MILITARY PERSONNEL

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 917,954 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Krystyna Skarbek is the 1,501st most popular military personnel (down from 1,251st in 2019), the 756th most popular biography from Poland (down from 675th in 2019) and the 66th most popular Polish Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Krystyna Skarbek ranks 1,501 out of 2,058. Before her are Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, Dimitrios Loundras, Peter Tordenskjold, Bardanes Tourkos, Abu Ali al-Anbari, and Xie Lingyun. After her are William Guarnere, Ivan Gudovich, Georges Mouton, Nathanael Greene, Félix Rodríguez, and Alfonso Cano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Krystyna Skarbek ranks 191. Before her are Ștefan Barbu, Jean Effel, Edoardo Amaldi, Arthur O'Connell, Doria Shafik, and Elliott Carter. After her are Erik Lundqvist, Sucheta Kriplani, Jacques Herbrand, Artem Alikhanian, Gisèle Freund, and Don Bradman. Among people deceased in 1952, Krystyna Skarbek ranks 97. Before her are Harold Innis, Franz John, Antonia Maury, Alberto Savinio, Edward S. Curtis, and Princess Louise Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg. After her are Max Dehn, David Bergelson, Adolf Busch, Gino Fano, Ludwig Kaas, and Karel Lamač.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Krystyna Skarbek ranks 756 out of 1,694. Before her are Juliusz Kossak (1824), Willy Fritsch (1901), Rudolf Ramek (1881), Matthias Habich (1940), Martin Gray (1922), and Leon Niemczyk (1923). After her are Henner Henkel (1915), Rutka Laskier (1929), Ludwik Rajchman (1881), Max Weber (1881), Carl Schuricht (1880), and Kazimierz Sabbat (1913).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Poland

Among military personnels born in Poland, Krystyna Skarbek ranks 66. Before her are Leopold Okulicki (1898), Walther Wever (1887), Stefan Rowecki (1895), Jacob Heinrich von Flemming (1667), Kurt Feldt (1897), and Ryszard Kukliński (1930). After her are Friedrich Schulz (1897), Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin (1922), Hermann Boehm (1884), Alfred Saalwächter (1883), Michał Gedeon Radziwiłł (1778), and Wilhelm Hasse (1894).

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