1946 - Today
Adam Michnik (Polish pronunciation: [ˈadam ˈmixɲik]; born 17 October 1946) is a Polish historian, essayist, former dissident, public intellectual, as well as co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Polish newspaper, Gazeta Wyborcza. Reared in a family of committed communists, Michnik became an opponent of Poland's communist regime at the time of the party's anti-Jewish purges. He was imprisoned after the 1968 March Events and again after the imposition of martial law in 1981. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adam Michnik has received more than 209,526 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Adam Michnik is the 3,013th most popular writer (up from 3,340th in 2019), the 651st most popular biography from Poland (up from 679th in 2019) and the 73rd most popular Polish Writer.
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Among writers, Adam Michnik ranks 3,013 out of 5,755. Before him are Rolf Hochhuth, Grigore Vieru, Janet Frame, Anthony Horowitz, Robert McKee, and Pascal Quignard. After him are Judith Gautier, Sohrab Sepehri, Juan Pablo Bonet, Howard Pyle, María Kodama, and James Rollins.
1931 - 2020
HPI: 51.62
Rank: 3,007
1935 - 2009
HPI: 51.62
Rank: 3,008
1924 - 2004
HPI: 51.61
Rank: 3,009
1955 - Present
HPI: 51.61
Rank: 3,010
1941 - Present
HPI: 51.61
Rank: 3,011
1948 - Present
HPI: 51.60
Rank: 3,012
1946 - Present
HPI: 51.60
Rank: 3,013
1845 - 1917
HPI: 51.60
Rank: 3,014
1928 - 1980
HPI: 51.60
Rank: 3,015
1579 - 1633
HPI: 51.60
Rank: 3,016
1853 - 1911
HPI: 51.58
Rank: 3,017
1937 - 2023
HPI: 51.58
Rank: 3,018
1961 - Present
HPI: 51.57
Rank: 3,019
Among people born in 1946, Adam Michnik ranks 256. Before him are Andrea Dworkin, Sher Bahadur Deuba, Rocío Jurado, Camilo Sesto, Bruce Davison, and Diane von Fürstenberg. After him are Lana Wood, Jeffrey Jones, Carmine Appice, Anatoliy Banishevskiy, Paul Smith, and Roméo Dallaire.
1946 - 2005
HPI: 52.01
Rank: 250
1946 - Present
HPI: 51.99
Rank: 251
1946 - 2006
HPI: 51.84
Rank: 252
1946 - 2019
HPI: 51.76
Rank: 253
1946 - Present
HPI: 51.75
Rank: 254
1946 - Present
HPI: 51.71
Rank: 255
1946 - Present
HPI: 51.60
Rank: 256
1946 - Present
HPI: 51.55
Rank: 257
1946 - Present
HPI: 51.44
Rank: 258
1946 - Present
HPI: 51.42
Rank: 259
1946 - 1997
HPI: 51.41
Rank: 260
1946 - Present
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 261
1946 - Present
HPI: 51.38
Rank: 262
Among people born in Poland, Adam Michnik ranks 651 out of 1,454. Before him are Andrzej Munk (1921), Janosch (1931), Maria Dąbrowska (1889), Ernst Wiechert (1887), Zeev Sternhell (1935), and Joseph Serchuk (1919). After him are Wincenty Witos (1874), Duke William Frederick Philip of Württemberg (1761), Andrzej Panufnik (1914), Haroun Tazieff (1914), Jacob Heinrich von Flemming (1667), and Julian Marchlewski (1866).
1921 - 1961
HPI: 51.71
Rank: 645
1931 - Present
HPI: 51.70
Rank: 646
1889 - 1965
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 647
1887 - 1950
HPI: 51.65
Rank: 648
1935 - 2020
HPI: 51.63
Rank: 649
1919 - 1993
HPI: 51.63
Rank: 650
1946 - Present
HPI: 51.60
Rank: 651
1874 - 1945
HPI: 51.59
Rank: 652
1761 - 1830
HPI: 51.58
Rank: 653
1914 - 1991
HPI: 51.58
Rank: 654
1914 - 1998
HPI: 51.57
Rank: 655
1667 - 1728
HPI: 51.48
Rank: 656
1866 - 1925
HPI: 51.47
Rank: 657
Among writers born in Poland, Adam Michnik ranks 73. Before him are Uwe Johnson (1934), Michalina Wisłocka (1921), Hermann Rauschning (1887), Janosch (1931), Maria Dąbrowska (1889), and Ernst Wiechert (1887). After him are Martin Gray (1922), Stefanie Zweig (1932), Duchess Agnes of Württemberg (1835), Marcin Kromer (1512), Joanna Chmielewska (1932), and Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński (1921).
1934 - 1984
HPI: 51.98
Rank: 67
1921 - 2005
HPI: 51.89
Rank: 68
1887 - 1982
HPI: 51.87
Rank: 69
1931 - Present
HPI: 51.70
Rank: 70
1889 - 1965
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 71
1887 - 1950
HPI: 51.65
Rank: 72
1946 - Present
HPI: 51.60
Rank: 73
1922 - 2016
HPI: 50.97
Rank: 74
1932 - 2014
HPI: 50.87
Rank: 75
1835 - 1886
HPI: 50.83
Rank: 76
1512 - 1589
HPI: 50.77
Rank: 77
1932 - 2013
HPI: 50.75
Rank: 78
1921 - 1944
HPI: 50.72
Rank: 79