MILITARY PERSONNEL

Yevgeny Prigozhin

1961 - 2023

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Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin (1 June 1961 – 23 August 2023) was a Russian mercenary leader and oligarch. He led the Wagner Group, a private military company, and was a close confidant of Russian president Vladimir Putin until launching a rebellion in June 2023. Prigozhin was sometimes referred to as "Putin's chef" because he owned restaurants and catering businesses that provided services to the Kremlin. Once a convict in the Soviet Union, Prigozhin controlled a network of influential companies whose operations, according to a 2020 investigation, were "tightly integrated with Russia's Defence Ministry and its intelligence arm, the GRU". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yevgeny Prigozhin is the 115th most popular military personnel (down from 69th in 2019), the 114th most popular biography from Russia (down from 74th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Russian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Yevgeny Prigozhin ranks 115 out of 2,058. Before him are Yonatan Netanyahu, Heinrich Müller, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, Claude Auchinleck, and Hephaestion. After him are Konstantin Rokossovsky, Saigō Takamori, Erich Hartmann, Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas, Hamilcar Barca, and Theodor Eicke.

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Among people born in 1961, Yevgeny Prigozhin ranks 4. Before him are Barack Obama, Diana, Princess of Wales, and Ilham Aliyev. After him are Michael J. Fox, Lothar Matthäus, Nadia Comăneci, Stephen Hillenburg, Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Bidhya Devi Bhandari, George Clooney, and Hibatullah Akhundzada. Among people deceased in 2023, Yevgeny Prigozhin ranks 18. Before him are Bobby Charlton, Kenzaburō Ōe, Jane Birkin, Giorgio Napolitano, Michael Gambon, and Sinéad O'Connor. After him are Just Fontaine, Robert Lucas Jr., Harald zur Hausen, Ted Kaczynski, Fernando Botero, and Louise Glück.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yevgeny Prigozhin ranks 114 out of 3,761. Before him are Mikhail Botvinnik (1911), Arnold Sommerfeld (1868), Tokhtamysh (1342), Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926), Mikhail Lermontov (1814), and Mikhail Tukhachevsky (1893). After him are Grigory Potemkin (1739), Anatoly Karpov (1951), Vladimir Komarov (1927), Ivan VI of Russia (1740), Olga of Kiev (890), and Nikolai Lobachevsky (1792).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Yevgeny Prigozhin ranks 8. Before him are Mikhail Kutuzov (1745), Stanislav Petrov (1939), Vasily Arkhipov (1926), Ivan Konev (1897), Alexander Suvorov (1730), and Mikhail Tukhachevsky (1893). After him are Vasily Chuikov (1900), Pyotr Bagration (1765), Semyon Budyonny (1883), Felix Steiner (1896), Aleksandr Vasilevsky (1895), and Gotthard Heinrici (1886).

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