1910 - 2008
Irena Stanisława Sendler (née Krzyżanowska), also referred to as Irena Sendlerowa in Poland, nom de guerre Jolanta (15 February 1910 – 12 May 2008), was a Polish humanitarian, social worker, and nurse who served in the Polish Underground Resistance during World War II in German-occupied Warsaw. From October 1943 she was head of the children's section of Żegota, the Polish Council to Aid Jews (Polish: Rada Pomocy Żydom).In the 1930s, Sendler conducted her social work as one of the activists connected to the Free Polish University. From 1935 to October 1943, she worked for the Department of Social Welfare and Public Health of the City of Warsaw. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Irena Sendler has received more than 2,181,768 page views. Her biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019). Irena Sendler is the 17th most popular social activist (up from 22nd in 2019), the 14th most popular biography from Poland (up from 25th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Social Activist.
Irena Sendler was a Polish woman who saved 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazis by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto.
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Among social activists, Irena Sendler ranks 17 out of 544. Before her are Helen Keller, Guy Fawkes, Jean-Paul Marat, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Rosa Parks, and Claus von Stauffenberg. After her are Lady Godiva, Thomas Müntzer, Robert Owen, Olympe de Gouges, Aung San Suu Kyi, and Gustav I of Sweden.
1880 - 1968
HPI: 82.77
Rank: 11
1570 - 1606
HPI: 82.39
Rank: 12
1743 - 1793
HPI: 82.00
Rank: 13
1746 - 1827
HPI: 81.80
Rank: 14
1913 - 2005
HPI: 81.77
Rank: 15
1907 - 1944
HPI: 81.27
Rank: 16
1910 - 2008
HPI: 80.97
Rank: 17
990 - 1067
HPI: 80.00
Rank: 18
1489 - 1525
HPI: 79.89
Rank: 19
1771 - 1858
HPI: 79.80
Rank: 20
1748 - 1793
HPI: 79.67
Rank: 21
1945 - Present
HPI: 79.56
Rank: 22
1496 - 1560
HPI: 79.41
Rank: 23
Among people born in 1910, Irena Sendler ranks 4. Before her are Mother Teresa, Akira Kurosawa, and Jacques Cousteau. After her are Giuseppe Meazza, Gloria Stuart, Robert K. Merton, Ingrid of Sweden, Django Reinhardt, Konrad Zuse, Jean Genet, and Paulette Goddard. Among people deceased in 2008, Irena Sendler ranks 3. Before her are Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Yves Saint Laurent. After her are Edmund Hillary, Paul Newman, Bobby Fischer, Arthur C. Clarke, Charlton Heston, Suharto, Albert Hofmann, Samuel P. Huntington, and Chinghiz Aitmatov.
1910 - 1997
HPI: 85.68
Rank: 1
1910 - 1998
HPI: 84.43
Rank: 2
1910 - 1997
HPI: 81.14
Rank: 3
1910 - 2008
HPI: 80.97
Rank: 4
1910 - 1979
HPI: 78.72
Rank: 5
1910 - 2010
HPI: 78.65
Rank: 6
1910 - 2003
HPI: 77.60
Rank: 7
1910 - 2000
HPI: 77.58
Rank: 8
1910 - 1953
HPI: 77.19
Rank: 9
1910 - 1995
HPI: 76.58
Rank: 10
1910 - 1986
HPI: 76.20
Rank: 11
1910 - 1990
HPI: 75.36
Rank: 12
1918 - 2008
HPI: 82.30
Rank: 1
1936 - 2008
HPI: 81.47
Rank: 2
1910 - 2008
HPI: 80.97
Rank: 3
1919 - 2008
HPI: 80.10
Rank: 4
1925 - 2008
HPI: 79.49
Rank: 5
1943 - 2008
HPI: 79.31
Rank: 6
1917 - 2008
HPI: 79.21
Rank: 7
1923 - 2008
HPI: 78.67
Rank: 8
1921 - 2008
HPI: 78.45
Rank: 9
1906 - 2008
HPI: 78.19
Rank: 10
1927 - 2008
HPI: 78.02
Rank: 11
1928 - 2008
HPI: 77.80
Rank: 12
Among people born in Poland, Irena Sendler ranks 14 out of 1,231. Before her are Paul von Hindenburg (1847), David Ben-Gurion (1886), L. L. Zamenhof (1859), Heinz Guderian (1888), Lech Wałęsa (1943), and Günter Grass (1927). After her are Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686), Johann Gottfried Herder (1744), Manfred von Richthofen (1892), Janusz Korczak (1878), Fritz Haber (1868), and Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902).
1847 - 1934
HPI: 84.01
Rank: 8
1886 - 1973
HPI: 83.25
Rank: 9
1859 - 1917
HPI: 82.95
Rank: 10
1888 - 1954
HPI: 82.66
Rank: 11
1943 - Present
HPI: 82.46
Rank: 12
1927 - 2015
HPI: 81.03
Rank: 13
1910 - 2008
HPI: 80.97
Rank: 14
1686 - 1736
HPI: 80.81
Rank: 15
1744 - 1803
HPI: 80.66
Rank: 16
1892 - 1918
HPI: 80.42
Rank: 17
1878 - 1942
HPI: 80.41
Rank: 18
1868 - 1934
HPI: 80.05
Rank: 19
1902 - 1991
HPI: 79.87
Rank: 20
Among social activists born in Poland, Irena Sendler ranks 2. Before her are Rosa Luxemburg (1871). After her are Ferdinand Lassalle (1825), Mordechai Anielewicz (1919), Leopold Trepper (1904), Jan Karski (1914), Jan Gotlib Bloch (1836), Ryszard Siwiec (1909), and Ernestine Rose (1810).
1871 - 1919
HPI: 86.39
Rank: 1
1910 - 2008
HPI: 80.97
Rank: 2
1825 - 1864
HPI: 76.68
Rank: 3
1919 - 1943
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 4
1904 - 1982
HPI: 68.60
Rank: 5
1914 - 2000
HPI: 68.49
Rank: 6
1836 - 1902
HPI: 65.00
Rank: 7
1909 - 1968
HPI: 64.82
Rank: 8
1810 - 1892
HPI: 54.34
Rank: 9