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Rudolf Abel

1903 - 1971

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Rudolf Ivanovich Abel (Russian: Рудольф Иванович Абель) was the alias of William August Fisher (11 July 1903 – 15 November 1971), a Soviet intelligence officer, created to alert his Soviet KGB handlers when Fisher was arrested in the USA on charges of espionage by the FBI in 1957. Fisher was born and grew up in Newcastle upon Tyne in the North East of England in the United Kingdom to Russian émigré parents. He moved to Russia in the 1920s, and served in the Soviet military before undertaking foreign service as a radio operator in Soviet intelligence in the late 1920s and early 1930s. He later served in an instructional role before taking part in intelligence operations against the Germans during World War II. After the war, he began working for the KGB, which sent him to the United States where he worked as part of a spy ring based in New York City. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rudolf Abel is the 223rd most popular military personnel (up from 348th in 2019), the 532nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 639th in 2019) and the 14th most popular British Military Personnel.

Rudolf Abel was a Soviet spy who was arrested in 1957 and sentenced to 30 years in prison.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Rudolf Abel ranks 223 out of 2,058. Before him are Yūsuf Balasaguni, Friedrich Olbricht, Wilhelm List, Yue Fei, Parmenion, and John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. After him are Maurice Gamelin, Aleksei Brusilov, Pierre Augereau, Władysław Sikorski, Lavr Kornilov, and Alfred von Tirpitz.

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Among people born in 1903, Rudolf Abel ranks 29. Before him are Kane Tanaka, Frank P. Ramsey, Hugo Theorell, Anaïs Nin, Mustafa Barzani, and Karl Hanke. After him are Nikolai Podgorny, Fahri Korutürk, José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Raymond Queneau, John Dillinger, and Hans Jonas. Among people deceased in 1971, Rudolf Abel ranks 25. Before him are Harold Lloyd, D. B. Cooper, Gotthard Heinrici, Igor Tamm, Wilhelm List, and François Duvalier. After him are Lin Biao, Franz Stangl, Donald Winnicott, Jacobo Árbenz, Arne Jacobsen, and Lothar Rendulic.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Rudolf Abel ranks 532 out of 8,785. Before him are Kenny Baker (1934), Ian Holm (1931), Theresa May (1956), David Brewster (1781), Cynric (450), and John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650). After him are Sweyn II of Denmark (1020), Patrick Stewart (1940), George Eliot (1819), Charles Lyell (1797), Robert Burns (1759), and Princess Margaret of Connaught (1882).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Rudolf Abel ranks 14. Before him are John Hawkins (1532), Alexander Selkirk (1676), William Stuart-Houston (1911), Gertrude Bell (1868), Captain Tom (1920), and John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650). After him are Jack Phillips (1887), Hugh Dowding (1882), Timothy Laurence (1955), Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (1861), Henry Maitland Wilson (1881), and Charles Lee (1731).

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