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This is a partial list of notable Polish or Polish-speaking or -writing persons. Persons of partial Polish heritage have their respective ancestries credited.
Contents
- 1 History
- 2 Science
- 3 Music
- 4 Prose literature
- 5 Poetry
- 6 Philosophy
- 7 Visual arts
- 8 Entertainment
- 9 Business
- 10 Royalty
- 11 Nobility
- 12 Military
- 13 Politics
- 14 Diplomats
- 15 Intelligence
- 16 Holocaust resisters
- 17 Religion
- 18 Assassins
- 19 Lawyers
- 20 Miscellaneous
- 21 Models
- 22 Legendary persons
- 23 Fictional characters
- 24 Sport
- 25 See also
- 26 References
- 27 External links
History[edit]
- Roman Aftanazy, historian of former Eastern Borderlands and librarian
- Szymon Askenazy, historian and diplomat
- Marcin Bielski, chronicler
- Michał Bobrzyński, historian and politician
- Józef Borzyszkowski, Pomeranian history
- Filip Callimachus
- Marek Jan Chodakiewicz
- Piotr Cywiński
- Tadeusz Czacki
- Norman Davies, a British-Polish historian
- Jan Długosz, 15th-century chronicler of Poland
- Marian Kamil Dziewanowski, Poland, Russia, modern Europe
- Karol Estreicher (senior), father of Polish Bibliography
- Stanisław Estreicher
- Tadeusz Estreicher
- Aleksander Gieysztor
- Kazimierz Godłowski, historian and archeologist
- Władysław Grabski
- Roman Grodecki
- Oskar Halecki, historian of Poland
- Marceli Handelsman, historian of Poland
- Paweł Jasienica, historian of Poland
- Jacek Jędruch
- Wincenty Kadłubek, 13th-century historian of Poland
- Józef Kasparek, constitutions; World War II era
- Stefan Kieniewicz, 19th-century Polish history
- Jerzy Kirchmayer, 1944 Warsaw Uprising
- Hugo Kołłątaj, 18th–19th-century historian, philosopher and politician
- Feliks Koneczny, Polish history, social philosophy
- Władysław Konopczyński, Polish and world history
- Stanisław Kot, historian and politician
- Władysław Kozaczuk, military history, military intelligence, World War II
- Manfred Kridl, history of Polish culture and literature
- Marcin Kromer, 16th-century Bishop of Warmia, secretary to two Polish kings, and historian of Poland
- Jan Kucharzewski, historian and politician
- Marian Kukiel, military historian and politician
- Stanisław Kutrzeba, Poland, Polish law, Kraków
- Gerard Labuda
- Joachim Lelewel, historian of Poland
- Jerzy Jan Lerski
- Wacław Lipiński
- Stanisław Lorentz, art historian
- Czesław Madajczyk, World War II
- Janusz Magnuski, World War II Polish and Soviet Armor
- Tadeusz Manteuffel, medievalist
- Maciej Miechowita
- Karol Modzelewski
- Stephen Mizwa
- Teodor Narbutt,[1] Polish historian of Lithuania
- Adam Naruszewicz,[2] 18th-century historian, participant in the Great Sejm
- Kasper Niesiecki, Jesuit lexicographer and heraldic scholar
- Szymon Okolski, 17th-century historian
- Bartosz Paprocki, Polish and Czech heraldic scholar
- Michael Alfred Peszke, Polish Armed Forces, World War II
- Tadeusz Piotrowski, historian of Poland during World War II
- Richard Pipes, Polish-American historian of Russia and the Soviet Union
- Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski, World War II, Polish-Jewish relations
- Stanisław Salmonowicz, historian of law
- Henryk Samsonowicz, historian specializing in medieval Poland
- Julian Stachiewicz, military historian
- Szymon Starowolski
- Dariusz Stola
- Maciej Stryjkowski, historian, writer, poet
- Tomasz Strzembosz, Polish World War II history
- Tadeusz Sulimirski, historian and archeologist
- Karol Szajnocha, historian and novelist
- Józef Szujski
- Zygmunt Szweykowski, Polish literature
- Władysław Tatarkiewicz, philosophy and aesthetics
- Rafał Taubenschlag, history of law
- Janusz Tazbir, historian, specializing in the culture and religion of Poland in the 16th and 17th centuries
- Józef Turowski, World War II OUN massacres of Poles
- Adam Ulam, Polish-American historian of Russia and the Soviet Union
- Adam Vetulani, history of law
- Piotr S. Wandycz, Polish-American historian of Central and Eastern Europe
- Leon Wasilewski
- Richard Woytak, World War II era
- Wincenty Zakrzewski, 16th-century Poland
- Adam Zamoyski
- Janusz K. Zawodny, World War II
- Marek Żukow-Karczewski, historian and journalist
Science[edit]
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Chemistry[edit]
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Poetry[edit]
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Royalty[edit]
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Intelligence[edit]
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Holocaust resisters[edit]
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Assassins[edit]
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Lawyers[edit]
Miscellaneous[edit]
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Legendary persons[edit]
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Fictional characters[edit]
- Matteusz Andrzejewski, played by Jordan Renzo, a character in Class, a British science fiction drama programme, and a spin-off of the long-running programme Doctor Who
- Captain William Joseph B.J. Blazkowicz in Wolfenstein 3D
- Ernst Stavro Blofeld, a villain from the James Bond series of novels and films, created by Ian Fleming
- Bolek i Lolek, cartoon characters from a Polish children's TV animated comedy series
- Baba Jaga, Polish version of the forest-dwelling sorceress
- Waldemar Daninsky, wolfman in La Marca del Hombre Lobo
- Nicodemus Dyzma, in Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz's novel The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma
- Jacob Jankowski, a character played by Robert Pattinson in a 2011 American romantic drama film Water for Elephants
- Marcin Jerek, Polish-born British professor and former CIA interrogator, in the TV series NCIS, played by W. Morgan Sheppard
- Dr. Judym, in Stefan Żeromski's novel Homeless People
- Kajko i Kokosz
- Florentyna Kane in The Prodigal Daughter and Shall We Tell the President?
- Commander Keen, grandson of B.J. Blazkowicz
- Hans Kloss (Captain Kloss), World War II secret agent in the Polish TV serial Stake larger than life
- Kordian
- Funky Koval, space detective
- Stanley Kowalski, in Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire
- Stanley Kowalski, Polish-American detective in the 1990s Canadian television series Due South
- Walt Kowalski, Polish-American Korean War veteran and retired Ford worker, in Clint Eastwood's 2008 film Gran Torino
- Kowalski, a penguin in the children's film Madagascar
- Ligia, heroine of Sienkiewicz's novel, Quo Vadis?
- Man of Iron, symbol of Solidarity and title of Wajda's film
- Koziołek Matołek, like the bear and the horse, the goat is part of Polish folklore, here in Kornel Makuszyński's rendition
- Mike Nomad (with Steve Roper), an American adventure comic strip (1936–2004)
- Count Olenski, estranged husband of Ellen Olenska in Edith Wharton's novel The Age of Innocence (1920)
- Pan Tadeusz, poetic distillation of Lithuanian-Polish patriotism and nostalgia
- Roland "Prez" Pryzbylewski, in HBO's The Wire, went from police officer to school teacher
- Officer Eddie Pulaski in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
- Abel Rosnovski in Kane and Abel
- Pan Samochodzik, adventurer created by Zbigniew Nienacki
- Paweł i Gaweł, humorous morality tale about neighbour relations, a favourite children's poem
- Sasquatch (Dr. Walter Langkowski), Marvel superhero
- Sierotka Marysia, archetypal abandoned girl, "Little orphan Mary", living with dwarves
- Walter Sobchak, the "Polish Catholic" in the film The Big Lebowski
- Silk Spectre I & II, superheroines in Watchmen
- Stanislau, ace pilot in Blackhawk
- Stanisław Tarkowski, known as Staś, one of the main protagonists in a popular young adult novel In Desert and Wilderness by Polish author and Nobel Prize-winning novelist Henryk Sienkiewicz
- Mieczysław Stilinski, also known as Stiles Stilinski, one of the main characters in American television series Teen Wolf broadcast on MTV and played by Dylan O'Brien
- Michael Stivic, in All in the Family
- Ijon Tichy, main protagonist in several works of Stanisław Lem such as The Star Diaries, The Futurological Congress, Peace on Earth and Observation on the Spot
- Maciej Tomczyk ala Lech Wałęsa, in the 1981 film Man of Iron, directed by Andrzej Wajda
- Pan Twardowski, a Faust-like figure of Polish legend, literature and film.
- Tytus, Romek i A'Tomek, Polish comic book heroes
- Miś Uszatek, cartoon character
- Walter Koskiusko Waldowski, the "Painless Pole" in the film MASH
- Konrad Wallenrod, in the narrative poem by Adam Mickiewicz
- John Paul Wiggin (Jan Paweł Wieczorek) in the Ender's Game series
- Stanisław Wokulski, protagonist of Bolesław Prus' novel The Doll
- Wrocław's dwarfs, brass manikins that first appeared on the city's pavements in 2005
- Piotr Zak, composer in a spoof BBC documentary
- Sophie Zawistowski, in Sophie's Choice, a novel by William Styron and film by Alan J. Pakula
Sport[edit]
Athletics[edit]
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References[edit]
- ^ Bojtar, Endre (2007). "Mythologizing Contemporary Baltic Consciousness". In Cornis-Pope, Marcel; Neubauer, John (eds.). History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume III: The making and remaking of literary institutions. Vol. III. John Benjamins Publishing. p. 294. ISBN 978-90-272-3455-1.
- ^ Woolf, Daniel Robert, ed. (1998). A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing. Vol. 2. Routledge. p. 649. ISBN 978-0815315148.
- ^ Rossi, Cesare; Russo, Flavio (2009). Ancient Engineers' Inventions: Precursors of the Present (Second ed.). Springer. p. 235. ISBN 978-9048122523.
- ^ a b c d e f g Dominic Lieven. The Cambridge History of Russia: Volume 2, Imperial Russia, 1689–1917. Cambridge University Press. 2006. p. 182.
- ^ Sal P. Restivo. Science, Technology, And Society: An Encyclopedia. Oxford University Press. 2005. p. 502.
- ^ Simon Collier, William F. Sater. A History of Chile, 1808–2002. Cambridge University Press. 2004. p. 98
- ^ Michael Church, Olav Slaymaker. Field and Theory: Lectures in Geocryology. UBC Press. 1985. p. 19.
- ^ McKee, Eric (2012). Decorum of the Minuet, Delirium of the Waltz: A Study of Dance-music Relations in 3/4 Time. Indiana University Press. p. 134. ISBN 978-0-253-35692-5.
- ^ Hendricks, Vincent F.; Malinowski, Jacek, eds. (2003). Trends in Logic: 50 Years of Studia Logica. Springer. p. 1.
- ^ a b c d David Crowley. National Style and Nation-State: Design in Poland from the Vernacular Revival to the International Style. Manchester University Press. 1992. p. 36.
- ^ doda.net.pl
- ^ Staff (10 December 2005). "UK's 'Oldest' Man Dies, Aged 111". BBC News. Retrieved 4 October 2012.
External links[edit]
Media related to People of Poland at Wikimedia Commons
