1923 - 2022
Zofia Posmysz-Piasecka (née Posmysz; 23 August 1923 – 8 August 2022) was a Polish journalist, novelist, and author. She was a resistance fighter in World War II and survived imprisonment at the Auschwitz and Ravensbrück concentration camps. Her autobiographical account of the Holocaust in occupied Poland, Passenger from Cabin 45, became the basis for her 1962 novel Passenger, subsequently translated into 15 languages. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Zofia Posmysz has received more than 98,663 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Zofia Posmysz is the 4,531st most popular writer (down from 3,913th in 2019), the 898th most popular biography from Poland (down from 763rd in 2019) and the 118th most popular Polish Writer.
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Among writers, Zofia Posmysz ranks 4,531 out of 5,755. Before her are Birgitta Trotzig, Robert Greene, Ferreira de Castro, Alan Dean Foster, Francis Davis Millet, and Aisha Taymur. After her are Sylvia Browne, Andrejs Upīts, Peter F. Hamilton, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Enric Valor i Vives, and Igor Newerly.
1929 - 2011
HPI: 46.93
Rank: 4,525
1558 - 1592
HPI: 46.92
Rank: 4,526
1898 - 1974
HPI: 46.92
Rank: 4,527
1946 - Present
HPI: 46.91
Rank: 4,528
1848 - 1912
HPI: 46.91
Rank: 4,529
1840 - 1902
HPI: 46.90
Rank: 4,530
1923 - 2022
HPI: 46.90
Rank: 4,531
1936 - 2013
HPI: 46.90
Rank: 4,532
1877 - 1970
HPI: 46.90
Rank: 4,533
1960 - Present
HPI: 46.90
Rank: 4,534
1957 - Present
HPI: 46.89
Rank: 4,535
1911 - 2000
HPI: 46.89
Rank: 4,536
1903 - 1987
HPI: 46.89
Rank: 4,537
Among people born in 1923, Zofia Posmysz ranks 283. Before her are Vittorio De Seta, Ivan Gubijan, Alfredo Nobre da Costa, Gerrit Voorting, Emilio Rodríguez, and Dina Merrill. After her are Eugenio Calabi, Hanna Maron, Mrinal Sen, James E. Gunn, Juan Acuña, and Jaroslav Pelikan. Among people deceased in 2022, Zofia Posmysz ranks 287. Before her are Yoko Shimada, Freddy Rincón, Jô Soares, Carlos Amigo Vallejo, Jüri Tarmak, and L. Q. Jones. After her are Gerben Karstens, Eileen Ryan, Alan White, Norman Mineta, Vesa-Matti Loiri, and Oleksandr Sydorenko.
1923 - 2011
HPI: 47.22
Rank: 277
1923 - 2009
HPI: 47.14
Rank: 278
1923 - 1996
HPI: 47.08
Rank: 279
1923 - 2015
HPI: 47.08
Rank: 280
1923 - 1984
HPI: 47.00
Rank: 281
1923 - 2017
HPI: 46.92
Rank: 282
1923 - 2022
HPI: 46.90
Rank: 283
1923 - 2023
HPI: 46.71
Rank: 284
1923 - 2014
HPI: 46.69
Rank: 285
1923 - 2018
HPI: 46.66
Rank: 286
1923 - 2020
HPI: 46.65
Rank: 287
1923 - 2001
HPI: 46.65
Rank: 288
1923 - 2006
HPI: 46.64
Rank: 289
1953 - 2022
HPI: 47.54
Rank: 281
1966 - 2022
HPI: 47.36
Rank: 282
1938 - 2022
HPI: 47.21
Rank: 283
1934 - 2022
HPI: 47.18
Rank: 284
1946 - 2022
HPI: 47.15
Rank: 285
1927 - 2022
HPI: 47.03
Rank: 286
1923 - 2022
HPI: 46.90
Rank: 287
1942 - 2022
HPI: 46.89
Rank: 288
1927 - 2022
HPI: 46.87
Rank: 289
1949 - 2022
HPI: 46.83
Rank: 290
1931 - 2022
HPI: 46.80
Rank: 291
1945 - 2022
HPI: 46.76
Rank: 292
1960 - 2022
HPI: 46.74
Rank: 293
Among people born in Poland, Zofia Posmysz ranks 898 out of 1,454. Before her are Hyman G. Rickover (1900), Ryszard Szurkowski (1946), Józef Oleksy (1946), Hugo von Seeliger (1849), Łukasz Fabiański (1985), and Bogusław Linda (1952). After her are Igor Newerly (1903), Georg Sterzinsky (1936), Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz (1950), Zbigniew Rybczyński (1949), Anna Maria Jopek (1970), and Erich Mende (1916).
1900 - 1986
HPI: 47.01
Rank: 892
1946 - 2021
HPI: 46.98
Rank: 893
1946 - 2015
HPI: 46.98
Rank: 894
1849 - 1924
HPI: 46.97
Rank: 895
1985 - Present
HPI: 46.96
Rank: 896
1952 - Present
HPI: 46.92
Rank: 897
1923 - 2022
HPI: 46.90
Rank: 898
1903 - 1987
HPI: 46.89
Rank: 899
1936 - 2011
HPI: 46.86
Rank: 900
1950 - Present
HPI: 46.84
Rank: 901
1949 - Present
HPI: 46.82
Rank: 902
1970 - Present
HPI: 46.75
Rank: 903
1916 - 1998
HPI: 46.71
Rank: 904
Among writers born in Poland, Zofia Posmysz ranks 118. Before her are Mascha Kaléko (1907), Hanna Krall (1935), Adam Asnyk (1838), Łukasz Górnicki (1527), Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer (1865), and Florian Ceynowa (1817). After her are Igor Newerly (1903), Alexander Abusch (1902), Jan Kasprowicz (1860), Władysław Broniewski (1897), Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska (1891), and Halina Poświatowska (1935).
1907 - 1975
HPI: 47.65
Rank: 112
1935 - Present
HPI: 47.60
Rank: 113
1838 - 1897
HPI: 47.27
Rank: 114
1527 - 1603
HPI: 47.23
Rank: 115
1865 - 1940
HPI: 47.21
Rank: 116
1817 - 1881
HPI: 47.05
Rank: 117
1923 - 2022
HPI: 46.90
Rank: 118
1903 - 1987
HPI: 46.89
Rank: 119
1902 - 1982
HPI: 46.67
Rank: 120
1860 - 1926
HPI: 46.51
Rank: 121
1897 - 1962
HPI: 45.77
Rank: 122
1891 - 1945
HPI: 45.66
Rank: 123
1935 - 1967
HPI: 45.50
Rank: 124