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Anna Walentynowicz

1929 - 2010

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Anna Walentynowicz (Polish pronunciation: [ˈanna valɛntɨˈnɔvʲit͡ʂ]; née Lubczyk; 15 August 1929 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish trade unionist and co-founder of Solidarity, the first recognised independent 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 198,466 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Anna Walentynowicz is the 9,768th most popular politician (down from 9,526th in 2019), the 395th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 367th in 2019) and the 114th most popular Ukrainian Politician.

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  • 200k

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  • 53.88

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Anna Walentynowicz ranks 9,768 out of 19,576. Before her are Khalid al-Islambouli, Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Castro, Matvei Platov, Girolamo Aleandro, Princess Mathilde of Saxony, and Randolph Churchill. After her are Victor de Broglie, Berthold V, Duke of Zähringen, Soe Win, Rainulf Drengot, Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš, and Đinh Bộ Lĩnh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Anna Walentynowicz ranks 186. Before her are Joe Pass, Peter Yates, Darío Castrillón Hoyos, Karl Koller, Eric Carle, and Tayeb Salih. After her are Edison Denisov, Christoph von Dohnányi, James McDivitt, Hind Rostom, Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar, and Benny Golson. Among people deceased in 2010, Anna Walentynowicz ranks 129. Before her are Luis García Berlanga, Adriaan Blaauw, Raymond Franz, Tom Bosley, John Leslie, and Alain Corneau. After her are Giuseppe Taddei, Jill Clayburgh, Paul Augustin Mayer, Per Oscarsson, Manute Bol, and Tony Judt.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Anna Walentynowicz ranks 395 out of 1,365. Before her are Yevhen Petrushevych (1863), Ciprian Porumbescu (1853), Polina Astakhova (1936), Evgeny Lifshitz (1915), Anatoliy Bondarchuk (1940), and Stanisław Maczek (1892). After her are John of Shanghai and San Francisco (1896), Mark Taimanov (1926), Maximilian Voloshin (1877), Ivan Poddubny (1871), Mykola Pymonenko (1862), and Pavlo Lazarenko (1953).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Anna Walentynowicz ranks 114. Before her are Vitold Fokin (1932), Izyaslav of Polotsk (980), Alemdar Mustafa Pasha (1755), Mikhail Rodzianko (1859), Yevhen Petrushevych (1863), and Polina Astakhova (1936). After her are Pavlo Lazarenko (1953), Maria Dobroniega of Kiev (null), Yevgenia Bosch (1879), Lev Mekhlis (1889), Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski (1520), and Roman Rudenko (1907).

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