1891 - 1965
George Adamski (17 April 1891 – 23 April 1965) was a Polish-American author who became widely known in ufology circles, and to some degree in popular culture, after he displayed numerous photographs in the 1940s and 1950s that he said were of alien spacecraft, claimed to have met with friendly Nordic alien Space Brothers, and claimed to have taken flights with them to the Moon and other planets.Adamski was the first, and most famous, of several so-called UFO contactees who came to prominence during the 1950s. Adamski called himself a "philosopher, teacher, student and saucer researcher", although most investigators regarded him as a charlatan and a con artist and concluded that his claims were an elaborate hoax.Adamski authored three books describing his meetings with Nordic aliens and his travels with them aboard their spaceships: Flying Saucers Have Landed (co-written with Desmond Leslie) in 1953, Inside the Space Ships in 1955, and Flying Saucers Farewell in 1961. The first two books were both bestsellers; by 1960 they had sold a combined 200,000 copies. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Adamski has received more than 610,631 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). George Adamski is the 1,887th most popular writer (down from 1,829th in 2019), the 406th most popular biography from Poland (down from 383rd in 2019) and the 38th most popular Polish Writer.
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Among writers, George Adamski ranks 1,887 out of 5,755. Before him are John of Ruusbroec, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Augustin Barruel, Zinaida Gippius, Pierre Klossowski, and Caterina Albert. After him are Fernando de Rojas, Baba Tahir, Julien Gracq, Avraham Stern, Caecilius Statius, and Eustathius of Thessalonica.
1293 - 1381
HPI: 55.70
Rank: 1,881
1945 - Present
HPI: 55.70
Rank: 1,882
1741 - 1820
HPI: 55.69
Rank: 1,883
1869 - 1945
HPI: 55.68
Rank: 1,884
1905 - 2001
HPI: 55.68
Rank: 1,885
1869 - 1966
HPI: 55.67
Rank: 1,886
1891 - 1965
HPI: 55.67
Rank: 1,887
1470 - 1541
HPI: 55.67
Rank: 1,888
947 - 1032
HPI: 55.67
Rank: 1,889
1910 - 2007
HPI: 55.66
Rank: 1,890
1907 - 1942
HPI: 55.66
Rank: 1,891
230 BC - 168 BC
HPI: 55.66
Rank: 1,892
1101 - 1198
HPI: 55.66
Rank: 1,893
Among people born in 1891, George Adamski ranks 68. Before him are Karl-Adolf Hollidt, Lilya Brik, Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin, Yvan Goll, Kim Seong-su, and Laura Vicuña. After him are Shukri al-Quwatli, Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma, Kálmán Kalocsay, Tin Ujević, Olga Khokhlova, and Charles Munch. Among people deceased in 1965, George Adamski ranks 57. Before him are Henry A. Wallace, Chen Cheng, Oskar R. Lange, Sydney Chaplin, Humberto Delgado, and Ladislas Starevich. After him are Carl Oberg, Edgard Varèse, Shirley Jackson, William M. Branham, William Heard Kilpatrick, and Taimur bin Feisal.
1891 - 1985
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 62
1891 - 1978
HPI: 56.13
Rank: 63
1891 - 1963
HPI: 55.99
Rank: 64
1891 - 1950
HPI: 55.86
Rank: 65
1891 - 1955
HPI: 55.83
Rank: 66
1891 - 1904
HPI: 55.73
Rank: 67
1891 - 1965
HPI: 55.67
Rank: 68
1891 - 1967
HPI: 55.51
Rank: 69
1891 - 1948
HPI: 55.40
Rank: 70
1891 - 1976
HPI: 55.22
Rank: 71
1891 - 1955
HPI: 55.17
Rank: 72
1891 - 1955
HPI: 55.00
Rank: 73
1891 - 1968
HPI: 54.86
Rank: 74
1888 - 1965
HPI: 56.51
Rank: 51
1897 - 1965
HPI: 56.41
Rank: 52
1904 - 1965
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 53
1885 - 1965
HPI: 56.05
Rank: 54
1906 - 1965
HPI: 56.03
Rank: 55
1882 - 1965
HPI: 55.98
Rank: 56
1891 - 1965
HPI: 55.67
Rank: 57
1897 - 1965
HPI: 55.65
Rank: 58
1883 - 1965
HPI: 55.64
Rank: 59
1916 - 1965
HPI: 55.61
Rank: 60
1909 - 1965
HPI: 55.57
Rank: 61
1871 - 1965
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 62
1886 - 1965
HPI: 55.05
Rank: 63
Among people born in Poland, George Adamski ranks 406 out of 1,454. Before him are Józef Cyrankiewicz (1911), Bronisława Dłuska (1865), Stanisław Dziwisz (1939), Heinz Kessler (1920), Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz (1893), and Arthur Zimmermann (1864). After him are Avraham Stern (1907), Ryszard Siwiec (1909), Wolf Messing (1899), Maria Konopnicka (1842), Włodzimierz Lubański (1947), and Emil Krebs (1867).
1911 - 1989
HPI: 55.76
Rank: 400
1865 - 1939
HPI: 55.74
Rank: 401
1939 - Present
HPI: 55.72
Rank: 402
1920 - 2017
HPI: 55.69
Rank: 403
1893 - 1968
HPI: 55.68
Rank: 404
1864 - 1940
HPI: 55.67
Rank: 405
1891 - 1965
HPI: 55.67
Rank: 406
1907 - 1942
HPI: 55.66
Rank: 407
1909 - 1968
HPI: 55.65
Rank: 408
1899 - 1974
HPI: 55.63
Rank: 409
1842 - 1910
HPI: 55.60
Rank: 410
1947 - Present
HPI: 55.54
Rank: 411
1867 - 1930
HPI: 55.49
Rank: 412
Among writers born in Poland, George Adamski ranks 38. Before him are Martin Opitz (1597), Andreas Gryphius (1616), Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (1885), Stanisław Wyspiański (1869), Alexander Imich (1903), and I. L. Peretz (1852). After him are Avraham Stern (1907), Maria Konopnicka (1842), Stefania Wilczyńska (1886), Piotr Skarga (1536), Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1920), and Israel Joshua Singer (1893).
1597 - 1639
HPI: 56.79
Rank: 32
1616 - 1664
HPI: 56.67
Rank: 33
1885 - 1939
HPI: 56.46
Rank: 34
1869 - 1907
HPI: 56.25
Rank: 35
1903 - 2014
HPI: 56.23
Rank: 36
1852 - 1915
HPI: 56.14
Rank: 37
1891 - 1965
HPI: 55.67
Rank: 38
1907 - 1942
HPI: 55.66
Rank: 39
1842 - 1910
HPI: 55.60
Rank: 40
1886 - Present
HPI: 55.48
Rank: 41
1536 - 1612
HPI: 55.32
Rank: 42
1920 - 2013
HPI: 55.24
Rank: 43
1893 - 1944
HPI: 55.23
Rank: 44