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Noor Inayat Khan

1914 - 1944

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Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan, GC (1 January 1914 – 13 September 1944), also known as Nora Inayat-Khan and Nora Baker, was a British resistance agent in France in the Second World War who served in the Special Operations Executive (SOE). The purpose of SOE was to conduct espionage, sabotage, and reconnaissance in countries occupied by the Axis powers, especially those occupied by Nazi Germany. As an SOE agent under the codename Madeleine she became the first female wireless operator to be sent from the UK into occupied France to aid the French Resistance during the Second World War. Inayat Khan was betrayed, captured, and executed at Dachau concentration camp. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Noor Inayat Khan is the 2,690th most popular writer (down from 2,423rd in 2019), the 917th most popular biography from Russia (down from 882nd in 2019) and the 109th most popular Russian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Noor Inayat Khan ranks 2,690 out of 7,302. Before her are Kamo no Chōmei, Terry Goodkind, Parvin E'tesami, Dagny Juel, Yu Kil-chun, and Anvari. After her are Jean Ray, Ennin, Eugène Burnouf, Patrick Pearse, Sāyaṇa, and Valentin Kataev.

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Among people born in 1914, Noor Inayat Khan ranks 149. Before her are Anatole Abragam, Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven, Gino Colaussi, Michael Grant, Yuri Levitan, and Paul Tortelier. After her are Frances Oldham Kelsey, Patrick O'Brian, Arno Schmidt, Jens Otto Krag, Hernán Siles Zuazo, and Harry F. Byrd Jr.. Among people deceased in 1944, Noor Inayat Khan ranks 156. Before her are Max Nettlau, Walter Heitz, Franz Kutschera, J. Walter Christie, Riccardo Zandonai, and Léon Brunschvicg. After her are Lupe Vélez, Kaj Munk, Mineichi Koga, Bruno Lüdke, Adaviye Efendiyeva, and Gabriel Hanotaux.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Noor Inayat Khan ranks 917 out of 3,761. Before her are Mikhail Romm (1901), Yuri Levitan (1914), Dmitry Peskov (1967), Ivan Sidorenko (1919), Anatoly Filipchenko (1928), and Konstantin of Rostov (1185). After her are Catherine Breshkovsky (1844), Rudolf Barshai (1924), Dmitry Utkin (1970), Hyacinth (1777), Konstantin Somov (1869), and Zinaida Yusupova (1861).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Noor Inayat Khan ranks 109. Before her are Sergey Aksakov (1791), Gennadiy Aygi (1934), Nikolay Kostomarov (1817), Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1850), Fyodor Sologub (1863), and Vladimir Stasov (1824). After her are Franz Overbeck (1837), Countess of Ségur (1799), Yury Yakovlev (1928), Vladimir Sorokin (1955), Yevgeny Baratynsky (1800), and Andrei Sinyavsky (1925).

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