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field marshal

usually the highest rank in an army
Intangible military_rank Q7821620
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Summary

field marshal is a military rank[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of military rank entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,029 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: military officer[3]
  • Commons category: Field Marshals[4]
  • Said to be the same as: fältmarskalk[5], maréchal de camp[6], field marshal[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Field marshals[8]
  • Different from: marshal[9], general field marshal[10]
  • Has list: list of field marshals[11]
  • Next lower rank: general[12]

Why It Matters

field marshal has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] It is known by 35 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

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Abdel Fattah el-Sisi Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi Abdullah II of Jordan Abdullah I of Jordan Alexandros Papagos Ali Abdullah Saleh Antoine Destutt de Tracy Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne Constantine II of Greece Farouk I of Egypt Francisco Solano López Frederick William III of Prussia Gaafar Nimeiry George II of Greece Gilles de Rais Gyanendra of Nepal Hamad II of Bahrain Humberto Castelo Branco Idi Amin Idriss Déby Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen Joseph Radetzky von Radetz Kwame Nkrumah Lon Nol Mahamat Déby mariscal de campo Mohamed Hussein Tantawi Ömer Lütfi Pasha

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 6w ago · Samoasambia · 2026-08-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has list → list of field marshals
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Has list: list of field marshals"
  2. 13w ago · RoastPig · 2026-07-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
    Different from → marshal, general field marshal
    Topic's main category → Category:Field marshals
    Said to be the same as → fältmarskalk, maréchal de camp, field marshal
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbmergeitems-from:0||Q12760580 */"
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