), Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer (1865), Igor Newerly (1903), Halina Poświatowska (1935), Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz (1959), and Waldemar Baszanowski (1935). After him are Hans Lewy (1904), Heinrich Caro (1834), Halina Górecka (1938), Antoni Piechniczek (1942), Halszka Osmólska (1930), and Andrzej Lepper (1954).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Poland

Among military personnels born in Poland, John Shalikashvili ranks 77. Before him are Michał Gedeon Radziwiłł (1778), Theodor Tolsdorff (1909), Wilhelm Hasse (1894), Karl Decker (1897), Maria Wittek (1899), and Hyman G. Rickover (1900). After him are Walter Krueger (1881), August Emil Fieldorf (1895), Johannes Block (1894), and Franciszek Gągor (1951).

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