The Most Famous
JOURNALISTS from Poland
This page contains a list of the greatest Polish Journalists. The pantheon dataset contains 127 Journalists, 1 of which were born in Poland. This makes Poland the birth place of the 24th most number of Journalists behind Lithuania and South Africa.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Polish Journalists of all time. This list of famous Polish Journalists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. David Seymour (1911 - 1956)
With an HPI of 56.15, David Seymour is the most famous Polish Journalist. His biography has been translated into 24 different languages on wikipedia.
David Seymour (born Dawid Szymin; November 20, 1911 – November 10, 1956), or Chim (pronounced shim, an abbreviation of the surname "Szymin"), was a Polish photographer and photojournalist. Chim was known for his images from the Spanish Civil War, for co-founding Magnum Photos with Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa and George Rodger, and for his project "Children of War" with UNICEF that captured the plight of children in the aftermath of World War II. He became president of Magnum after Capa's death in 1954 and held this post until his own death in 1956 by Egyptian machinegun fire in the aftermath of the Suez crisis.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as journalists born between 1911 and 1911. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased journalists include David Seymour.
