The Most Famous

Pilots from Poland

3 notable people

This page contains a list of the greatest Polish Pilots. The pantheon dataset contains 74 Pilots, 3 of which were born in Poland. This makes Poland the birth place of the 6th most number of Pilots behind Germany and Ukraine.

Top 3 Polish Pilots

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Polish Pilots of all time. This list of famous Polish Pilots is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.

#1
Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen
1895 - 1945
HPI 75.4636 languages
Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen is most famous for being a German World War I fighter pilot, and for his service in the air force during World War II.
#2
Hanna Reitsch
1912 - 1979
HPI 71.7537 languages
Hanna Reitsch was a German aviator and test pilot who became the first woman to fly a helicopter.
#3
Jadwiga Piłsudska
1920 - 2014
HPI 58.3117 languages
Polish pilot (1920-2014)

Overlapping Lives

Which Pilots were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 3 most globally memorable Pilots since 1700.

INSTITUTIONS

Top 3 Polish Pilots

Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen

Hanna Reitsch

Jadwiga Piłsudska

Overlapping Lives