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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Władysław Sikorski

1881 - 1943

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Władysław Eugeniusz Sikorski (Polish pronunciation: [vwaˈdɨswaf ɕiˈkɔrskʲi] ; 20 May 1881 – 4 July 1943) was a Polish military and political leader. Before World War I, Sikorski established and participated in several underground organizations that promoted the cause of Polish independence. He fought with distinction in the Polish Legions during World War I, and later in the newly created Polish Army during the Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Władysław Sikorski has received more than 746,929 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Władysław Sikorski is the 262nd most popular military personnel (up from 263rd in 2019), the 123rd most popular biography from Poland (up from 129th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Polish Military Personnel.

Władysław Sikorski was a Polish military officer and politician who served as the Prime Minister of the Polish government in exile from 1939 to 1943. He was also the commander-in-chief of the Polish Armed Forces.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Władysław Sikorski ranks 262 out of 1,468. Before him are Federico da Montefeltro, Pittacus of Mytilene, Franz Stangl, Rochus Misch, Otto Liman von Sanders, and Ivan Bagramyan. After him are Italo Balbo, Maurice de Saxe, Lothar Rendulic, Svetozar Boroević, Andranik, and Alois Brunner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Władysław Sikorski ranks 34. Before him are Erwin von Witzleben, George Enescu, Natalia Goncharova, Hermann Staudinger, Juan Ramón Jiménez, and François Darlan. After him are Walter Rudolf Hess, Vincenzo Peruggia, Otto Wille Kuusinen, Carlo Carrà, Asta Nielsen, and Theodore von Kármán. Among people deceased in 1943, Władysław Sikorski ranks 19. Before him are Sophie Scholl, Henri La Fontaine, Beatrix Potter, Nikolai Vavilov, Alexandre Millerand, and Max Wertheimer. After him are Chaim Soutine, Alexandre Yersin, Jean Moulin, Julius Fučík, Leslie Howard, and Luz Long.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Władysław Sikorski ranks 123 out of 1,454. Before him are Jan Matejko (1838), Mieszko I of Poland (940), Rochus Misch (1917), Alexander Jagiellon (1461), Clara Immerwahr (1870), and Otto Liman von Sanders (1855). After him are Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860), Arthur Liebehenschel (1901), Solomon Asch (1907), Witold Gombrowicz (1904), Helena Rubinstein (1872), and Witold Lutosławski (1913).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Poland

Among military personnels born in Poland, Władysław Sikorski ranks 15. Before him are Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski (1899), Alfred von Tirpitz (1849), Erwin von Witzleben (1881), Jan Henryk Dąbrowski (1755), Rochus Misch (1917), and Otto Liman von Sanders (1855). After him are Hans-Jürgen von Arnim (1889), Otto Kretschmer (1912), Vasily Sokolovsky (1897), Hermann Balck (1893), Otto von Below (1857), and Nikolaus von Falkenhorst (1885).

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