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Czesław Białobrzeski
(Physics) (Science) -
Georges Charpak, 1995 Nobel Prize
(Physics) (Science) -
Jan Kazimierz Danysz
(Physics) (Science) -
Marian Danysz
(Physics) (Science) -
Tomasz Dietl
(Physics) (Science) -
Artur Ekert, one of the inventors of quantum cryptography
(Physics) (Science) -
Marek Gazdzicki
(Physics) (Science) -
Ryszard Horodecki
(Physics) (Science) -
Leopold Infeld
(Physics) (Science) -
Aleksander Jabłoński
(Physics) (Science) -
Jerzy Stanisław Janicki
(Physics) (Science) -
Sylwester Kaliski
(Physics) (Science) -
Jan Eugeniusz Krysiński
(Physics) (Science) -
Stanislas Leibler
(Physics) (Science) -
Maciej Lewenstein
(Physics) (Science) -
Olga Malinkiewicz
(Physics) (Science) -
Albert A. Michelson
(Physics) (Science) -
Stanisław Mrozowski
(Physics) (Science) -
Władysław Natanson
(Physics) (Science) -
Witold Nazarewicz
(Physics) (Science) -
Henryk Niewodniczański
(Physics) (Science) -
Georges Nomarski
(Physics) (Science) -
Karol Olszewski
(Physics) (Science) -
Jerzy Plebański
(Physics) (Science) -
Jerzy Pniewski
(Physics) (Science) -
Nikodem Popławski
(Physics) (Science) -
Sylwester Porowski, blue laser
(Physics) (Science) -
Józef Rotblat, 1995 Nobel Peace Prize
(Physics) (Science) -
Stefan Rozental
(Physics) (Science) -
Wojciech Rubinowicz
(Physics) (Science) -
Maria Skłodowska Curie (Marie Curie), two Nobel Prizes
(Physics) (Science) -
Jan Sładkowski
(Physics) (Science) -
Marian Smoluchowski, kinetic theory, Einstein–Smoluchowski relation
(Physics) (Science) -
Andrzej Sobolewski
(Physics) (Science) -
Haroun Tazieff, geologist, volcanologist, cinematographer, writer and French Cabinet minister
(Physics) (Science) -
Andrzej Trautman
(Physics) (Science) -
Witelo, philosopher, medieval optics
(Physics) (Science) -
Stanley Wojcicki
(Physics) (Science) -
Mieczysław Wolfke
(Physics) (Science) -
Stanisław Lech Woronowicz
(Physics) (Science) -
Zygmunt Wróblewski
(Physics) (Science) -
Marek Żukowski
(Physics) (Science) -
Wojciech H. Zurek
(Physics) (Science) -
Osman Achmatowicz
(Chemistry) (Science) -
Józef Boguski
(Chemistry) (Science) -
Kazimierz Boratyński
(Chemistry) (Science) -
Jan Czochralski, modern semiconductors
(Chemistry) (Science) -
Emil Czyrniański
(Chemistry) (Science) -
Tadeusz Estreicher, cryogenics pioneer
(Chemistry) (Science) -
Kazimierz Fajans
(Chemistry) (Science) -
Kazimierz Funk, biochemist, the concept of vitamins
(Chemistry) (Science) -
Andrzej Górak
(Chemistry) (Science) -
Antoni Grabowski
(Chemistry) (Science) -
Konstanty Hrynakowski
(Chemistry) (Science) -
Andrzej Jajszczyk
(Chemistry) (Science) -
Adolf Joszt
(Chemistry) (Science) -
Aharon Katzir, electrochemistry of biopolymers
(Chemistry) (Science) -
Wiktor Kemula
(Chemistry) (Science) -
Włodzimierz Kołos
(Chemistry) (Science) -
Stanisław Kostanecki
(Chemistry) (Science) -
Marek Gatty-Kostyal
(Chemistry) (Science) -
Ignacy Łukasiewicz, inventor of kerosene lamp
(Chemistry) (Science) -
Mieczysław Mąkosza
(Chemistry) (Science) -
Leon Marchlewski
(Chemistry) (Science) -
Bolesław Masłowski
(Chemistry) (Science) -
Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
(Chemistry) (Science) -
Mark Miodownik, materials scientist and engineer
(Chemistry) (Science) -
Ignacy Mościcki
(Chemistry) (Science) -
Marceli Nencki
(Chemistry) (Science) -
Karol Olszewski
(Chemistry) (Science) -
Krzysztof Palczewski
(Chemistry) (Science) -
Sylwester Porowski
(Chemistry) (Science) -
Tadeusz Reichstein, Nobel Prize winner
(Chemistry) (Science) -
Michał Sędziwój, Latinized as Sendivogius: alchemist, physician, discoverer of oxygen
(Chemistry) (Science) -
Maria Skłodowska Curie (Marie Curie), two-time Nobel Prize winner
(Chemistry) (Science) -
Edward Sucharda
(Chemistry) (Science) -
Jędrzej Śniadecki
(Chemistry) (Science) -
Wojciech Świętosławski, "father of thermochemistry"
(Chemistry) (Science) -
Bohdan Szyszkowski
(Chemistry) (Science) -
Włodzimierz Trzebiatowski
(Chemistry) (Science) -
Filip Neriusz Walter, pioneer of organic chemistry
(Chemistry) (Science) -
Zygmunt Wróblewski
(Chemistry) (Science) -
Józef Zawadzki
(Chemistry) (Science) -
Joseph Babinski, neurologist, discoverer of the Babinski reflex
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Edmund Biernacki, physician, discoverer of erythrocyte sedimentation rate
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Czesław Bieżanko, entomologist
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Tytus Chałubiński, physician
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Napoleon Cybulski, neurophysiologist, discoverer of adrenaline
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Maria Antonina Czaplicka, anthropologist
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Jan Czekanowski, anthropologist
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Wiktor Dega, surgeon
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
August Dehnel, biologist
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Jozef Dietl, physician
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Jan Dzierżon, zoologist, apiarist
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Stefan Falimierz, physician, herbalist
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Sidney Farber, pathologist and cancer biologist, founder of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Edward Flatau, neurologist
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Ludwik Fleck, microbiologist, philosopher of science
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Eva Frommer, child psychiatrist and anthroposophist
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Kazimierz Funk, coined the term vitamin
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Marian Gieszczykiewicz, physician
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Emil Godlewski, embryologist
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Samuel Goldflam, neurologist
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Adam Gruca, surgeon
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Ryszard Gryglewski, pharmacologist, physician
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Tomasz Guzik, physician
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Ludwik Hirszfeld, microbiologist
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Feliks Paweł Jarocki, zoologist
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Stefania Jabłońska, dermatologist
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Walery Jaworski, physician
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Konstanty Jelski, ornithologist
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Zbigniew Kabata, biologist
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, paleobiologist
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Aleksander Koj, physician, scientist
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Jerzy Konorski, neurophysiologist
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Stefan Kopec, biologist
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Hilary Koprowski, polio vaccine
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Tadeusz Krwawicz, medical pioneer
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Abraham Low, neuropsychiatrist
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Margaret Lowenfeld, paediatrician and pioneer of Sandplay Therapy
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Karol Marcinkowski, physician
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Eugène Minkowski, psychiatrist influenced by Bergson and phenomenology
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Ludwik Mlokosiewicz, botanist
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Maksymilian Nowicki, biologist
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, biologist
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Marek Pienkowski, immunologist
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Piotr Ponikowski, cardiologist
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Moshe Prywes (1914-1998), Israeli physician and educator; first President of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Zbigniew Religa, cardiologist
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Józef Rostafiński, biologist
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Albert Sabin, polio vaccine; President of the Weizmann Institute of Science
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Andrzej Wiktor Schally, Nobel-laureate endocrinologist
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Hanna Segal, leading Kleinian psychoanalyst
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Michael Sela (born 1924), Israeli immunologist; President of the Weizmann Institute of Science
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Henryk Skarżyński, otolaryngologist, audiologist, phoniatrist
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Eduard Adolf Strasburger (born in Poland, of German descent), botanist
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Andrzej Szczeklik
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Jan Sztolcman, ornithologist
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Wacław Szybalski, physician
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Władysław Taczanowski, zoologist
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Andrzej K. Tarkowski, embryologist
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Zbylut Twardowski, physician
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Jerzy Vetulani, neuroscientist, pharmacologist and biochemist
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Józef Warszewicz, botanist
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Rudolf Weigl, typhus vaccine
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Helena Rosa Wright, physician influential in family planning
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska, physician
(Biology, medicine) (Science) -
Franciszek Armiński
(Astronomy) (Science) -
Tadeusz Banachiewicz
(Astronomy) (Science) -
Jan Brożek
(Astronomy) (Science) -
Albert Brudzewski
(Astronomy) (Science) -
Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish-German astronomer, known for the heliocentric theory
(Astronomy) (Science) -
Wojciech Dziembowski
(Astronomy) (Science) -
Władysław Dziewulski
(Astronomy) (Science) -
Michał Falkener
(Astronomy) (Science) -
Jan Gadomski
(Astronomy) (Science) -
Johannes Hevelius (Jan Heweliusz)
(Astronomy) (Science) -
Felicjan Kępiński
(Astronomy) (Science) -
Marian Albertovich Kowalski
(Astronomy) (Science) -
Kazimierz Kordylewski
(Astronomy) (Science) -
Wojciech Krzemiński
(Astronomy) (Science) -
Jan Latosz
(Astronomy) (Science) -
Stanisław Lubieniecki
(Astronomy) (Science) -
Bohdan Paczyński
(Astronomy) (Science) -
Marcin Poczobutt-Odlanicki
(Astronomy) (Science) -
Alexius Sylvius Polonus
(Astronomy) (Science) -
Adam Prażmowski
(Astronomy) (Science) -
Antoni Przybylski
(Astronomy) (Science) -
Konrad Rudnicki
(Astronomy) (Science) -
Jan Mikołaj Smogulecki
(Astronomy) (Science) -
Jan Śniadecki
(Astronomy) (Science) -
Andrzej Udalski
(Astronomy) (Science) -
Wiesław Wiśniewski
(Astronomy) (Science) -
Aleksander Wolszczan, first discovery of extrasolar planets
(Astronomy) (Science) -
Thomas Zebrowski
(Astronomy) (Science) -
Anna N. Żytkow
(Astronomy) (Science) -
Nachman Aronszajn
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Stefan Banach
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Tadeusz Banachiewicz
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Kazimierz Bartel
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Andrzej Białynicki-Birula
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Karol Borsuk
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Jacob Bronowski
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Jan Brożek
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Meier Eidelheit
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Samuel Eilenberg
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Andrzej Grzegorczyk
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Witold Hurewicz
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Henryk Iwaniec
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Zygmunt Janiszewski
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Stanisław Jaśkowski
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Jan Jaworowski
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Mark Kac
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Stefan Kaczmarz
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Marek Karpinski, computer scientist
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Bronisław Knaster
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Kazimierz Kordylewski
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Robert Kowalski
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Zdzisław Krygowski
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Krystyna Kuperberg
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Włodzimierz Kuperberg
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Kazimierz Kuratowski
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Izabella Łaba
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Franciszek Leja
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Stanisław Leśniewski
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Adolf Lindenbaum
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Stanisław Łojasiewicz
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Antoni Łomnicki
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Jerzy Łoś
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Jan Łukasiewicz, logician, inventor of the parenthesis-free Polish Notation
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Edward Marczewski
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Józef Marcinkiewicz
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Stanisław Mazur
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Stefan Mazurkiewicz
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Jan Mikusinski
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Michał Misiurewicz
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Andrzej Mostowski
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Jan Mycielski
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Jerzy Spława-Neyman
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Otton M. Nikodym
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Wiesława Nizioł
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Andrew Odlyzko
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Władysław Orlicz
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Józef H. Przytycki
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Helena Rasiowa
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Marian Rejewski, mathematician-cryptologist who broke the German Enigma cipher
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Jerzy Różycki, Enigma-breaker
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Stanisław Ruziewicz
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Czesław Ryll-Nardzewski
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Stanisław Saks
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Wojciech Samotij
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Juliusz Schauder
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Wacław Sierpiński
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Roman Sikorski
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Julian Sochocki
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Hugo Steinhaus
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Włodzimierz Stożek
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Wanda Szmielew
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Władysław Ślebodziński
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Ivan Śleszyński
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Jan Śniadecki
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Alfred Tarski
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Adam Henryk Toruńczyk
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Stanisław Ulam, co-designer (with Edward Teller) of the hydrogen bomb
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Tadeusz Ważewski
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Józef Hoene-Wroński
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Kazimierz Zarankiewicz
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Stanisław Zaremba
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Henryk Zygalski, Enigma-breaker
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Antoni Zygmund
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Kazimierz Żorawski
(Mathematics) (Science) -
Paul Baran
(Computer science) (Science) -
Krzysztof Cios
(Computer science) (Science) -
Andrzej Ehrenfeucht
(Computer science) (Science) -
Siemion Fajtlowicz, known for his Graffiti
(Computer science) (Science) -
Tomasz Imieliński
(Computer science) (Science) -
Piotr Indyk
(Computer science) (Science) -
Jacek Karpiński
(Computer science) (Science) -
Marek Karpiński
(Computer science) (Science) -
Marian Mazur
(Computer science) (Science) -
Jan Mycielski
(Computer science) (Science) -
Zdzislaw Pawlak
(Computer science) (Science) -
Emil Leon Post
(Computer science) (Science) -
Stanisław Radziszowski
(Computer science) (Science) -
Andrew Targowski
(Computer science) (Science) -
Jack Tramiel
(Computer science) (Science) -
Andrzej Trybulec, Mizar system
(Computer science) (Science) -
Stanisław Ulam
(Computer science) (Science) -
Jan Węglarz
(Computer science) (Science) -
Michał Zalewski
(Computer science) (Science) -
Jolanta Antas
(Linguistics) (Science) -
Jerzy Bartmiński
(Linguistics) (Science) -
Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay, developed the theory of the phoneme and phonetic alternations
(Linguistics) (Science) -
Andrzej Bogusławski
(Linguistics) (Science) -
Aleksander Brückner, Slavicist and Polish-language lexicographer
(Linguistics) (Science) -
Kazimierz Bulas (1903–70), Polish–English lexicographer (Kościuszko Foundation Dictionary)
(Linguistics) (Science) -
Jan Bystroń
(Linguistics) (Science) -
Jan Czekanowski
(Linguistics) (Science) -
Andrzej Gawroński
(Linguistics) (Science) -
Grzegorz Knapski
(Linguistics) (Science) -
Władysław Kopaliński
(Linguistics) (Science) -
Onufry Kopczyński, creator of Polish-grammar terminology
(Linguistics) (Science) -
Alfred Korzybski, originator of general semantics
(Linguistics) (Science) -
Mikołaj Kruszewski
(Linguistics) (Science) -
Jerzy Kuryłowicz
(Linguistics) (Science) -
Samuel Bogumił Linde, Polish language lexicographer
(Linguistics) (Science) -
Jan Mączyński
(Linguistics) (Science) -
Halina Mierzejewska
(Linguistics) (Science) -
Jan Miodek
(Linguistics) (Science) -
Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski (1921–2016), Polish–English lexicographer
(Linguistics) (Science) -
Anna Siewierska
(Linguistics) (Science) -
Jan Stanisławski, Polish–English lexicographer
(Linguistics) (Science) -
Antoni Józef Śmieszek
(Linguistics) (Science) -
Michel Thomas
(Linguistics) (Science) -
Zdzisław Wąsik
(Linguistics) (Science) -
Anna Wierzbicka
(Linguistics) (Science) -
L. L. Zamenhof, inventor of Esperanto
(Linguistics) (Science) -
Bruno Abakanowicz, mathematician, engineer, inventor of the integraph
(Invention) (Science) -
Stefan Bryła, first welded road bridge
(Invention) (Science) -
Mieczysław G. Bekker, Lunar Roving Vehicle
(Invention) (Science) -
Jan Czochralski, Czochralski process
(Invention) (Science) -
Juliusz Bogdan Deczkowski, medical equipment
(Invention) (Science) -
Stefan Drzewiecki, first submarine
(Invention) (Science) -
Jan Dzierzon, first successful movable-frame beehive
(Invention) (Science) -
Leo Gerstenzang, Q-Tips
(Invention) (Science) -
Rudolf Gundlach, Gundlach Rotary Periscope
(Invention) (Science) -
Józef Hofmann, pneumatic shock absorbers
(Invention) (Science) -
Stefan Kudelski, Nagra audio recorders
(Invention) (Science) -
Stephanie Kwolek, inventor of Kevlar
(Invention) (Science) -
Kazimierz Leski, ballast tank funnels
(Invention) (Science) -
Janusz Liberkowski, Anecia Safety Capsule
(Invention) (Science) -
Ignacy Łukasiewicz, kerosene lamp, oil refinery
(Invention) (Science) -
Henryk Magnuski, walkie-talkie
(Invention) (Science) -
Julian Ochorowicz, precursor of radio and television
(Invention) (Science) -
Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski, petroleum-drilling platform inventor
(Invention) (Science) -
Kazimierz Proszyński, cinematic camera
(Invention) (Science) -
Tadeusz Sendzimir, processing steel
(Invention) (Science) -
Władysław Starewicz, first puppet-animated film
(Invention) (Science) -
Abraham Stern, first computing-machine and device for calculating the square roots of numbers
(Invention) (Science) -
Wacław Struszyński, seaborne direction finding antenna, which made a vital contribution to the defeat of U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic
(Invention) (Science) -
Jan Szczepanik, television patents
(Invention) (Science) -
Józef Tykociński, sound film
(Invention) (Science) -
Stefan Tyszkiewicz, automotive and audio improvements
(Invention) (Science) -
Mieczysław Wolfke, precursor of holography
(Invention) (Science) -
Casimir Zeglen, bullet-proof vest
(Invention) (Science) -
Henryk Zygalski, Zygalski sheets
(Invention) (Science) -
Krzysztof Arciszewski
(Engineering) (Science) -
Karol Adamiecki
(Engineering) (Science) -
Mieczysław G. Bekker, first moon rover
(Engineering) (Science) -
Georges Charpak, particle detector
(Engineering) (Science) -
Stefan Bryła, first welded road bridge
(Engineering) (Science) -
Romuald Cebertowicz, soil solidification
(Engineering) (Science) -
Zdzisław Celiński
(Engineering) (Science) -
Jerzy Dąbrowski, designer of PZL.37 Łoś bomber
(Engineering) (Science) -
Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Polish-Russian engineer, electrician, and inventor
(Engineering) (Science) -
Rudolf Gundlach, tank designer
(Engineering) (Science) -
Kazimierz Gzowski
(Engineering) (Science) -
Edward Jan Habich
(Engineering) (Science) -
Tytus Maksymilian Huber
(Engineering) (Science) -
Jacek Jędruch
(Engineering) (Science) -
Stanisław Kierbedź
(Engineering) (Science) -
Józef Kosacki, Polish mine detector
(Engineering) (Science) -
Janusz Liberkowski, inventor
(Engineering) (Science) -
Henryk Magnuski, walkie-talkie
(Engineering) (Science) -
Ernest Malinowski, constructor of Ferrocarril Central Andino, the world's highest railway at that time
(Engineering) (Science) -
Henry Millicer, aviation
(Engineering) (Science) -
Ralph Modjeski, bridge designer
(Engineering) (Science) -
Jan Nagórski, first man to fly over the North Pole
(Engineering) (Science) -
Kazimierz Ołdakowski
(Engineering) (Science) -
Antoni Patek, pioneer in watchmaking and a creator of Patek Philippe & Co.
(Engineering) (Science) -
Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski
(Engineering) (Science) -
Zygmunt Puławski, designer of PZL P.11 fighter
(Engineering) (Science) -
Wojciech Rostafiński, NASA
(Engineering) (Science) -
Kazimierz Siemienowicz, pioneer of rocket
(Engineering) (Science) -
Stefan Tyszkiewicz, automotive engineer, inventor of the airport luggage trolley
(Engineering) (Science) -
Stanisław Wigura, aviation
(Engineering) (Science) -
Piotr Wilniewczyc, weaponry
(Engineering) (Science) -
Franciszek Żwirko, aviation
(Engineering) (Science) -
Tadeusz Andrzejewski, archeologist, Egyptologist
(Social sciences) (Science) -
Zygmunt Bauman, sociologist, philosopher
(Social sciences) (Science) -
Stefan Błachowski, psychologist
(Social sciences) (Science) -
Maria Czaplicka, anthropologist
(Social sciences) (Science) -
Jan Władysław Dawid, psychologist
(Social sciences) (Science) -
Tomasz Drezner, Renaissance jurist
(Social sciences) (Science) -
Zygmunt Gloger, ethnographer, archaeologist, historian
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Ludwig Gumplowicz, a founder of sociology
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Norbert Guterman
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Franciszek Kasparek, jurist, professor of international law
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Oskar Kolberg, ethnographer
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Marek Kotański, psychologist
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Ludwik Krzywicki, anthropologist, economist, sociologist
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Jan Kubary, naturalist, ethnographer
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Hersch Lauterpacht, legal concept of crimes against humanity
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Raphael Lemkin, legal concept of genocide
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Wiesław Łukaszewski, psychologist
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Bronisław Malinowski, anthropologist
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Władysław Markiewicz, sociologist
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Kazimierz Michałowski, archeologist, Egyptologist
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Karol Myśliwiec, archeologist, Egyptologist
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Julian Ochorowicz, psychologist, philosopher, inventor
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Maria Ossowska, sociologist
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Stanisław Ossowski, sociologist
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Bronisław Piłsudski, cultural anthropologist
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Jadwiga Staniszkis, sociologist
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Paweł Śpiewak, sociologist
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Henryk Stroband, jurist and mayor of Toruń
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Jerzy Szacki, historian of ideas
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Zbigniew Szafrański, Egyptologist, archeologist
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Jacek Szmatka, sociologist
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Piotr Sztompka, sociologist
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Edmund Wnuk-Lipiński, sociologist, founder of PAN
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Florian Znaniecki, sociologist
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Karol Adamiecki
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Leszek Balcerowicz
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Czesław Bobrowski
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Henryka Bochniarz
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Joanna Cygler
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Gabriel Czechowicz
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Franciszek Ksawery Drucki-Lubecki
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Zyta Gilowska
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Adam Glapiński
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Władysław Grabski
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Henryk Grossman
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Robert Gwiazdowski
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Leonid Hurwicz, 2007 Nobel Laureate
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Danuta Hübner
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Michał Kalecki
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Grzegorz Kołodko
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Monika Kostera
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Tadeusz Kowalik
(Economics) (Science) -
Stanisław Kronenberg
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Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski
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Ludwik Maurycy Landau
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Oskar Lange
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Janusz Lewandowski
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Edward Lipiński
(Economics) (Science) -
Kazimierz Łaski
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Grzegorz Marek Michalski
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Wacław Micuta
(Economics) (Science) -
Hilary Minc
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Marek Rocki
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Dariusz Rosati
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Jacek Rostowski
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Edward Szczepanik
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Sławomir Szwedowski
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Louis Wolowski
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Antoni Żabko-Potopowicz
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Henryk Arctowski, explorer of the Antarctic
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Benedykt Polak (Benedict the Pole, Benedictus Polonus), explorer
(Other sciences) (Science) -
Leon Barszczewski, explorer
(Other sciences) (Science) -
Karol Bohdanowicz, geologist
(Other sciences) (Science) -
Piotr Ignacy Bieńkowski, scholar, archaeologist, professor
(Other sciences) (Science) -
Gerard Ciołek, architect and historian of gardens
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Aleksander Czekanowski, explorer of Siberia
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Jan Czerski, paleontologist, explorer of Siberia
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Zofia Daszyńska-Golińska, socialist politician, suffragist
(Other sciences) (Science) -
Kazimierz Dąbrowski, psychologist
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Helene Deutsch, psychoanalyst
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Antoni Bolesław Dobrowolski, geophysicist, meteorologist, polar explorer
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Ignacy Domeyko, geologist
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Benedykt Dybowski, naturalist, explorer of Siberia
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Bronisław Grąbczewski, explorer
(Other sciences) (Science) -
Gaspar da Gama, traveller, interpreter, explorer
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Mirosław Hermaszewski, the first Polish cosmonaut
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Leonard Jaczewski, engineer, explorer of Asian Russia
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Maria Janion, critic and theoretician of literature, feminist
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Henryk Jordan, founding father of physical education
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Józefa Joteyko (1866–1928), physiologist, psychologist and pedagogue
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Antoni Kępiński, psychiatrist
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Janusz Korczak, pedagogue, writer
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Józef Kostrzewski, archeologist, museologist
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Irena Krzywicka, feminst, writer, translator
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Henryk Lipszyc, specialist in Japanese culture, translator, ambassador of Poland in Tokyo
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Rosa Luxemburg, Marxist political theorist, socialist philosopher, and revolutionary
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Józef Morozewicz, mineralogist, petrographer
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Halszka Osmólska, paleontologist
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Jacek Pałkiewicz, journalist and explorer, best known for discovering the sources of the Amazon River
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Michael Alfred Peszke, psychiatrist
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Jan Potocki, linguist, Egyptologist, sociologist, author of The Saragossa Manuscript
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Antoni Józef Śmieszek, Egyptologist
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Stanisław of Skarbimierz, political scientist
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Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, geologist, explorer of Australia
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Tadeusz Sulimirski, archeologist
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Józef Trzemeski, polar explorer
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Bernard Wapowski (1450–1535), "father of Polish cartography"
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Andrzej Wawrzyniak, diplomat, founder of the Asia and Pacific Museum in Warsaw
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Paweł Włodkowic, jurist
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Robert Zajonc, psychologist
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Czesław Zakaszewski (1886–1959), hydrologist
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Kazimierz Żurowski (1909–1987), archaeologist
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Roman Aftanazy, historian of former Eastern Borderlands and librarian (History)
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Szymon Askenazy, historian and diplomat (History)
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Marcin Bielski, chronicler (History)
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Michał Bobrzyński, historian and politician (History)
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Józef Borzyszkowski, Kashubian historian (History)
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Filip Callimachus (History)
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Marek Jan Chodakiewicz (History)
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Piotr Cywiński (History)
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Tadeusz Czacki (History)
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Norman Davies, a British-Polish historian (History)
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Jan Długosz, 15th-century chronicler of Poland (History)
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Marian Kamil Dziewanowski, Poland, Russia, modern Europe (History)
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Karol Estreicher (senior), father of Polish Bibliography (History)
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Stanisław Estreicher (History)
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Tadeusz Estreicher (History)
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Józef Feldman (History)
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Mieczysław Gębarowicz, art historian, museum director, custodian of Ossolineum (History)
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Aleksander Gieysztor (History)
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Kazimierz Godłowski, historian and archeologist (History)
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Władysław Grabski (History)
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Roman Grodecki (History)
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Oskar Halecki, historian of Poland (History)
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Marceli Handelsman, historian of Poland (History)
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Paweł Jasienica, historian of Poland (History)
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Jacek Jędruch (History)
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Wincenty Kadłubek, 13th-century historian of Poland (History)
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Józef Kasparek, constitutions; World War II era (History)
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Stefan Kieniewicz, 19th-century Polish history (History)
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Jerzy Kirchmayer, 1944 Warsaw Uprising (History)
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Hugo Kołłątaj, 18th–19th-century historian, philosopher and politician (History)
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Feliks Koneczny, Polish history, social philosophy (History)
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Władysław Konopczyński, Polish and world history (History)
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Stanisław Kot, historian, politician, diplomat (History)
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Władysław Kozaczuk, military history, military intelligence, World War II (History)
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Manfred Kridl, history of Polish culture and literature (History)
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Marcin Kromer, 16th-century Bishop of Warmia, secretary to two Polish kings, and historian of Poland (History)
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Jan Kucharzewski, historian and politician (History)
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Marian Kukiel, military historian and politician (History)
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Stanisław Kutrzeba, Poland, Polish law, Kraków (History)
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Gerard Labuda (History)
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Joachim Lelewel, historian of Poland (History)
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Jerzy Jan Lerski (History)
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Wacław Lipiński (History)
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Stanisław Lorentz, art historian (History)
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Czesław Madajczyk, World War II (History)
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Janusz Magnuski, World War II Polish and Soviet Armor (History)
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Tadeusz Manteuffel, medievalist (History)
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Benjamin Mazar (1906-1995), Israeli historian and archeologist; President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (History)
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Maciej Miechowita (History)
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Karol Modzelewski (History)
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Stephen Mizwa (History)
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Teodor Narbutt, Polish historian of Lithuania (History)
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Adam Naruszewicz, 18th-century historian, participant in the Great Sejm (History)
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Kasper Niesiecki, Jesuit lexicographer and heraldic scholar (History)
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Szymon Okolski, 17th-century historian (History)
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Bartosz Paprocki, Polish and Czech heraldic scholar (History)
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Michael Alfred Peszke, Polish Armed Forces, World War II (History)
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Tadeusz Piotrowski, historian of Poland during World War II (History)
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Richard Pipes, Polish-American historian of Russia and the Soviet Union (History)
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Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski, World War II, Polish-Jewish relations (History)
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Stanisław Salmonowicz, historian of law (History)
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Henryk Samsonowicz, historian specializing in medieval Poland (History)
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Julian Stachiewicz, military historian (History)
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Szymon Starowolski (History)
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Dariusz Stola (History)
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Maciej Stryjkowski, historian, writer, poet (History)
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Tomasz Strzembosz, Polish World War II history (History)
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Tadeusz Sulimirski, historian and archeologist (History)
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Karol Szajnocha, historian and novelist (History)
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Józef Szujski (History)
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Zygmunt Szweykowski, Polish literature (History)
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Władysław Tatarkiewicz, philosophy and aesthetics (History)
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Rafał Taubenschlag, history of law (History)
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Janusz Tazbir, historian, specializing in the culture and religion of Poland in the 16th and 17th centuries (History)
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Józef Turowski, World War II OUN massacres of Poles (History)
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Adam Ulam, Polish-American historian of Russia and the Soviet Union (History)
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Adam Vetulani, history of law (History)
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Piotr S. Wandycz, Polish-American historian of Central and Eastern Europe (History)
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Leon Wasilewski (History)
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Richard Woytak, World War II era (History)
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Wincenty Zakrzewski, 16th-century Poland (History)
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Adam Zamoyski (History)
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Janusz K. Zawodny, World War II (History)
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Marek Żukow-Karczewski, historian and journalist (History)
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Adam of Łowicz (Philosophy)
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Edward Abramowski (Philosophy)
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Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz (Philosophy)
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Zygmunt Bauman (Philosophy)
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Stefan Błachowski (Philosophy)
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Józef Maria Bocheński (Philosophy)
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Stanisław Brzozowski (Philosophy)
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Adam Burski (Philosophy)
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Piotr Chmielowski (Philosophy)
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Leon Chwistek (Philosophy)
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August Cieszkowski (Philosophy)
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Edward Dembowski (Philosophy)
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Anioł Dowgird (Philosophy)
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Adolf Dygasiński (Philosophy)
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Michał Falkener (Philosophy)
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Ludwik Fleck, 20th-century philosopher of science (Philosophy)
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Józef Gołuchowski (Philosophy)
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Wawrzyniec Grzymała Goślicki (Philosophy)
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Jakub Górski (Philosophy)
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Grzegorz of Stawiszyn (Philosophy)
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Jan Hartman (Philosophy)
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Władysław Heinrich (Philosophy)
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Michał Heller (Philosophy)
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Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński (Philosophy)
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Roman Ingarden (Philosophy)
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Jakub of Gostynin (Philosophy)
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Jan of Głogów (Philosophy)
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Jan of Stobnica (Philosophy)
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Józef Emanuel Jankowski (Philosophy)
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Feliks Jaroński (Philosophy)
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Stanisław Jaśkowski (Philosophy)
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Jan Jonston (Philosophy)
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Leszek Kołakowski (Philosophy)
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Hugo Kołłątaj (Philosophy)
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Alfred Korzybski (Philosophy)
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Tadeusz Kotarbiński (Philosophy)
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Władysław Mieczysław Kozłowski (Philosophy)
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Józef Kremer (Philosophy)
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Franciszek Krupiński (Philosophy)
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Stanisław Leszczyński (Philosophy)
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Stanisław Leśniewski (Philosophy)
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Casimir Lewy (Philosophy)
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Karol Libelt (Philosophy)
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Wincenty Lutosławski (Philosophy)
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Jan Łukasiewicz (Philosophy)
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Kazimierz Łyszczyński (Philosophy)
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Adam Mahrburg (Philosophy)
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Marian Massonius (Philosophy)
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Émile Meyerson (Philosophy)
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Konstanty Michalski (Philosophy)
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Wawrzyniec Mitzler de Kolof (Philosophy)
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Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski (Philosophy)
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Julian Ochorowicz (Philosophy)
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Stefan Pawlicki (Philosophy)
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Leon Petrażycki (Philosophy)
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Sebastian Petrycy (Philosophy)
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Bolesław Prus (Philosophy)
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Adam Schaff (Philosophy)
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Ulrich Schrade (Philosophy)
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Stanisław Staszic (Philosophy)
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Józef Supiński (Philosophy)
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Józef Kalasanty Szaniawski (Philosophy)
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Jan Szylling (Philosophy)
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Krystyn Lach Szyrma (Philosophy)
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Maria Szyszkowska (Philosophy)
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Jan Śniadecki (Philosophy)
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Jędrzej Śniadecki (Philosophy)
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Aleksander Świętochowski (Philosophy)
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Alfred Tarski (Philosophy)
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Władysław Tatarkiewicz (Philosophy)
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Józef Tischner (Philosophy)
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Andrzej Towiański (Philosophy)
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Bronisław Trentowski (Philosophy)
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Kazimierz Twardowski (Philosophy)
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Michał Twaróg of Bystrzyków (Philosophy)
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Józef Warszawski (Philosophy)
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Władysław Weryho (Philosophy)
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Michał Wiszniewski (Philosophy)
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Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy) (Philosophy)
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Władysław Witwicki (Philosophy)
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Karol Wojtyla (Philosophy)
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Jan Woleński (Philosophy)
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Adam Ignacy Zabellewicz (Philosophy)
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Marian Zdziechowski (Philosophy)
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Czesław Znamierowski (Philosophy)
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Florian Znaniecki (Philosophy)
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Franciszka Arnsztajnowa, playwright (Prose literature)
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S. Ansky, Bielorussian, Polish-Jewish author of The Dybbuk (Prose literature)
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Joanna Bator, novelist, feminist (Prose literature)
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Halina Birenbaum, Polish Israeli writer, translator, chronicler of the martyrdom of Polish Jewry (Prose literature)
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Karol Olgierd Borchardt, maritime author (Prose literature)
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Tadeusz Borowski, writer and journalist (Prose literature)
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Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, writer; translator of over 100 French literary classics (Prose literature)
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Edmund Chojecki, journalist based in France (Prose literature)
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Joanna Chmielewska, crime writer (Prose literature)
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Sylwia Chutnik, novelist, feminist, social activist (Prose literature)
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Joseph Conrad (Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski), English-language novelist (Prose literature)
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Stanisław Czerniecki, landowner and chef, author of the first Cookery book in Polish 1682 (Prose literature)
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Lucyna Ćwierczakiewiczowa, cookbook author (Prose literature)
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Maria Dąbrowska, novelist and translator of the Diary of Samuel Pepys into Polish (Prose literature)
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Johannes Dantiscus (Jan Dantyszek), Latin poet and Prince-Bishop of Warmia (Prose literature)
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Jacek Dehnel, writer, poet, translator, painter (Prose literature)
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Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz, author of the novel, The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma (Prose literature)
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Jacek Dukaj, science-fiction writer (Prose literature)
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Adolf Dygasiński, novelist (Prose literature)
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Leszek Engelking, short story writer (Prose literature)
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Felicjan Medard Faleński, poet, novelist (Prose literature)
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Aleksander Fredro, poet, comedy writer (Prose literature)
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Jerzy Giedroyć, legendary émigré editor (Kultura) (Prose literature)
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Janusz Głowacki, playwright, nonfiction author (Prose literature)
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Ferdynand Goetel, novelist, playwright, essayist (Prose literature)
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Witold Gombrowicz, novelist, playwright (Prose literature)
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Stefan Grabiński, horror writer (Prose literature)
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Mieczysław Grydzewski, legendary editor (Skamander, Wiadomości Literackie) (Prose literature)
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Henryk Grynberg, writer (Prose literature)
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Józef Hen, novelist, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and reporter (Prose literature)
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Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, writer, journalist, essayist, World War II underground fighter (Prose literature)
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Marek Hłasko, novelist, short story writer (Prose literature)
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Klementyna Hoffmanowa, writer of memoir and children's literature (Prose literature)
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Paweł Huelle, essayist (Prose literature)
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Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski (Prose literature)
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Wincenty Kadłubek, political scientist, writer, chronicler (Prose literature)
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Ryszard Kapuściński, writer and journalist (Prose literature)
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Wojciech Karpiński, writer and essayist (Prose literature)
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Maria Konopnicka, writer, novelist (Prose literature)
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Tadeusz Konwicki, writer (Prose literature)
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Janusz Korczak, writer, pedagogist (Prose literature)
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Jerzy Kosiński, writer (Prose literature)
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Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, novelist and World War II resistance fighter (Prose literature)
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Marek Krajewski, crime writer, known for his series of novels set in pre-war Wrocław with Eberhard Mock as the protagonist (Prose literature)
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Hanna Krall, writer (Prose literature)
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Ignacy Krasicki, author of the first Polish novel, The Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom, and of Fables and Parables (Prose literature)
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Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, extremely prolific historical-novelist (Prose literature)
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Wojciech Kuczok, novelist, screenwriter, film critic (Prose literature)
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Antoni Lange, writer, poet, philosopher (Prose literature)
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Stanisław Lem, science-fiction writer, essayist, philosopher (Prose literature)
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Stanisław Lubieniecki, writer, astronomer* Waldemar Łysiak, writer (Prose literature)
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Józef Mackiewicz, writer, journalist (Prose literature)
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Kornel Makuszyński, children's writer (Prose literature)
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Dorota Masłowska, writer and playwright (Prose literature)
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Juliusz Mieroszewski, publicist, translator of Orwell's 1984 into Polish (Prose literature)
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Kazimierz Moczarski, writer and journalist (Prose literature)
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Sławomir Mrożek, dramatist and writer (Prose literature)
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Wiesław Myśliwski, novelist (Prose literature)
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Anna Nakwaska, children's author and educationist (Prose literature)
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Joanna Olczak-Ronikier, novelist (Prose literature)
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Eliza Orzeszkowa, Positivist writer (Prose literature)
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Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, writer (Prose literature)
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Teodor Parnicki, historical novelist (Prose literature)
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Jan Chryzostom Pasek, memoirist (Prose literature)
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Sergiusz Piasecki, writer (Prose literature)
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Krzysztof Piesiewicz, screenwriter and politician (Prose literature)
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Jerzy Pilch, writer, columnist, journalist (Prose literature)
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Jan Potocki, The Saragossa Manuscript (Prose literature)
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Bolesław Prus, The Doll and Pharaoh (Prose literature)
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Ksawery Pruszyński, writer and journalist (Prose literature)
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Stanisław Przybyszewski, novelist, dramatist and poet who wrote in both German and Polish (Prose literature)
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Mikołaj Rej, a founder of Polish literary language and literature (Prose literature)
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Małgorzata Rejmer, writer (Prose literature)
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Sydor Rey, writer, poet, novelist (Prose literature)
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Władysław Reymont, 1924 Nobel laureate (Prose literature)
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Henryk Rzewuski, novelist (Prose literature)
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Pinchas Sadeh, Israeli novelist and poet (Prose literature)
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Barbara Sanguszko, enlightenment writer and salon hostess (Prose literature)
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Andrzej Sapkowski, fantasy writer (Prose literature)
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Sat-Okh, Polish-Shawnee writer (Prose literature)
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Bruno Schulz, novelist and painter (Prose literature)
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Henryk Sienkiewicz, 1905 Nobel laureate (Prose literature)
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Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1978 Nobel laureate (Prose literature)
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Piotr Skarga, poet, writer, humanist (Prose literature)
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Andrzej Stasiuk, writer, journalist, literary critic (Prose literature)
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Jędrzej Śniadecki, terminologist, writer (Prose literature)
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Olga Tokarczuk, writer, psychologist, 2019 Nobel laureate (Prose literature)
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Magdalena Tulli, novelist, translator (Prose literature)
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Leopold Tyrmand, writer (Prose literature)
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Meyer Wolf Weisgal (1894–1977), American journalist, publisher, and playwright; President of the Weizmann Institute of Science (Prose literature)
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Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy) (Prose literature)
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Stanisław Wyspiański, painter and writer (Prose literature)
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Franciszek Zabłocki, comic dramatist and satirist (Prose literature)
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Janusz A. Zajdel, science-fiction writer (Prose literature)
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Gabriela Zapolska, novelist (Prose literature)
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Rafał A. Ziemkiewicz, political fiction and science-fiction writer (Prose literature)
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Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm, writer (Prose literature)
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Antonina Żabińska, writer (Prose literature)
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Stefan Żeromski, novelist (Prose literature)
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Jerzy Żuławski, novelist (Prose literature)
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Guillaume Apollinaire, (Wilhelm Apolinary Kostrowicki) (Poetry)
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Franciszka Arnsztajnowa (Poetry)
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Adam Asnyk (Poetry)
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Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński (Poetry)
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Edward Balcerzan (Poetry)
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Stanisław Barańczak (Poetry)
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Miron Białoszewski (Poetry)
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Zbigniew Bieńkowski (Poetry)
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Biernat of Lublin (Poetry)
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Tadeusz Borowski (Poetry)
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Władysław Broniewski (Poetry)
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Jan Brzechwa (Poetry)
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Stanisław Korab-Brzozowski (Poetry)
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Teodor Bujnicki (Poetry)
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Andrzej Bursa (Poetry)
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Tytus Czyżewski (Poetry)
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Jacek Dehnel (Poetry)
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Elżbieta Drużbacka (Poetry)
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Leszek Engelking (Poetry)
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Jerzy Ficowski (Poetry)
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Aleksander Fredro (Poetry)
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Tadeusz Gajcy (Poetry)
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Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński (Poetry)
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Zuzanna Ginczanka (Poetry)
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Stanisław Grochowiak (Poetry)
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Julia Hartwig (Poetry)
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Marian Hemar (Poetry)
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Zbigniew Herbert (Poetry)
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Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna (Poetry)
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Wacław Iwaniuk (Poetry)
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Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (Poetry)
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Klemens Janicki (Poetry)
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Bruno Jasieński (Poetry)
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Anna Kamieńska (Poetry)
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Franciszek Karpiński (Poetry)
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Jan Kasprowicz (Poetry)
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Jan Kochanowski (Poetry)
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Feliks Konarski (Poetry)
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Maria Konopnicka (Poetry)
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Julian Kornhauser (Poetry)
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Urszula Kozioł (Poetry)
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Ignacy Krasicki (Poetry)
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Zygmunt Krasiński (Poetry)
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Andrzej Krzycki (Poetry)
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Paweł Kubisz (Poetry)
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Jalu Kurek (Poetry)
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Stanisław Jerzy Lec (Poetry)
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Jan Lechoń (Poetry)
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Bolesław Leśmian (Poetry)
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Ewa Lipska (Poetry)
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Henryka Łazowertówna (Poetry)
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Tadeusz Miciński (Poetry)
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Adam Mickiewicz (Poetry)
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Grazyna Miller, translation (Poetry)
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Czesław Miłosz, 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature (Poetry)
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Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski, humanism (Poetry)
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Jan Andrzej Morsztyn (Poetry)
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Zbigniew Morsztyn (Poetry)
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Daniel Naborowski (Poetry)
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Adam Naruszewicz, translation, history (Poetry)
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Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz (Poetry)
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Cyprian Kamil Norwid (Poetry)
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Franciszek Nowicki (Poetry)
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Beata Obertyńska (Poetry)
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Antoni Edward Odyniec (Poetry)
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Władysław Orkan (Poetry)
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Agnieszka Osiecka (Poetry)
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Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska (Poetry)
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Jacek Podsiadło (Poetry)
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Wincenty Pol (Poetry)
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Wacław Potocki (Poetry)
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Halina Poświatowska (Poetry)
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Zenon Przesmycki (Poetry)
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Jeremi Przybora, songs (Poetry)
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Julian Przyboś (Poetry)
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Mikołaj Rej (Poetry)
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Sydor Rey (Poetry)
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Tadeusz Różewicz (Poetry)
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Zygmunt Rumel (Poetry)
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Lucjan Rydel (Poetry)
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Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz (Poetry)
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Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (Poetry)
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Antoni Słonimski (Poetry)
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Juliusz Słowacki (Poetry)
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Edward Stachura (Poetry)
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Anatol Stern (Poetry)
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Leopold Staff (Poetry)
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Władysław Szlengel, Jewish-Polish poet and lyricist killed in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Poetry)
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Włodzimierz Szymanowicz (Poetry)
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Wisława Szymborska, 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature (Poetry)
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Szymon Szymonowic (Poetry)
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Marcin Świetlicki (Poetry)
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Bolesław Taborski, translator of Pope John Paul II into English, BBC editor (Poetry)
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Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer (Poetry)
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Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki (Poetry)
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Julian Tuwim (Poetry)
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Jan Twardowski (Poetry)
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Kornel Ujejski (Poetry)
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Bronisława Wajs, aka "Papusza", Polska Roma poet and singer (Poetry)
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Aleksander Wat (Poetry)
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Kazimierz Wierzyński (Poetry)
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Stefan Witwicki (Poetry)
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Rafał Wojaczek (Poetry)
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Stanisław Wyspiański (Poetry)
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Tymon Zaborowski (Poetry)
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Adam Zagajewski (Poetry)
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Józef Bohdan Zaleski (Poetry)
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Kazimiera Zawistowska (Poetry)
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Piotr Zbylitowski (Poetry)
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Emil Zegadłowicz (Poetry)
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Juliusz Żuławski (Poetry)
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Chava Alberstein, Israeli singer-songwriter (Music)
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Piotr Anderszewski, pianist (Music)
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Stefan Askenase, pianist (Music)
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Emanuel Ax, pianist (Music)
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Grażyna Bacewicz, composer (Music)
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Stanisław Barcewicz, conductor, violinist (Music)
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Edyta Bartosiewicz, singer (Music)
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Kamil Bednarek, reggae and dancehall vocalist, songwriter, composer and musician (Music)
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Michał Bergson, pianist composer, promoter of Chopin and father of Henri Bergson (Music)
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Marek Biliński, electronic music composer (Music)
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Rafał Blechacz, pianist (Music)
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Jan Nepomucen Bobrowicz, composer ("the Chopin of guitar") (Music)
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Stan Borys, singer-songwriter (Music)
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Monika Brodka, singer (Music)
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Dariusz Brzozowski, drummer (Music)
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Grzegorz Ciechowski, composer, singer (Music)
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Fryderyk Chopin, composer (Music)
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Agnieszka Chylińska, singer-songwriter, author and television personality (Music)
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Cleo, singer (Music)
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Krzysztof Czerwiński, conductor and organist (Music)
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Adam Darski, singer-songwriter, guitarist (Music)
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Ania Dąbrowska, singer-songwriter, composer (Music)
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Ewa Demarczyk, singer (Music)
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Krzesimir Dębski, composer (Music)
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Wojciech Długoraj, lutenist, composer (Music)
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Andrzej Dobrowolski, composer (Music)
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Doda, singer (Music)
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Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński, composer (Music)
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Jan Drozdowski, pianist and music teacher (Music)
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Urszula Dudziak, singer (Music)
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Walek Dzedzej, punk performer (Music)
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Józef Elsner, composer, Chopin's piano teacher (Music)
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Ewa Farna, singer (Music)
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Robert 'Litza' Friedrich, rock singer (Music)
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Anna German, singer (Music)
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Mikołaj Gomółka, composer (Music)
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Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki, composer (Music)
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Kasia Glowicka, composer (Music)
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Konstanty Gorski, composer and violinist (Music)
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Henryk Górecki, composer (Music)
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Edyta Górniak, singer (Music)
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Marek Grechuta, singer-songwriter, composer, and lyricist (Music)
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Taco Hemingway, rapper (Music)
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Józef Hofmann, pianist (Music)
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Mieczysław Horszowski, pianist (Music)
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Bronisław Huberman, violinist (Music)
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Grzegorz Hyży, singer-songwriter (Music)
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Stanislas Idzikowski, ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher (Music)
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Zdzisław Jachimecki, musicologist, composer (Music)
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Alicja Janosz, singer (Music)
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Anna Jantar, singer (Music)
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Adam Jarzębski, composer (Music)
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Anna Maria Jopek, singer, musician (Music)
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Jula, singer-songwriter (Music)
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Reni Jusis, singer (Music)
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Jan A. P. Kaczmarek, Oscar-winning film composer (Music)
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Jacek Kaczmarski, singer-songwriter (Music)
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Maria Kalergis, pianist (Music)
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Bronisław Kaper, film composer (Music)
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Mieczysław Karłowicz, composer (Music)
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Kayah, singer (Music)
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Wacław Kiełtyka, guitarist (Music)
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Stefan Kisielewski, composer, writer (Music)
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Wojciech Kilar, composer (Music)
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Krzysztof Komeda, jazz composer (Music)
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Zygmunt Konieczny, composer (Music)
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Abel Korzeniowski, film score composer (Music)
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Roman Kostrzewski, controversial singer-songwriter (Music)
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Kasia Kowalska, singer (Music)
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Seweryn Krajewski, singer-songwriter (Music)
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Dawid Kwiatkowski, singer-songwriter (Music)
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Rafał Kuczynski ('Human Error') (Music)
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Hanna Kulenty, composer (Music)
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Karol Kurpiński, composer (Music)
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Lucjan Kydryński, music critic, writer (Music)
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Wanda Landowska, harpsichordist (Music)
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Teodor Leszetycki, pianist, pedagogue (Music)
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Monika Lewczuk, singer-songwriter, model (Music)
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Franciszek Lilius, composer (Music)
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Karol Lipiński, composer, virtuoso violinist (about equal to Niccolò Paganini) (Music)
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Jan Lisiecki, pianist (Music)
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Ewelina Lisowska, singer-songwriter (Music)
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Michał Lorenc, film score composer (Music)
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Jan z Lublina, composer (Music)
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Witold Lutosławski, composer (Music)
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Paweł Mąciwoda, bassist, member of the German rock band Scorpions (Music)
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Jerzy Maksymiuk, conductor (Music)
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Ray Manzarek, musician, singer, keyboardist of The Doors (Music)
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Margaret, singer-songwriter (Music)
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Patrycja Markowska, pop rock singer (Music)
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Megitza, singer, double bass player, and composer (Music)
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Krzysztof Meyer, composer (Music)
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Aleksander Michałowski, pianist and pedagogue (Music)
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Carl Mikuli, composer (Music)
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Maciek Miernik, producer (Music)
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Marcin Mielczewski, composer (Music)
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Emil Młynarski, conductor and composer (Music)
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Stanisław Moniuszko, composer (Music)
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Moritz Moszkowski, composer (Music)
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Czesław Mozil, singer and musician (Music)
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Leszek Możdżer, pianist and composer (Music)
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Tadeusz Nalepa, composer, guitar player, vocalist, and lyricist (Music)
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Czesław Niemen, singer-songwriter (Music)
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Katarzyna Nosowska, singer-songwriter (Music)
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Marcin Nowak, guitarist and singer (Music)
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Feliks Nowowiejski, composer (Music)
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Zygmunt Noskowski, composer (Music)
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Natalia Nykiel, singer-songwriter (Music)
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Michał Kazimierz Ogiński, composer (Music)
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Michał Kleofas Ogiński, composer (Music)
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Hanka Ordonówna, singer, actress, dancer (Music)
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O.S.T.R., rapper, musician (Music)
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Ignacy Jan Paderewski, pianist, composer (Music)
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Andrzej Panufnik, composer (Music)
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Włodek Pawlik, jazz musician, composer (Music)
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Krzysztof Penderecki, composer (Music)
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Maria Peszek, singer-songwriter (Music)
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Jerzy Petersburski, pianist, composer (Music)
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Pezet, rapper (Music)
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Bartłomiej Pękiel, composer (Music)
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Andrzej Piaseczny, singer-songwriter, actor, and television personality (Music)
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Svika Pick, Israeli pop singer, composer (Music)
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Dawid Podsiadło, singer (Music)
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Piotr Półtorak, guitarist (Music)
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Zbigniew Preisner, composer (Music)
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Zbigniew Robert Promiński, drummer (Music)
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Natalia Przybysz, rhythm and blues singer (Music)
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Pawel Przytocki, conductor (Music)
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Tomasz "Titus" Pukacki, singer (Music)
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Krzysztof Raczkowski, drummer (Music)
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Mikołaj z Radomia, Middle Ages composer (Music)
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Ryszard Riedel, singer (Music)
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Maryla Rodowicz, singer (Music)
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Artur Rodziński, conductor (Music)
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Eddie Rosner, jazz, "Polish (or: The White) Louis Armstrong" (Music)
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Piotr Rubik, composer (Music)
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Arthur Rubinstein, pianist (Music)
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Ada Sari, opera singer (Music)
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Sarsa, singer-songwriter (Music)
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Bogusław Schaeffer, composer (Music)
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Xaver Scharwenka, composer (Music)
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Marcella Sembrich (1858–1935), coloratura soprano (Music)
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Kazimierz Serocki, composer (Music)
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Witold Silewicz, composer, bassist (Music)
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Józef Skrzek, composer and leader of SBB band (Music)
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Cezary Skubiszewski, Polish-Australian composer (Music)
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Tomasz Stańko, jazz trumpeter (Music)
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Kazik Staszewski, singer-songwriter (Music)
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Muniek Staszczyk, singer (Music)
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Justyna Steczkowska, singer (Music)
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Zygmunt Stojowski, composer (Music)
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Jadwiga Szamotulska, pianist (Music)
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Wacław of Szamotuły (Music)
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Aleksander Szeligowski, composer, pedagog (Music)
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Tadeusz Szeligowski, composer, conductor (Music)
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Władysław Szpilman, pianist (Music)
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Patryk Dominik Sztyber, guitarist, singer (Music)
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Maria Agata Szymanowska, composer, concert pianist (Music)
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Karol Szymanowski, composer, pianist (Music)
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Paweł Szymański, composer (Music)
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André Tchaikowsky, pianist, composer (Music)
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Barbara Trzetrzelewska, singer (Music)
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Grzegorz Turnau, singer (Music)
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Ifi Ude, singer (Music)
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Michał Urbaniak, jazz musician (Music)
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Moshe Vilenski, Israeli composer, lyricist, and pianist (Music)
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Violetta Villas, singer-songwriter (Music)
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Andrzej Wasowski, pianist (Music)
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Henryk Wieniawski, composer (Music)
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Wanda Wiłkomirska, violinist (Music)
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Antoni Wit, conductor (Music)
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Piotr Wiwczarek, guitarist, singer (Music)
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Zbigniew Wodecki, singer, musician, composer, actor and TV presenter (Music)
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Tomasz Wróblewski, guitarist, singer (Music)
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Aga Zaryan, jazz singer (Music)
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Mikołaj Zieleński, composer (Music)
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Krystian Zimerman, pianist (Music)
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Władysław Żeleński (Music)
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Wojciech Żywny, composer, Chopin's first professional piano teacher (Music)
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Magdalena Abakanowicz, sculptor (Visual arts)
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Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz, painter (Visual arts)
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Zygmunt Ajdukiewicz, painter (Visual arts)
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Sylwester Ambroziak, sculptor (Visual arts)
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Chrystian Piotr Aigner, architect (Visual arts)
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Paweł Althamer, contemporary artist (Visual arts)
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Teodor Axentowicz, Armenian-Polish painter and rector of Krakow Academy of Fine Arts (Visual arts)
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Marcello Bacciarelli, Italian-Polish portrait painter (Visual arts)
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Tomasz Bagiński, computer graphics (Visual arts)
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Balthus (Balthasar Kłossowski de Rola), Polish-French painter (Visual arts)
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Mirosław Bałka, contemporary painter and sculptor (Visual arts)
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Krzysztof Bednarski, sculptor (Visual arts)
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Zdzisław Beksiński, painter (Visual arts)
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Bernardo Bellotto, Italian-Polish landscape and court painter (Visual arts)
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Władysław T. Benda, Polish-American painter, illustrator, designer (Visual arts)
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Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz, painter (Visual arts)
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Walerian Borowczyk, painter, lithographer and film director (Visual arts)
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Olga Boznańska, painter (Visual arts)
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Józef Brandt, battle-scene painter (Visual arts)
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Maximilian Cercha, painter and drawer (Visual arts)
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Józef Marian Chełmoński, painter (Visual arts)
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Józef Czapski, painter (Visual arts)
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Tytus Czyżewski, painter, poet, art critic (Visual arts)
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Jacenty Dędek, photographer (Visual arts)
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Zbigniew Dłubak, painter (Visual arts)
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Andrzej Dłużniewski, contemporary sculptor (Visual arts)
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Xawery Dunikowski, sculptor (Visual arts)
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Maksymilian Fajans, Jewish–Polish artist, lithographer, photographer (Visual arts)
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Julian Fałat, painter (Visual arts)
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Wojciech Fangor, painter (Visual arts)
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Jakub Fontana, baroque and neoclassical architect (Visual arts)
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Wojciech Gerson, painter (Visual arts)
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Stefan Gierowski, painter (Visual arts)
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Aleksander Gierymski, painter, brother of Maksymilian Gierymski (Visual arts)
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Maksymilian Gierymski, painter (Visual arts)
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Cyprian Godebski, sculptor (Visual arts)
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Zygmunt Gorgolewski, architect (Visual arts)
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Józef Gosławski, sculptor and medallist (Visual arts)
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Artur Grottger, painter, illustrator (Visual arts)
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Aleksander Gryglewski, interior portraits (Visual arts)
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Władysław Hasior, sculptor, painter, stage designer (Visual arts)
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Józef Hecht, engraver, printmaker (Visual arts)
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Józef Holewiński, graphic artist and painter (Visual arts)
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Władysław Horodecki, architect (Visual arts)
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Maria Jarema, painter, sculptor (Visual arts)
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Anna Kamieńska-Łapińska, sculptor, animated-film scenarist (Visual arts)
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Johann Christian Kammsetzer, architect (Visual arts)
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Tadeusz Kantor (1915–1990), painter, theater director (Visual arts)
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Marta Klonowska, glass maker and sculptor (Visual arts)
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Katarzyna Kobro, sculptor (Visual arts)
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Roman Kochanowski, landscape painter (Visual arts)
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Gloria Kossak, painter, poet (Visual arts)
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Jerzy Kossak, painter (Visual arts)
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Juliusz Kossak, painter, illustrator (Visual arts)
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Wojciech Kossak, painter (Visual arts)
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Katarzyna Kozyra, video artist (Visual arts)
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Nikifor Krynicki, painter (Visual arts)
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Alexander Kucharsky, painter (Visual arts)
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Zofia Kulik, performer (Visual arts)
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Teofil Kwiatkowski (Visual arts)
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Tamara de Lempicka, painter (Visual arts)
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Zbigniew Lengren, cartoonist and illustrator (Visual arts)
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Jan Lenica, graphic designer and cartoonist (Visual arts)
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Stanisław Lentz, painter (Visual arts)
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Aleksander Lesser, painter (Visual arts)
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Daniel Libeskind, architect (Visual arts)
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Bronisław Linke, graphic artist, painter of the horror of war (Visual arts)
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Mieczysław Lubelski, sculptor, ceramicist and creator of the Polish War Memorial (Visual arts)
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Władysław Łuszczkiewicz, painter (Visual arts)
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Tadeusz Makowski, painter member of Paris School (Visual arts)
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Jacek Malczewski, painter (Visual arts)
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Rafał Malczewski, painter, writer, climber (Visual arts)
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Kazimierz Malewicz (Visual arts)
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Jan Matejko, painter (Visual arts)
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Agata Materowicz, painter, photographer, graphic designer, FIMO figurines designer and hand-maker (Visual arts)
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Józef Mehoffer, painter (Visual arts)
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Piotr Michałowski, painter (Visual arts)
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Jacek Mierzejewski, painter (Visual arts)
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Jerzy Mierzejewski, painter and pedagogue (Visual arts)
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Ambroży Mieroszewski, Chopin's first portraitist (Visual arts)
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Igor Mitoraj, sculptor (Visual arts)
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Dorota Nieznalska, sculptor (Visual arts)
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Nikifor, naive artist of Lemko origin (Visual arts)
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Jan Piotr Norblin, painting, drawing, caricature (Visual arts)
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Jerzy Nowosielski, painter (Visual arts)
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Seweryn Obst, painter, illustrator, ethnographer (Visual arts)
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Rafał Olbiński, illustrator, painter (Visual arts)
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Roman Opałka, painter (Visual arts)
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Aleksander Orłowski, painter (Visual arts)
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Stanisław Julian Ostroróg, early portrait photographer, known as "Walery" (Visual arts)
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Stanisław Julian Ignacy Ostroróg, celebrated photographer son of the other Ostroróg (Visual arts)
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Józef Pankiewicz, painter, graphic artist (Visual arts)
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Aniela Pawlikowska, portrait painter (Visual arts)
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Władysław Podkowiński, painter and illustrator (Visual arts)
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Stanislaw Przespolewski, painter, sculptor (Visual arts)
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Anna Rajecka, 18th-c. portrait painter (Visual arts)
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Joanna Rajkowska, contemporary artist; designer of Warsaw's artificial palm tree (Visual arts)
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Zofia Romer, painter (Visual arts)
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Ferdynand Ruszczyc, painter, graphic artist, cartoonist, stage designer (Visual arts)
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Henryk Rodakowski, painter (Visual arts)
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Wilhelm Sasnal, painter (Visual arts)
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Jan Sawka, painter, print-maker, architect, graphic designer, multi-media artist (Visual arts)
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Johann Christian Schuch, garden designer, architect (Visual arts)
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Kazimierz Sichulski, painter (Visual arts)
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Jan Stanisławski, painter (Visual arts)
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Henryk Stażewski, painter (Visual arts)
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Zofia Stryjeńska, illustrator, painter (Visual arts)
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Władysław Strzemiński, painter (Visual arts)
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January Suchodolski, painter (Visual arts)
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Józef Szajna, sculptor, stage designer, theatre director (Visual arts)
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Stanisław Szukalski, sculptor, painter (Visual arts)
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Arthur Szyk, illuminator, war cartoonist, book illustrator (Visual arts)
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Wacław Szymanowski, sculptor, designer of Chopin monument in Warsaw (Visual arts)
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Włodzimierz Tetmajer, painter (Visual arts)
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Stanisław Tondos, painter (Visual arts)
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Feliks Topolski, expressionist painter and draughtsman (Visual arts)
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Roland Topor, illustrator, painter, writer and filmmaker (Visual arts)
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Zygmunt Vogel, watercolor and drawing (Visual arts)
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Marian Walentynowicz, illustrator and comic strip pioneer (Visual arts)
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Walenty Wańkowicz, painter (Visual arts)
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Max Weber, painter (Visual arts)
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Michał Weinzieher, art critic (Visual arts)
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Wojciech Weiss, painter and draughtsman (Visual arts)
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Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański, sculptor (Visual arts)
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Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski, painter (Visual arts)
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Stanisław Witkiewicz, painter, architect (Visual arts)
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Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy), painter, photographer, playwright, novelist, philosopher (Visual arts)
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Kazimierz Wojniakowski, painter (Visual arts)
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Leon Wyczółkowski, painter (Visual arts)
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Stanisław Wyspiański, painter (Visual arts)
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August Zamoyski, sculptor (Visual arts)
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Jerzy Zaruba, graphic artist, caricaturist, stage designer (Visual arts)
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Jan Sas Zubrzycki, architect (Visual arts)
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Marek Zulawski, painter and art theorist (Visual arts)
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Piotr Adamczyk, actor (Entertainment)
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Piotr Andrejew, film director (Entertainment)
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Józef Arkusz, film director (Entertainment)
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Aniela Aszpergerowa, actress, great-grandmother of John Gielgud (Entertainment)
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Tomasz Bagiński, BAFTA Award-winning short-animated-movie maker, nominated for an Academy Award (Entertainment)
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Andrzej Bartkowiak, cinematographer, director, actor, (Entertainment)
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Eugeniusz Bodo, singer and actor (Entertainment)
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Wojciech Bogusławski, actor, theater director, playwright; "father of the Polish Theater" (Entertainment)
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Walerian Borowczyk, film director (Entertainment)
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Ewa Braun, Academy Award-winning set decorator, costume designer, production designer (Entertainment)
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Zbigniew Cybulski, actor (Entertainment)
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Elżbieta Czyżewska, actress (Entertainment)
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Mieczysława Ćwiklińska, actress (Entertainment)
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Ewa Demarczyk, actress, poetry singer (Entertainment)
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Dagmara Domińczyk, actress (Entertainment)
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Doda (Dorota Rabczewska), actress, singer (Entertainment)
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Paweł Edelman, cinematographer, European Film Award winner (Entertainment)
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Katarzyna Figura, actress (Entertainment)
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Aleksander Ford, director (Entertainment)
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Małgorzata Foremniak, actress, starred in Avalon (Entertainment)
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Piotr Fronczewski, actor and singer (Entertainment)
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Janusz Gajos, actor (Entertainment)
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Jerzy Grotowski, theatre reformer (Entertainment)
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Loda Halama, dancer, actor (Entertainment)
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Leontyna Halpertowa, actress (Entertainment)
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Adam Hanuszkiewicz, actor, theater director (Entertainment)
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Wojciech Has, film director (Entertainment)
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Marian Hemar, songwriter, cabaret artist (Entertainment)
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Antonina Hoffmann, actress (Entertainment)
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Jerzy Hoffman, film director (Entertainment)
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Agnieszka Holland, film director, nominated for Academy Awards and BAFTA Award (Entertainment)
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Gustaw Holoubek, actor (Entertainment)
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Miłosz Horodyski, film and television director (Entertainment)
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Sławomir Idziak, cinematagrapher, nominated for Oscar (Entertainment)
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Stanisław Idzikowski, ballerino and ballet master (Entertainment)
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Stefan Jaracz, actor (Entertainment)
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Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, Academy Award-winning composer, nominated to BAFTA Award (Entertainment)
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Jacek Kaczmarski, protest songwriter, poetry singer, guitarist (Entertainment)
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Janusz Kamiński, two-time-Oscars- and BAFTA Award-winning cinematographer and film director (Entertainment)
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Bronislau Kaper, Academy Award-winning composer (Entertainment)
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Krzysztof Kieślowski, film director, nominated for Academy Awards (Entertainment)
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Janina Klimkiewicz, actress (Entertainment)
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Anna Kochanowska, radio journalist and politician (Entertainment)
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Max Kolonko, TV personality, producer, writer (Entertainment)
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Jacek Koman, actor (Entertainment)
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Joanna Krupa, actress and super-model (Entertainment)
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Joanna Kulig, actress (Entertainment)
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Kazimierz Kutz, film director (Entertainment)
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Irena Kwiatkowska, actress (Entertainment)
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Bogusław Linda, actor (Entertainment)
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Tadeusz Łomnicki, actor (Entertainment)
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Helena Modjeska (Modrzejewska), actress (Entertainment)
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Pola Negri, actress (Entertainment)
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Vaslav Nijinsky (Wacław Niżyński), Ballet dancer considered the greatest male lead of the early 20th century (Entertainment)
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Daniel Olbrychski, actor (Entertainment)
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Jerzy Owsiak, broadcaster (Entertainment)
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Joanna Pacuła, actress (Entertainment)
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Ludwika Paleta, Polish-Mexican actress (Entertainment)
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Dominika Paleta, Polish-Mexican actress (Entertainment)
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Paweł Pawlikowski, film director (Entertainment)
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Cezary Pazura, actor (Entertainment)
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Marianna Franciszka Pierożyńska (1763–1816), actress, opera singer (Entertainment)
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Jan Pietrzak (born 1937), satirist, cabaret performer (Entertainment)
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Roman Polanski, award-winning film director raised and educated in Poland (Entertainment)
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Beata Pozniak, actress, director, activist, writer, producer (Entertainment)
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Jeremi Przybora, writer, actor and singer (Entertainment)
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Anna Przybylska, actress (Entertainment)
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Wojciech Pszoniak, actor of Comédie-Française (Entertainment)
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Krzysztof Ptak, cinematographer (Entertainment)
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Marie Rambert, hugely influential ballet pedagogue and director (Entertainment)
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Zbigniew Rybczyński, Oscar- and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker (Entertainment)
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Lew Rywin, film producer (Entertainment)
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Andrzej Saramonowicz, screenwriter, film director (Entertainment)
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Leon Schiller, theatre director (Entertainment)
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Izabella Scorupco, Polish-born Hollywood-actress and singer (Entertainment)
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Andrzej Seweryn, actor of Comédie Française (Entertainment)
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Jerzy Skolimowski, film director (Entertainment)
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Przemysław Skwirczyński, cinematographer (Entertainment)
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Piotr Sobocinski, cinematographer (Entertainment)
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Allan Starski, Oscar-winning production designer, art director, set designer (Entertainment)
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Yvonne Strahovski (Strzechowski), Polish-Australian television, film, and voice actress (Entertainment)
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Jerzy Stuhr, actor, film director (Entertainment)
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Henryk Tomaszewski, mime (Entertainment)
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Basia Trzetrzelewska, singer (Entertainment)
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Andrzej Wajda, Academy Award, Golden Palm, BAFTA Award, Silver Berlin Bear, César Award and Golden Lion winning film director (Entertainment)
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Harry Warner, Warner Bros. co-founder (Entertainment)
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Albert Warner, Warner Bros. co-founder (Entertainment)
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Samuel Warner, Warner Bros. co-founder (Entertainment)
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Mia Wasikowska, Australian actress of Polish descent (Entertainment)
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Jerzy Wasowski, radio announcer, composer, pianist, actor and director (Entertainment)
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Michał Waszyński, film director (Entertainment)
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Roman Wilhelmi, actor (Entertainment)
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Dariusz Wolski, cinematographer (Entertainment)
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Lidia Wysocka, actress (Entertainment)
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Zbigniew Zamachowski, actor (Entertainment)
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Krzysztof Zanussi, film director (Entertainment)
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Michał Żebrowski, actor (Entertainment)
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Artur Żmijewski, actor (Entertainment)
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Andrzej Żuławski, film director (Entertainment)
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Jan Gotlib Bloch, railway financier who in 1898 predicted the railroad-moblized industrial warfare of World War I (Business)
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Count Xavier Branicki, financier, philanthropist, co-founder of Credit Foncier de France (Business)
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Hipolit Cegielski (Business)
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Andrzej Ciechanowiecki, Antiquarian, Gallery owner, collector and philanthropist (Business)
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André Citroën, automotive industrialist (Business)
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Jack Cohen, co-founder of the Tesco retail chain (Business)
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Franciszek Czapek, co-partner in Patek, Czapek & Co. (Business)
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Henryk Orfinger, cosmetics entrepreneur (Business)
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Max Factor, Sr., cosmetics entrepreneur (Business)
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Françoise Frenkel, bookshop entrepreneur (Business)
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Henryk Grohman, textile manufacturer and patron of the arts (Business)
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Nathan Handwerker (Business)
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Anna Jabłonowska, early social and industrial entrepreneur, magnate (Business)
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Barbara Piasecka Johnson, humanitarian, philanthropist, widow of J. Seward Johnson, Sr. (Business)
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Leopold Stanisław Kronenberg, banker (Business)
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Stanisław Kronenberg, financier (Business)
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Jerzy Franciszek Kulczycki, merchant, spy, opened first Coffeehouse in Vienna (1683) (Business)
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Jan Kulczyk, CEO of Kulczyk Investments and richest 21st century Pole (Business)
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Henry Lowenfeld, theatrical impresario and brewing entrepreneur (Business)
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Tomasz Lubienski, early industrialist co-founder, with his brothers, of Zyrardow textile industry (Business)
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Henryk Łubieński, banker, lawyer, industrial pioneer and Russian exile (1848) (Business)
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Zofia Lubomirska, textile entrepreneur in Przeworsk (Business)
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Michael Marks, co-founder of Marks and Spencer retail chain (Business)
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Samuel Orgelbrand, editor (Business)
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Antoni Patek, co-founder of watchmakers Patek Philippe & Co. (Business)
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Antoni Protazy Potocki, banker and industrialist who developed Odessa into an international port (1780s) (Business)
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Izrael Poznański, textile magnate, philanthropist (Business)
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Helena Rubinstein, cosmetics entrepreneur, one of the richest women that have ever lived (Business)
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Karol Scheibler, textile magnate (Business)
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Feliks Sobański, landowner and philanthropist (Business)
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Piotr Steinkeller, industrial pioneer, King of Zinc (Business)
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Henri Strzelecki, founder of Henri Lloyd, Ltd., sportswear manufacturer (Business)
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Stefan Tyszkiewicz, founder of Stetysz early Polish car manufacturer (Business)
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Hyppolite Wawelberg, Polish-Jewish banker and philanthropist (Business)
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Karol Wedel, Chocolatier, confectioner (Business)
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Louis Wolowski, financier co-founder of Credit Foncier de France (Business)
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Andrzej Artur Zamoyski, initiated river transportation (Business)
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Tomasz Arciszewski, first Prime Minister of Poland in exile (1944–1947) (Politics)
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Kazimierz Feliks Badeni, count, Minister-President of Austria (1895–1897) (Politics)
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Menachem Begin, (Mieczysław Biegun), militant Zionist, prime minister of Israel (Politics)
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David Ben-Gurion, Zionist leader and first Prime Minister of Israel (1886–1973) (Politics)
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Marek Belka, former director of economic policy in the interim coalition administration of Iraq, Prime Minister of Poland (2004–2005) (Politics)
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Bolesław Bierut, leader of communist Poland (1948–1956) (Politics)
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Michał Bobrzyński, Governor of Galicia (1908–1913) (Politics)
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Anna Borucka-Cieślewicz (1941–), elected to the Sejm in 2005 (Politics)
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Zbigniew Brzeziński (1928–2017), political scientist, advisor to US President Jimmy Carter (Politics)
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Matheus Butrymowicz, liberal member of the Great Sejm assembled in Warsaw (1788–1792) (Politics)
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Jerzy Buzek, Prime Minister of Poland (1997–2001), President of the European Parliament (2009–2012) (Politics)
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Józef Cyrankiewicz, Prime Minister of communistic Poland (1947–1952 and 1954–1970) (Politics)
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Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, prince, statesman, Prime Minister (1830–1831) (Politics)
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Ignacy Daszyński, Prime Minister of the Temporary People's Government of the Republic of Poland (1918) (Politics)
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Jan Dekert, merchant, Mayor of Warsaw (1789–1791) (Politics)
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Isaac Deutscher (1907–67), writer, journalist, political activist (Politics)
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Roman Dmowski (1864–1939), nationalist politician, statesman (Politics)
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Andrzej Duda, sixth President of the Third Polish Republic (since 2015) (Politics)
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Feliks Dzierżyński, founder of Soviet State Security under the original name Cheka (Politics)
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Edward Gierek, leader of communist Poland (1970–1980) (Politics)
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Władysław Gomułka, leader of communist Poland (1956–1970) (Politics)
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Ludwik Gorzkowski (1811–1857), politician and revolutionary activist (Politics)
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Julian Gutowski, Mayor of Nowy Sącz (1867–1870) (Politics)
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Piotr Jaroszewicz, Prime Minister of communistic Poland (1970–1980) (Politics)
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Wojciech Jaruzelski, last leader of communist Poland (1981–1989), first President of the Third Polish Republic (1989–1990) (Politics)
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Ryszard Kaczorowski, sixth and last President of Poland in exile (1989–1990) (Politics)
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Jarosław Kaczyński, identical twin brother of Lech, leader of the Law and Justice party, Prime Minister of Poland (2006–2007) (Politics)
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Lech Kaczyński, fourth President (2005–2010) of Third Polish Republic, died in Smolensk air crash (Politics)
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Hugo Kołłątaj, co-author of Constitution of 3 May 1791 (Politics)
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Bronisław Komorowski, fifth President of the Third Polish Republic (2010–2015) (Politics)
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Wojciech Korfanty, leader of Silesians during the Third Silesian uprising (Politics)
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Janusz Korwin-Mikke, free-market activist (Politics)
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Stanisław Kot, historian, politician, diplomat (Politics)
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Jan Kucharzewski, first Prime Minister of Kingdom of Poland (1917–1918) (Politics)
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Jacek Kuroń, politician, social activist (Politics)
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Anna Kurska, judge, lawyer, and member of the Polish Senate (Politics)
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Aleksander Kwaśniewski, third President of the Third Polish Republic (1995–2005) (Politics)
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Andrzej Lepper, leader of Samoobrona and former Vice-PM (Politics)
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Herman Lieberman, lawyer and prominent Socialist politician (Politics)
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Feliks Lubienski, Minister of Justice who introduced the Code Napoleon, state archives and public libraries (Politics)
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Katarzyna Lubnauer, leader of Modern political party (Politics)
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Rosa Luxemburg, leading Marxist theoretician (Politics)
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Julian Marchlewski, Soviet politician (Politics)
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Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, Prime Minister of Poland (2005–2006) (Politics)
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Tadeusz Mazowiecki, politician, first Prime Minister of the Third Polish Republic (Poland) (Politics)
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Adam Michnik, influential journalist (Politics)
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Ludwik Mierosławski, insurgent, general, Paris communard (Politics)
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Stanisław Mieroszewski, member of the Imperial Council of Austria (Politics)
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Stanisław Mikołajczyk, Prime Minister of Poland (1943–1944), Agrarian Party politician (Politics)
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Karol Modzelewski, activist, politician and academic (Politics)
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Jędrzej Moraczewski, first Prime Minister of II RP (1918–1919) (Politics)
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Ignacy Mościcki, third President (1926–39) of the Second Polish Republic (Politics)
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Walery Mroczkowski, the only Polish anarchist, friend of Mikhail Bakunin (Politics)
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Lewis Bernstein Namier, British politician and historian (Politics)
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Gabriel Narutowicz, first President of the Second Polish Republic (1922) (Politics)
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Józef Oleksy, Prime Minister of III RP (1995–1996), Speaker of the Sejm (1993–1995; 2004–2005) (Politics)
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Janusz Onyszkiewicz, Solidarność spokesman, mathematician, alpinist, Minister of Defence (Politics)
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Marian P. Opala, Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court (Politics)
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Stanisław Osiecki, Minister of Agriculture 1923, Minister of Trade & Industry (1925-6) (Politics)
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Jozef Maksymilian Ossolinski, Founder of Ossolineum, Poland's signal cultural patron (Politics)
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Stanisław Ostrowski, third President of Poland in exile (1972–1979) (Politics)
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Ignacy Paderewski, second Prime Minister of the Second Polish Republic (1919) (Politics)
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Longin Pastusiak, Marshal of the Senate (2001–2005) (Politics)
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Waldemar Pawlak, Prime Minister of Poland (1992 and 1993–95) (Politics)
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Shimon Peres, President of Israel 2007–2014, Prime Minister of Israel (1984–1986; 1995–1996) (Politics)
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Teodoro Picado Michalski, Costa Rican president, of Polish mother (Politics)
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Józef Piłsudski, statesman, politician and Marshal of Poland (Politics)
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Emilia Plater, revolutionary, independence leader (Politics)
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Władysław Broel-Plater, independence activist, founder of Polish Museum, Rapperswil (Politics)
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Alfred Józef Potocki, count, Minister-President of Austria (1870–1871) (Politics)
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Ignacy Potocki, co-author of Constitution of 3 May 1791 (Politics)
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Adam Pragier, leading socialist deputy, exiled minister and writer (Politics)
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Władysław Raczkiewicz, first President of Poland in exile (1939–1947) (Politics)
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Edward Raczyński, fourth President of Poland in exile (1979–1986) (Politics)
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Antoni Radziwiłł, prince, the Duke-Governor of Grand Duchy of Posen (Poznań) (1815–1831) (Politics)
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Jozef Retinger, writer, adviser, grey eminence, founder of the Bilderberg conferences (Politics)
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Adam Ronikier, count, president of the Central Welfare Council (1916–1918; 1940–1943) (Politics)
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Kazimierz Sabbat, fifth President of Poland in exile (1986–1989) (Politics)
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Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, vice-president of European Parliament (2004–2007) (Politics)
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Władysław Sikorski, general, Prime Minister of Poland (1939–1943) (Politics)
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Radosław Sikorski, politician and former foreign minister (2007–2014) (Politics)
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Stefan Starzyński, President of Warsaw (1934–1939) (Politics)
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Władysław Studnicki, politician and publicist (Politics)
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Beata Szydło, Prime Minister of Poland, 2015–2017 (Politics)
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Theodore de Korwin Szymanowski, conceptualised an economic union for Europe in 1885 (Politics)
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Róża Thun, anticommunist activist, activist for European Union (Politics)
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Donald Tusk, chairman of Civic Platform; Prime Minister of Poland, 2007–14 (Politics)
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Kazimierz Tyszka, Minister of Railways, 1923-25, in Władysław Grabski's government (Politics)
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Lech Wałęsa, trade unionist who started dismantling of the Soviet bloc, the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, second President of the Third Polish Republic (1990–1995) (Politics)
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Ludwik Waryński, socialist activist in the 19th century (Politics)
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Wanda Wasilewska, communist activist during World War II (Politics)
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Edward Werner, born in Poland to parents of German origin; vice-Minister of Finance, and Polish diplomat during World War II (Politics)
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Alexander Wielopolski, count, Marquis of Gonzaga, statesman (Politics)
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Wincenty Witos, politician of the agrarian party (Politics)
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Stanisław Wojciechowski, second President of the Second Polish Republic (1922–1926) (Politics)
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Walery Antoni Wróblewski, politician, insurgency commander (1836–1908) (Politics)
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August Zaleski, second President of Poland in exile (1947–1972) (Politics)
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Jan Zamoyski, chancellor and grand hetman of the crown (1542–1605) (Politics)
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Władysław Bartoszewski, foreign affairs minister of III RP (1995; 2000–2001) (Diplomacy)
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Józef Beck, foreign affairs minister of II RP (1932–1939) (Diplomacy)
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Alois Friedrich von Brühl, Polish-Saxon diplomat, starost of Warsaw (Diplomacy)
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Matthew Bryza, American diplomat (Diplomacy)
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Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz, foreign affairs minister of III RP (2001–2005) (Diplomacy)
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Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, Polish and Russian diplomat; Russian Imperial foreign minister (1804–1806) (Diplomacy)
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Władysław Czartoryski, prince, the main diplomatic agent of the National Government (1863–1864) (Diplomacy)
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Roman Dmowski, foreign affairs minister of II RP (1923) (Diplomacy)
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Bronisław Geremek, foreign affairs minister of III RP (1997–2000) (Diplomacy)
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Agenor Maria Gołuchowski, count, foreign affairs minister of Austria-Hungary (1895–1906) (Diplomacy)
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Krzysztof Grzymułtowski, diplomat and voivod of Poznań, author of the Eternal Peace Treaty with Russia (1686) (Diplomacy)
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Stanisław Janikowski, diplomat in Rome, to Holy See (1927–1954) (Diplomacy)
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Wacław Jędrzejewicz (Diplomacy)
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Julian Klaczko, Polish-Austrian diplomat (Diplomacy)
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Stanisław Kot, historian, politician, diplomat. Polish ambassador to the Soviet Union (1941–1942), Italy (1945–1947). (Diplomacy)
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Józef Lipski, Polish ambassador to Germany (1933–1939) (Diplomacy)
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Juliusz Łukasiewicz, Polish ambassador to the Soviet Union (1934–1936) and France (1936–1939) (Diplomacy)
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Ivan Maysky, Soviet diplomat (Diplomacy)
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Stefan Meller, foreign affairs minister of III RP (2005–2006) (Diplomacy)
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Lewis Bernstein Namier, British diplomat and historian (Diplomacy)
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Andrzej Olechowski, foreign affairs minister of III RP (1993–1995) (Diplomacy)
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Ignacy Paderewski, foreign affairs minister of II RP (1919) and third prime minister of Poland (Diplomacy)
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Stanisław Patek, foreign affairs minister of II RP (1919–1920) (Diplomacy)
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Edward Bernard Raczyński, count, Polish ambassador to the United Kingdom (1934–1945) and foreign affairs minister (1941–1943) (Diplomacy)
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Adam Rapacki, foreign affairs minister of communist Poland (1956–1968) (Diplomacy)
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Józef Retinger, advocate for a European Union (Diplomacy)
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Tadeusz Romer, foreign affairs minister of the Polish Government in Exile (1943–1944) (Diplomacy)
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Dariusz Rosati, foreign affairs minister of III RP (1995–1997) (Diplomacy)
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Adam Daniel Rotfeld, foreign affairs minister of III RP (2005) (Diplomacy)
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Radosław Sikorski, foreign affairs minister of III RP (2007–2014) (Diplomacy)
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Konstanty Skirmunt, foreign affairs minister of II RP (1921–1922) (Diplomacy)
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Aleksander Skrzyński, foreign affairs minister of II RP (1922–1923; 1924–1926) (Diplomacy)
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Krzysztof Skubiszewski, first foreign affairs minister of III RP (1989–1993) (Diplomacy)
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Romuald Spasowski, Polish ambassador to the United States (1955–1961; 1978–1981) (Diplomacy)
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Jan Szembek, count, foreign affairs deputy secretary (1932–1939) (Diplomacy)
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Yosef Tekoah (1925–1991), Israeli diplomat and President of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Diplomacy)
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Andrey Vyshinsky, Soviet jurist and diplomat (Diplomacy)
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Alexandre Joseph Count Colonna-Walewski, French foreign affairs minister (Diplomacy)
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Leon Wasilewski, foreign affairs minister of II RP (1918–1919) (Diplomacy)
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Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski, general, Polish ambassador to Italy (1938–1940) (Diplomacy)
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Sergey Yastrzhembsky, Russian diplomat (Diplomacy)
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August Zaleski, foreign affairs minister of II RP (1926–1932) (Diplomacy)
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Maurycy Klemens Zamoyski, foreign affairs minister of II RP (1924) (Diplomacy)
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Josef Zieleniec, Czech foreign affairs minister (Diplomacy)
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Władysław Anders, general, military commander during the Battle of Monte Cassino (1944) (Military)
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Krzysztof Arciszewski, general of artillery of Holland (1639), and Poland (1646) (Military)
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Józef Bem, military commander, commander-in-chief of Hungarian army (1849) (Military)
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Janusz Bokszczanin, colonel, last chief of staff of the Home Army (1944–45) (Military)
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Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, military commander, victor of Kircholm (1605) (Military)
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Józef Chyliński, resistance fighter (Military)
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Michał Czajkowski (Sadok Pasha) (1804–86), Polish-Ukrainian commander-in-chief of an Ottoman Cossack brigade during the Crimean War (1853–56) (Military)
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Stefan Czarniecki, Field Crown Hetman of Poland (1665) (Military)
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Jan Henryk Dąbrowski, general, military commander during the Napoleonic Wars (Military)
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Jarosław Dąbrowski, military commander during the January 1863 Uprising and the Paris Commune (1871) (Military)
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Henryk Dembiński, military commander in the November uprising and the Hungarian uprising of 1849 (Military)
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Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski, general, ambassador, nominated President of Poland (1939) (Military)
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Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki, general, military commander in the Greater Poland Uprising (1919) (Military)
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Bolesław Bronisław Duch, World War II general (Military)
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Jerzy Pajaczkowski-Dydynski (1894–2005), soldier in World War I and in the 1920–21 Polish-Soviet War; at his death, he was the oldest man in the United Kingdom (111 years old) (Military)
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Emil August Fieldorf, general, last deputy commander-in-chief of the Home Army (1944–45) (Military)
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Wanda Gertz, major, soldier during World War I, Home Army commandant in World War II and in German POW camps (Military)
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Józef Haller, politician, commander of the Polish Army in France during World War I (Military)
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Stanisław Haller, general, murdered by the NKVD in the 1940 Katyn massacres (Military)
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Stanisław Jan Jabłonowski, Grand Crown Hetman (1682/3-1702) (Military)
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Jan Nowak-Jezioranski (1913–2005), journalist and World War II hero (Military)
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Berek Joselewicz, Polish-Jewish colonel in the Kościuszko Uprising and in Napoleon's Polish Legions; commanded the first Jewish military formation in modern history (Military)
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Mikołaj Kamieniecki, first Grand Crown Hetman of Poland (1503–15) (Military)
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Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski, general, founder of the resistance movement "Polish Victory Service" (27 September 1939) (Military)
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Kazimierz J. Kasperek, most decorated Polish Navy officer of World War II (Military)
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Tadeusz Klimecki, general, the Chief of the General staff of the Polish Army (1941–43) (Military)
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Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, general, commander-in-chief of the Home Army (1943–1944), during Warsaw Uprising (1944) (Military)
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Stanisław Koniecpolski, Grand Crown Hetman (1632–46) (Military)
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Stanisław Kopański, general, the Chief of the General staff of the Polish Army (1943–46) (Military)
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Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish and American commander, general and revolutionist (Military)
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Jan Kozietulski, colonel, commander during the Napoleonic Wars (Military)
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Włodzimierz Krzyżanowski, Polish Union general in the American Civil War; Chopin's first cousin (Military)
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Marian Kukiel, World War II general, historian (Military)
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Franciszek Latinik, general, military governor of Warsaw during the 1920 Battle of Warsaw (Military)
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Aleksander Lisowski, commander of 17th-century Lisowczycy (Military)
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Jerzy Sebastian Lubomirski, Prince, Field Crown Hetman (1657–64), victor at the Battle of Chudniv (Cudnów) (1660) (Military)
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Walenty Łukawski, captain in the Bar Confederation, abductor of King Stanisław August Poniatowski (Military)
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Stanisław Maczek (1892–1994), commander of the Polish Armored Division; after World War II, commander-in-chief of Polish forces in exile (Military)
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Bernard Mond, Polish–Jewish general (Military)
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Mieczysław Norwid-Neugebauer, general and minister of Polish–Jewish family (Military)
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Leopold Okulicki, general, last commander-in-chief of the Home Army (1944–45) (Military)
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Juliusz Konstanty Ordon, officer in the November uprising (1830–31) (Military)
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Tadeusz Pełczyński, chief of staff of the Home Army (ZWZ / AK) (1941–44) (Military)
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Józef Piłsudski, statesman, interwar Marshal of Poland (Military)
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Emilia Plater, countess, heroine of the November 1830 Uprising (Military)
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Józef Poniatowski, prince, Polish general and marshal of France (Military)
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Kazimierz Pułaski (Casimir Pulaski), Polish and American military commander (Military)
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Konstantin Rokossovsky (born Konstanty Rokossowski) Marshal of the Soviet Union and Polish defense minister, communist (Military)
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Stefan Rowecki, general, military commander, commander-in-chief of the Armed Resistance (ZWZ) (1940–42) and Home Army (1942–43) (Military)
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Tadeusz Jordan-Rozwadowski, general, Chief of Staff during the Battle of Warsaw (Military)
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Edward Rydz-Śmigły, marshal, military commander, successful in the Polish-Soviet War, C-in-C of the Polish Army in the September 1939 Campaign (Military)
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Yitzhak Sadeh (born Isaac Landsberg; 1890–1952), a founder of the Israel Defense Forces (Military)
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Danuta Siedzikówna (1928–46), medical orderly in Polish Army (Military)
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Władysław Sikorski, general, commander-in-chief of the Polish Armed Forces and Prime Minister of Poland (1939–43) (Military)
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Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski (1885-1962), general, physician and 28th Prime Minister of Poland (1936-39) (Military)
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Piotr Skuratowicz, general of the Polish Army, was murdered by the NKVD in the Katyn massacre (Military)
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Stanisław Sosabowski, commander of the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade, which saw action at the Battle of Arnhem during Operation Market Garden (1944) (Military)
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Kazimierz Sosnkowski, general, Commander-in-Chief of Polish Armed Forces (1943–44) (Military)
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Józef Sowiński, general, hero of the November uprising (1830–31) (Military)
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Zygmunt Szendzielarz ("Łupaszko") (Military)
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Ignacy Szymanski, veteran of November 1830 Uprising and American Civil War (on the Confederate side) (Military)
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Jerzy Świrski (1882–1959), vice admiral in the Polish navy under British command during World War II (Military)
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Jan Tarnowski, Grand Crown Hetman (1527–61), victor of Obertyn (1531) (Military)
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Jozef Unrug (1884–1973), German-born vice-admiral in Polish navy, imprisoned in Colditz Castle during WWII (Military)
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Maria Wittek (1899–1997), brigadier general, head of Women's Auxiliary Military Service (1928-1949) (Military)
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Wojtek Perski (1942–63), a Persian bear, World War II Polish II Corps enlisted soldier (Military)
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Piotr Wysocki, led the November Uprising (1830) (Military)
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Aleksandra Zagórska, lieutenant colonel, independence activist and organiser of women's military squads (1917-1921) (Military)
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Kordian Józef Zamorski, general; chief of the Polish state police (1935–39) (Military)
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Jan Zamoyski, Great Chancellor of Poland (1578–1605) and Grand Crown Hetman (1581–1605) (Military)
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Władysław Stanisław Zamoyski, general in the Crimean War, diplomat (1803–1868) (Military)
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Elżbieta Zawacka, general, the only woman among the Silent Unseen (Military)
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Stanisław Żółkiewski, chancellor of Poland, military commander, conqueror of Moscow (1610), Grand Crown Hetman (1613–20) (Military)
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Janusz Żurakowski, World War II fighter pilot and Avro Arrow test pilot (Military)
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Feliks Ankerstein, interwar covert-operations officer and deputy to Edmund Charaszkiewicz in Office 2 of the General Staff's Section II (Intelligence) (Intelligence)
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Edmund Charaszkiewicz, interwar covert-operations officer and coordinator of Józef Piłsudski's Promethean project to dismember the Soviet Union (Intelligence)
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Maksymilian Ciężki, chief of the Polish Cipher Bureau's German section (BS–4), which from 1932 decrypted German Enigma ciphers, paving the way for Britain's World War II Ultra secret (Intelligence)
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Roman Czerniawski, Polish Air Force captain and British Double Cross System agent (Intelligence)
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Marian Drobik, Home Army (AK) colonel, chief of the General Staff's Section II (intelligence) (1942–43) (Intelligence)
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Wiktor Tomir Drymmer, close collaborator of Foreign Minister Józef Beck, and chief of the secret prewar K-7 organization that supervised certain Polish covert operations (Intelligence)
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Józef Englicht, prewar deputy chief of the Polish General Staff's Section II (Intelligence)
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Michael Goleniewski, Cold War Polish, Soviet and American CIA agent (Intelligence)
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Jan Karski, emissary who confirmed the reality of the Holocaust to Western Allies (Intelligence)
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Bolesław Kontrym, Polish agent, Red Army combrig, Polish Army major (Intelligence)
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Jan Kowalewski, engineer, intelligence officer and cryptologist, one of many who broke Soviet ciphers during the Polish-Soviet War of 1919–21 (Intelligence)
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Andrzej Kowerski, Polish Army officer and World War II British SOE agent; colleague of Krystyna Skarbek (Intelligence)
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Ryszard Kukliński, Polish Army colonel, Cold War CIA master spy (Intelligence)
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Jerzy Franciszek Kulczycki, Polish spy at the Battle of Vienna (1683); founder of Vienna's first coffee house, which offered coffee produced from coffee beans captured from the Turks (Intelligence)
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Gwido Langer, head of Poland's Cipher Bureau, which from 1932 broke Germany's military Enigma ciphers (Intelligence)
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Kazimierz Leski, engineer, fighter pilot, World War II "Musketeers" and Home Army intelligence officer (Intelligence)
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Stefan Mayer, prewar Section II intelligence officer who supervised the General Staff's Cipher Bureau (Intelligence)
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Jerzy Pawłowski, Olympic gold-medalist fencer and Cold-War double agent (Intelligence)
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Tadeusz Pełczyński, general, chief of the General Staff's Section II (1929–32; 1935–January 1938) (Intelligence)
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Sergiusz Piasecki, Polish agent, covering the area of Soviet Belarus (1922–26) (Intelligence)
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Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Polish consul-general and intelligence agent in London (1948–49); the most influential contemporary critic of German literature (Intelligence)
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Tadeusz Schaetzel, intelligence officer, chief of the General Staff's Section II (1926–29) (Intelligence)
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Krystyna Skarbek, aka Christine Granville, World War II British SOE agent (Intelligence)
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Mieczysław Zygfryd Słowikowski (Rygor-Słowikowski), Polish Army intelligence officer whose work in North Africa facilitated Allied preparations for the 1942 Operation Torch landings (Intelligence)
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Jerzy Sosnowski, major, a Polish spy in Germany (1926–1934) as Georg von Sosnowski, Ritter von Nalecz (Intelligence)
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Antoni Szymański, Polish military attaché in Berlin (1932–39) (Intelligence)
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Halina Szymańska, World War II British intelligence agent; wife of Antoni Szymański (Intelligence)
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Jan Włodarkiewicz, lieutenant colonel, the first commander of Wachlarz (Intelligence)
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Marian Zacharski, Cold-War Polish intelligence agent convicted of espionage against the United States (Intelligence)
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Irena Adamowicz (Holocaust resistance)
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Mordechaj Anielewicz, Warsaw Ghetto uprising (Holocaust resistance)
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Dawid Apfelbaum, Warsaw Ghetto uprising (Holocaust resistance)
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Władysław Bartoszewski (Holocaust resistance)
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Adolf Berman (Holocaust resistance)
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Anna Borkowska (Sister Bertranda) (Holocaust resistance)
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Icchak Cukierman (Holocaust resistance)
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Marek Edelman (Holocaust resistance)
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Leon Feldhendler (1910–1945) (Holocaust resistance)
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Izrael Kanal (Holocaust resistance)
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Yitzhak Gitterman (Holocaust resistance)
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Bernard Goldstein (Holocaust resistance)
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Haika Grossman (Holocaust resistance)
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Irena Gut (Holocaust resistance)
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Kazimierz Iranek-Osmecki, Polish Army officer, Home Army officer, historian of aid given to Jews in World War II by the Polish Underground State and by ordinary Polish civilians (Holocaust resistance)
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Henryk Iwański (Holocaust resistance)
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Jan Karski (Holocaust resistance)
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Juliusz Kühl (Holocaust resistance)
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Michał Klepfisz (Holocaust resistance)
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Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, co-founder of Żegota (Holocaust resistance)
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Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz, co-founder of Żegota (Holocaust resistance)
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Countess Karolina Lanckorońska (Holocaust resistance)
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Zivia Lubetkin (Holocaust resistance)
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Aleksander Ładoś, Polish de facto Ambassador to Switzerland (Holocaust resistance)
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Maurycy Orzech (Holocaust resistance)
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Witold Pilecki (Holocaust resistance)
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Konstanty Rokicki, Polish consul in Bern who forged Paraguayan passports to rescue Jews (Holocaust resistance)
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Tadeusz Romer, Polish ambassador to Japan and in Shanghai Ghetto (Holocaust resistance)
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Stefan Ryniewicz, Polish diplomat (Holocaust resistance)
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Irena Sendler, saved nearly 2,500 Jewish children in World War II (Holocaust resistance)
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Henryk Sławik, "Polish Schindler", diplomat in Hungary (Holocaust resistance)
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Leopold Socha, another "Polish Schindler" (Holocaust resistance)
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Simon Wiesenthal, Nazi hunter (Holocaust resistance)
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Józef and Wiktoria Ulma (Holocaust resistance)
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Henryk Woliński (Holocaust resistance)
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Lidia Zamenhof (Holocaust resistance)
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Szmul Zygielbojm (Holocaust resistance)
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Jan and Antonina Żabiński (Holocaust resistance)
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Andrzej Alojzy Ankwicz, Roman Catholic archbishop of Lwów (1815–33) and archbishop of Prague (1833–38) (Religion)
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Baal Shem Tov (Yisroel ben Eliezer, 1698–1760), rabbi and founder of Hasidic Judaism (Religion)
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Blessed Jan Beyzym (1850–1912), Jesuit missionary among lepers in Madagascar (Religion)
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St. Józef Bilczewski, Roman Catholic archbishop of Lwów, 1900–23 (Religion)
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St. Andrew Bobola, Jesuit (Religion)
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Tadeusz Brzozowski, elected first Jesuit Superior General after the restoration of the Society of Jesus (Religion)
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Szymon Budny, Polish-Belarusian humanist and Arian priest (Religion)
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Juliusz Bursche, Polish Lutheran bishop killed by the Germans at Sachsenhausen concentration camp (Religion)
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St. Casimir Jagiellon, grandson of King Władysław II Jagiełło (Religion)
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St. Adam (Albert) Chmielowski (Albertine) (Religion)
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Bl. August Czartoryski, Prince (Religion)
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Edmund Dalbor, Primate of Poland, Cardinal, 1915–1926 (Religion)
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Albin Dunajewski, Bishop of Kraków, Cardinal, 1879–1894 (Religion)
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Stanisław Dziwisz, Archbishop of Kraków, since 2005, Cardinal (Religion)
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St. Zygmunt Szczesny Felinski, founder of the Franciscan Sisters of the Family of Mary, Archbishop of Warsaw (1862), exiled and Titular Archbishop of Tarsus (1882) (Religion)
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Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Archbishop of Warsaw, 1856–1861 (Religion)
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Jacob Frank, Jewish messianic leader who merged Judaism and Christianity (Religion)
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Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski, vicar, humanist, and theologian (Religion)
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Piotr Gamrat, Primate of Poland, 1541–1545 (Religion)
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Józef Gawlina, military bishop, Divisional general, theologian, archbishop (Religion)
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Józef Glemp, Primate of Poland, 1981–2006 (Religion)
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Adam Stanisław Grabowski, Prince-Bishop of Warmia (Religion)
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Michał Heller, physicist and philosopher, Templeton Prize laureate (Religion)
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August Hlond, Primate of Poland, 1926–1948, Cardinal (Religion)
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Stanislaus Hosius, legate to Poland, Cardinal and Prince-Bishop of Warmia (Religion)
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St. Hyacinth, Dominican (Religion)
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St. Jadwiga, Queen of Poland, 1384–1399 (Religion)
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Henryk Jankowski, Prelate, Chaplain of "Solidarność" (Religion)
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Marian Jaworski, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Lvov, 1991–2008, Cardinal (Religion)
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Aleksander Kakowski, Archbishop of Warsaw, Cardinal (Religion)
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St. Raphael Kalinowski, Carmelite (Religion)
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St. Jan Kanty, professor at Kraków University (Religion)
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Stanisław Karnkowski, Primate of Poland, 1581–1603; Interrex, 1586–1587 (Religion)
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St. Stanisław Kazimierczyk, priest and preacher (Religion)
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St. Maksymilian Maria Kolbe, Franciscan martyr, Auschwitz 1941 (Religion)
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Hugo Kołłątaj, priest, statesman (Religion)
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Bolesław Kominek, Archbishop of Wrocław, 1972–1974, Cardinal (Religion)
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St. Stanisław Kostka, Jesuit (Religion)
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St. Faustina Kowalska, Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy (Religion)
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Maria Michał Kowalski, Archbishop of the Catholic Church of the Mariavites, introduced women clergy in 1929 (Religion)
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Adam Kozłowiecki, Jesuit, Archbishop of Lusaka, Cardinal (Religion)
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Feliksa Kozłowska, inspiration of the Mariavite Church (Religion)
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Ignacy Krasicki, Primate of Poland (Religion)
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Adam Stanisław Krasiński, Bishop of Kamieniec Podolski, 1757–1798 (Religion)
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John Krol, Archbishop of Philadelphia, Cardinal, 1961–1988 (Religion)
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Mieczysław Halka Ledóchowski, Primate of Poland, 1866–1886, Cardinal (Religion)
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Mary Theresa Ledóchowska, missionary, founder of the Missionary Sisters of St. Peter Claver (Religion)
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Saint Ursula Ledóchowska, religious, founder of the Congregation of the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus (Religion)
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Włodzimierz Halka Ledóchowski, Superior General of the Society of Jesus (1915-1942) (Religion)
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Jan Łaski (1456–1531), Primate of Poland, 1510–1531 (Religion)
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Jan Łaski (1499–1560), Protestant reformer; nephew of the Primate (Religion)
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Władysław Aleksander Łubieński, Archbishop of Lwów, Primate of Poland, 1759–1767; Interrex, 1763–1764 (Religion)
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Franciszek Macharski, Archbishop of Kraków, 1978–2005, Cardinal (Religion)
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pl:Makryna Mieczysławska, influential false Uniate nun, regarded as a Tsarist plant (Religion)
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Tomasz Miśkiewicz, mufti of Polish Muslims pl:Muzułmański Związek Religijny and Imam of Białystok (Religion)
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Mieczysław Mokrzycki, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Lvov, since 2008 (Religion)
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Mikołaj Stanisław Oborski (1576–1646), Jesuit (Religion)
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Zbigniew Oleśnicki, Bishop of Kraków, 1423–1455; first Cardinal of Polish origin, from 1449; statesman (Religion)
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Zbigniew Oleśnicki, nephew of Zbigniew Oleśnicki; Cardinal Primate of Poland, 1481–1493 (Religion)
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Edward O'Rourke, bishop of Gdańsk (Religion)
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Piotr of Goniądz, spiritual leader of the Polish Brethren (Religion)
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Jerzy Popiełuszko, catholic priest and dissident assassinated by the Polish security service in 1984, martyr of the Church (Religion)
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Walenty Potocki (died 1749), Count; converted to Judaism as Avrohom ben Avrohom, the Ger Tzedek of Vilna (Religion)
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Jan Puzyna, Bishop of Kraków, 1895–1911, Cardinal (Religion)
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Jerzy Radziwiłł, Bishop of Kraków, Cardinal, 1591–1600 (Religion)
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Sholom Rokeach, the first Belzer Rebbe, 1817–1855 (Religion)
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Tadeusz Rydzyk, Redemptorist, broadcast radio controller (Religion)
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St. Stanisław of Szczepanów, Bishop of Kraków, martyr 1079 (Religion)
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Adam Stefan Sapieha, Bishop/Archbishop of Kraków, Cardinal, 1911–1951 (Religion)
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Franciszka Siedliska, religious, founder of Congregation of the Holy Family of Nazareth, (Religion)
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Piotr Skarga, Jesuit preacher (Religion)
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Kajetan Sołtyk, Bishop of Kiev, 1756–59; Bishop of Kraków, 1759–1788 (Religion)
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Boruch Steinberg, the 1st Rabbi and an officer of the Polish Army before and during World War II (Religion)
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Kazimierz Świątek, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Minsk-Mohilev; Apostolic Administrator of Pinsk, Cardinal (Religion)
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Edmund Szoka, Catholic Archbishop of Detroit, Cardinal 1981–1990 (Religion)
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Jakub Szynkiewicz (1884–1966), Imam of Poland, translated portions of Qur'an into Polish (Religion)
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Jozef Teodorowicz, Last Armenian Catholic Archbishop of Lwow (1864-1938) (Religion)
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Józef Tischner, priest, philosopher and first chaplain of the trade union, Solidarity (Religion)
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Andrzej Towiański, philosopher and 19th century messianist (Religion)
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Mikołaj Trąba, Archbishop of Gniezno, first Primate of Poland, 1418–1422 (Religion)
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Jakub Uchański, Primate of Poland, 1562–1581; Interrex, 1572–73 and 1574–1575 (Religion)
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Vilna Gaon (1720–97), non-Hassidic Jewish leader, the "saintly genius from Vilnius" (Religion)
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Piotr Wawrzyniak, priest, economist and activist (1849-1910) (Religion)
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Chaim Elozor Wax (1822–1887), rabbi (Religion)
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Karol Józef Wojtyla, Auxiliary bishop of Kraków 1958–1963, Archbishop of Kraków, 1963–1978, Pope John Paul II, 1978–2005 (Religion)
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Stefan Wyszyński, Primate of Poland, Cardinal, 1948–1981 (Religion)
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Lawrence Wnuk, Protonotary apostolic, decorated Polish Canadian, (1908-2006) (Religion)
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Schneur Zalman, first Hasidic Rebbe of Chabad (1745-1810) (Religion)
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Mieszko I, first Duke of Poland (Royalty)
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Doubravka of Bohemia, first Duchess of Poland (Royalty)
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Świętosława (Gunhild), daughter of Mieszko I of Poland, mother of Canute the Great, King of England, Denmark and Norway (Royalty)
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Bolesław I the Brave, first King of Poland (Royalty)
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Mieszko II Lambert, second King of Poland (Royalty)
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Richeza of Lotharingia, queen of Poland (Royalty)
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Casimir I the Restorer, duke of Poland (Royalty)
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Bolesław II the Bold, third King of Poland (Royalty)
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Władysław I Herman, duke of Poland (Royalty)
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Bolesław III Wrymouth, duke of Poland (Royalty)
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Mieszko III the Old, duke of Greater Poland, Senior Duke of Poland (Royalty)
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Casimir II the Just, duke of Cracow, Senior Duke of Poland (Royalty)
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Leszek I the White, duke of Cracow, Senior Duke of Poland (Royalty)
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Henry I the Bearded, duke of Silesia, Senior Duke of Poland (Royalty)
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Konrad I of Masovia, duke of Mazovia and Kuyavia (Royalty)
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Henry II the Pious, senior duke of Poland, commander of Polish forces in the Battle of Legnica (1241) (Royalty)
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Przemysł II, King of Poland (Royalty)
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Władysław I the Elbow-high, king of Poland (Royalty)
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Louis I of Hungary, king of Poland (Royalty)
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Elizabeth of Poland, Queen of Hungary, Regent in Poland (Royalty)
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Casimir III the Great, Piast Dynasty last King of Poland (Royalty)
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Jadwiga of Poland, first female monarch of Poland (Royalty)
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Władysław II Jagiełło, Lithuanian, king of Poland, victor at the Battle of Grunwald (1410) (Royalty)
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Władysław III of Varna (Ulászló I), king of Poland and Hungary, killed at the Battle of Varna (1444) (Royalty)
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Casimir IV Jagiellon, king of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, victor in the Thirteen Years' War (1454–1466) (Royalty)
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John I Albert, king of Poland. (Royalty)
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Alexander Jagiellon, grand duke of Lithuania and king of Poland (Royalty)
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Sigismund I the Old, king of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (Royalty)
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Roxelana (Khourrem, wife of Suleiman the Magnificent) (Royalty)
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Barbara Radziwiłłówna, consort of Sigismund II August (Royalty)
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Bona Sforza, Queen consort of Poland (Royalty)
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Sigismund II Augustus, last Jagiellon king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Royalty)
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Anna Jagiellon, reigned together with her husband Stephen Báthory (Royalty)
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Henry III of France, king of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Royalty)
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Stephen Báthory, Hungarian-born king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Royalty)
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Sigismund III Vasa, king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and king of Sweden (Royalty)
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Władysław IV Vasa, elected Tsar of Russia, king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Royalty)
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Marie Louise Gonzaga, Queen of Poland, Grand Duchess of Lithuania (Royalty)
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John II Casimir Vasa, king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, victor at the Battle of Beresteczko (1651) (Royalty)
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John III Sobieski, king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, victor at the Battle of Vienna (1683) (Royalty)
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Maria Clementina Sobieska, queen of France, England, Scotland and Ireland (Royalty)
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Michael I, king of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Royalty)
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Stanisław Leszczyński, king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Duke of Lorraine (Royalty)
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Marie Leszczyńska, Queen consort of France (Royalty)
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Catherine Opalińska, queen of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Duchess of Lorraine (Royalty)
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Maria Leszczyńska, consort of Louis XV, king of France (Royalty)
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Augustus II the Strong, king of Poland, Elector of Saxony (Royalty)
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Augustus III of Poland, king of Poland, Elector of Saxony (Royalty)
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Maria Amalia of Saxony, consort of Charles III, king of Spain (Royalty)
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Stanisław August Poniatowski, last king of the Poland, co-author of the Constitution of 3 May 1791 (Royalty)
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Princess Maria Christina of Saxony (1770–1851), Princess Carignano House of Savoy (Royalty)
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Ignacy Hryniewiecki, assassin of Tsar Alexander II of Russia (Assassins)
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Eligiusz Niewiadomski, modernist painter, art critic, assassin of Polish President Gabriel Narutowicz (Assassins)
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George Adamski, controversial ufologist (Miscellany)
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Florian Ceynowa, Kashubian activist (Miscellany)
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Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz, first woman to sail solo around the world (Miscellany)
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Franciszek Czapek, watchmaker (Miscellany)
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Aleksander Doba, explorer who holds the record for the longest open-water kayak voyage ever made (Miscellany)
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Michał Drzymała, resistance hero (Miscellany)
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Piotr Gawryś, contract bridge champion (Miscellany)
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Wincenty Gostkowski, watchmaker (Miscellany)
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Barbara Hulanicki, fashion designer, founder of Biba (Miscellany)
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Piotr Iwanicki, wheelchair dancing world champion (Miscellany)
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Alicja Iwańska, resistance movement and anti-communist activist (Miscellany)
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Marek Kamiński, adventure traveler (Miscellany)
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Rutka Laskier, diarist, killed during the World War II Holocaust (Miscellany)
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Piotr Naszarkowski, engraver (Miscellany)
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Stefan Ossowiecki, psychic (Miscellany)
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Feliks Rajmund Podkóliński, physician, soldier (Miscellany)
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Anthony Radziwill, U.S. news journalist/producer (nephew of John F. Kennedy) (Miscellany)
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Ludwik Rajchman, bacteriologist, founder of UNICEF (Miscellany)
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Czesław Słania, postage stamp and banknote engraver (Miscellany)
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Renia Spiegel, diarist, killed during the World War II Holocaust, known as "the Polish Anne Frank" (Miscellany)
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Stanisława Tomczyk, spiritualist medium, early 20th century (Miscellany)
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Wilfrid Michael Voynich, bibliophile, eponym of the mysterious Voynich Manuscript (Miscellany)
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Warren Winiarski, California winemaker (Miscellany)
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Kuba Wojewódzki, journalist, television personality, drummer, comedian, and columnist (Miscellany)
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Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska, physician, pioneering female doctor in the United States (Miscellany)
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Maciej Zien, fashion designer (Miscellany)
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Krakus, legendary prince and founder of Kraków (Legendary persons)
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Lech, legendary founder of the Polish nation (Legendary persons)
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Piast the Wheelwright (Piast Kołodziej), semi-legendary figure in prehistoric Poland (9th century); founder of the Piast dynasty (Legendary persons)
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Popiel, semi-legendary 9th-century ruler of the western Polans; last of the Popielids (Legendary persons)
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Lajkonik, a Kraków half-man-half-horse figure representing a Mongol invader, with his own festival after the feast of Corpus Christi (Legendary persons)
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Our Lady of Częstochowa (known also as "the Black Madonna"), foremost of Polish religious icons (Legendary persons)
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Abraham Prochownik, legendary Jewish figure, said to have been named prince of the western Polans after the death of Popiel in 842 (Legendary persons)
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Sarmatians, ancient proto-Persian tribe that fed the idea of Sarmatism during the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Legendary persons)
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John Scolvus, semi-legendary sailor of the late 15th century (Legendary persons)
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Syrenka warszawska, legendary fresh-water mermaid said to have been rescued by Vistula fishermen. Iconic symbol of Warsaw (Legendary persons)
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Pan Twardowski, semi-legendary Faust-like sorcerer; in Polish legend, the first man on the Moon (in the 16th century) (Legendary persons)
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Janek Wiśniewski, freedom fighter; hero of 1970 Gdynia riots (Legendary persons)
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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 (Fictional characters)
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Captain William Joseph B.J. Blazkowicz in Wolfenstein 3D (Fictional characters)
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Ernst Stavro Blofeld, a villain from the James Bond series of novels and films, created by Ian Fleming (Fictional characters)
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Bolek i Lolek, cartoon characters from a Polish children's TV animated comedy series (Fictional characters)
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Baba Jaga, Polish version of the forest-dwelling sorceress (Fictional characters)
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Waldemar Daninsky, wolfman in La Marca del Hombre Lobo (Fictional characters)
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Nicodemus Dyzma, in Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz's novel The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma (Fictional characters)
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Jacob Jankowski, a character played by Robert Pattinson in a 2011 American romantic drama film Water for Elephants (Fictional characters)
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Marcin Jerek, Polish-born British professor and former CIA interrogator, in the TV series NCIS, played by W. Morgan Sheppard (Fictional characters)
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Dr. Judym, in Stefan Żeromski's novel Homeless People (Fictional characters)
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Kajko i Kokosz (Fictional characters)
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Florentyna Kane in The Prodigal Daughter and Shall We Tell the President? (Fictional characters)
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Commander Keen, grandson of B.J. Blazkowicz (Fictional characters)
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Hans Kloss (Captain Kloss), World War II secret agent in the Polish TV serial Stake larger than life (Fictional characters)
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Kordian (Fictional characters)
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Funky Koval, space detective (Fictional characters)
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Stanley Kowalski, in Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire (Fictional characters)
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Stanley Kowalski, Polish-American detective in the 1990s Canadian television series Due South (Fictional characters)
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Walt Kowalski, Polish-American Korean War veteran and retired Ford worker, in Clint Eastwood's 2008 film Gran Torino (Fictional characters)
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Kowalski, a penguin in the children's film Madagascar (Fictional characters)
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Ligia, heroine of Sienkiewicz's novel, Quo Vadis? (Fictional characters)
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Man of Iron, symbol of Solidarity and title of Wajda's film (Fictional characters)
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Koziołek Matołek, like the bear and the horse, the goat is part of Polish folklore, here in Kornel Makuszyński's rendition (Fictional characters)
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Mike Nomad (with Steve Roper), an American adventure comic strip (1936–2004) (Fictional characters)
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Count Olenski, estranged husband of Ellen Olenska in Edith Wharton's novel The Age of Innocence (1920) (Fictional characters)
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Pan Tadeusz, poetic distillation of Lithuanian-Polish patriotism and nostalgia (Fictional characters)
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Roland "Prez" Pryzbylewski, in HBO's The Wire, went from police officer to school teacher (Fictional characters)
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Officer Eddie Pulaski in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Fictional characters)
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Abel Rosnovski in Kane and Abel (Fictional characters)
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Pan Samochodzik, adventurer created by Zbigniew Nienacki (Fictional characters)
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Paweł i Gaweł, humorous morality tale about neighbour relations, a favourite children's poem (Fictional characters)
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Sasquatch (Dr. Walter Langkowski), Marvel superhero (Fictional characters)
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Sierotka Marysia, archetypal abandoned girl, "Little orphan Mary", living with dwarves (Fictional characters)
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Walter Sobchak, the "Polish Catholic" in the film The Big Lebowski (Fictional characters)
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Silk Spectre I & II, superheroines in Watchmen (Fictional characters)
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Stanislau, ace pilot in Blackhawk (Fictional characters)
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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 (Fictional characters)
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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 (Fictional characters)
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Michael Stivic, in All in the Family (Fictional characters)
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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 (Fictional characters)
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Kasia Tomaszewski, played by Zofia Wichłacz, a character in World on Fire, a 2019 war drama miniseries broadcast on BBC One (Fictional characters)
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Maciej Tomczyk ala Lech Wałęsa, in the 1981 film Man of Iron, directed by Andrzej Wajda (Fictional characters)
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Pan Twardowski, a Faust-like figure of Polish legend, literature and film. (Fictional characters)
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Tytus, Romek i A'Tomek, Polish comic book heroes (Fictional characters)
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Miś Uszatek, cartoon character (Fictional characters)
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Walter Koskiusko Waldowski, the "Painless Pole" in the film MASH (Fictional characters)
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Konrad Wallenrod, in the narrative poem by Adam Mickiewicz (Fictional characters)
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John Paul Wiggin (Jan Paweł Wieczorek) in the Ender's Game series (Fictional characters)
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Stanisław Wokulski, protagonist of Bolesław Prus' novel The Doll (Fictional characters)
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Wrocław's dwarfs, brass manikins that first appeared on the city's pavements in 2005 (Fictional characters)
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Piotr Zak, composer in a spoof BBC documentary (Fictional characters)
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Sophie Zawistowski, played by Meryl Streep, in Sophie's Choice based on a novel by William Styron (Fictional characters)
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Anna Anka (Anna Åberg, Anna Yeager), born in Poland (Models)
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Małgosia Bela, born in Kraków (Models)
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Magdalena Frąckowiak, born in Gdańsk (Models)
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Monika Jagaciak, born in Poznań (Models)
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Anna Jagodzińska, born in Sierpc (Models)
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Joanna Krupa, born in Warsaw (Models)
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Anja Rubik, born in Rzeszów (Models)
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Izabella Scorupco, born in Białystok (Models)
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Ewa Sonnet, born in Rybnik, glamour model (Models)
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Sasha Strunin, born in Saint Petersburg (Models)
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Kasia Struss, born in Ciechanów (Models)
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Francys Sudnicka, born in Valencia, Venezuela (Models)
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Karolina Wydra, born in Opole (Models)
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Iga Wyrwał, born in Kalisz (Models)
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Andrzej Badeński, sprinter
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Iga Baumgart-Witan, sprinter
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Konrad Bukowiecki, shot putter
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Lidia Chojecka, athlete
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Jerzy Chromik, athlete
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Teresa Ciepły, sprinter
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Sofia Ennaoui, middle-distance runner
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Paweł Fajdek, hammer thrower
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Marian Foik, sprinter
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Wioletta Frankiewicz, steeplechaser
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Halina Górecka, sprinter
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Piotr Haczek, sprinter
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Michał Haratyk, shot putter
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Zdzisław Hoffmann, triple jumper
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Barbara Janiszewska, sprinter
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Michel Jazy, athlete
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Ilana Karaszyk, Israeli Olympic runner and long jumper
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Ewa Kłobukowska, sprinter
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Władysław Komar, shot putter
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Halina Konopacka, discus thrower
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Robert Korzeniowski, racewalker
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Władysław Kozakiewicz, pole vaulter
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Łukasz Krawczuk, athlete
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Elżbieta Krzesińska, long jumper
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Jakub Krzewina, sprinter
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Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak, athlete
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Wacław Kuchar, athlete
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Janusz Kusociński, athlete
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Maria Kwaśniewska, javelin thrower
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Adam Kszczot, athlete
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Marcin Lewandowski, athlete
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Tomasz Majewski, shot putter
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Piotr Małachowski, discus thrower
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Wiesław Maniak, sprinter
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Bronisław Malinowski, athlete
(Athletics) (Sport) -
Robert Maćkowiak, sprinter
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Tamara Metal, Israeli Olympic high jumper and long jumper, and captain of the Israel women's national basketball team
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Józef Noji, athlete
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Rafał Omelko, athlete
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Wanda Panfil, athlete
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Artur Partyka, high jumper
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Edmund Piątkowski, discus thrower
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Marek Plawgo, athlete
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Monika Pyrek, pole vaulter
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Anna Rogowska, pole vaulter
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Tadeusz Rut, hammer thrower
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Piotr Rysiukiewicz, sprinter
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Edward Sarul, shot putter
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Janusz Sidło, javelin thrower
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Kamila Skolimowska, hammer thrower
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Irena Szewińska, sprinter
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Józef Szmidt, triple jumper
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Ewa Swoboda, sprinter
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Tadeusz Ślusarski, pole vaulter
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Justyna Święty-Ersetic, sprinter
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Marcin Urbaś, sprinter
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Jadwiga Wajs, discus thrower
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Stanisława Walasiewicz, sprinter
(Athletics) (Sport) -
Jan Werner, sprinter
(Athletics) (Sport) -
Anita Włodarczyk, hammer thrower
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Paweł Wojciechowski, pole vaulter
(Athletics) (Sport) -
Marian Woronin, sprinter
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Jacek Wszoła, high jumper
(Athletics) (Sport) -
Karol Zalewski, athlete
(Athletics) (Sport) -
Kazimierz Zimny, athlete
(Athletics) (Sport) -
Szymon Ziółkowski, hammer thrower
(Athletics) (Sport) -
Dardan Berisha
(Basketball) (Sport) -
Olek Czyż
(Basketball) (Sport) -
Margo Dydek
(Basketball) (Sport) -
Filip Dylewicz
(Basketball) (Sport) -
Tomasz Gielo
(Basketball) (Sport) -
Marcin Gortat, NBA basketball, Los Angeles Clippers
(Basketball) (Sport) -
Karol Gruszecki
(Basketball) (Sport) -
Adam Hrycaniuk
(Basketball) (Sport) -
Przemek Karnowski
(Basketball) (Sport) -
Thomas Kelati
(Basketball) (Sport) -
Mateusz Kostrzewski
(Basketball) (Sport) -
Łukasz Koszarek
(Basketball) (Sport) -
Damian Kulig
(Basketball) (Sport) -
Maciej Lampe
(Basketball) (Sport) -
David Logan
(Basketball) (Sport) -
Mateusz Ponitka
(Basketball) (Sport) -
Krzysztof Szubarga
(Basketball) (Sport) -
Adam Waczyński
(Basketball) (Sport) -
Adam Wójcik
(Basketball) (Sport) -
Tomasz Adamek
(Boxing) (Sport) -
Aleksy Antkiewicz
(Boxing) (Sport) -
Joe Choynski
(Boxing) (Sport) -
Zygmunt Chychła
(Boxing) (Sport) -
Leszek Drogosz
(Boxing) (Sport) -
Charley Goldman, International Boxing Hall of fame
(Boxing) (Sport) -
Andrzej Gołota
(Boxing) (Sport) -
Janusz Gortat
(Boxing) (Sport) -
Józef Grudzień
(Boxing) (Sport) -
Marian Kasprzyk
(Boxing) (Sport) -
Jerzy Kulej
(Boxing) (Sport) -
Dariusz Michalczewski
(Boxing) (Sport) -
Kazimierz Paździor
(Boxing) (Sport) -
Zbigniew Pietrzykowski
(Boxing) (Sport) -
Jerzy Rybicki
(Boxing) (Sport) -
Feliks Stamm, coach
(Boxing) (Sport) -
Jan Szczepański
(Boxing) (Sport) -
Artur Szpilka
(Boxing) (Sport) -
Henryk Średnicki
(Boxing) (Sport) -
Izu Ugonoh
(Boxing) (Sport) -
Krzysztof Włodarczyk
(Boxing) (Sport) -
Tony Zale
(Boxing) (Sport) -
Janusz Zarenkiewicz
(Boxing) (Sport) -
Natalia Sadowska
(Checkers) (Sport) -
Izak Aloni (1905–1985)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Izaak Appel (1905–1941)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Arnold Aurbach (1888–1952)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Zdzisław Belsitzmann (1890–1920)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Abram Blass (1895-unknown)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Agnieszka Brustman (1962–)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Oscar Chajes (1873–1928)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Josef Cukierman (1900–1941)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Hieronim Czarnowski (1834–1902)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Moshe Czerniak (1910–1984)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Arthur Dake (1910–2000), American born to Polish parents
(Chess) (Sport) -
Dawid Daniuszewski (1885–1944)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Józef Dominik (1894–1920)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Jan-Krzysztof Duda (b. 1998)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Arthur Dunkelblum (1906–1979)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Boruch Israel Dyner (1903–1979)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Hanna Ereńska (1946–)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Samuel Factor (1883–1949)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Alexander Flamberg (1880–1926)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Henryk Friedman (1903–1942)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Achilles Frydman (1905–1940)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Paulino Frydman (1905–1982)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Regina Gerlecka (1913–1983)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Edward Gerstenfeld (1915–1943)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Róża Herman (1902–1995)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Krystyna Hołuj-Radzikowska
(Chess) (Sport) -
Chaim Janowski (1868–1935)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Dawid Janowski (1868–1927)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Max Judd (1851–1906)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Bernhard Kagan (1866–1932)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Stanislaw Kohn (1895–1940)
(Chess) (Sport) -
George Koltanowski (1903–2000), born in Belgium to a Polish-Jewish family
(Chess) (Sport) -
Henrijeta Konarkowska-Sokolov (1938–)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Michał Krasenkow (1963–), Russian born, moved to Poland in 1992
(Chess) (Sport) -
Leon Kremer (1901–1941)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Adam Kuligowski (1955–), awarded the title of Chess Grandmaster in 1980
(Chess) (Sport) -
Abraham Kupchik (1892–1970)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Salo Landau (1903–1943)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Edward Lasker (1885–1981)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Paul Saladin Leonhardt (1877–1934)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Grigory Levenfish (1889–1961)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Moishe Lowtzky (1881–1940)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Bartłomiej Macieja (1977–)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Kazimierz Makarczyk (1901–1972)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Kalikst Morawski (1859–1939)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Stasch Mlotkowski (1881–1943), born in the United States to Polish parents
(Chess) (Sport) -
Piotr Murdzia (1975–)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Miguel Najdorf (1910–1997)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Menachem Oren (1903–1962)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Julius Perlis (1880–1913)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Jusefs Petkevich (1940–)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Karol Piltz (1903–1939)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Oskar Piotrowski
(Chess) (Sport) -
Kazimierz Plater (1915–2004)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Henryk Pogorieły (1908–1943)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Ignatz von Popiel (1863–1941)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Artur Popławski (1860–1918)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Dawid Przepiórka (1880–1940)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Iweta Rajlich (b. 1981)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Teodor Regedziński (1894–1954)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Samuel Reshevsky (1911–1992)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Samuel Rosenthal (1837–1902)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Gersz Rotlewi (1889–1920)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Akiba Rubinstein (1880–1961)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Gersz Salwe (1862–1920)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Włodzimierz Schmidt (b. 1943)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Leon Schwartzmann (1887–1942)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Stanislaus Sittenfeld (1865–1902)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Monika Soćko (b. 1978)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Franciszek Sulik (1908–unknown)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Bogdan Śliwa (1922–2003)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Dariusz Świercz (b. 1994)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Savielly Tartakower (1887–1956)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Jean Taubenhaus (1850–1919)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Oscar Tenner (1880–1948)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Vitaly Tseshkovsky (1944–2011)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Alexander Wagner (1868–1942)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Szymon Winawer (1838–1919)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Radosław Wojtaszek (b. 1987)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Aleksander Wojtkiewicz (1963–2006)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Daniel Yanofsky (1925–2000)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Józef Żabiński (1860–1928)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Johannes Zukertort (1842–1888)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Adolf Zytogorski (1806–1882)
(Chess) (Sport) -
Klemens Bachleda, Tatra guide and mountain rescuer
(Climbing) (Sport) -
Kinga Baranowska, mountaineer
(Climbing) (Sport) -
Andrzej Bargiel, ski mountaineer and climber
(Climbing) (Sport) -
Leszek Cichy, himalaist
(Climbing) (Sport) -
Jerzy Kukuczka, himalaist
(Climbing) (Sport) -
Wojciech Kurtyka, himalaist, rock climber
(Climbing) (Sport) -
Piotr Pustelnik, himalaist
(Climbing) (Sport) -
Wanda Rutkiewicz, himalaist
(Climbing) (Sport) -
Krzysztof Wielicki, himalaist
(Climbing) (Sport) -
Andrzej Zawada, himalaist
(Climbing) (Sport) -
Maciej Bodnar
(Cycling) (Sport) -
Eugenia Bujak
(Cycling) (Sport) -
Zenon Jaskuła
(Cycling) (Sport) -
Justyna Kaczkowska
(Cycling) (Sport) -
Michał Kwiatkowski
(Cycling) (Sport) -
Czesław Lang
(Cycling) (Sport) -
Wacław Latocha
(Cycling) (Sport) -
Rafał Majka
(Cycling) (Sport) -
Przemysław Niemiec
(Cycling) (Sport) -
Katarzyna Niewiadoma
(Cycling) (Sport) -
Mieczysław Nowicki
(Cycling) (Sport) -
Katarzyna Pawłowska
(Cycling) (Sport) -
Daria Pikulik
(Cycling) (Sport) -
Paweł Poljański
(Cycling) (Sport) -
Wojciech Pszczolarski
(Cycling) (Sport) -
Szymon Sajnok
(Cycling) (Sport) -
Sylwester Szmyd
(Cycling) (Sport) -
Stanisław Szozda
(Cycling) (Sport) -
Ryszard Szurkowski
(Cycling) (Sport) -
Mateusz Taciak
(Cycling) (Sport) -
Adrian Tekliński
(Cycling) (Sport) -
Maja Włoszczowska
(Cycling) (Sport) -
Zbigniew Czajkowski
(Fencing) (Sport) -
Danuta Dmowska
(Fencing) (Sport) -
Egon Franke
(Fencing) (Sport) -
Sylwia Gruchała
(Fencing) (Sport) -
Roman Kantor, épée
(Fencing) (Sport) -
Edward Korfanty
(Fencing) (Sport) -
Ryszard Parulski
(Fencing) (Sport) -
Jerzy Pawłowski
(Fencing) (Sport) -
Anna Rybicka
(Fencing) (Sport) -
Ryszard Sobczak
(Fencing) (Sport) -
Aleksandra Socha
(Fencing) (Sport) -
Witold Woyda
(Fencing) (Sport) -
Barbara Wysoczańska
(Fencing) (Sport) -
Wojciech Zabłocki
(Fencing) (Sport) -
Zygmunt Anczok, defender
(Football) (Sport) -
Henryk Apostel, coach
(Football) (Sport) -
Jan Banaś, attacker
(Football) (Sport) -
Jan Bednarek, midfielder
(Football) (Sport) -
Jakub Błaszczykowski, midfielder
(Football) (Sport) -
Zbigniew Boniek, midfielder, head of the Polish Football Association (PZPN)
(Football) (Sport) -
Artur Boruc, goalkeeper
(Football) (Sport) -
Lucjan Brychczy, midfielder
(Football) (Sport) -
Andrzej Buncol, midfielder
(Football) (Sport) -
Ewald Cebula, defender
(Football) (Sport) -
Gerard Cieślik, midfielder
(Football) (Sport) -
Lesław Ćmikiewicz, midfielder
(Football) (Sport) -
Kazimierz Deyna, midfielder
(Football) (Sport) -
Jerzy Dudek, goalkeeper
(Football) (Sport) -
Ewald Dytko, midfielder
(Football) (Sport) -
Łukasz Fabiański, goalkeeper
(Football) (Sport) -
Robert Gadocha, attacker
(Football) (Sport) -
Ludwik Gintel, defender/forward
(Football) (Sport) -
Jacek Gmoch, coach
(Football) (Sport) -
Jerzy Gorgoń, defender
(Football) (Sport) -
Kazimierz Górski, coach
(Football) (Sport) -
Paweł Janas, defender, coach
(Football) (Sport) -
Ireneusz Jeleń, attacker
(Football) (Sport) -
Erich Juskowiak, defender
(Football) (Sport) -
Józef Kałuża, attacker, coach
(Football) (Sport) -
Henryk Kasperczak, midfielder, coach
(Football) (Sport) -
Miroslav Klose, attacker
(Football) (Sport) -
Józef Klotz, defender
(Football) (Sport) -
Raymond Kopa, attacker
(Football) (Sport) -
Hubert Kostka, goalkeeper
(Football) (Sport) -
Tadeusz Kuchar, midfielder, coach
(Football) (Sport) -
Tomasz Kuszczak, goalkeeper
(Football) (Sport) -
Grzegorz Lato, attacker
(Football) (Sport) -
Robert Lewandowski, attacker
(Football) (Sport) -
Jan Liberda, attacker
(Football) (Sport) -
Włodzimierz Lubański, attacker
(Football) (Sport) -
Józef Lustgarten, midfielder, manager
(Football) (Sport) -
Stefan Majewski, defender, coach
(Football) (Sport) -
Ladislao Mazurkiewicz, goalkeeper
(Football) (Sport) -
Arkadiusz Milik, attacker
(Football) (Sport) -
Józef Młynarczyk, goalkeeper
(Football) (Sport) -
Piotr Nowak, midfielder
(Football) (Sport) -
Erwin Nyc, midfielder
(Football) (Sport) -
Teodor Peterek, attacker
(Football) (Sport) -
Krzysztof Piątek, attacker
(Football) (Sport) -
Ryszard Piec, midfielder
(Football) (Sport) -
Wilhelm Piec, midfielder
(Football) (Sport) -
Antoni Piechniczek, defender, coach
(Football) (Sport) -
Leonard Piontek, midfielder
(Football) (Sport) -
Lukas Podolski, attacker
(Football) (Sport) -
Łukasz Piszczek, defender
(Football) (Sport) -
Ernest Pohl, attacker
(Football) (Sport) -
Fryderyk Scherfke midfielder
(Football) (Sport) -
Euzebiusz Smolarek, attacker
(Football) (Sport) -
Włodzimierz Smolarek, midfielder
(Football) (Sport) -
Leon Sperling, forward (left wing)
(Football) (Sport) -
Grzegorz Szamotulski, goalkeeper
(Football) (Sport) -
Andrzej Szarmach, attacker
(Football) (Sport) -
Władysław Szczepaniak, defender
(Football) (Sport) -
Wojciech Szczęsny, goalkeeper
(Football) (Sport) -
Edward Szymkowiak, goalkeeper
(Football) (Sport) -
Piotr Świerczewski, midfielder
(Football) (Sport) -
Andrzej Szczypkowski (born 1971), midfielder
(Football) (Sport) -
Łukasz Teodorczyk, attacker
(Football) (Sport) -
Jan Tomaszewski, goalkeeper
(Football) (Sport) -
Piotr Trochowski, midfielder
(Football) (Sport) -
Krzysztof Warzycha, attacker
(Football) (Sport) -
Ernest Wilimowski, attacker
(Football) (Sport) -
Walter Winkler, defender
(Football) (Sport) -
Maryan Wisnieski, attacker
(Football) (Sport) -
Gerard Wodarz, attacker
(Football) (Sport) -
Łukasz Załuska, goalkeeper
(Football) (Sport) -
Piotr Zieliński, midfielder
(Football) (Sport) -
Władysław Żmuda, defender
(Football) (Sport) -
Mariusz Czerkawski
(Ice hockey) (Sport) -
Wayne Gretzky, mixed Polish descent
(Ice hockey) (Sport) -
Gordie Howe, mixed Polish descent
(Ice hockey) (Sport) -
Mike Komisarek
(Ice hockey) (Sport) -
Ed Olczyk
(Ice hockey) (Sport) -
Krzysztof Oliwa
(Ice hockey) (Sport) -
Brian Rafalski
(Ice hockey) (Sport) -
Peter Sidorkiewicz
(Ice hockey) (Sport) -
Bryan Smolinski
(Ice hockey) (Sport) -
Pete Stemkowski
(Ice hockey) (Sport) -
Lee Stempniak
(Ice hockey) (Sport) -
Daniel Tkaczuk
(Ice hockey) (Sport) -
James Wisniewski
(Ice hockey) (Sport) -
Wojtek Wolski
(Ice hockey) (Sport) -
Travis Zajac
(Ice hockey) (Sport) -
Konrad Bartelski, Alpine ski racer
(Skiing) (Sport) -
Bronisław Czech, Alpine ski racer
(Skiing) (Sport) -
Piotr Fijas, ski jumper
(Skiing) (Sport) -
Wojciech Fortuna, ski jumper
(Skiing) (Sport) -
Krystyna Guzik, biathlete
(Skiing) (Sport) -
Monika Hojnisz, biathlete
(Skiing) (Sport) -
Stefan Hula, Sr., Nordic combined skier
(Skiing) (Sport) -
Stefan Hula, Jr., ski jumper
(Skiing) (Sport) -
Justyna Kowalczyk, cross-country skier
(Skiing) (Sport) -
Maciej Kot, ski jumper
(Skiing) (Sport) -
Dawid Kubacki, ski jumper
(Skiing) (Sport) -
Józef Łuszczek, cross-country skier
(Skiing) (Sport) -
Adam Małysz, ski jumper
(Skiing) (Sport) -
Jan Marusarz, World War II Carpathian Mountains escort of intelligence agent Krystyna Skarbek
(Skiing) (Sport) -
Stanisław Marusarz, ski jumper
(Skiing) (Sport) -
Weronika Nowakowska, biathlete
(Skiing) (Sport) -
Tomasz Sikora, biathlete
(Skiing) (Sport) -
Monika Skinder, cross-country skiing
(Skiing) (Sport) -
Kamil Stoch, ski jumper
(Skiing) (Sport) -
Jan Ziobro, ski jumper
(Skiing) (Sport) -
Piotr Żyła, ski jumper
(Skiing) (Sport) -
Katarzyna Baranowska
(Swimming) (Sport) -
Konrad Czerniak
(Swimming) (Sport) -
Agnieszka Czopek
(Swimming) (Sport) -
Otylia Jędrzejczak
(Swimming) (Sport) -
Radosław Kawęcki
(Swimming) (Sport) -
Bartosz Kizierowski
(Swimming) (Sport) -
Michael Klim
(Swimming) (Sport) -
Paweł Korzeniowski
(Swimming) (Sport) -
Daniel Kowalski
(Swimming) (Sport) -
Sławomir Kuczko
(Swimming) (Sport) -
Mariusz Podkościelny
(Swimming) (Sport) -
Mateusz Sawrymowicz
(Swimming) (Sport) -
Lejzor Ilja Szrajbman
(Swimming) (Sport) -
Rafał Szukała
(Swimming) (Sport) -
Wojciech Wojdak
(Swimming) (Sport) -
Artur Wojdat
(Swimming) (Sport) -
Agata Korc
(Swimming) (Sport) -
Wojciech Fibak
(Tennis) (Sport) -
Magdalena Fręch
(Tennis) (Sport) -
Mariusz Fyrstenberg
(Tennis) (Sport) -
Hubert Hurkacz
(Tennis) (Sport) -
Jerzy Janowicz
(Tennis) (Sport) -
Klaudia Jans-Ignacik
(Tennis) (Sport) -
Jadwiga Jędrzejowska
(Tennis) (Sport) -
Angelique Kerber
(Tennis) (Sport) -
Łukasz Kubot
(Tennis) (Sport) -
Magda Linette
(Tennis) (Sport) -
Sabine Lisicki
(Tennis) (Sport) -
Kamil Majchrzak
(Tennis) (Sport) -
Marcin Matkowski
(Tennis) (Sport) -
Daniel Prenn (1904–1991), Russian-born German, Polish, and British world-top-ten tennis player
(Tennis) (Sport) -
Michał Przysiężny
(Tennis) (Sport) -
Agnieszka Radwańska
(Tennis) (Sport) -
Urszula Radwańska
(Tennis) (Sport) -
Iga Świątek
(Tennis) (Sport) -
Caroline Wozniacki
(Tennis) (Sport) -
Zbigniew Bartman
(Volleyball) (Sport) -
Michał Bąkiewicz
(Volleyball) (Sport) -
Mateusz Bieniek
(Volleyball) (Sport) -
Agnieszka Bednarek-Kasza
(Volleyball) (Sport) -
Izabela Bełcik
(Volleyball) (Sport) -
Grzegorz Bociek
(Volleyball) (Sport) -
Monika Bociek
(Volleyball) (Sport) -
Rafał Buszek
(Volleyball) (Sport) -
Fabian Drzyzga
(Volleyball) (Sport) -
Małgorzata Glinka-Mogentale
(Volleyball) (Sport) -
Piotr Gruszka
(Volleyball) (Sport) -
Krzysztof Ignaczak
(Volleyball) (Sport) -
Jakub Jarosz
(Volleyball) (Sport) -
Joanna Kaczor
(Volleyball) (Sport) -
Łukasz Kadziewicz
(Volleyball) (Sport) -
Karol Kłos
(Volleyball) (Sport) -
Jakub Kochanowski
(Volleyball) (Sport) -
Dawid Konarski
(Volleyball) (Sport) -
Grzegorz Kosok
(Volleyball) (Sport) -
Michał Kubiak
(Volleyball) (Sport) -
Bartosz Kurek
(Volleyball) (Sport) -
Bartosz Kwolek
(Volleyball) (Sport) -
Wilfredo León
(Volleyball) (Sport) -
Grzegorz Łomacz
(Volleyball) (Sport) -
Mateusz Mika
(Volleyball) (Sport) -
Joanna Mirek
(Volleyball) (Sport) -
Marcin Możdżonek
(Volleyball) (Sport) -
Agata Mróz-Olszewska
(Volleyball) (Sport) -
Dawid Murek
(Volleyball) (Sport) -
Piotr Nowakowski
(Volleyball) (Sport) -
Paweł Papke
(Volleyball) (Sport) -
Daniel Pliński
(Volleyball) (Sport) -
Katarzyna Skowrońska-Dolata
(Volleyball) (Sport) -
Artur Szalpuk
(Volleyball) (Sport) -
Aleksander Śliwka
(Volleyball) (Sport) -
Sebastian Świderski
(Volleyball) (Sport) -
Dorota Świeniewicz
(Volleyball) (Sport) -
Hubert Wagner
(Volleyball) (Sport) -
Anna Werblińska
(Volleyball) (Sport) -
Michał Winiarski
(Volleyball) (Sport) -
Mariusz Wlazły
(Volleyball) (Sport) -
Tomasz Wójtowicz
(Volleyball) (Sport) -
Andrzej Wrona
(Volleyball) (Sport) -
Paweł Zagumny
(Volleyball) (Sport) -
Paweł Zatorski
(Volleyball) (Sport) -
Łukasz Żygadło
(Volleyball) (Sport) -
Waldemar Baszanowski
(Weightlifting) (Sport) -
Marcin Dołęga
(Weightlifting) (Sport) -
Zbigniew Kaczmarek
(Weightlifting) (Sport) -
Aleksandra Klejnowska
(Weightlifting) (Sport) -
Szymon Kołecki
(Weightlifting) (Sport) -
Andrzej Maszewski
(Weightlifting) (Sport) -
Mieczysław Nowak
(Weightlifting) (Sport) -
Norbert Ozimek
(Weightlifting) (Sport) -
Ireneusz Paliński
(Weightlifting) (Sport) -
Norbert Schemansky
(Weightlifting) (Sport) -
Zygmunt Smalcerz
(Weightlifting) (Sport) -
Marek Seweryn
(Weightlifting) (Sport) -
Stanley Stanczyk
(Weightlifting) (Sport) -
Agata Wróbel
(Weightlifting) (Sport) -
Adrian Zieliński
(Weightlifting) (Sport) -
Marian Zieliński
(Weightlifting) (Sport) -
Joanna Jędrzejczyk, mixed martial arts
(Others) (Sport) -
Karol Bielecki, handball
(Others) (Sport) -
Leszek Blanik, gymnastics
(Others) (Sport) -
Karolina Bosiek, speed skater
(Others) (Sport) -
Zbigniew Bródka, speed skater
(Others) (Sport) -
Maciej Chorążyk, soccer official and sports journalist
(Others) (Sport) -
Janusz Centka, soaring
(Others) (Sport) -
Moe Drabowsky, baseball
(Others) (Sport) -
Jarek Dymek, strongman
(Others) (Sport) -
Tomasz Gollob, Motorcycle speedway World Champion
(Others) (Sport) -
Andrzej Grubba, table tennis
(Others) (Sport) -
Sebastian Janikowski, American football
(Others) (Sport) -
Stan Javie, American football official
(Others) (Sport) -
Steve Javie, National Basketball Association
(Others) (Sport) -
Stefan Kapłaniak, canoeing
(Others) (Sport) -
Sebastian Kawa, gliding
(Others) (Sport) -
Justin Koschitzke, former professional Australian rules footballer for St Kilda
(Others) (Sport) -
Rafał Kubacki, judo
(Others) (Sport) -
Robert Kubica, Formula One and auto racing
(Others) (Sport) -
Tomasz Kucharski, rowing
(Others) (Sport) -
Mateusz Kusznierewicz, sailing
(Others) (Sport) -
Waldemar Legień, judo
(Others) (Sport) -
Jerzy Makula, glider aerobatics
(Others) (Sport) -
Patrycja Maliszewska, short track speed skater
(Others) (Sport) -
Szymon Marciniak, football referee
(Others) (Sport) -
Piotr Markiewicz, canoeing
(Others) (Sport) -
Renata Mauer, shooting
(Others) (Sport) -
Bill Mazeroski, baseball
(Others) (Sport) -
Przemyslaw Mazur, auto racing
(Others) (Sport) -
Gene Mruczkowski, American football
(Others) (Sport) -
Scott Mruczkowski, American football
(Others) (Sport) -
Paweł Nastula, judo
(Others) (Sport) -
Zofia Noceti-Klepacka, windsurfing
(Others) (Sport) -
Tom Paciorek, baseball
(Others) (Sport) -
Aneta Pastuszka, canoeing
(Others) (Sport) -
James Podsiadly, former professional Australian rules footballer for Adelaide and Geelong
(Others) (Sport) -
Mariusz Pudzianowski, strongman
(Others) (Sport) -
Ivan Putski, professional wrestler
(Others) (Sport) -
Helena Rakoczy, gymnastics
(Others) (Sport) -
Elwira Seroczyńska, speed skater
(Others) (Sport) -
Arkadiusz Skrzypaszek, modern pentathlete
(Others) (Sport) -
Paul Slowinski, Muay Thai
(Others) (Sport) -
Adam Smelczyński, shooting
(Others) (Sport) -
Rafał Sonik, quad rally driver
(Others) (Sport) -
Robert Sycz, rowing
(Others) (Sport) -
Jerzy Szczakiel, Motorcycle speedway World Champion
(Others) (Sport) -
Sławomir Szmal, handball
(Others) (Sport) -
Ryszard Szurkowski, road bicycle racing
(Others) (Sport) -
Jan Szymański, speed skater
(Others) (Sport) -
Marek Twardowski, canoeing
(Others) (Sport) -
Roger Verey, rowing
(Others) (Sport) -
Piotr Wadecki, road bicycle racing
(Others) (Sport) -
Bogdan Wenta, handball
(Others) (Sport) -
Sebastian Wenta, strongman, highland games
(Others) (Sport) -
David Wojcinski, former professional Australian rules footballer for Geelong
(Others) (Sport) -
Jerzy Wojnar, luge
(Others) (Sport) -
Andrzej Wroński, wrestling
(Others) (Sport) -
Józef Zapędzki, shooting
(Others) (Sport) -
Sobiesław Zasada, auto racing
(Others) (Sport)
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