POLITICIAN

Sidney Reilly

1873 - 1925

Photo of Sidney Reilly

Icon of person Sidney Reilly

Sidney George Reilly (; c. 1873 – 5 November 1925), known as the "Ace of Spies", was a Russian-born adventurer and secret agent employed by Scotland Yard's Special Branch and later by the Foreign Section of the British Secret Service Bureau, the precursor to the modern British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6/SIS). He is alleged to have spied for at least four different great powers, and documentary evidence indicates that he was involved in espionage activities in 1890s London among Russian émigré circles, in Manchuria on the eve of the Russo-Japanese War (1904–05), and in an abortive 1918 coup d'état against Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik government in Moscow. Reilly disappeared in Soviet Russia in the mid-1920s, lured by the Cheka's Operation Trust. British diplomat and journalist R. H. Bruce Lockhart publicised his and Reilly's 1918 exploits to overthrow the Bolshevik regime in Lockhart's 1932 book Memoirs of a British Agent. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sidney Reilly is the 7,935th most popular politician (down from 7,656th in 2019), the 289th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 296th in 2019) and the 89th most popular Ukrainian Politician.

Memorability Metrics

Loading...

Page views of Sidney Reilly by language

Loading...

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Sidney Reilly ranks 7,935 out of 19,576. Before him are Ottone Visconti, Frederick Louis, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Hor, Richilde of Provence, Han Zheng, and Nguyễn Huệ. After him are Bertrand Barère, Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Karl Gützlaff, Barsbay, Frederick V, Burgrave of Nuremberg, and Ivan Šubašić.

Most Popular Politicians in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Sidney Reilly ranks 71. Before him are Fritz Thyssen, Hans Berger, Valery Bryusov, Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg, Moisei Uritsky, and Elena Stasova. After him are Jukums Vācietis, Alexey Shchusev, Joseph Paul-Boncour, Rudolf Rocker, Hasan Prishtina, and Richard Wilhelm. Among people deceased in 1925, Sidney Reilly ranks 63. Before him are Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow, John French, 1st Earl of Ypres, Khải Định, Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Robert Koldewey, and Joel Hastings Metcalf. After him are Aristide Bruant, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, Myer Prinstein, Sheikh Said, Anna Schäffer, and Stefan Żeromski.

Others Born in 1873

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1925

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Sidney Reilly ranks 289 out of 1,365. Before him are Arseny Tarkovsky (1907), Polina Zhemchuzhina (1897), Rinat Akhmetov (1966), Mikhail Artsybashev (1878), Theophan Prokopovich (1681), and Sergey Kamenev (1881). After him are Ahad Ha'am (1856), Vasyl Stus (1938), Franz Doppler (1821), Volodymyr Holubnychy (1936), Igor Oistrakh (1931), and David Riazanov (1870).

Others born in Ukraine

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Sidney Reilly ranks 89. Before him are Meir Dagan (1945), Yaroslav Stetsko (1912), Moisei Uritsky (1873), Igor II of Kiev (1100), Natan Sharansky (1948), and Polina Zhemchuzhina (1897). After him are Oleksii Reznikov (1966), Peter Wittgenstein (1768), Nikolai Kibalchich (1853), Nicolae Văcăroiu (1943), Emanuel Ringelblum (1900), and Grigory Petrovsky (1878).

Ukrainian born Politicians

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous