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Milunka Savić

1890 - 1973

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Milunka Savić CMG (Serbian Cyrillic: Милунка Савић; 28 June 1892 – 5 October 1973) was a Serbian war heroine who fought in the Balkan Wars and in World War I. She is the most-decorated female combatant in the history of human warfare. She was wounded in battle nine times, and because of her immense courage and leadership, the French called her the "Serbian Joan of Arc". Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Milunka Savić is the 570th most popular military personnel (up from 585th in 2019), the 80th most popular biography from Serbia (up from 84th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Serbian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Milunka Savić ranks 570 out of 2,058. Before her are Kirill Moskalenko, Lian Po, Creighton Abrams, Mikhail Alekseyev, Hossein Salami, and Sergey Sokolov. After her are Georges Picquart, Saburō Sakai, Filipp Golikov, Bo'orchu, Rüdiger von der Goltz, and Seishirō Itagaki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Milunka Savić ranks 58. Before her are Georgy Pyatakov, Viktor Lutze, Li Zongren, Béla Miklós, Frank Martin, and Erich Kleiber. After her are Rose Kennedy, Adolf Schärf, Géza Lakatos, Victor Serge, Walter Krüger, and Prince Joachim of Prussia. Among people deceased in 1973, Milunka Savić ranks 62. Before her are Edward G. Robinson, Leo Strauss, Katina Paxinou, Adolf Strauss, Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, and Robert Ryan. After her are Karl Löwith, José Villalonga, Robert Siodmak, Veronica Lake, Mary Wigman, and E. E. Evans-Pritchard.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Milunka Savić ranks 80 out of 661. Before her are Mihailo Obrenović (1823), Saliha Sultan (1680), Martin of Braga (520), Thomas Nagel (1937), Mirjana Marković (1942), and Vuk Drašković (1946). After her are Gojko Mitić (1940), Petar Stambolić (1912), Živojin Mišić (1855), Radivoj Korać (1938), Dragiša Cvetković (1893), and Stefan Branković (1417).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Serbia

Among military personnels born in Serbia, Milunka Savić ranks 5. Before her are Romulus Augustulus (460), Draža Mihailović (1893), Josip Jelačić (1801), and Duško Popov (1912). After her are Živojin Mišić (1855), Stepa Stepanović (1856), Vetranio (300), Petar Bojović (1858), Momčilo Perišić (1944), Sefer Halilović (1952), and Dragan Vasiljković (1954).

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