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 2,810,336 page views. Her biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Irena Sendler is the 24th most popular social activist (down from 17th in 2019), the 33rd most popular biography from Poland (down from 14th 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 24 out of 538. Before her are Rosa Parks, Lady Godiva, Gustav I of Sweden, Peter Kropotkin, Charlotte Corday, and Olympe de Gouges. After her are Bertha von Suttner, Thomas Müntzer, Emiliano Zapata, Omar Mukhtar, Martin Niemöller, and Pheidippides.
1913 - 2005
HPI: 75.18
Rank: 18
990 - 1067
HPI: 73.80
Rank: 19
1496 - 1560
HPI: 73.66
Rank: 20
1842 - 1921
HPI: 73.06
Rank: 21
1768 - 1793
HPI: 72.82
Rank: 22
1748 - 1793
HPI: 71.95
Rank: 23
1910 - 2008
HPI: 71.83
Rank: 24
1843 - 1914
HPI: 71.07
Rank: 25
1489 - 1525
HPI: 70.52
Rank: 26
1879 - 1919
HPI: 70.52
Rank: 27
1858 - 1931
HPI: 70.27
Rank: 28
1892 - 1984
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 29
600 BC - 490 BC
HPI: 69.86
Rank: 30
Among people born in 1910, Irena Sendler ranks 6. Before her are Mother Teresa, Akira Kurosawa, Jacques Cousteau, Robert K. Merton, and Giuseppe Meazza. After her are Ingrid of Sweden, Gloria Stuart, Konrad Zuse, Jean Genet, Paulette Goddard, and Django Reinhardt. Among people deceased in 2008, Irena Sendler ranks 8. Before her are Yves Saint Laurent, Bobby Fischer, Paul Newman, Edmund Hillary, Chinghiz Aitmatov, and Arthur C. Clarke. After her are Suharto, Samuel P. Huntington, Charlton Heston, Albert Hofmann, Hua Guofeng, and Sydney Pollack.
1910 - 1997
HPI: 80.90
Rank: 1
1910 - 1998
HPI: 79.32
Rank: 2
1910 - 1997
HPI: 75.04
Rank: 3
1910 - 2003
HPI: 72.48
Rank: 4
1910 - 1979
HPI: 71.84
Rank: 5
1910 - 2008
HPI: 71.83
Rank: 6
1910 - 2000
HPI: 70.50
Rank: 7
1910 - 2010
HPI: 69.44
Rank: 8
1910 - 1995
HPI: 68.82
Rank: 9
1910 - 1986
HPI: 68.70
Rank: 10
1910 - 1990
HPI: 68.34
Rank: 11
1910 - 1953
HPI: 67.92
Rank: 12
1936 - 2008
HPI: 74.52
Rank: 2
1943 - 2008
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 3
1925 - 2008
HPI: 73.22
Rank: 4
1919 - 2008
HPI: 73.20
Rank: 5
1928 - 2008
HPI: 72.29
Rank: 6
1917 - 2008
HPI: 72.08
Rank: 7
1910 - 2008
HPI: 71.83
Rank: 8
1921 - 2008
HPI: 71.78
Rank: 9
1927 - 2008
HPI: 71.60
Rank: 10
1923 - 2008
HPI: 71.36
Rank: 11
1906 - 2008
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 12
1921 - 2008
HPI: 70.08
Rank: 13
1934 - 2008
HPI: 68.08
Rank: 14
Among people born in Poland, Irena Sendler ranks 33 out of 1,454. Before her are Wisława Szymborska (1923), Arthur Rubinstein (1887), Adam Mickiewicz (1798), Maximilian Kolbe (1894), Krzysztof Kieślowski (1941), and Kurt Lewin (1890). After her are Marie Leszczyńska (1703), Bronisław Malinowski (1884), Leonid Kravchuk (1934), Vladislaus II of Hungary (1456), Günther von Kluge (1882), and Hans-Ulrich Rudel (1916).
1923 - 2012
HPI: 72.25
Rank: 27
1887 - 1982
HPI: 72.18
Rank: 28
1798 - 1855
HPI: 72.09
Rank: 29
1894 - 1941
HPI: 72.02
Rank: 30
1941 - 1996
HPI: 71.93
Rank: 31
1890 - 1947
HPI: 71.90
Rank: 32
1910 - 2008
HPI: 71.83
Rank: 33
1703 - 1768
HPI: 71.71
Rank: 34
1884 - 1942
HPI: 71.55
Rank: 35
1934 - 2022
HPI: 71.34
Rank: 36
1456 - 1516
HPI: 71.21
Rank: 37
1882 - 1944
HPI: 71.19
Rank: 38
1916 - 1982
HPI: 71.06
Rank: 39
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), Ryszard Siwiec (1909), Jan Gotlib Bloch (1836), and Ernestine Rose (1810).
1871 - 1919
HPI: 80.96
Rank: 1
1910 - 2008
HPI: 71.83
Rank: 2
1825 - 1864
HPI: 69.74
Rank: 3
1919 - 1943
HPI: 61.75
Rank: 4
1904 - 1982
HPI: 59.40
Rank: 5
1914 - 2000
HPI: 58.50
Rank: 6
1909 - 1968
HPI: 55.65
Rank: 7
1836 - 1902
HPI: 54.33
Rank: 8
1810 - 1892
HPI: 44.07
Rank: 9