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Lech Wałęsa

1943 - Today

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Lech Wałęsa (Polish pronunciation: [ˈlɛɣ vaˈwɛ̃sa] ; born 29 September 1943) is a Polish statesman, dissident, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who served as the president of Poland between 1990 and 1995. After winning the 1990 election, Wałęsa became the first democratically elected president of Poland since 1926 and the first-ever Polish president elected by popular vote. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lech Wałęsa has received more than 3,448,982 page views. His biography is available in 152 different languages on Wikipedia. Lech Wałęsa is the 170th most popular politician (down from 150th in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from Poland (down from 8th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Politician.

Lech Wałęsa is most famous for being the leader of Solidarity, a Polish trade union that played a major role in the fall of communism in Eastern Europe.

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  • 78.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 152

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.21

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Lech Wałęsa ranks 170 out of 19,576. Before him are Mehmed IV, Francis I of France, Vespasian, Claudius, Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, and Dwight D. Eisenhower. After him are Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, George W. Bush, Salvador Allende, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and Lee Kuan Yew.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Lech Wałęsa ranks 5. Before him are Mick Jagger, Robert De Niro, Janis Joplin, and John Major. After him are Toto Cutugno, Julio Iglesias, Catherine Deneuve, Jim Morrison, George Harrison, Bobby Fischer, and Queen Silvia of Sweden.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Lech Wałęsa ranks 9 out of 1,694. Before him are Marie Curie (1867), Pope John Paul II (1920), Arthur Schopenhauer (1788), Catherine the Great (1729), Rosa Luxemburg (1871), and David Ben-Gurion (1886). After him are Paul von Hindenburg (1847), L. L. Zamenhof (1859), Manfred von Richthofen (1892), Günter Grass (1927), Adam Mickiewicz (1798), and Fritz Haber (1868).

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Among POLITICIANS In Poland

Among politicians born in Poland, Lech Wałęsa ranks 2. Before him are David Ben-Gurion (1886). After him are Paul von Hindenburg (1847), Lech Kaczyński (1949), Władysław IV Vasa (1595), Yitzhak Shamir (1915), Sigismund II Augustus (1520), Vladislaus II of Hungary (1456), Casimir III the Great (1310), Donald Tusk (1957), Wojciech Jaruzelski (1923), and Sigismund I the Old (1467).

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