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Reginald Dyer

1864 - 1927

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Colonel Reginald Edward Harry Dyer, (9 October 1864 – 23 July 1927) was a British military officer in the Bengal Army and later the newly constituted British Indian Army. His military career began in the regular British Army, but he soon transferred to the presidency armies of India. As a temporary brigadier-general, he was responsible for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre that took place on 13 April 1919 in Amritsar (in the province of Punjab). He has been called "the Butcher of Amritsar", because of his order to fire on a large gathering of people. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Reginald Dyer is the 526th most popular military personnel (up from 1,842nd in 2019), the 37th most popular biography from Pakistan (up from 81st in 2019) and the most popular Pakistani Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Reginald Dyer ranks 526 out of 2,058. Before him are He Jin, Gao Shun, Theodor Busse, Oenomaus, Giorgio Basta, and Otto Kumm. After him are Muhammad bin Bakhtiyar Khalji, Franz Böhme, Fyodor Ushakov, Viktor Lutze, Dmitry Pavlov, and John Franklin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Reginald Dyer ranks 45. Before him are Soh Jaipil, Nicholas Marr, Johan Halvorsen, Andrej Hlinka, Draga Mašin, and Franz Oppenheimer. After him are Séraphine Louis, Auguste Charlois, Kikunae Ikeda, Ethel Voynich, Qi Baishi, and Hermann Weingärtner. Among people deceased in 1927, Reginald Dyer ranks 26. Before him are Armand Guillaumin, Giuseppe Moscati, Edward B. Titchener, Wilhelm Johannsen, Enrique Simonet, and Li Dazhao. After him are Max Hoffmann, Adolph Joffe, Eugène Atget, Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Saad Zaghloul, and Vladimir Bekhterev.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Reginald Dyer ranks 37 out of 217. Before him are Kabir Bedi (1946), Ranjit Singh (1780), Har Gobind Khorana (1922), Khushal Khattak (1613), Muhammad Khan Junejo (1932), and Malala Yousafzai (1997). After him are Bahlul Lodi (1406), Firuz Shah Tughlaq (1309), Imran Khan (1952), Guru Ram Das (1534), Hafiz Saeed (1950), and Raja Dahir (663).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Pakistan

Among military personnels born in Pakistan, Reginald Dyer ranks 1. After him are Ashfaq Parvez Kayani (1952).

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