1536 - 1612
Piotr Skarga (less often Piotr Powęski; 2 February 1536 – 27 September 1612) was a Polish Jesuit, preacher, hagiographer, polemicist, and leading figure of the Counter-Reformation in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Due to his oratorical gifts, he has been called "the Polish Bossuet". Skarga is remembered by Poles as a vigorous early advocate of reforms to the Polish–Lithuanian polity, and as a critic of the Commonwealth's governing classes, as well as of its religious tolerance policies. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Piotr Skarga has received more than 72,831 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Piotr Skarga is the 1,954th most popular writer (up from 2,308th in 2019), the 427th most popular biography from Poland (up from 489th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular Polish Writer.
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Among writers, Piotr Skarga ranks 1,954 out of 5,755. Before him are Junji Ito, Vasyl Sukhomlynsky, Alfred Bester, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, Countess of Ségur, and Servius Sulpicius Rufus. After him are John Grinder, C. W. Ceram, Olga Rozanova, Gustav Schwab, Methodius of Olympus, and Atsushi Nakajima.
1963 - Present
HPI: 55.35
Rank: 1,948
1918 - 1970
HPI: 55.35
Rank: 1,949
1913 - 1987
HPI: 55.35
Rank: 1,950
1808 - 1890
HPI: 55.35
Rank: 1,951
1799 - 1874
HPI: 55.33
Rank: 1,952
100 BC - 43 BC
HPI: 55.33
Rank: 1,953
1536 - 1612
HPI: 55.32
Rank: 1,954
1940 - Present
HPI: 55.32
Rank: 1,955
1915 - 1972
HPI: 55.31
Rank: 1,956
1886 - 1918
HPI: 55.31
Rank: 1,957
1792 - 1850
HPI: 55.31
Rank: 1,958
260 - 311
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 1,959
1909 - 1942
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 1,960
Among people born in 1536, Piotr Skarga ranks 7. Before him are Pope Clement VIII, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Yi I, Jeremias II of Constantinople, Ashikaga Yoshiteru, and Johann VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg. After him are Lord Guildford Dudley, Leonardo Donato, Joachim Ernest, Prince of Anhalt, Lucia Anguissola, Ignazio Danti, and Marcantonio Memmo. Among people deceased in 1612, Piotr Skarga ranks 14. Before him are Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, Karin Månsdotter, Anne Catherine of Brandenburg, Francesco IV Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, Jodocus Hondius, and Hans Leo Hassler. After him are John Smyth, Nicholas Rémy, False Dmitry III, Giovanni Battista Guarini, Leonardo Donato, and Charles, Count of Soissons.
1536 - 1605
HPI: 75.48
Rank: 1
1536 - 1598
HPI: 74.19
Rank: 2
1536 - 1584
HPI: 62.50
Rank: 3
1536 - 1595
HPI: 56.88
Rank: 4
1536 - 1565
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 5
1536 - 1606
HPI: 56.67
Rank: 6
1536 - 1612
HPI: 55.32
Rank: 7
1536 - 1553
HPI: 54.83
Rank: 8
1536 - 1612
HPI: 54.42
Rank: 9
1536 - 1586
HPI: 53.79
Rank: 10
1536 - 1565
HPI: 53.65
Rank: 11
1536 - 1586
HPI: 52.89
Rank: 12
1536 - 1615
HPI: 52.61
Rank: 13
1594 - 1612
HPI: 60.20
Rank: 8
1550 - 1612
HPI: 60.14
Rank: 9
1575 - 1612
HPI: 59.81
Rank: 10
1586 - 1612
HPI: 58.15
Rank: 11
1563 - 1612
HPI: 57.31
Rank: 12
1564 - 1612
HPI: 57.16
Rank: 13
1536 - 1612
HPI: 55.32
Rank: 14
1570 - 1612
HPI: 55.22
Rank: 15
1530 - 1612
HPI: 54.81
Rank: 16
1550 - 1612
HPI: 54.73
Rank: 17
1538 - 1612
HPI: 54.65
Rank: 18
1536 - 1612
HPI: 54.42
Rank: 19
1566 - 1612
HPI: 53.79
Rank: 20
Among people born in Poland, Piotr Skarga ranks 427 out of 1,454. Before him are Hans Woellke (1911), Vitello (1230), Bronisław Huberman (1882), Adam Stefan Sapieha (1867), Duke Louis of Württemberg (1756), and Sendivogius (1566). After him are Vladimir Chelomey (1914), Mieszko I Tanglefoot (1132), Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1920), Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff (1905), Israel Joshua Singer (1893), and Zawisza Czarny (1379).
1911 - 1943
HPI: 55.43
Rank: 421
1230 - 1275
HPI: 55.41
Rank: 422
1882 - 1947
HPI: 55.39
Rank: 423
1867 - 1951
HPI: 55.36
Rank: 424
1756 - 1817
HPI: 55.35
Rank: 425
1566 - 1636
HPI: 55.33
Rank: 426
1536 - 1612
HPI: 55.32
Rank: 427
1914 - 1984
HPI: 55.28
Rank: 428
1132 - 1211
HPI: 55.26
Rank: 429
1920 - 2013
HPI: 55.24
Rank: 430
1905 - 1980
HPI: 55.23
Rank: 431
1893 - 1944
HPI: 55.23
Rank: 432
1379 - 1428
HPI: 55.22
Rank: 433
Among writers born in Poland, Piotr Skarga ranks 42. Before him are Alexander Imich (1903), I. L. Peretz (1852), George Adamski (1891), Avraham Stern (1907), Maria Konopnicka (1842), and Stefania Wilczyńska (1886). After him are Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1920), Israel Joshua Singer (1893), Julian Tuwim (1894), Izabela Czartoryska (1746), Georg Heym (1887), and Stanisław Przybyszewski (1868).
1903 - 2014
HPI: 56.23
Rank: 36
1852 - 1915
HPI: 56.14
Rank: 37
1891 - 1965
HPI: 55.67
Rank: 38
1907 - 1942
HPI: 55.66
Rank: 39
1842 - 1910
HPI: 55.60
Rank: 40
1886 - Present
HPI: 55.48
Rank: 41
1536 - 1612
HPI: 55.32
Rank: 42
1920 - 2013
HPI: 55.24
Rank: 43
1893 - 1944
HPI: 55.23
Rank: 44
1894 - 1953
HPI: 55.13
Rank: 45
1746 - 1835
HPI: 55.11
Rank: 46
1887 - 1912
HPI: 54.99
Rank: 47
1868 - 1927
HPI: 54.84
Rank: 48