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Krystyna Skarbek

1908 - 1952

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Maria Krystyna Janina Skarbek, (Polish pronunciation: [krɨˈstɨna ˈskarbɛk], ; 1 May 1908 – 15 June 1952), also known as Christine Granville, was a Polish agent of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War. She became celebrated for her daring exploits in intelligence and irregular-warfare missions in Nazi-occupied Poland and France. Journalist Alistair Horne, who described himself in 2012 as one of the few people still alive who had known Skarbek, called her the "bravest of the brave." Spymaster Vera Atkins of the SOE described Skarbek as "very brave, very attractive, but a loner and a law unto herself." She became a British agent months before the SOE was founded in July 1940. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Krystyna Skarbek has received more than 853,672 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Krystyna Skarbek is the 1,252nd most popular military personnel, the 675th most popular biography from Poland and the 58th most popular Polish Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Krystyna Skarbek ranks 1,252 out of 1,468. Before her are Paul Bader, François Le Fort, Otto Ruge, Mikhail Kovalyov, Honoré Charles Reille, and Publius Canidius Crassus. After her are Frank Serpico, Carlos Hathcock, Cândido Rondon, Bardas Phokas the Elder, Franz Bäke, and Kuroki Tamemoto.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Krystyna Skarbek ranks 167. Before her are Gideon Ståhlberg, Edoardo Amaldi, Olga Benário Prestes, Joseph Keilberth, Héctor Trujillo, and Peg Entwistle. After her are Elio Vittorini, Jacques Herbrand, Juan Botasso, Fred MacMurray, Renzo Rossellini, and Lew Ayres. Among people deceased in 1952, Krystyna Skarbek ranks 85. Before her are Max Dehn, Maurice De Waele, Franz John, Antonia Maury, Harold Innis, and Edward S. Curtis. After her are Mauno Pekkala, Alberto Savinio, Adolf Busch, Josephine Tey, Princess Louise Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, and Albert Bassermann.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Krystyna Skarbek ranks 675 out of 1,454. Before her are Carl Schuricht (1880), Holger Czukay (1938), Józef Glemp (1929), Arnold Mendelssohn (1855), Gustav Adolf von Götzen (1866), and Martin Gray (1922). After her are Hypatius Pociej (1541), Stefanie Zweig (1932), Duchess Agnes of Württemberg (1835), Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865), Grigory Levenfish (1889), and Aleksander Zawadzki (1899).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Poland

Among military personnels born in Poland, Krystyna Skarbek ranks 58. Before her are Oskar Kummetz (1891), Remus von Woyrsch (1847), Jacob Heinrich von Flemming (1667), Walther Wever (1887), Stefan Rowecki (1895), and Alfred Saalwächter (1883). After her are Aleksander Zawadzki (1899), Karl Decker (1897), Kurt Feldt (1897), Hermann Boehm (1884), August Emil Fieldorf (1895), and Yitzhak Sadeh (1890).

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