SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Irena Sendler

1910 - 2008

Irena Sendler

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 2,051,926 page views. Her biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia making her the 22nd most popular social activist.

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  • 56

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  • 8.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Irena Sendler ranks 22 out of 426. Before her are Lady Godiva, Aung San Suu Kyi, Gustav I of Sweden, Charlotte Corday, Robert Owen, and Thomas Müntzer. After her are Olympe de Gouges, Emiliano Zapata, Bertha von Suttner, Ferdinand Lassalle, Simon Wiesenthal, and Eleanor Roosevelt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Irena Sendler ranks 5. Before her are Mother Teresa, Akira Kurosawa, Jacques Cousteau, and Giuseppe Meazza. After her are Gloria Stuart, Django Reinhardt, Robert K. Merton, Ingrid of Sweden, Jean Genet, Konrad Zuse, and Ronald Coase. Among people deceased in 2008, Irena Sendler ranks 8. Before her are Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Edmund Hillary, Paul Newman, Bobby Fischer, Arthur C. Clarke, and Albert Hofmann. After her are Charlton Heston, Suharto, Samuel P. Huntington, Chinghiz Aitmatov, Hua Guofeng, and Jørn Utzon.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Irena Sendler ranks 25 out of 930. Before her are Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742), Erich Ludendorff (1865), Zygmunt Bauman (1925), Fedor von Bock (1880), Stanisław Lem (1921), and Władysław Szpilman (1911). After her are Adam Mickiewicz (1798), Manfred von Richthofen (1892), Max Born (1882), Władysław IV Vasa (1595), Günther von Kluge (1882), and Eric of Pomerania (1381).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Poland

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), and Ryszard Siwiec (1909).

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