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Maria Wittek

1899 - 1997

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Maria Wittek (noms de guerre "Mira", "Pani Maria"; 16 August 1899 – 19 April 1997) was a Polish military leader who served in the Polish Army and associated organizations from age 18 and, following retirement, in 1991 became the first Polish woman to be promoted to brigadier-general. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Maria Wittek is the 1,774th most popular military personnel (up from 1,862nd in 2019), the 990th most popular biography from Poland (up from 1,082nd in 2019) and the 75th most popular Polish Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Maria Wittek ranks 1,774 out of 2,058. Before her are Lionel Dunsterville, James Van Fleet, George Pickett, Chi Haotian, Mikhail Devyataev, and Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe. After her are Smedley Butler, Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, Volodymyr Pravyk, Mickey Marcus, Paul von Plehwe, and Manuel Goded Llopis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Maria Wittek ranks 234. Before her are Kamala Nehru, Hugo Benioff, Sherm Clark, Hoagy Carmichael, Martyn Lloyd-Jones, and Juan Arremón. After her are Szolem Mandelbrojt, May McAvoy, Piero Dusio, Curtis Bernhardt, John Qualen, and Ann Bishop. Among people deceased in 1997, Maria Wittek ranks 216. Before her are Josef Pieper, Billy Bremner, Georges Guétary, Eitel Cantoni, Karen Wetterhahn, and Haruko Sugimura. After her are Sotiria Bellou, Denver Pyle, Richard Jaeckel, Cyril Toumanoff, Enrique Peralta Azurdia, and Eugène Guillevic.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Maria Wittek ranks 990 out of 1,694. Before her are Klabund (1890), Arkady Fiedler (1894), Ryszard Szurkowski (1946), Zbigniew Rybczyński (1949), Horst Bienek (1930), and Adam Kozłowiecki (1911). After her are Szolem Mandelbrojt (1899), Danuta Wałęsa (1949), Aharon Katzir (1914), Willy Kaiser (1912), Ellen Schwiers (1930), and Franz Theodor Kugler (1808).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Poland

Among military personnels born in Poland, Maria Wittek ranks 75. Before her are Ryszard Kukliński (1930), Erich Abraham (1895), Michał Gedeon Radziwiłł (1778), Theodor Tolsdorff (1909), Wilhelm Hasse (1894), and Karl Decker (1897). After her are Hyman G. Rickover (1900), John Shalikashvili (1936), Walter Krueger (1881), August Emil Fieldorf (1895), Johannes Block (1894), and Franciszek Gągor (1951).

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