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Anna Walentynowicz

1929 - 2010

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Anna Walentynowicz (Polish pronunciation: [ˈanna valɛntɨˈnɔvʲit͡ʂ]; née Lubczyk; 15 August 1929 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish trade unionist and co-founder of Solidarity, the first recognised independent trade union in the Eastern Bloc. Her firing from her job at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk in August 1980 was the event that ignited the strike at the shipyard, set off a wave of strikes across Poland, and quickly paralyzed the Baltic coast. The Interfactory Strike Committee (MKS) based in the Gdańsk shipyard eventually transformed itself into Solidarity; by September, more than one million workers were on strike in support of the 21 demands of MKS, making it the largest strike ever. Walentynowicz's arrest became an organizing slogan (Bring Anna Walentynowicz Back to Work!) in the early days of the Gdańsk strike. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Anna Walentynowicz is the 11,298th most popular politician (down from 9,761st in 2024), the 465th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 395th in 2019) and the 128th most popular Ukrainian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Anna Walentynowicz ranks 11,297 out of 19,576. Before her are Fernand Bouisson, Vyacheslav Kebich, John III of Trebizond, William II of Dampierre, and Benedetto Cairoli. After her are Salman, Crown Prince of Bahrain, Enno III, Count of East Frisia, Yaropolk Izyaslavich, Amenirdis I, Åsta Gudbrandsdatter, Marcus Claudius Marcellus, and Svetlana Medvedeva.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Anna Walentynowicz ranks 237. Before her are Joe Pass, Péter Palotás, Nina Ponomaryova, Nigel Hawthorne, Jack Higgins, and Kishore Kumar. After her are Liz Sheridan, Dick Button, George Crumb, Milton Glaser, Péter Szondi, and Alla Horska. Among people deceased in 2010, Anna Walentynowicz ranks 170. Before her are Florencio Campomanes, Rue McClanahan, Vasco de Almeida e Costa, Iryna Melnykova, Zilda Arns, and Nicola Cabibbo. After her are Pernell Roberts, Theo Albrecht, Bobbejaan Schoepen, Farooq Leghari, Tom Bosley, and Armand Razafindratandra.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Anna Walentynowicz ranks 465 out of 1,365. Before her are Les Kurbas (1887), Galina Chistyakova (1962), Ciprian Porumbescu (1853), Vlas Chubar (1881), Nina Bocharova (1924), and Pyotr Koshevoy (1904). After her are Karol Mikuli (1821), Leone Ginzburg (1909), Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (1894), Viktor Vekselberg (1957), Joseph Ludwig Raabe (1801), and Maciej Rataj (1884).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Anna Walentynowicz ranks 128. Before her are Arseniy Yatsenyuk (1974), Roman Rudenko (1907), Jerzy Kuryłowicz (1895), Andrey Razumovsky (1752), Vlas Chubar (1881), and Nina Bocharova (1924). After her are Maciej Rataj (1884), Yukhym Zvyahilsky (1933), Leonid Pasechnik (1970), Igor Moiseyev (1906), Mikhail Tereshchenko (1886), and Kazimierz Bartel (1882).

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