What is Lech Wałęsa?
{{Infobox President | honorific-prefix = [[His Excellency]] | name = Lech Wałęsa | image = Lech Walesa - 2009.jpg | nationality = [[Poland|Polish]] | order = [[President of Poland]] | term_start = December 22, 1990 | term_end = December 22, 1995 | predecessor = [[Wojciech Jaruzelski]] (in country)/[[Ryszard Kaczorowski]] (in exile) | successor = [[Aleksander Kwaśniewski]] | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1943|09|29}} | birth_place = [[Popowo]], [[General Government|Poland]] | party = | profession = [[electrician]] | spouse = [[Danuta Wałęsa]] }} '''Lech Walesa''' ({{lang-pl|Lech Wałęsa}} (pronounced [lɛx vaˈwɛ̃sa]); born September 29, 1943) is a [[Poland|Polish]] shipyard worker, trade unionist and a [[politician]] who used to be the leader of [[Solidarity (Polish trade union)|Solidarity]] and the President of [[Poland]] between 1990 and 1995.<ref>http://www.biography.com/people/lech-walesa-12103200 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140906050445/http://www.biography.com/people/lech-walesa-12103200 |date=2014-09-06 }} Lech Walesa. (2014). The Biography.com website. Retrieved 09:19, Sep 22, 2014</ref> Walesa won the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] in 1983. ==References== {{reflist}} {{Nobel Peace Prize}} {{Nobelprize|Peace}} {{Time Persons of the Year 1976–2000}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Walesa, Lech}} [[Category:1943 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath]] [[Category:Nonviolence advocates]] [[Category:Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany]] [[Category:Polish Nobel Prize winners]] [[Category:Polish Roman Catholics]] [[Category:Presidents of Poland]] [[Category:Time People of the Year]] [[Category:Polish trade unionists]] [[Category:Anti-communists]]