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Jacek Kuroń

1934 - 2004

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Jacek Jan Kuroń (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjat͡sɛk ˈjan ˈkurɔɲ]; 3 March 1934 – 17 June 2004) was one of the democratic leaders of opposition in the People's Republic of Poland. He was widely known as the "godfather of the Polish opposition," not unlike Václav Havel in Czechoslovakia. Kuroń was a prominent Polish social and political figure known for his efforts at reforming societies under the control of the Soviet Union. As an educator and historian, he first postulated the concept of a de-centered movement that would question the totalitarian system and its personality cult. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2024). Jacek Kuroń is the 13,802nd most popular politician (down from 12,843rd in 2024), the 637th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 606th in 2019) and the 164th most popular Ukrainian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Jacek Kuroń ranks 13,803 out of 19,576. Before him are Emperor Zhi, Andris Piebalgs, Cándido Bareiro, William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, Ji Yun, Mariana Pineda, and Pierre Frieden. After him are Bobby Seale, Nikolai Tanayev, Vasily Kosoy, José de la Riva Agüero, and Tom Adams.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Jacek Kuroń ranks 318. Before him are Galina Bystrova, Lyudmila Shevtsova, Dick Boushka, Hamit Kaplan, Ole Madsen, and Eva-Maria Hagen. After him are Zaid ibn Shaker, John Keegan, Otis Rush, Adolf Merckle, Yūjirō Ishihara, and Martin Bangemann. Among people deceased in 2004, Jacek Kuroń ranks 189. Before him are Ehrenfried Patzel, Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria, John Peel, John Drew Barrymore, Sara Lidman, and Janet Akyüz Mattei. After him are Gerrie Knetemann, Kenneth E. Iverson, Bryce DeWitt, Philip Arthur Fisher, Leonel Brizola, and Veríssimo Correia Seabra.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Jacek Kuroń ranks 637 out of 1,365. Before him are Julius Edgar Lilienfeld (1882), Yevgeniya Rudneva (1921), František Kriegel (1908), Andriy Medvedev (1974), Anatoly Alexandrov (1903), and Levko Lukianenko (1928). After him are Ivan Horbachevsky (1854), Jan Koum (1976), Anatoliy Demyanenko (1959), Semen Hulak-Artemovsky (1813), Zhanna Prokhorenko (1940), and Franciszek Kleeberg (1888).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Jacek Kuroń ranks 164. Before him are Oleksandr Moroz (1944), Oleksiy Danilov (1962), Mikhail Rodzianko (1859), Alexander Bezborodko (1747), František Kriegel (1908), and Levko Lukianenko (1928). After him are Volodymyr Groysman (1978), Sergey Kozlov (1963), Dimitar Grekov (1847), Stanisław Ostrowski (1892), Grisha Filipov (1919), and Adam Rapacki (1909).

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