# Lech Wałęsa

> An electrician who led striking shipyard workers into history - then carried the momentum all the way to the presidency. Wałęsa turned a labor revolt at Gdańsk into the lever that toppled Communist Poland and set off dominoes across the Eastern Bloc.

*President of Poland from 1990 to 1995 (born 1943)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/lech-wa-esa

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Politician
- **Category:** Politicians
- **Country:** Poland
- **Born:** 1943-09-29
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born in 1943, Wałęsa worked at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, where his trade-union activism got him fired in 1976, surveilled, and arrested repeatedly. In August 1980 he negotiated the Gdańsk Agreement after strikes paralyzed the coast, then co-founded Solidarity - a movement that swelled past ten million members. Martial law drove it underground and put him back in custody, but he kept organizing from the margins. By 1989 he was central to the Round Table talks that produced semi-free elections and a Solidarity-led government, closing the book on four decades of Communist rule. He won Poland's first popular presidential vote in 1990 and steered the country through its lurch toward markets and democracy, then lost re-election in 1995. The Nobel, the Time cover, and an airport in Gdańsk followed.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 82.4 / 100
- **Momentum:** 2.4 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 27.4 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 2.8 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 70.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 80.0 / 100
- **Country rank:** #5
- **Category rank:** #76

## Platforms
- **FACEBOOK**: https://www.facebook.com/lechwalesa (@lechwalesa)
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0907408/ (@nm0907408)

## Topics
#Politicians, #Politician, #Politics, #20th Century

## Timeline
- **2026** - Grand Cross of the Order of the Star of Romania
- **2009** - Grand Cross 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- **2004** - Osgar
- **1995** - Medal of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay
- **1992** - Order of the White Eagle
- **1991** - Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Nancy
- **1986** - Integrity Award
- **1980** - Financial Times Person of the Year
- **1943** - Born

## Sources
- [Lech Wałęsa](https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lech_Wa%C5%82%C4%99sa)
- [Lech Wałęsa](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lech_Wa%C5%82%C4%99sa)
- [Lech Wałęsa](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lech_Wa%C5%82%C4%99sa)
- [Валенса, Лех](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B0%2C_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%85)
- [Lech Wałęsa](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lech_Wa%C5%82%C4%99sa)
- [Lech Wałęsa](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lech_Wa%C5%82%C4%99sa)
- [Lech Wałęsa](https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lech_Wa%C5%82%C4%99sa)
- [Lech Wałęsa](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lech_Wa%C5%82%C4%99sa)
- [莱赫·瓦文萨](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8E%B1%E8%B5%AB%C2%B7%E7%93%A6%E6%96%87%E8%90%A8)
- [レフ・ヴァウェンサ](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AC%E3%83%95%E3%83%BB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B5)
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lech_Wa%C5%82%C4%99sa)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q444)
- [Pantheon 2.0](https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Lech%20Wa%C5%82%C4%99sa)
- [Lex Valensa](https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_Valensa)
- [Lech Wałęsa](https://ay.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lech_Wa%C5%82%C4%99sa)
- [ለክ ቫለሳ](https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%88%88%E1%8A%AD_%E1%89%AB%E1%88%88%E1%88%B3)
- [Lech Wałęsa](https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lech_Wa%C5%82%C4%99sa)
- [লেখ ওয়ালেন্সা](https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%96_%E0%A6%93%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BE)
- [ليخ فاوينسا](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AE_%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%A7)
- [Lech Wałęsa](https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lech_Wa%C5%82%C4%99sa)
- [लेक वलेंसा](https://bh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%95_%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BE)
- [Лех Валенса](https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%85_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B0)
- [ليخ فاونسا](https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AE_%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%A7)
- [ལིས་ཆི་ཝེ་ལིས་ས།](https://bo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BD%A3%E0%BD%B2%E0%BD%A6%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%86%E0%BD%B2%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%9D%E0%BD%BA%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%A3%E0%BD%B2%E0%BD%A6%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%A6%E0%BC%8D)
- [Lech Wałęsa](https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lech_Wa%C5%82%C4%99sa)
- [Lech Wałęsa](https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lech_Wa%C5%82%C4%99sa)
- [Лех Валенса](https://bxr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%85_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B0)
- [Wikiquote](https://bg.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%85_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B0)
- [Wikiquote](https://bn.wikiquote.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%96_%E0%A6%93%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BE)
- [Лех Валенса](https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%85_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B0)

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