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Lech Wałęsa

1943 - today

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His biography is available in 152 different languages on Wikipedia. Lech Wałęsa is the 215th most popular politician (down from 169th in 2024), the 9th most popular biography from Poland and the 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

Among politicians, Lech Wałęsa ranks 215 out of 19,576Before him are Sejong the Great, Francis I of France, Xi Jinping, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, Haakon VII of Norway, and Sun Yat-sen. After him are Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, Mehmed III, Joanna of Castile, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Richard Nixon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Lech Wałęsa ranks 4Before him are Janis Joplin, John Major, and Robert De Niro. After him are Jim Morrison, Julio Iglesias, Catherine Deneuve, Bobby Fischer, Queen Silvia of Sweden, Betty Williams, George Harrison, and Vangelis.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Lech Wałęsa ranks 9 out of NaNBefore him are Pope John Paul II (1920), Frédéric Chopin (1810), Arthur Schopenhauer (1788), Catherine the Great (1729), Rosa Luxemburg (1871), and Albert A. Michelson (1852). After him are Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906), L. L. Zamenhof (1859), Paul von Hindenburg (1847), David Ben-Gurion (1886), Günter Grass (1927), and Johann Gottfried Herder (1744).

Among Politicians In Poland

Among politicians born in Poland, Lech Wałęsa ranks 1After him are Paul von Hindenburg (1847), David Ben-Gurion (1886), Lech Kaczyński (1949), Władysław IV Vasa (1595), Sigismund II Augustus (1520), Wojciech Jaruzelski (1923), Vladislaus II of Hungary (1456), Casimir III the Great (1310), Donald Tusk (1957), Sigismund I the Old (1467), and Władysław III of Poland (1424).

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