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Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell

1857 - 1941

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Lieutenant-General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, ( BAY-dən POH-əl; 22 February 1857 – 8 January 1941) was a British Army officer, writer, founder of The Boy Scouts Association and its first Chief Scout, and founder, with his sister Agnes, of The Girl Guides Association. Baden-Powell wrote Scouting for Boys, which with his previous books – such as his 1884 Reconnaissance and Scouting and his 1899 Aids to Scouting for N.-C.Os and Men, which was intended for the military, and The Scout magazine – helped the rapid growth of the Scout Movement. Educated at Charterhouse School, Baden-Powell served in the British Army from 1876 until 1910 in India and Africa. In 1899, during the Second Boer War in South Africa, Baden-Powell defended the town in the Siege of Mafeking. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell is the 28th most popular military personnel (down from 16th in 2019), the 105th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 67th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular British Military Personnel.

Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell was most famous for founding the Scouting movement in 1907.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell ranks 28 out of 2,058. Before him are Jochi, Simo Häyhä, Belisarius, William Wallace, Themistocles, and Ptolemy I Soter. After him are Cao Cao, Erich von Manstein, Cesare Borgia, Jan Žižka, Wilhelm Keitel, and Heinz Guderian.

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Among people born in 1857, Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell ranks 5. Before him are Pope Pius XI, Heinrich Hertz, Ferdinand de Saussure, and Clara Zetkin. After him are Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Edward Elgar, Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, Joseph Conrad, Henrik Pontoppidan, Ruggero Leoncavallo, and Alfonso XII of Spain. Among people deceased in 1941, Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell ranks 6. Before him are James Joyce, Wilhelm II, German Emperor, Rabindranath Tagore, Henri Bergson, and Virginia Woolf. After him are Alfonso XIII of Spain, Walther Nernst, Emanuel Lasker, Maurice Leblanc, Maximilian Kolbe, and Paul Sabatier.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell ranks 105 out of 8,785. Before him are William Wallace (1270), Oliver Cromwell (1599), John Dee (1527), Alex Ferguson (1941), Jane Austen (1775), and Edward Heath (1916). After him are Anne Hathaway (1556), Elizabeth Taylor (1932), Robert Falcon Scott (1868), Edgar the Peaceful (943), David Ricardo (1772), and Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell ranks 3. Before him are Bernard Montgomery (1887), and William Wallace (1270). After him are Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (1758), T. E. Lawrence (1888), Edward Smith (1850), Claude Auchinleck (1884), John Hawkins (1532), Alexander Selkirk (1676), William Stuart-Houston (1911), Gertrude Bell (1868), and Captain Tom (1920).

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