1943 - Today
Lech Wałęsa (; Polish: [ˈlɛɣ vaˈwɛ̃sa] (listen); born 29 September 1943) is a Polish statesman, dissident, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who served as the first democratically elected president of Poland from 1990 to 1995. A shipyard electrician by trade, he became the leader of the Solidarity movement, and led a successful pro-democratic effort which in 1989 ended the Communist rule in Poland and ushered in the end of the Cold War.While working at the Lenin Shipyard (now Gdańsk Shipyard), Wałęsa, an electrician, became a trade-union activist, for which he was persecuted by the Communist authorities, placed under surveillance, fired in 1976, and arrested several times. In August 1980, he was instrumental in political negotiations that led to the ground-breaking Gdańsk Agreement between striking workers and the government. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lech Wałęsa has received more than 1,943,316 page views. His biography is available in 151 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 148 in 2019). Lech Wałęsa is the 233rd most popular politician (down from 165th in 2019), the 12th most popular biography from Poland (down from 9th in 2019) and the 3rd 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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Among politicians, Lech Wałęsa ranks 233 out of 15,710. Before him are Harald V of Norway, Ferdinand II of Aragon, Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, Christina, Queen of Sweden, Charles IX of France, and Mahmud II. After him are Sulla, Joe Biden, Olof Palme, Nicholas I of Russia, Konrad Adenauer, and Mehmed I.
1937 - Present
HPI: 82.51
Rank: 227
1452 - 1516
HPI: 82.51
Rank: 228
1640 - 1705
HPI: 82.51
Rank: 229
1626 - 1689
HPI: 82.50
Rank: 230
1550 - 1574
HPI: 82.47
Rank: 231
1785 - 1839
HPI: 82.46
Rank: 232
1943 - Present
HPI: 82.46
Rank: 233
138 BC - 78 BC
HPI: 82.42
Rank: 234
1942 - Present
HPI: 82.42
Rank: 235
1927 - 1986
HPI: 82.42
Rank: 236
1796 - 1855
HPI: 82.39
Rank: 237
1876 - 1967
HPI: 82.37
Rank: 238
1386 - 1421
HPI: 82.37
Rank: 239
Among people born in 1943, Lech Wałęsa ranks 3. Before him are Robert De Niro and Janis Joplin. After him are Jim Morrison, George Harrison, Sharon Tate, Julio Iglesias, Catherine Deneuve, Bobby Fischer, Queen Silvia of Sweden, Mick Jagger, and Vangelis.
1943 - Present
HPI: 84.74
Rank: 1
1943 - 1970
HPI: 84.52
Rank: 2
1943 - Present
HPI: 82.46
Rank: 3
1943 - 1971
HPI: 80.96
Rank: 4
1943 - 2001
HPI: 80.76
Rank: 5
1943 - 1969
HPI: 80.72
Rank: 6
1943 - Present
HPI: 80.59
Rank: 7
1943 - Present
HPI: 79.73
Rank: 8
1943 - 2008
HPI: 79.31
Rank: 9
1943 - Present
HPI: 79.30
Rank: 10
1943 - Present
HPI: 78.62
Rank: 11
1943 - Present
HPI: 78.01
Rank: 12
Among people born in Poland, Lech Wałęsa ranks 12 out of 1,231. Before him are Rosa Luxemburg (1871), Catherine the Great (1762), Paul von Hindenburg (1847), David Ben-Gurion (1886), L. L. Zamenhof (1859), and Heinz Guderian (1888). After him are Günter Grass (1927), Irena Sendler (1910), Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686), Johann Gottfried Herder (1744), Manfred von Richthofen (1892), and Janusz Korczak (1878).
1871 - 1919
HPI: 86.39
Rank: 6
1762 - 1796
HPI: 86.23
Rank: 7
1847 - 1934
HPI: 84.01
Rank: 8
1886 - 1973
HPI: 83.25
Rank: 9
1859 - 1917
HPI: 82.95
Rank: 10
1888 - 1954
HPI: 82.66
Rank: 11
1943 - Present
HPI: 82.46
Rank: 12
1927 - 2015
HPI: 81.03
Rank: 13
1910 - 2008
HPI: 80.97
Rank: 14
1686 - 1736
HPI: 80.81
Rank: 15
1744 - 1803
HPI: 80.66
Rank: 16
1892 - 1918
HPI: 80.42
Rank: 17
1878 - 1942
HPI: 80.41
Rank: 18
Among politicians born in Poland, Lech Wałęsa ranks 3. Before him are Paul von Hindenburg (1847) and David Ben-Gurion (1886). After him are Władysław IV Vasa (1595), Vladislaus II of Hungary (1456), Sigismund II Augustus (1520), Casimir III the Great (1310), Władysław III of Poland (1424), Wojciech Jaruzelski (1923), Sigismund I the Old (1467), Bolesław I the Brave (967), and Casimir IV Jagiellon (1427).
1847 - 1934
HPI: 84.01
Rank: 1
1886 - 1973
HPI: 83.25
Rank: 2
1943 - Present
HPI: 82.46
Rank: 3
1595 - 1648
HPI: 78.56
Rank: 4
1456 - 1516
HPI: 78.16
Rank: 5
1520 - 1572
HPI: 77.21
Rank: 6
1310 - 1370
HPI: 77.03
Rank: 7
1424 - 1444
HPI: 76.38
Rank: 8
1923 - 2014
HPI: 76.37
Rank: 9
1467 - 1548
HPI: 76.17
Rank: 10
967 - 1025
HPI: 75.44
Rank: 11
1427 - 1492
HPI: 75.31
Rank: 12