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Józef Piłsudski

1867 - 1935

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Józef Klemens Piłsudski[a] (Polish: [ˈjuzɛf ˈklɛmɛns piwˈsutskʲi] ; 5 December 1867 – 12 May 1935) was a Polish statesman who served as the Chief of State (1918–1922) and first Marshal of Poland (from 1920). In the aftermath of World War I, he became an increasingly dominant figure in Polish politics and exerted significant influence on shaping the country's foreign policy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Józef Piłsudski has received more than 2,206,549 page views. His biography is available in 76 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 72 in 2019). Józef Piłsudski is the 426th most popular politician (up from 546th in 2019), the most popular biography from Lithuania (up from 2nd in 2019) and the most popular Lithuanian Politician.

Józef Piłsudski was a Polish military and political leader. He is most famous for his military leadership in the Polish-Soviet War and for his role in the establishment of the Second Polish Republic.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Józef Piłsudski ranks 426 out of 19,576. Before him are Vitellius, Ludwig II of Bavaria, Harald Fairhair, Hafsa Sultan, Rehoboam, and Viktor Yanukovych. After him are Maximilian I of Mexico, Louis VIII of France, Augustus II the Strong, George V, Horemheb, and Pompey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Józef Piłsudski ranks 2. Before him is Marie Curie. After him are Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Luigi Pirandello, Frank Lloyd Wright, Emily Greene Balch, Edgar de Wahl, Arturo Toscanini, Emil Nolde, Mary of Teck, Käthe Kollwitz, and John Galsworthy. Among people deceased in 1935, Józef Piłsudski ranks 5. Before him are Jane Addams, Alfred Dreyfus, Kazimir Malevich, and T. E. Lawrence. After him are Fernando Pessoa, Paul Signac, Emmy Noether, Arthur Henderson, Alban Berg, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, and Astrid of Sweden.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Józef Piłsudski ranks 1 out of 328. After him are Władysław II Jagiełło (1362), Vytautas (1352), Gediminas (1275), Czesław Miłosz (1911), Mindaugas (1203), Emmanuel Levinas (1906), Hermann Minkowski (1864), Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858), Emma Goldman (1869), Algirdas (1296), and Pyotr Wrangel (1878).

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Among POLITICIANS In Lithuania

Among politicians born in Lithuania, Józef Piłsudski ranks 1. After him are Władysław II Jagiełło (1362), Vytautas (1352), Gediminas (1275), Mindaugas (1203), Algirdas (1296), Kęstutis (1297), Dalia Grybauskaitė (1956), Valdas Adamkus (1926), Antanas Smetona (1874), Hacı I Giray (1397), and Vytautas Landsbergis (1932).

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