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Krystyna Skarbek

1908 - 1952

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Maria Krystyna Janina Skarbek, (Polish pronunciation: [krɨˈstɨna ˈskarbɛk], ; 1 May 1908 – 15 June 1952), also known as Christine Granville, was a Polish agent of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War. She became celebrated for her daring exploits in intelligence and irregular-warfare missions in Nazi-occupied Poland and France. Journalist Alistair Horne, who described himself in 2012 as one of the few people still alive who had known Skarbek, called her the "bravest of the brave." Spymaster Vera Atkins of the SOE described Skarbek as "very brave, very attractive, but a loner and a law unto herself." She became a British agent months before the SOE was founded in July 1940. She was the first female agent of the British to serve in the field and the longest-serving of all Britain's wartime women agents. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Krystyna Skarbek is the 1,063rd most popular military personnel (up from 1,502nd in 2019), the 551st most popular biography from Poland (up from 756th in 2019) and the 49th most popular Polish Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Krystyna Skarbek ranks 1,063 out of 2,058. Before her are John O'Connor, Pierre Dupont de l'Étang, Eugen Meindl, Matome Ugaki, Abdülkerim Nadir Pasha, and Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquess of Santa Cruz. After her are Maximilian Grabner, Max Simon, Georgios Grivas, Abdul Fatah Younis, Rostam Farrokhzad, and Martin Gottfried Weiss.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Krystyna Skarbek ranks 132. Before her are Karl Hein, Gisèle Freund, Michael, Prince of Montenegro, Ivan Yefremov, Yevgeny Vuchetich, and Bo Yibo. After her are Jack Williamson, David Marshall, Vazgen I, Françoise Dolto, Juan López Fontana, and Jacques Massu. Among people deceased in 1952, Krystyna Skarbek ranks 75. Before her are Sergei Bortkiewicz, Vladimír Clementis, Władysław Strzemiński, Vasili Eroshenko, Hiranuma Kiichirō, and Georgy Shpagin. After her are Thomas Hicks, Vladimir Albitsky, Yitzhak Sadeh, Theodoros Pangalos, Sameera Moussa, and Antonia Maury.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Krystyna Skarbek ranks 551 out of 1,694. Before her are Zawisza Czarny (1379), Ryszard Siwiec (1909), Ernst Kantorowicz (1895), Beata Tyszkiewicz (1938), Jeremias Benjamin Richter (1762), and Robert Remak (1815). After her are Andrzej Panufnik (1914), Bronisław Geremek (1932), Max Simon (1899), John Albert Vasa (1612), Otto Lasch (1893), and Jerzy Dudek (1973).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Poland

Among military personnels born in Poland, Krystyna Skarbek ranks 49. Before her are Fritz von Below (1853), Fritz Freitag (1894), Friedrich Graf von Wrangel (1784), Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff (1905), Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière (1886), and Helmut Lent (1918). After her are Max Simon (1899), Otto Lasch (1893), Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov (1793), Yitzhak Sadeh (1890), Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufmann (1818), and Aleksander Zawadzki (1899).

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