New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

POLITICIAN

Anna Walentynowicz

1929 - 2010

Photo of Anna Walentynowicz

Icon of person Anna Walentynowicz

Anna Walentynowicz (Polish pronunciation: [ˈanna valɛntɨˈnɔvʲit͡ʂ]; née Lubczyk; 15 August 1929 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish free trade union activist and co-founder of Solidarity, the first non-communist trade union in the Eastern Bloc. Her firing from her job at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk in August 1980 was the event that ignited the strike at the shipyard, set off a wave of strikes across Poland, and quickly paralyzed the Baltic coast. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anna Walentynowicz has received more than 185,869 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Anna Walentynowicz is the 9,553rd most popular politician (down from 7,671st in 2019), the 370th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 286th in 2019) and the 106th most popular Ukrainian Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 190k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.73

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Anna Walentynowiczs by language


Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Anna Walentynowicz ranks 9,553 out of 15,577Before her are Émile Ollivier, Sobekemsaf I, Edmund Glaise-Horstenau, Georgios Kondylis, Georg, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, and George Koval. After her are Iajuddin Ahmed, Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach, Sa'dun Hammadi, Marie of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Pieter Both, and Frederick Louis, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck.

Most Popular Politicians in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Anna Walentynowicz ranks 189Before her are Benny Golson, Gastone Moschin, Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia, Giacomo Capuzzi, David Doyle, and Tayeb Salih. After her are Stanisław Mikulski, Terry Sawchuk, Anastasios of Albania, Fazil Iskander, Walter Brandmüller, and Christoph von Dohnányi. Among people deceased in 2010, Anna Walentynowicz ranks 131Before her are Claude Lefort, Jill Clayburgh, Per Oscarsson, Fud Leclerc, Corneille Guillaume Beverloo, and Giulietta Simionato. After her are Rasim Delić, Cesare Siepi, Manute Bol, Adriaan Blaauw, Ziba Ganiyeva, and Leonid Kizim.

Others Born in 1929

Go to all Rankings

Others Deceased in 2010

Go to all Rankings

In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Anna Walentynowicz ranks 370 out of 1,083Before her are Karol Mikuli (1821), Olga Kurylenko (1979), Anatoly Onoprienko (1959), Petro Shelest (1908), Władysław Horodecki (1863), and Leonid Popov (1945). After her are Igor Moiseyev (1906), Lev Kopelev (1912), Ivan Puluj (1845), Pavlo Tychyna (1891), Nikolay Shmatko (1943), and Alexander Spendiaryan (1871).

Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Anna Walentynowicz ranks 106Before her are Nikolai Kibalchich (1853), Lev Mekhlis (1889), Nicolae Văcăroiu (1943), Polina Astakhova (1936), Ihor Kolomoyskyi (1963), and Petro Shelest (1908). After her are Igor Moiseyev (1906), Mikhail Rodzianko (1859), Vera Kholodnaya (1893), Maria Dobroniega of Kiev (null), Arseniy Yatsenyuk (1974), and Kazimierz Bartel (1882).