People on Poland's street signs

Tadeusz Kościuszko

1102 Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko was a Polish military engineer, statesman, and military leader who then became a national hero in Poland, the United States, Lithuania, and Belarus. He fought...

Adam Mickiewicz

1086 Adam Bernard Mickiewicz was a Polish poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator and political activist. He is regarded as national poet in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. He also largely...

Henryk Sienkiewicz

833 Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz, also known by the pseudonym Litwos, was a Polish epic writer. He is remembered for his historical novels, such as the Trilogy series and especially for his...

Juliusz Słowacki

789 Juliusz Słowacki was a Polish Romantic poet. He is considered one of the "Three Bards" of Polish literature — a major figure in the Polish Romantic period, and the father of modern Polish drama. His...

Maria Konopnicka

747 Maria Konopnicka was a Polish poet, novelist, children's writer, translator, journalist, critic and activist for women's rights and for Polish independence. She used pseudonyms, including Jan Sawa....

Pope John Paul II

695 Pope John Paul II was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 16 October 1978 until his death in 2005. He was the first non-Italian pope since Adrian VI in the 16th century, as...

Nicolaus Copernicus

652 Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance polymath who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center. The publication of Copernicus's model in his book De...

Stefan Żeromski

580 Stefan Żeromski was a Polish novelist and dramatist belonging to the Young Poland movement at the turn of the 20th century. He was called the "conscience of Polish literature".

Frédéric Chopin

538 Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading composer of his era...

Bolesław Prus

531 Aleksander Głowacki, better known by his pen name Bolesław Prus, was a Polish journalist, novelist, a leading figure in the history of Polish literature and philosophy, and a distinctive voice in...

Władysław Sikorski

486 Władysław Eugeniusz Sikorski was a Polish military and political leader. Before World War I, Sikorski established and participated in several underground organizations that promoted the cause of...

Władysław Reymont

484 Władysław Stanisław Reymont was a Polish novelist and the laureate of the 1924 Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known work is the award-winning four-volume novel Chłopi.

Józef Piłsudski

472 Józef Klemens Piłsudski[a] was a Polish statesman who served as the Chief of State (1918–1922) and first Marshal of Poland. In the aftermath of World War I, he became an increasingly dominant figure...

Jan Kochanowski

472 Jan Kochanowski was a Polish Renaissance poet who wrote in Latin and Polish and established poetic patterns that would become integral to the Polish literary language. He has been called the greatest...

Mikołaj Rej

444 Mikołaj Rej or Mikołaj Rey of Nagłowice was a Polish poet and prose writer of the emerging Renaissance in Poland as it succeeded the Middle Ages, as well as a politician and musician. He was the...

Wincenty Witos

443 Wincenty Witos was a Polish statesman, prominent member and leader of the Polish People's Party (PSL), who served three times as the Prime Minister of Poland in the 1920s.

Jan Kiliński

415 Jan Kiliński was a Polish soldier and one of the commanders of the Kościuszko Uprising. A shoemaker by trade, he commanded the Warsaw Uprising of 1794 against the Russian garrison stationed in...

Eliza Orzeszkowa

403 Eliza Orzeszkowa was a Polish novelist and a leading writer of the Positivism movement during the foreign Partitions of Poland. In 1905, together with Henryk Sienkiewicz, she was nominated for the...

Stanisław Moniuszko

395 Stanisław Moniuszko was a Polish composer, conductor, organist and pedagogue. He wrote many popular art songs and operas, including The Haunted Manor and Halka, and his music is filled with patriotic...

Bolesław I the Brave

395 Bolesław I the Brave, less often known as Bolesław the Great, was Duke of Poland from 992 to 1025 and the first King of Poland in 1025. He was also Duke of Bohemia between 1003 and 1004 as Boleslaus...

John III Sobieski

368 John III Sobieski was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1674 until his death in 1696. 

Stanisław Staszic

366 Stanisław Wawrzyniec Staszic was a Polish philosopher and writer. A leading figure in the Polish Enlightenment, he was also a Catholic priest, geologist, poet, translator and statesman. A physiocrat,...

Jan Matejko

349 Jan Alojzy Matejko was a Polish painter, a leading 19th-century exponent of history painting, known for depicting nodal events from Polish history. His works include large scale oil paintings such as...

Stefan Wyszyński

346 Stefan Wyszyński was a Polish Roman Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Warsaw and Archbishop of Gniezno from 1948 to 1981. He previously served as Bishop of Lublin from 1946 to 1948. He was...

Cyprian Norwid

330 Cyprian Kamil Norwid was a Polish poet, dramatist, painter, sculptor, and philosopher. He is now considered one of the four most important Polish Romantic poets, though scholars still debate whether...

Julian Tuwim

317 Julian Tuwim, known also under the pseudonym Oldlen as a lyricist, was a Jewish-Polish poet, born in Łódź, then part of the Russian Partition. He was educated in Łódź and in Warsaw where he studied...

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

316 Ignacy Jan Paderewski was a Polish pianist, composer, philanthropist, and statesman. As a politician and diplomat, Paderewski was vital to securing international recognition of the newly formed...

Adam Asnyk

316 Adam Asnyk, was a Polish poet and dramatist of the Positivist era.                                 

Stanisław Wyspiański

306 Stanisław Mateusz Ignacy Wyspiański was a Polish playwright, painter, poet, and interior and furniture designer. A patriotic writer, he created symbolic national dramas accordant with the artistic...

Jadwiga of Poland

299 Jadwiga, also known as Hedwig, was the first female monarch of the Kingdom of Poland, as well as its last hereditary ruler. She reigned from 16 October 1384 until her death. Born in Buda, she was the...

Józef Bem

293 Józef Zachariasz Bem was a Polish engineer and general, an Ottoman pasha and a national hero of Poland and Hungary, and a figure intertwined with other European patriotic movements. Like Tadeusz...

Władysław Broniewski

291 Władysław Kazimierz Broniewski was a Polish poet, writer, translator and soldier, known for his revolutionary and patriotic writings.

Romuald Traugutt

279 Romuald Traugutt was a Polish military officer and politician who served as the last dictator of the January Uprising.

Marie Curie

279 Maria Salomea Skłodowska Curie, better known as Marie Curie, was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist. She shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband Pierre Curie "for...

Mieszko I

263 Mieszko I was Duke of Poland from 960 until his death in 992 and the founder of the first unified Polish state, the Civitas Schinesghe. A member of the Piast dynasty, he was the first Christian ruler...

Władysław II Jagiełło

263 Jogaila, later Władysław II Jagiełło, was Grand Duke of Lithuania beginning in 1377 and King of Poland from 1386 until his death. As Grand Duke, he ruled Lithuania from 1377 to 1381 and from 1382 to...

Casimir III the Great

261 Casimir III the Great reigned as the King of Poland from 1333 to 1370. He also later became King of Ruthenia in 1340, retaining the title throughout the Galicia–Volhynia Wars. He was the last Polish...

Stephen Báthory

258 Stephen Báthory was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania as well as Prince of Transylvania (1576–1586), after previously being Voivode of Transylvania (1571–1576).

Stanisław Wigura

248 Stanisław Wigura was a Polish aircraft designer and aviator, co-founder of the RWD aircraft construction team and lecturer at the Warsaw University of Technology. Along with Franciszek Żwirko, he won...

Ignacy Krasicki

229 Ignacy Błażej Franciszek Krasicki, from 1766 Prince-Bishop of Warmia and from 1795 Archbishop of Gniezno, was Poland's leading Enlightenment poet, a critic of the clergy, Poland's La Fontaine, author...

Władysław I Łokietek

227 Władysław I Łokietek, in English known as the "Elbow-high" or Ladislaus the Short, was King of Poland from 1320 to 1333, and duke of several of the provinces and principalities in the preceding...

Hugo Kołłątaj

215 Hugo Stumberg Kołłątaj, also spelled Kołłątay, was a prominent Polish constitutional reformer and educationalist, and one of the most prominent figures of the Polish Enlightenment. He served as...

Casimir Pulaski

214 Kazimierz Michał Władysław Wiktor Pułaski, anglicised as Casimir Pulaski, was a Polish nobleman, soldier, and military commander who has been called "The Father of American cavalry" or "The Soldier...

Janusz Korczak

214 Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit, was a Polish Jewish pediatrician, educator, children's author and pedagogue known as Pan Doktor or Stary Doktor. He was an early children's rights...

Józef Ignacy Kraszewski

212 Józef Ignacy Kraszewski was a Polish novelist, journalist, historian, publisher, painter, and musician.

Wojciech Bartosz Głowacki

204 Wojciech Bartos(z) Głowacki (1758–1794), known also as Bartosz Głowacki, was a Polish peasant and the most famous member of the kosynierzy during the Kościuszko Uprising in 1794. Born as Wojciech...

Gabriel Narutowicz

201 Gabriel Józef Narutowicz was a Polish engineer and politician who served as the first president of Poland from 11 December 1922 until his assassination five days after assuming office. He previously...

Stefan Aleksander Okrzeja

193 Stefan Aleksander Okrzeja was a Polish worker, socialist and activist for Poland's independence.   

Jan Kasprowicz

192 Jan Kasprowicz was a Polish poet, playwright, critic and translator; a foremost representative of Young Poland.

Władysław Anders

184 Władysław Albert Anders was a Polish military officer and politician, and a prominent member of the Polish government-in-exile in London.

Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński

170 Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, was a Polish poet and Home Army soldier, one of the most well known of the Generation of Columbuses, the young generation of Polish poets, of whom several perished in the...

Aleksander Fredro

166 Aleksander Fredro was a Polish poet, playwright and author active during Polish Romanticism in the period of partitions by neighboring empires. His works including plays written in the octosyllabic...

Jan Henryk Dąbrowski

163 Jan Henryk Dąbrowski was a Polish general and statesman, widely respected after his death for his patriotic attitude, and described as a national hero who spent his whole life fighting to restore the...

Maria Dąbrowska

160 Maria Dąbrowska was a Polish writer, novelist, essayist, journalist and playwright, author of the popular Polish historical novel Noce i dnie written between 1932 and 1934 in four separate volumes....

Czesław Miłosz

159 Czesław Miłosz was a Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat. He primarily wrote his poetry in Polish. Regarded as one of the great poets of the 20th century, he won the 1980...

Stefan Czarniecki

157 Stefan Czarniecki was a Polish nobleman, general and military commander. In his career, he rose from a petty nobleman to a magnate holding one of the highest offices in the Commonwealth, something...

Józef Haller

156 Józef Haller von Hallenburg was a Polish lieutenant general and legionary in the Polish Legions during the First World War. He was a harcmistrz, the president of the Polish Scouting and Guiding...

Karol Szymanowski

156 Karol Maciej Szymanowski was a Polish composer, pianist and writer. He was a member of the modernist Young Poland movement that flourished in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Józef Poniatowski

155 Prince Józef Antoni Poniatowski was a Polish general, minister of war and army chief, who became a Marshal of the French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars.

Zofia Nałkowska

155 Zofia Nałkowska was a Polish prose writer, dramatist, and prolific essayist. She served as the executive member of the prestigious Polish Academy of Literature (1933–1939) during the interwar period.

Jan Brzechwa

155 Jan Wiktor Brzechwa was a Polish poet, author and lawyer, known mostly for his contribution to children's literature.

Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński

152 Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński, alias Karakuliambro, was a Polish poet. He is well known for the "paradramatic" absurd humorous sketches of the Green Goose Theatre.

Zygmunt Krasiński

150 Count Napoleon Stanisław Adam Feliks Zygmunt Krasiński was a Polish poet traditionally ranked after Adam Mickiewicz and Juliusz Słowacki as one of Poland's Three Bards – the Romantic poets who...

Jerzy Popiełuszko

150 Jerzy Aleksander Popiełuszko was a Polish Roman Catholic priest who became associated with the opposition Solidarity trade union in communist Poland. He was murdered in 1984 by three agents of the...

Józef Wybicki

148 Józef Rufin Wybicki was a Polish nobleman, jurist, poet, political and military activist of Kashubian descent. He is best remembered as the author of "Mazurek Dąbrowskiego", which was adopted as the...

Józef Chełmoński

143 Józef Marian Chełmoński was a Polish painter, known for his realistic paintings of landscapes, rural scenes and genre scenes presenting historical and social contexts of the late Romantic period in...

Ludwik Waryński

139 Ludwik Tadeusz Waryński was an activist and theoretician of the socialist movement in Poland.       

Emilia Plater

137 Countess Emilia Broel-Plater was a Polish–Lithuanian noblewoman and revolutionary from the lands of the partitioned Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Raised in a patriotic tradition in Līksna near...

Piotr Skarga

135 Piotr Skarga was a Polish Jesuit, preacher, hagiographer, polemicist, and leading figure of the Counter-Reformation in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Due to his oratorical gifts, he has been...

Jan Długosz

132 Jan Długosz, also known in Latin as Johannes Longinus, was a Polish priest, chronicler, diplomat, soldier, and secretary to Bishop Zbigniew Oleśnicki of Kraków. He is considered Poland's first...

Ignacy Daszyński

131 Ignacy Ewaryst Daszyński was a Polish socialist politician, journalist, and very briefly Prime Minister of the Second Polish Republic's first government, formed in Lublin in 1918.

Leopold Staff

129 Leopold Henryk Staff was a Polish poet; an artist of European modernism twice granted the Degree of Doctor honoris causa by universities in Warsaw and in Kraków. He was also nominated for the Nobel...

Michał Drzymała

126 Michał Drzymała was a Polish peasant living in the Greater Poland region under Prussian rule.       

Janusz Kusociński

126 Janusz Tadeusz Kusociński was a Polish athlete, winner in the 10,000 meters event at the 1932 Summer Olympics.

Saint Florian

126 Florian was a Christian holy man and the patron saint of chimney sweeps, soapmakers, and firefighters. His feast day is 4 May. Florian is also the patron saint of Poland; the city of Linz, Austria;...

Henryk Wieniawski

124 Henryk Wieniawski was a Polish virtuoso violinist, composer, and pedagogue, who is regarded amongst the most distinguished violinists in history. His younger brother Józef Wieniawski and nephew Adam...

Jarosław Dąbrowski

120 Jarosław Żądło-Dąbrowski, also known as Jaroslav Dombrowski, was a Polish nobleman and military officer in the Imperial Russian Army, a Polish nationalist and radical republican for Poland, and...

Stefan Rowecki

116 Stefan Paweł Rowecki was a Polish general, journalist and the leader of the Armia Krajowa. He was murdered by the Gestapo in prison on the personal order of Heinrich Himmler.

Henryk Sucharski

115 Henryk Sucharski was a Polish military officer and a major in the Polish Army. At the outbreak of World War II, he was one of the commanders of the Westerplatte position in Gdańsk, which troops under...

Bolesław III Wrymouth

112 Bolesław III Wrymouth, also known as Boleslaus the Wry-mouthed, was the duke of Lesser Poland, Silesia and Sandomierz between 1102 and 1107 and over the whole of Poland between 1107 and 1138. He was...

Karol Miarka (father)

112 Karol Miarka also called Elder or Father was a Polish social activist in Upper Silesia, teacher, writer, publicist and printer. Initiator of the establishment and organizer of many Polish social and...

Witold Pilecki

110 Witold Pilecki, known by the codenames Roman Jezierski, Tomasz Serafiński, Druh and Witold, was a Polish World War II cavalry officer, intelligence agent, and resistance leader.

Jacek Malczewski

106 Jacek Malczewski was a Polish symbolist painter who was one of the central figures of the patriotic Young Poland movement.

Władysław Orkan

106 Władysław Orkan was a Polish Goral writer and poet from the Young Poland period. He is known as one of the greatest Goral writers. The most famous of his works portray the common people from the...

Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer

104 Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer was a Polish Goral poet, novelist, playwright, journalist and writer. He was a member of the Young Poland movement.

Stanisław Konarski

103 Stanisław Konarski, Sch.P. was a Polish pedagogue, educational reformer, political writer, poet, dramatist, Piarist priest and precursor of the Enlightenment in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Stanisław Maczek

103 Lieutenant General Stanisław Władysław Maczek was a Polish tank commander of World War II, whose division was instrumental in the Allied liberation of France, closing the Falaise pocket, resulting in...

Maciej Rataj

103 Maciej Rataj was a Polish politician, speaker of the Polish Parliament and deputy President of the Republic of Poland, and writer.

Piotr Ściegienny

102 Piotr Wojciech Ściegienny – polski ksiądz katolicki, działacz niepodległościowy i socjalistyczny, przywódca ludowy.

Henryk Dobrzański

99 Major Henryk Dobrzański, also known by his nom-de-guerre "Hubal," was a Polish soldier, sportsman and partisan. He fought in the Polish Legions in World War I, Polish–Ukrainian War of 1918, the...

Tadeusz Rejtan

98 Tadeusz Reytan was a nobleman from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. He was a member of the Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth from the Nowogródek Voivodeship. Reytan is remembered for a...

Artur Grottger

98 Artur Grottger was a Polish Romantic painter and graphic artist, one of the most prominent artists of the mid 19th century under the partitions of Poland, despite a life cut short by incurable...

Kornel Makuszyński

95 Kornel Makuszyński was a Polish writer of children's and youth literature. He was an elected member of the prestigious Polish Academy of Literature in the interwar Poland.

Adalbert of Prague

94 Adalbert of Prague, known in the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia by his birth name Vojtěch, was a Czech missionary and Christian saint. He was the Bishop of Prague and a missionary to the...

Bolesław Leśmian

93 Bolesław Leśmian was a Polish poet, artist, and member of the Polish Academy of Literature, one of the first poets to introduce Symbolism and Expressionism to Polish verse.

Gustaw Morcinek

92 Gustaw Morcinek was a Polish writer, educator and later member of Sejm from 1952 to 1957. He is considered one of the most important writers from Silesia.

Leopold Okulicki

91 General Leopold Okulicki was a Polish Army Brigadier General and the last commander of the anti-Nazi underground Home Army during World War II and the German occupation of Poland (1939–1945).

Joachim Lelewel

90 Joachim Lelewel was a Polish historian, geographer, bibliographer, polyglot and politician.         

Wojciech Korfanty

89 Wojciech Korfanty was a Polish activist, journalist and politician, who served as a member of the German parliaments, the Reichstag and the Prussian Landtag, and later, in the Polish Sejm. Briefly,...

Onufry Zagłoba

88 Jan Onufry Zagłoba is a fictional character in the Trilogy by Henryk Sienkiewicz. Together with other characters of The Trilogy, Zagłoba engages in various adventures, fighting for the...

Gabriela Zapolska

87 Maria Gabriela Stefania Korwin-Piotrowska (1857–1921), known as Gabriela Zapolska, was a Polish novelist, playwright, naturalist writer, feuilletonist, theatre critic and stage actress. Zapolska...

Józef Sowiński

85 Józef Sowiński (1777–1831) was a Polish artillery general and a hero of Poland's November 1830 Uprising.

Wisława Szymborska

84 Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska was a Polish poet, essayist, translator, and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Prowent, she resided in Kraków until the end of her life. In...

Wojciech Kossak

81 Wojciech Horacy Kossak was a Polish painter and member of the celebrated Kossak family of artists and writers. He was the son of painter Juliusz Kossak, and twin brother of freedom fighter Tadeusz...

John the Evangelist

78 John the Evangelist is the name traditionally given to the author of the Gospel of John. Christians have traditionally identified him with John the Apostle, John of Patmos, and John the Presbyter,...

Marian Raciborski

78 Marian Raciborski – polski botanik, jeden z pierwszych w Polsce paleobotaników, pionier ruchu ochrony przyrody w Polsce, przewodniczący Prezydium Komitetu Obywatelskiego Polskiego Skarbu Wojskowego w...

Andrzej Strug

77 Andrzej Strug, real name Tadeusz Gałecki was a Polish socialist politician, publicist and activist for Poland's independence. He was also a freemason and declined the offer to join the prestigious...

Mieczysław Karłowicz

77 Mieczysław Karłowicz was a Polish composer and conductor.                                           

Andrzej Kmicic

77 Andrzej Kmicic is best known as a fictional character created by Henryk Sienkiewicz featured in the novel The Deluge. He is a typical szlachcic from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth; unruly yet...

Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz

76 Jarosław Leon Iwaszkiewicz, was a Polish writer, poet, essayist, dramatist and translator. He is recognized for his literary achievements, beginning with poetry and prose written after World War I....

Ignacy Łukasiewicz

76 Jan Józef Ignacy Łukasiewicz was a Polish pharmacist, engineer, businessman, inventor, and philanthropist. He was one of the most prominent philanthropists in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria,...

Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz

76 Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz was a Polish poet, playwright and statesman. He was a leading advocate for the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth's Constitution of 3 May 1791.

Zbigniew Herbert

75 Zbigniew Herbert was a Polish poet, essayist, drama writer and moralist. He is one of the best known and the most translated post-war Polish writers. While he was first published in the 1950s, soon...

Józef Lompa

73 Józef Piotr Lompa – polski działacz, poeta, tłumacz, publicysta – współpracownik wielu ówczesnych pism, prozaik, pionier oświaty ludowej oraz etnografii na Śląsku. Prekursor procesu polskiego...

Roman Dmowski

73 Roman Stanisław Dmowski was a Polish politician, statesman, and co-founder and chief ideologue of the National Democracy political movement active during the interwar period.

Michał Wołodyjowski

71 Jerzy Michał Wołodyjowski is a fictional Polish hero in Henryk Sienkiewicz's Trilogy: With Fire and Sword, The Deluge and Pan Wołodyjowski.

Winnie-the-Pooh

70 Winnie-the-Pooh is a fictional anthropomorphic teddy bear created by the English author A. A. Milne and the English illustrator E. H. Shepard. Winnie-the-Pooh first appeared by name in a children's...

Wincenty Pol

68 Wincenty Pol was a Polish poet and geographer.                                                     

Marian Langiewicz

66 Marian Langiewicz, full name Marian Antoni Melchior Langiewicz, was one of the leaders of the Polish January Uprising against the Russian Empire in 1863.

Jan Karol Chodkiewicz

64 Jan Karol Chodkiewicz was a Polish–Lithuanian military commander of the Grand Ducal Lithuanian Army, who was from 1601 Field Hetman of Lithuania, and from 1605 Grand Hetman of Lithuania. He was one...

Stanisław Żółkiewski

64 Stanisław Żółkiewski was a Polish nobleman of the Lubicz coat of arms, a magnate, military commander, and Chancellor of the Polish Crown in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth who took part in many...

Feliks Nowowiejski

64 Feliks Nowowiejski was a Polish composer, conductor, concert organist, and music teacher. Nowowiejski was born in Wartenburg in Warmia in the Prussian Partition of Poland. He died in Poznań, Poland.

Zawisza the Black

64 Zawisza the Black of Garbów, of Sulima coat of arms, was a Polish knight and nobleman who served as a commander and diplomat under Polish king Władysław II Jagiełło and Hungarian-Bohemian king...

Leon Wyczółkowski

63 Leon Jan Wyczółkowski was a Polish painter and educator who was one of the leading painters of the Young Poland movement, as well as the principal representative of Polish Realism in art of the...

Juliusz Kossak

62 Juliusz Fortunat Kossak was a Polish historical painter and master illustrator who specialized in battle scenes, military portraits and horses. He was the progenitor of an artistic family that...

Walery Antoni Wróblewski

61 Walery Antoni Wróblewski was a Polish-Belarusian and French revolutionary, politician, general of Paris Commune and commander of January Uprising and one of the leaders of the Reds.

Stanisław Lem

61 Stanisław Herman Lem was a Polish writer. He was the author of many novels, short stories, and essays on various subjects, including philosophy, futurology, and literary criticism. Many of his...

Saint Anne

60 According to Christian tradition, Saint Anne was the mother of Mary, the wife of Joachim and the maternal grandmother of Jesus. Mary's mother is not named in the Bible's canonical gospels. In...

Juliusz Ligoń

60 Juliusz Ligoń – polski działacz społeczny Górnego Śląska, śląski poeta ludowy, publicysta, dziadek Stanisława Ligonia.

Ludwik Solski

60 Ludwik Solski, born Ludwik Napoleon Karol Sosnowski, was a Polish stage actor and theatre director. From his stage debut in 1876 until his death he played in nearly a thousand roles. He was married...

Bolesław Limanowski

59 Bolesław Limanowski was a Polish socialist politician, as well as historian and journalist and advocate of Agrarianism. He was one of the first people to promote socialist ideas in Poland.

John II Casimir Vasa

58 John II Casimir Vasa was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1648 to his abdication in 1668 as well as a claimant to the throne of Sweden from 1648 to 1660. He was the first son of...

Jan Skrzetuski

58 Jan Skrzetuski is a fictional character created by Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz in the novel With Fire and Sword. He is a man of honour, always faithful to his master, duke Jeremi Wiśniowiecki....

Franciszek Kleeberg

57 Franciszek Kleeberg was a Polish general. He served in the Austro-Hungarian Army before joining the Polish Legions in World War I and following the Polish Independence later the Polish Army. During...

Saint Barbara

57 Saint Barbara, known in the Eastern Orthodox Church as the Great Martyr Barbara, was an early Christian Syrian Greek saint and martyr.

L. L. Zamenhof

57 L. L. Zamenhof was the creator of Esperanto, the most widely used constructed international auxiliary language.

Marcin Kasprzak

56 Marcin Kasprzak was a Polish Marxist revolutionary and a prominent leader of Poland's labour movement. He was a member of the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (SAP), the International Social...

Michał Kajka

56 Michał Kajka również Kayka, ps. „Prawdziński”, „Obserwator spod Ełku” – mazurski poeta ludowy, artysta, działacz na rzecz polskości Mazur, z zawodu murarz i cieśla.

Melchior Wańkowicz

55 Melchior Wańkowicz was a Polish army officer, popular writer, political journalist and publisher. He is most famous for his reporting for the Polish Armed Forces in the West during World War II and...

Julian Fałat

55 Julian Fałat was one of the most prolific Polish watercolorists, one of the country's foremost landscapists, and a leading impressionist.

Zygmunt I Stary

53 Zygmunt I Stary – od roku 1506 wielki książę litewski, od 1507 do 1548 roku król Polski. Był przedostatnim z dynastii Jagiellonów. Na tronie polskim zasiadł po śmierci swego brata Aleksandra...

Helena Modjeska

53 Helena Modrzejewska, known professionally in the United States as Helena Modjeska, was a Polish-American actress who specialized in Shakespearean and tragic roles. She was also a philanthropist and a...

Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński

53 Tadeusz Kamil Marcjan Żeleński, better known by his pen name Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński or simply as Boy, was a Polish stage writer, poet, critic and, above all, the translator of over 100 French literary...

Jan Śniadecki

52 Jan Śniadecki was a Polish mathematician, philosopher, and astronomer at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Saint Joseph

52 According to the canonical Gospels, Joseph was a 1st-century Jewish man of Nazareth who was married to Mary, the mother of Jesus, and was the legal father of Jesus.

Bolesław II the Bold

52 Bolesław II the Bold, also known as the Generous, was Duke of Poland from 1058 to 1076 and King of Poland from 1076 to 1079. He was the eldest son of Duke Casimir I the Restorer and Maria Dobroniega...

Xawery Dunikowski

52 Xawery Dunikowski was a Polish sculptor and artist, notable for surviving Auschwitz concentration camp, and best known for his Neo-Romantic sculptures and Auschwitz-inspired art.

Wojciech Bogusławski

52 Wojciech Romuald Bogusławski was a Polish actor, theater director and playwright of the Polish Enlightenment. He was the director of the National Theatre, Warsaw,, during three distinct periods, as...

Leonid Teliga

51 Leonid Teliga was a Polish sailor, writer, journalist, translator, and the first Pole to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe on his yawl Opty.

Maximilian Kolbe

51 Maximilian Maria Kolbe was a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar, priest, missionary, and martyr. He volunteered to die in place of a man named Franciszek Gajowniczek in the German death camp of...

Bona Sforza

51 Bona Sforza was Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania as the second wife of Sigismund the Old, and Duchess of Bari and Rossano by her own right. She was a surviving member of the powerful...

Louis I of Hungary

50 Louis I, also known as Louis the Great or Louis the Hungarian, was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1342 and King of Poland from 1370 until his death in 1382. He was the first child of Charles I of...

Albert Chmielowski

50 Albert Chmielowski - born Adam Hilary Bernard Chmielowski - was a Polish Franciscan tertiary, painter, and disabled veteran of the Uprising of 1863. He was founder of both the Albertine Brothers and...

Casimir IV Jagiellon

50 Casimir IV was Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1440 and King of Poland from 1447 until his death in 1492. He was one of the most active Polish-Lithuanian rulers; under him, Poland defeated the Teutonic...

Augustyn Kordecki

49 Abbot Augustyn Kordecki was a prior of the Jasna Góra Monastery, Poland.                           

Walerian Łukasiński

49 Walerian Łukasiński was a Polish officer and political activist. He was sentenced by Russian Imperial authorities to 14 years' imprisonment. He died after 46 years of solitary incarceration. He...

Johannes Hevelius

48 Johannes Hevelius was a councillor and chairman of the city council of the Old Town, Gdańsk. As an astronomer, he gained a reputation as "the founder of lunar topography", and described ten new...

Stanisław Mikołajczyk

48 Stanisław Mikołajczyk was a Polish politician. He was a prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile during World War II, and later Deputy Prime Minister in post-war Poland until 1947.

Ignacy Skorupka

48 Ignacy Skorupka was a Polish priest, chaplain of the Polish Army. He died during the battle of Warsaw. He became one of the most famous casualties of the battle.

Stefan Jaracz

47 Stefan Jaracz was a Polish actor and theater producer. He served as the artistic director of Ateneum Theatre in Warsaw during the interwar period (1930–32), and within a short period raised its...

Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski

47 Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski was a Polish politician and economist, Deputy Prime Minister of Poland, government minister and manager of the Second Polish Republic.

Oskar Kolberg

47 Henryk Oskar Kolberg was a Polish ethnographer, folklorist, and composer active in Partitioned Poland.

Johann Dzierzon

47 Johann Dzierzon, or Jan Dzierżon or Dzierżoń, also John Dzierzon, was a Polish apiarist who discovered the phenomenon of parthenogenesis in bees.

Karol Kurpiński

47 Karol Kazimierz Kurpiński was a Polish composer, conductor and pedagogue. He was a representative of late classicism and a member of the Warsaw Society of Friends of Learning. He is also known for...

Piotr Wysocki

46 Piotr Wysocki, was a Polish captain and leader of the Polish conspiracy against Russian Tsar Nicolas I. He was a nobleman (szlachcic) who bore the Odrowąż coat of arms. On 29 November 1830, he raised...

Bronisław Czech

46 Bronisław "Bronek" Czech was a Polish sportsman and artist. A gifted skier, he won championships of Poland 24 times in various skiing disciplines, including Alpine skiing, Nordic skiing and ski...

Michał Kleofas Ogiński

45 Michał Kleofas Ogiński was a Polish diplomat and politician, Grand Treasurer of Lithuania, and a senator of Tsar Alexander I. He was also a composer of late Classical and early Romantic music.

Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz

44 Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, commonly known as Witkacy, was a Polish writer, painter, philosopher, theorist, playwright, novelist, and photographer active before World War I and during the interwar...

Stefan Starzyński

44 Stefan Bronisław Starzyński was a Polish statesman, economist, military officer and Mayor of Warsaw before and during the Siege of 1939.

Stanisław Małachowski

44 Count Stanisław Małachowski, of the Nałęcz coat-of-arms was a Polish statesman, the first Prime Minister of Poland, a member of the Polish government's Permanent Council (1776–1780), Marshal of the...

Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski

43 Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski, known in Latin as Andreas Fricius Modrevius, was a Polish Renaissance scholar, humanist and theologian, called "the father of Polish democracy". His book De Republica...

Ignacy Prądzyński

42 Ignacy Prądzyński was a Polish military commander, general of the Polish Army and an engineer. A veteran of the Napoleonic Wars, he was one of the most successful Polish commanders of the November...

Józef Chłopicki

42 Józef Grzegorz Chłopicki was a Polish general who was involved in fighting in Europe at the time of Napoleon and later.

Karol Marcinkowski

42 Karol Marcinkowski was a Polish physician, social activist in the Greater Poland region, supporter of the basic education programmes, organizer of the Scientific Help Society and the Poznań Bazar -...

Hieronim Derdowski

42 Hieronim Derdowski was a Kashubian intellectual and activist. He was born to Kashubian parents in the Pomeranian village of Wiele in the German Empire. By the time Derdowski emigrated to the United...

Alexander Pushkin

40 Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era. He is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet, as well as the founder of modern Russian...

Jan Zamoyski

39 Jan Sariusz Zamoyski was a Polish nobleman, magnate, statesman and the 1st ordynat of Zamość. He served as the Royal Secretary from 1565, Deputy Chancellor from 1576, Grand Chancellor of the Crown...

Konstanty Damrot

39 Konstanty Damrot ps. Czesław Lubiński – duchowny katolicki, poeta, pisarz i działacz górnośląski.   

Adolf Dygasiński

39 Adolf Dygasiński was a Polish novelist, publicist and educator. In Polish literature, he was one of the leading representatives of Naturalism.

Jan Twardowski

39 Jan Jakub Twardowski was a Polish poet and Catholic priest. He was a chief Polish representative of contemporary religious lyrics. He wrote short, simple, often humorous poems that frequently...

Hubert of Liège

38 Hubert of Liège was a Christian saint who became the first bishop of Liège in 708 A.D. He is a patron saint of hunters, mathematicians, opticians and metalworkers. Known as the "Apostle of the...

Marie Casimire d'Arquien

38 Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien, known also by the diminutive form "Marysieńka", was a French noblewoman who became the queen consort of Poland and grand duchess consort of Lithuania...

Saint Roch

38 Roch, also called Rock in English, was a Majorcan Catholic confessor whose death is commemorated on 16 August and 9 September in Italy; he was especially invoked against the plague. He has the...

Berek Joselewicz

37 Berek Joselewicz was a Polish Jewish colonel of the Polish Army during the Kościuszko Uprising. Joselewicz commanded the first Jewish military formation in modern history excluding Prince Potemkin's...

Ignacy Mościcki

37 Ignacy Mościcki was a Polish chemist and politician who was the country's president from 1926 to 1939. He was the longest serving president in Polish history. Mościcki was the President of Poland...

Tadeusz Kutrzeba

37 Tadeusz Kutrzeba was a general of the army during the Second Polish Republic. He served as a major general in the Polish Army in overall command of Army Poznań during the 1939 German Invasion of...

Władysław Grabski

37 Władysław Dominik Grabski was a Polish National Democratic politician, economist and historian. He was the main author of the currency reform in the Second Polish Republic and served as Prime...

Yuri Gagarin

37 Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who, aboard the first successful crewed spaceflight, became the first person to journey into outer space. Travelling on Vostok 1, Gagarin...

Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski

37 Generał Tadeusz Komorowski, better known by the name Bór-Komorowski was a Polish military leader. He was appointed commander-in-chief a day before the capitulation of the Warsaw Uprising and...

Maria Rodziewiczówna

36 Maria Rodziewiczówna was a Polish writer, among the most famous of the interwar years. Her works often addressed patriotism, rural life, and praised the countryside and peasantry. Rodziewiczówna is...

Henryk Siemiradzki

36 Henryk Hektor Siemiradzki was a Polish painter. He spent most of his active creative life in Rome. Best remembered for his monumental academic art, he is particularly known for his depictions of...

Witold Gombrowicz

36 Witold Marian Gombrowicz was a Polish writer and playwright. His works are characterised by deep psychological analysis, a certain sense of paradox and absurd, anti-nationalist flavor. In 1937, he...

Jan Kiepura

35 Jan Wiktor Kiepura was a Polish opera singer and actor. He enjoyed a successful international career and performed at leading opera houses around the world including La Scala, Metropolitan Opera,...

Aleksander Gierymski

35 Ignacy Aleksander Gierymski was a Polish painter of the late 19th century, the younger brother of Maksymilian Gierymski. He was a representative of Realism as well as an important precursor of...

Florian Ceynowa

35 Florian Stanisław Ceynowa was a doctor, political activist, writer, and linguist. He was a pioneer of the nationalist movement among the Kashubian people in the mid-19th century. Ceynowa undertook...

Santa Claus

34 Santa Claus is a legendary figure originating in Western Christian culture who is said to bring gifts during the late evening and overnight hours on Christmas Eve. Christmas elves are said to make...

Piotr Wawrzyniak

34 Piotr Wawrzyniak was a Polish priest, economic and educational activist, patron of the Union of the Earnings and Economic Societies.

Anthony of Padua

34 Anthony of Padua, OFM, or Anthony of Lisbon; born Fernando Martins de Bulhões was a Portuguese Catholic priest and member of the Order of Friars Minor.

Stefania Sempołowska

34 Stefania Sempołowska was a Polish educator, activist and writer.                                   

Piotr Michałowski

34 Piotr Michałowski was a Polish painter of the Romantic period, especially known for his many portraits, and oil studies of horses. Broadly educated, he was also a social activist, legal advocate,...

Napoleon

34 Napoleon I was Emperor of the French from 18 May 1804 until his first abdication in 1814, with a brief restoration during the Hundred Days in 1815. He rose to prominence as a general during the...

Stanisław Dubois

33 Stanisław Józef Dubois was a Polish journalist and political activist in the Second Polish Republic, member of the left wing of the Polish Socialist Party, as well as the Youth Organisation of the...

Jakub Jasiński

33 Jakub Krzysztof Jasiński of Rawicz coat of arms was a Polish–Lithuanian general, and poet of Enlightenment. He participated in the War in Defence of the Constitution in 1792, was an enemy of the...

Jacob

33 Jacob, later given the name Israel, is a Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions. He first appears in the Torah, where he is described in the Book of Genesis as a son of Isaac and Rebecca....

Tytus Chałubiński

32 Tytus Aureliusz Chałubiński was a Polish physician, naturalist, and co-founder of the Polish Tatra Society. His collections of natural history specimens are now held in the Tatra Mountains Museum in...

Sigismund II Augustus

32 Sigismund II Augustus was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, the son of Sigismund I the Old, whom Sigismund II succeeded in 1548. He was the first ruler of the Polish–Lithuanian...

Ludwik Mierosławski

32 Ludwik Adam Mierosławski was a Polish general, writer, poet, historian and political activist. Mierosławski took part in the November Uprising of the 1830s, and after its failure he emigrated to...

Norbert Barlicki

32 Norbert Barlicki was a Polish publicist, lawyer and politician of the Polish Socialist Party (PPS). 

Paweł Stalmach

32 Paweł Stalmach – polski dziennikarz, publicysta, redaktor i wydawca gazet, działacz społeczny i narodowy działający na Śląsku Cieszyńskim.

Czesław Niemen

32 Czesław Niemen, often credited mononymously as Niemen, was a Polish singer-songwriter, composer, and bandleader. Singing primarily in Polish, he is regarded as one of the most important and...

Henryk Jordan

32 Henryk Jordan was a Polish philanthropist, physician and pioneer of physical education. A professor of obstetrics from 1895 at Kraków's Jagiellonian University, Jordan became best known for...

Władysław III of Poland

32 Władysław III of Poland, also known as Ladislaus of Varna, was King of Poland and Supreme Duke of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1434, as well as King of Hungary and Croatia as Vladislaus I from...

Władysław Syrokomla

31 Ludwik Władysław Franciszek Kondratowicz, better known as Władysław Syrokomla, was a Polish–Lithuanian poet, writer and translator of the Romantic era.

Martin of Tours

31 Martin of Tours was the third bishop of Tours. He is the patron saint of many communities and organizations across Europe, including France's Third Republic. A native of Pannonia, he converted to...

Józef Dwernicki

31 Józef Dwernicki was a General of Cavalry in the Polish Army, and a participant in the November Uprising (1830–1831).

Witold Lutosławski

31 Witold Roman Lutosławski was a Polish composer and conductor. Among the major composers of 20th-century classical music, he is "generally regarded as the most significant Polish composer since...

Anna Jagiellon

31 Anna Jagiellon was Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania from 1575 to 1587.               

Henry II the Pious

30 Henry II the Pious was Duke of Silesia and High Duke of Poland as well as Duke of South-Greater Poland from 1238 until his death. Between 1238 and 1239 he also served as regent of Sandomierz and...

Antoni Abraham

30 Antoni Abraham was a Polish promoter of Pomeranian culture, Kashubian activist and popular writer. 

Stanisław August Poniatowski

30 Stanisław II August, known also by his regnal Latin name Stanislaus II Augustus, and as Stanisław August Poniatowski, was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1764 to 1795, and the last...

Karol Olszewski

29 Karol Stanisław Olszewski was a Polish chemist, mathematician, and physicist. Together with Zygmunt Wróblewski, in 1883 he was the first scientist in the world to liquify oxygen and nitrogen.

Teofil Lenartowicz

29 Teofil Aleksander Lenartowicz was a Polish ethnographer, sculptor, poet and Romantic conspirator. Linked to Bohemians among Warsaw intellectuals, Lenartowicz was associated with Oskar Kolberg and...

Edward Dembowski

29 Edward Dembowski was a Polish philosopher, literary critic, journalist, and leftist independence activist.

Tadeusz Makowski

29 Tadeusz Makowski was a Polish painter who worked in France and was associated with the School of Paris.

Faustina Kowalska

29 Maria Faustyna Kowalska of the Blessed Sacrament, OLM was a Polish Catholic religious sister and mystic. Faustyna, popularly spelled Faustina in English, had apparitions of Jesus Christ which...

Henry the Bearded

28 Henry the Bearded was a Polish duke from the Piast dynasty.                                         

Stanisław Brzóska

28 Stanisław Brzóska was a Polish priest, general, one of leaders of the Polish insurgency and the last partisan of the January Uprising. He commanded the Polish detachment in South Podlasie and...

Józef Elsner

27 Józef Antoni Franciszek Elsner was a Polish composer, music teacher, and music theoretician, active mainly in Warsaw. He was one of the first composers in Poland to weave elements of folk music into...

Franciszek Żwirko

27 Franciszek Żwirko [english pronunciation like: frantsishek zhvirko] was a prominent Polish sport and military aviator. Along with Stanisław Wigura, he won the international air contest Challenge 1932.

Mieczysław Niedziałkowski

27 Mieczysław Niedziałkowski was a Polish politician and writer. He was an activist in the Polish Socialist Party, editor in chief of Robotnik, and one of the primary activists and cofounders of the...

Vytautas the Great

27 Vytautas the Great was a ruler of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, first as regent for his cousin Jogaila (1392–1401) and then as the Grand Duke alongside him (1401–1430). He was also the prince of...

Saint Peter

27 Saint Peter, also known as Peter the Apostle, Simon Peter, Simeon, Simon, or Cephas, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus and one of the first leaders of the early Christian Church. He appears...

Władysław IV Vasa

27 Władysław IV Vasa or Ladislaus IV was King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania and claimant of the thrones of Sweden and Russia. Born into the House of Vasa as a prince of Poland and of Sweden,...

Stanisław Dąbek

27 Stanisław Dąbek was a Polish infantry colonel in the Polish Armed Forces, he was commander of the Marine Brigade of National Defense and acting commander of the Land Defense of the Coast during the...

Stanisław Przybyszewski

27 Stanisław Przybyszewski was a Polish novelist, dramatist, and poet of the decadent naturalistic school. His drama is associated with the Symbolist movement. He wrote both in Polish and in German.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

26 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the US, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving US president and the only one to have served more...

Saint Lawrence

26 Saint Lawrence or Laurence was one of the seven deacons of the city of Rome under Pope Sixtus II who were martyred in the persecution of the Christians that the Roman emperor Valerian ordered in 258.

Mary, mother of Jesus

26 Mary was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of Jesus. She is an important figure of Christianity, venerated under various titles such as virgin or queen, many...

Hans Christian Andersen

26 Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales.

Pola Gojawiczyńska

26 Pola Gojawiczyńska, real name Apolonia Gojawiczyńska, née Koźniewska was a Polish writer.           

Lucjan Rydel

26 Lucjan Rydel, also known as Lucjan Antoni Feliks Rydel, was a Polish playwright and poet from the Young Poland movement.

Józef Zajączek

26 Prince Józef Zajączek was a Polish general and politician.                                         

Bronisław Malinowski

26 Bronisław Kasper Malinowski was a Polish anthropologist and ethnologist whose writings on ethnography, social theory, and field research have exerted a lasting influence on the discipline of...

Pan Tadeusz

26 Pan Tadeusz is an epic poem by the Polish poet, writer, translator and philosopher Adam Mickiewicz. The book, written in Polish alexandrines, was first published by Aleksander Jełowicki on 28 June...

Julian Przyboś

26 Julian Przyboś was a Polish poet, essayist and translator, one of the most important poets of the Kraków Avant-Garde.

Kinga of Poland

26 Kinga of Poland or Kinga of Hungary, also Saint Kinga is a saint in the Catholic Church and patroness of Poland and Lithuania.

Casimir I the Restorer

26 Casimir I the Restorer, a member of the Piast dynasty, was the duke of Poland from 1040 until his death. Casimir was the son of Mieszko II Lambert and Richeza of Lotharingia. He is known as the...

Aleksander Majkowski

25 Aleksander Majkowski was a Polish-Kashubian writer, poet, journalist, editor, activist, and physician. He was the most important figure in the Kashubian movement before World War II, editor of Gryf,...

Ludomir Różycki

25 Ludomir Różycki was a Polish composer, conductor and pedagogue. He was, with Mieczysław Karłowicz, Karol Szymanowski and Grzegorz Fitelberg, a member of the group of composers known as Young Poland,...

Jerzy Kukuczka

25 Józef Jerzy Kukuczka was a Polish mountaineer, regarded as one of the greatest high-altitude climbers in history. In 1987, he became the second man to climb all 14 eight-thousanders in the world, a...

Catherine of Alexandria

25 Catherine of Alexandria, also spelled Katherine, was, according to tradition, a Christian saint and virgin, who was martyred in the early 4th century at the hands of the emperor Maxentius. According...

Jędrzej Śniadecki

25 Jędrzej Śniadecki was a Polish writer, physician, chemist, biologist and philosopher. His achievements include being the first person who linked rickets to lack of sunlight. He also created modern...

Antoni Grabowski

25 Antoni Grabowski was a Polish chemical engineer, and an activist of the early Esperanto movement. His translations had an influential impact on the development of Esperanto into a language of...

Arka Bożek

24 Arka Bożek, właśc. Arkadiusz Bożek – polski działacz na Śląsku Opolskim, członek Rady Narodowej RP (1939–1945), wicewojewoda śląski (1945–1950), poseł do Krajowej Rady Narodowej (1946–1947) i Sejmu...

Tadeusz Zawadzki

24 Tadeusz Leon Józef Zawadzki was a Polish scout instructor, scoutmaster, Home Army second lieutenant, commander of assault groups in Warsaw, one of the protagonists of Aleksander Kamiński's book...

Maurycy Mochnacki

24 Maurycy Mochnacki was a Polish literary, theatre and music critic, publicist, journalist, pianist, historian and independence activist. One of the main theorists of Polish Romanticism. He joined the...

August Emil Fieldorf

24 August Emil Fieldorf was a Polish brigadier general who served as deputy commander-in-chief of the Home Army after the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising.

Helena Marusarzówna

24 Helena Marusarzówna – polska mistrzyni sportów narciarskich, kurierka tatrzańska, żołnierz Związku Walki Zbrojnej (ZWZ).

Kornel Ujejski

24 Kornel Ujejski, also known as Cornelius Ujejski, was a Polish poet, patriot and political writer of the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary.

Francis of Assisi

24 Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone, known as Francis of Assisi, was an Italian mystic, poet and Catholic friar who founded the religious order of the Franciscans. Inspired to lead a Christian life of...

Hassling-Ketling of Elgin

23 Ketling is a fictional character in Henryk Sienkiewicz's novel Fire in the Steppe, the third volume of his award-winning The Trilogy. A Scotsman, Ketling moved to Poland where he became a Colonel of...

Alfred Szklarski

23 Alfred Szklarski was a Polish author of youth literature. He also published his books under the pseudonyms Alfred Bronowski, Fred Garland and Alfred Murawski.

Maksymilian Gierymski

23 Maksymilian Dionizy Gierymski was a Polish painter, specializing mainly in watercolours. He was the older brother of painter Aleksander Gierymski.

Wincenty Kadłubek

23 Wincenty Kadłubek was a Polish Catholic prelate and professed Cistercian who served as the Bishop of Kraków from 1208 until his resignation in 1218. His episcopal mission was to reform the diocesan...

Janina Porazińska

23 Janina Porazińska – polska prozaiczka, redaktorka, tłumaczka literatury skandynawskiej i literatury szwedzkojęzycznej.

Tadeusz Sygietyński

23 Tadeusz Sygietyński – polski kompozytor i dyrygent, pedagog muzyczny, działacz niepodległościowy, założyciel Państwowego Zespołu Ludowego Pieśni i Tańca „Mazowsze” (1948).

Karol Libelt

22 Karol Libelt was a Polish philosopher, writer, political and social activist, social worker and liberal, nationalist politician, and president of the Poznań Society of Friends of Learning.

Józef Mirecki

22 Józef Anastazy Mirecki, pseudonim „Montwiłł”, „Grzegorz”, „Bronisław”, „Sawicki” – polski socjalista, jeden z przywódców Organizacji Bojowej Polskiej Partii Socjalistycznej i członek jej Wydziału...

Wojciech Kętrzyński

22 Wojciech Kętrzyński, was a Polish historian and the director of the Ossolineum Library in Lemberg, then the capital of Galicia, Austrian Empire. He focused on Polish history at a time when Poland was...

Romuald Mielczarski

22 Romuald Mielczarski (ps. Jan Wierzba) – działacz spółdzielczy i niepodległościowy. Współtwórca Towarzystwa Kooperatystów, prezes Związku Spółdzielni Spożywców RP.

Janusz Groszkowski

22 Janusz Groszkowski – polski naukowiec zajmujący się elektroniką i radiotechniką, kandydat do nagrody Nobla, inżynier, prezes Polskiej Akademii Nauk, polityk, przewodniczący Ogólnopolskiego Komitetu...

Zygmunt Sierakowski

21 Zygmunt Erazm Gaspar Józef Sierakowski was a Polish leader of the January Uprising in lands of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Stanisław Skarżyński

21 Stanisław Jakub Skarżyński was a lieutenant colonel in the Polish Air Force and aviator famous for his transatlantic solo flight in 1933.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

21 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer during the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music made a lasting impression internationally. Tchaikovsky wrote some of the most...

Kazimierz Sosnkowski

21 General Kazimierz Sosnkowski was a Polish independence fighter, general, diplomat, and architect.   

Zygmunt Noskowski

21 Zygmunt Noskowski was a Polish composer, conductor, and teacher.                                   

Grażyna Bacewicz

21 Grażyna Bacewicz Biernacka was a Polish composer and violinist of Lithuanian origin. She is the second Polish female composer to have achieved national and international recognition, the first being...

Władysław Raginis

21 Władysław Raginis was a Polish military commander during the invasion of Poland in 1939 of a small force holding the Polish fortified defense positions against a vastly larger German force during the...

Grzegorz Piramowicz

20 Grzegorz Piramowicz was a Polish Roman Catholic priest, educator, writer, and philosopher of Armenian origin. He was a member of the Commission of National Education and Society for Elementary Books,...

Eugeniusz Romer

20 Eugeniusz Mikołaj Romer was a distinguished Polish geographer, cartographer and geopolitician, whose maps and atlases are still highly valued by experts.

Tadeusz Borowski

20 Tadeusz Borowski was a Polish writer and journalist. His wartime poetry and stories dealing with his experiences as a prisoner at Auschwitz are recognized as classics of Polish literature.

Marek Hłasko

20 Marek Hłasko was a Polish author and screenwriter.                                                 

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

20 Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky was a Russian rocket scientist who pioneered astronautics. Along with Hermann Oberth and Robert H. Goddard, he is one of the pioneers of space flight and the...

Stefan Banach

19 Stefan Banach was a Polish mathematician who is generally considered one of the 20th century's most important and influential mathematicians. He was the founder of modern functional analysis, and an...

Józef Sułkowski

19 Chef d'escadrons Józef Sułkowski was a Polish army officer who served in the Polish–Russian War of 1792French Revolutionary Wars. Serving the French Revolutionary Army, he became a friend and...

Tomasz Zan

19 Tomasz Zan was a Polish poet and activist. Zan played a significant role in the cultural and literary movements of his time, advocating for the preservation and promotion of Polish culture. Zan's...

Bolesław Domański

19 Bolesław Domański was a famous Polish Catholic Priest, and was the President of the Union of Poles in Germany from 1931 to 1939. He served as the Parson of the Zakrzewo Parish from 1903 to 1939....

Dezydery Chłapowski

19 Baron Dezydery Adam Chłapowski of the Dryja coat of arms was a Polish general, businessman and political activist.

Tadeusz Czacki

19 Tadeusz Czacki was a Polish historian, pedagogue and numismatist. Czacki played an important part in the Enlightenment in Poland.

Gallus Anonymus

19 Gallus Anonymus, is the name traditionally given to the anonymous author of Gesta principum Polonorum, composed in Latin between 1112 and 1118. Gallus is generally regarded as the first historian to...

Stefan Kisielewski

19 Stefan Kisielewski, nicknames Kisiel, Julia Hołyńska, Teodor Klon, Tomasz Staliński, was a Polish writer, publicist, composer and politician, and one of the members of Znak, one of the founders of...

Norbert Bonczyk

19 Norbert Bonczyk – ksiądz katolicki, poeta, autor artykułów do „Zwiastuna Górnośląskiego”, działacz narodowy na rzecz polskości Górnego Śląska, tłumacz liryki niemieckiej. Zwany „Śląskim Homerem”....

Przemyslaus I Noszak, Duke of Cieszyn

19 Przemysław I Noszak, was a Duke of Cieszyn-Bytom-Siewierz from 1358, from 1384 ruler over half of both Głogów and Ścinawa and after 1401 ruler over Toszek.

Jan Dekert

19 Jan Dekert or Jan Dekiert was a Polish merchant of German descent and political activist. Starting in the 1760s, he rose to become one of the most prominent merchants in the Polish capital of Warsaw....

Leszek II the Black

19 Leszek II the Black was a Polish prince of the House of Piast, Duke of Sieradz since 1261, Duke of Łęczyca since 1267, Duke of Inowrocław from 1273 to 1278, Duke of Sandomierz and High Duke of Poland...

Hansel and Gretel

19 "Hansel and Gretel" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm and published in 1812 as part of Grimms' Fairy Tales.

Karol Wojtyła (senior)

19 Karol Wojtyła was a Polish military officer who was a non-commissioned officer of the Austro-Hungarian Army and a lieutenant of the Polish Armed Forces' administration. He was the father and namesake...

Aleksandra Billewiczówna

19 Aleksandra Billewicz is a fictional character created by Henryk Sienkiewicz, appearing in the novel The Deluge as the main female protagonist. She is a wise Lithuanian noblewoman, by the will of her...

Stanislaus of Szczepanów

18 Stanislaus of Szczepanów was a Polish Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Kraków and was martyred by the Polish King Bolesław II the Bold. He is the patron saint of Poland.

Antoni Madaliński

18 Antoni Madaliński (1739–1805) was a Polish Lieutenant General and commander of the 1st Greater Polish National Cavalry Brigade during the Kościuszko Uprising.

Mark the Evangelist

18 Mark the Evangelist, also known as John Mark or Saint Mark, was a Libyan who is traditionally ascribed to be the author of the Gospel of Mark. Most modern scholars agree that the Gospel of Mark is...

Franciszek Stefczyk

18 Franciszek Kazimierz Stefczyk – nauczyciel, ekonomista, działacz społeczny, spółdzielczy i ruchu ludowego. Inicjator zakładania spółdzielczych kas oszczędnościowo-pożyczkowych, znanych później jako...

Ignacy Domeyko

18 Ignacy Domeyko or Domejko, pseudonym: Żegota was a Polish geologist, mineralogist, educator, and founder of the University of Santiago, in Chile. Domeyko spent most of his life, and died, in his...

Elizabeth, mother of John the Baptist

18 Elizabeth was the mother of John the Baptist, the wife of Zechariah and a relative of Mary, mother of Jesus, according to the Gospel of Luke. She was past normal child-bearing age when she conceived...

Olga Boznańska

18 Olga Boznańska was a Polish painter who was stylistically associated with the French impressionism, though she rejected this label.

Michael (archangel)

18 Michael, also called Archangel Michael or Michael the Taxiarch, is an archangel and the warrior of God in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam while additionally being a saint in Christianity. The...

John Scolvus

17 John Scolvus or John of Kolno may have been a navigator of the late 15th century. According to some sources he was among a group of early Europeans to reach the shores of the Americas prior to...

Bogislaw X

17 Bogislaw X of Pomerania, the Great, was Duke of Pomerania from 1474 until his death in 1523.       

Stanisław Leszczyński

17 Stanisław I Leszczyński, also Anglicized and Latinized as Stanislaus I, was twice King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, and at various times Prince of Deux-Ponts, Duke of Bar and Duke of...

Hipolit Cegielski

17 Hipolit Cegielski was a Polish businessman and social and cultural activist. He founded H. Cegielski – Poznań in 1846.

Franciszek Karpiński

17 Franciszek Karpiński was the leading sentimental Polish poet of the Age of Enlightenment. He is particularly remembered for his religious works later rendered as hymns and carols. He is also...

Władysław Szafer

17 Prof Władysław Szafer PAS HFRSE was a Polish botanist, palaeobotanist, quaternary geologist and professor of botany at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He was a world pioneer in nature...

Aleksander Orłowski

17 Aleksander Orłowski was a Polish painter and sketch artist, and a pioneer of lithography in the Russian Empire.

Woodrow Wilson

17 Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th president of the United States, serving from 1913 to 1921. He was the only Democrat to serve as president during the Progressive Era, when Republicans dominated the...

Jerzy Bajan

17 Jerzy Bajan was a prominent Polish sports and military aviator, winner of the Challenge 1934 contest.

Stanisław Kunicki

17 Stanisław Kunicki was a Polish revolutionary.                                                       

Juliusz Osterwa

17 Juliusz Osterwa, born Julian Andrzej Maluszek, was a renowned Polish actor, theatre director and art theoretician active in the interwar period. He was the founder of Theatre Reduta, the first...

Stanisław Taczak

17 Stanisław Taczak was a Polish general.                                                             

Przemysł II

17 Przemysł II was the Duke of Poznań from 1257–1279, of Greater Poland from 1279 to 1296, of Kraków from 1290 to 1291, and Gdańsk Pomerania (Pomerelia) from 1294 to 1296, and then King of Poland from...

Juliusz Konstanty Ordon

17 Konstanty Juliusz Ordon was a participant in the Polish November Uprising in 1830–1831.             

Hyacinth of Poland

17 Hyacinth was a Polish Dominican priest and missionary who worked to reform the women's monasteries in his native Poland. Educated in Paris and Bologna, he was a Doctor of Sacred Studies.

Józef Rymer

17 Józef Rymer (1882–1922) was a Polish and Silesian activist and politician.                         

Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski

16 Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski was a Polish physicist and chemist. Together with Karol Olszewski, he was the first scientist in the world to liquify nitrogen in 1883.

Mieczysława Ćwiklińska

16 Mieczysława Ćwiklińska-Steinsberg was a Polish film actress, stage actor, and singer. She was often nicknamed Lińska or Amiette.

Stanislaus Kostka

16 Stanisław Kostka, S.J. was a Polish novice in the Society of Jesus.                                 

Seweryn Goszczyński

16 Seweryn Goszczyński was a Polish Romantic prose writer and poet.                                   

Emil Zegadłowicz

16 Emil Zegadłowicz was a Polish poet, prose writer, novelist, playwright, translator, expert of art; co-originator of Polish expressionism, member of expressionists' group Zdrój, co-founder of group...

Aniela Krzywoń

16 Aniela Krzywoń was a private in the "Emilia Plater" Independent Women's Battalion of the Polish People's Army during the Second World War and became the only woman in history who was not a citizen of...

Cyprian Godebski (poet)

16 Cyprian Godebski was a Polish poet, novelist and father of writer Franciszek Ksawery. He was an outstanding poet of the so-called "Legions Poetry".

Joseph Conrad

16 Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British novelist and story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language and – though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties –...

Jan Nowak-Jeziorański

16 Jan Nowak-Jeziorański was a Polish journalist, writer, politician, social worker and patriot. He served during the Second World War as one of the most notable resistance fighters of the Home Army. He...

Jan Karski

16 Jan Karski was a Polish soldier, resistance-fighter, and diplomat during World War II. He is known for having acted as a courier in 1940–1943 to the Polish government-in-exile and to Poland's Western...

Tadeusz Gajcy

16 Tadeusz Stefan Gajcy was a Polish poet, playwright, editor-in-chief of the Sztuka i Naród periodical, member of the Confederation of the Nation, soldier of the Home Army.

Saint Christopher

16 Saint Christopher is venerated by several Christian denominations. According to these traditions, he was a martyr killed in the reign of the 3rd-century Roman emperor Decius, or alternatively under...

Aleksander Zelwerowicz

16 Aleksander Zelwerowicz was a Polish actor, director, theatre president and a teacher. He received the Order of Polonia Restituta and is one of the Polish Righteous among the Nations.

Stanisław Wojciechowski

16 Stanisław Wojciechowski was a Polish politician and scholar who served as President of Poland between 1922 and 1926, during the Second Polish Republic.

Little Red Riding Hood

16 "Little Red Riding Hood" is a fairy tale about a young girl and a Big Bad Wolf. Some later versions include a woodsman. Its origins can be traced back to several pre-17th-century European folk tales,...

Leszek I the White

16 Leszek the White was Prince of Sandomierz and High Duke of Poland in the years 1194–1198, 1199, 1206–1210, and 1211–1227. During the early stages of his reign, his uncle Duke Mieszko III the Old and...

Cinderella

16 Cinderella or The Little Glass Slipper, is French fairy tale with thousands of variants that are told throughout the world. The protagonist is a young girl living in unfortunate circumstances who is...

The Little Prince

16 The Little Prince is a novella written and illustrated by French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. It was first published in English and French in the United States by Reynal & Hitchcock...

Wojciech Kilar

16 Wojciech Kilar was a Polish classical and film music composer. One of his greatest successes came with his score to Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula in 1992, which received the ASCAP...

Władysław I Herman

16 Władysław I Herman was the Duke of Poland from 1079 until his death in 1102.                       

Agnieszka Osiecka

16 Agnieszka Osiecka was a Polish poet, writer, author of theatre and television screenplays, film director and journalist. She was a prominent Polish songwriter, having authored the lyrics to more than...

Kazimierz Górski

16 Kazimierz Klaudiusz Górski was a Polish professional football manager. He was also a football player, capped once for Poland.

Artur Zawisza (kapitan)

15 Artur Zawisza Czarny herbu Przerowa – działacz niepodległościowy, uczestnik powstania listopadowego (1830–1831), członek Towarzystwa Patriotycznego, od 1831 na emigracji we Francji, członek...

Kazimierz Brodziński

15 Kazimierz Brodziński was an important Polish Romantic poet.                                         

Jan Chryzostom Pasek

15 Jan Chryzostom Pasek of Gosławice (c.1636–1701) was a Polish nobleman and writer during the times of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. He is best remembered for his memoirs (Pamiętniki), which are...

Henryk Rodakowski

15 Henryk Hipolit Rodakowski was a Polish painter.                                                     

Kazimierz Wierzyński

15 Kazimierz Wierzyński was a Polish poet and journalist; an elected member of the prestigious Polish Academy of Literature in the Second Polish Republic.

Michał Bałucki

15 Michał Bałucki, pseudonym Elpidon, was a Polish playwright and poet.                               

Maurice Benyovszky

15 Count Maurice Benyovszky de Benyó et Urbanó was a military officer, adventurer, and writer from the Kingdom of Hungary, who described himself as both a Hungarian and a Pole. He is considered a...

Józef Pankiewicz

15 Józef Pankiewicz was a Polish impressionist painter, graphic artist and teacher. He spent much of his career in France.

Wanda Rutkiewicz

15 Wanda Rutkiewicz was a Polish mountaineer and computer engineer. She was the first woman to reach the summit of K2 and the third woman to summit Mount Everest.

Paweł Strzelecki

15 Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, also known as Paul Edmund de Strzelecki and Sir Paul Strzelecki, was a Polish explorer, geologist, humanitarian, environmentalist, nobleman, scientist, businessman and...

Jacek Kaczmarski

15 Jacek Marcin Kaczmarski was a Polish singer, songwriter, poet and author.                           

Mary Magdalene

15 Mary Magdalene was a woman who, according to the four canonical gospels, travelled with Jesus as one of his followers and was a witness to his crucifixion and resurrection. In Gnostic writings, Mary...

Stanisław Skalski

15 Stanisław Skalski, was a Polish aviator and fighter ace who served with the Polish Air Force and British Royal Air Force during the Second World War. Skalski was the top Polish fighter ace of the war...

Marek Grechuta

15 Marek Michał Grechuta was a Polish singer, songwriter, composer, and lyricist.                     

Stanisław Jachowicz

15 Stanisław Jachowicz was a Polish educator, poet and children's book author. He is regarded as the founding father of children's literature in Poland.

Aleksander Kamiński

15 Aleksander Kamiński, assumed name: Aleksander Kędzierski. Also known under aliases such as Dąbrowski, J. Dąbrowski, Fabrykant, Faktor, Juliusz Górecki, Hubert, Kamyk, Kaźmierczak, Bambaju was a...

August Cieszkowski

14 Count August Dołęga Cieszkowski was a Polish philosopher, economist and social and political activist. His Hegelian philosophy influenced the young Karl Marx and action theorists.

Feliks Stamm

14 Feliks "Papa" Stamm was a prominent Polish boxing coach. He is widely regarded as the father of Polish boxing, and the creator of the so-called Polish school of boxing. To commemorate him, since 1977...

Antoni Słonimski

14 Antoni Słonimski was a Polish poet, artist, journalist, playwright and prose writer, president of the Union of Polish Writers in 1956–1959 during the Polish October, known for his devotion to social...

Dionizy Czachowski

14 Dionizy Feliks Czachowski z Czachowa h. Korab was a Polish general and commander of the Sandomierz Voivodeship during the 1863 January Uprising in Congress Poland.

Tadeusz Kotarbiński

14 Tadeusz Marian Kotarbiński was a Polish philosopher, logician and ethicist.                         

Adam Naruszewicz

14 Adam Stanisław Naruszewicz was a Polish-Lithuanian nobleman, poet, historian, dramatist, translator, publicist, Jesuit and Roman Catholic bishop.

Roman Abraham

13 Roman Józef Abraham was a Polish cavalry general, commander of the Wielkopolska Cavalry Brigade during the German and Soviet Invasion of Poland in September 1939, and Battle of Bzura commander of...

Danuta Siedzikówna

13 Danuta Helena Siedzikówna was a Polish medical orderly in the 4th Squadron of the 5th Wilno Brigade of the Home Army. In 1946 she served with the Brigade's 1st Squadron in Poland's Pomerania region....

Józef Kustroń

13 Józef Rudolf Kustroń was a brigadier general of the Polish Army in the Second Polish Republic, commandant of the 21st Mountain Infantry Division. He was the first Polish general to die during the...

Anna Walentynowicz

13 Anna Walentynowicz was a Polish trade unionist and co-founder of Solidarity, the first recognised independent trade union in the Eastern Bloc. Her firing from her job at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk...

Christopher Columbus

13 Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs, opening...

Stanisław Sosabowski

13 Stanisław Franciszek Sosabowski was a Polish general in World War II. He fought in the Polish Campaign of 1939 and at the Battle of Arnhem (Netherlands), as a part of Operation Market Garden, in 1944...

Aleksander Kostka Napierski

13 Aleksander Leon Kostka-Napierski (1620–1651), Polish captain during the Thirty Years' War in Swedish service, participant of battle in Germany and organizer of the Kostka-Napierski Uprising....

Edmund Bojanowski

13 Edmund Bojanowski was a Polish Roman Catholic and the founder of four separate religious congregations. He studied art and literature during his education in Breslau and Berlin before distinguishing...

Vladimir Mayakovsky

13 Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky was a Russian poet, playwright, artist, and actor. During his early, pre-Revolution period leading into 1917, Mayakovsky became renowned as a prominent figure of the...

Jan Ostroróg

13 Jan Ostroróg (1436–1501) was a Polish political writer, voivode of Poznań and adviser to the Polish kings Casimir IV Jagiellon and John I Albert.

Czesław Tański

13 Czesław Aleksy Tański – polski artysta malarz, wynalazca, konstruktor lotniczy, pionier szybownictwa i popularyzator lotnictwa w Polsce. Nazywany jest ojcem polskiego lotnictwa.

Mariusz Zaruski

13 Mariusz Zaruski was a brigadier-general in the Polish Army, a pioneer of Polish sports yachting, an outstanding climber of the winter and caves of Tatra Mountains. He was a photographer, painter,...

Józef Mehoffer

13 Józef Mehoffer was a Polish painter and decorative artist, one of the leading artists of the Young Poland movement and one of the most revered Polish artists of his time.

Bernard Sychta

13 Bernard Sychta – ksiądz katolicki, działacz kaszubski, etnograf, językoznawca, dramatopisarz, autor 7-tomowego Słownika gwar kaszubskich na tle kultury ludowej.

Pyotr Bardovsky

13 Pyotr Vasilevich Bardovsky was a Russian lawyer and a supporter of independence for Poland. He was executed for his connection to Polish revolutionaries.

Stanisław Stojałowski

13 Stanisław Stojałowski, herbu Sternberg – polski duchowny katolicki, prałat, polityk, poseł na sejm galicyjski i do parlamentu austriackiego, zwolennik panslawizmu i agraryzmu, wydawca pism ludowych:...

Alfons Zgrzebniok

13 Alfons Alfred Zgrzebniok was a Polish teacher, activist, and politician from Silesia. He was one of the cofounders of the Silesian Insurgent Association in the early 1920s and also helped organize...

Józef Wieczorek (polityk)

13 Józef Wieczorek, pseud. Ryszard – działacz komunistyczny, powstaniec śląski, poseł na Sejm Śląski II kadencji, współzałożyciel Polskiej Partii Robotniczej.

Halina Poświatowska

13 Halina Poświatowska was a Polish poet and writer.                                                   

Arkady Fiedler

13 Arkady Fiedler was a Polish writer, journalist and adventurer.                                     

Saint Valentine

13 Saint Valentine was a 3rd-century Roman saint, commemorated in Western Christianity on February 14 and in Eastern Orthodoxy on July 6. From the High Middle Ages, his feast day has been associated...

Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska

13 Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska, née Kossak, was a Polish poet. She was known as the "Polish Sappho" and "queen of lyrical poetry" during Poland's interwar period. She was also a dramatist.

Jerzy Szaniawski

13 Jerzy Szaniawski was a Polish writer, playwright, and essayist; an elected member of the prestigious Polish Academy of Literature in the interwar period. He is best remembered for his series of short...

Sigismund III Vasa

13 Sigismund III Vasa was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1587 to 1632 and, as Sigismund, King of Sweden from 1592 to 1599. He was the first Polish sovereign from the House of Vasa....

Zygmunt Padlewski

12 Zygmunt Padlewski (1836–1863) was a Polish insurgent who participated in the January Uprising. He was one of the leaders of the "Red" faction among the insurrectionists as a member of the Central...

Paweł Jasienica

12 Paweł Jasienica was the pen name of Leon Lech Beynar, a Polish historian, journalist, essayist and soldier.

Maksymilian Jackowski

12 Maksymilian Jackowski was a Polish activist, secretary-general of the Central Economic Society, patron of the agricultural circles.

Charles Darwin

12 Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended from a...

Matthias the Apostle

12 Matthias was, according to the Acts of the Apostles, chosen by God through the apostles to replace Judas Iscariot following the latter's betrayal of Jesus and his subsequent death. His calling as an...

Johann Sebastian Bach

12 Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his prolific output across a variety of instruments and forms, including the orchestral...

Jan Lechoń

12 Leszek Józef Serafinowicz was a Polish poet, literary and theater critic, diplomat, and co-founder of the Skamander literary movement and the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America.

Grzegorz Fitelberg

12 Grzegorz Fitelberg was a Polish conductor, violinist and composer. He was a member of the Young Poland group, together with artists such as Karol Szymanowski, Ludomir Różycki and Mieczysław Karłowicz.

Andrew Bobola

12 Andrew Bobola, SJ was a Polish missionary and martyr of the Society of Jesus, known as the "Apostle of Lithuania" and the "hunter of souls". He was beaten and tortured to death during the Khmelnytsky...

Saint Casimir

12 Casimir Jagiellon was a prince of the Kingdom of Poland and of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The second son of King Casimir IV Jagiellon, he was tutored by Johannes Longinus, a Polish chronicler,...

Piast the Wheelwright

12 Piast the Wheelwright was a legendary figure in medieval Poland, the progenitor of the Piast dynasty that ruled the Kingdom of Poland.

Maria Kownacka

12 Maria Kownacka (1894–1982) was a Polish writer, translator and editor, specializing in children's literature. She was a long-time writer of Płomyk. Her best-known work is the series of books about...

Kazimierz Deyna

12 Kazimierz Deyna was a Polish professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder in the playmaker role and was one of the most highly regarded players of his generation, due to his...

Jan Tarnowski

12 Jan Amor Tarnowski was a Polish nobleman, knight, military commander, military theoretician, and statesman of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland. He was Grand Crown Hetman from 1527, and was the...

Witold Małcużyński

12 Witold Małcużyński was a Polish pianist who specialized in the works of Frédéric Chopin.           

Mestwin II, Duke of Pomerania

12 Mestwin II was a Duke of Gdańsk Pomerania, member of the Samborides dynasty. He ruled Gdańsk Pomerania as a sole ruler from 1273 to 1294.

John the Baptist

12 John the Baptist was a Jewish preacher active in the area of the Jordan River in the early first century AD. He is also known as Saint John the Forerunner in Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy,...

Galileo Galilei

12 Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei, commonly referred to as Galileo Galilei, was an Italian astronomer, physicist, and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath. He was born in the city of...

Stanisław Ligoń

12 Stanisław Ligoń, ps. Karlik z Kocyndra – polski pisarz, malarz, ilustrator, działacz kulturalny i narodowy, reżyser, aktor.

Włodzimierz Puchalski

12 Włodzimierz Puchalski was a Polish photographer and film director. He was a pioneer of wildlife film-making in Poland and became famous for publishing his album "Bezkrwawe łowy" in 1954.

Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna

12 Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna was a Polish poet, prose writer, playwright and translator. She was one of the most acclaimed and celebrated poets during Poland's interwar period.

Edward Stachura

12 Edward Stachura was a Polish poet, writer and translator. He rose to prominence in the 1960s, receiving prizes for both poetry and prose. His literary output includes four volumes of poetry, three...

Aleksander Świętochowski

11 Aleksander Świętochowski was a Polish writer, educator, and philosopher of the Positivist period that followed the January 1863 Uprising.

Stanisław Noakowski

11 Stanisław Noakowski was a Polish architect, watercolorist and art historian. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics.

Ryszard Kaczorowski

11 Ryszard Kaczorowski, GCMG was a Polish statesman. From 1989 to 1990, he served as the last president of Poland-in-exile. He succeeded Kazimierz Sabbat, and resigned his post following Poland's...

Emilia Sczaniecka

11 Emilia Sczaniecka herbu Ossoria – polska arystokratka; zasłużona działaczka społeczna i patriotyczna, m.in. za pomoc niesioną rannym w czasie powstania listopadowego (1830–1831) w Królestwie Polskim.

Ferdinand Foch

11 Ferdinand Foch was a French general, Marshal of France and a member of the Académie Française and Académie des Sciences. He distinguished himself as Supreme Allied Commander on the Western Front...

Jakub Wejher

11 Jakub Wejher, was a member of the Polish line of the Weyher family, a Count of the Holy Roman Empire and member of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth szlachta (nobility). His coat of arms was Wejher....

Jan Stanisławski (painter)

11 Jan Grzegorz Stanisławski was a Polish modernist painter, art educator, and founder and member of various innovative art groups and literary societies. In 1906 he became a full professor at the...

Ludwik Idzikowski

11 Ludwik Idzikowski was a Polish military aviator. He died during a transatlantic flight trial.       

Konrad Wallenrod

11 Konrad Wallenrod is an 1828 narrative poem, in Polish, by Adam Mickiewicz, set in the 14th-century Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

Henryk Arctowski

11 Henryk Bronisław Arctowski, born Henryk Artzt, was a Polish scientist and explorer.                 

Józef Czechowicz

11 Józef Czechowicz was an avant-garde Polish poet. Known as a nostalgic, catastrophic author, he was also the leader of the literary avant-garde and bohemians in Lublin. For this visionary poet, verse...

Wojciech Gerson

11 Wojciech Gerson was a Polish painter, educator, architect and art critic who was one of the foremost representatives of the Polish school of Realism during the foreign Partitions of Poland. He served...

Józef Brandt

11 Józef Brandt (1841–1915) was a Polish painter best known for his paintings of battles in Polish history, often featuring horses.

Zygmunt Gloger

11 Zygmunt Gloger was a Polish historian, archaeologist, geographer and ethnographer, bearer of the Wilczekosy coat of arms. Gloger founded the precursor of modern and widely popular Polish Tourist and...

Zofia Kossak-Szczucka

11 Zofia Kossak-Szczucka was a Polish writer and World War II resistance fighter. She co-founded two wartime Polish organizations: Front for the Rebirth of Poland and Żegota, set up to assist Polish...

John I Albert

11 John I Albert was King of Poland from 1492 to his death and Duke of Głogów from 1491 to 1498. He was the fourth Polish sovereign from the Jagiellonian dynasty and the son of Casimir IV and Elizabeth...

Józef Szafranek

11 Józef Szafranek, właśc. Joseph Schaffranek – śląski ksiądz katolicki, działacz społeczny, polityczny, tłumacz, autor i wydawca. W latach 1840–1874 proboszcz parafii Wniebowzięcia Najświętszej Maryi...

Andrzej Mielęcki

11 Andrzej Mielęcki herbu Ciołek – polski działacz społeczny i polityczny na Górnym Śląsku, lekarz.   

John Cantius

11 John Cantius was a Polish Catholic priest, scholastic philosopher, physicist and theologian.       

Louis Pasteur

11 Louis Pasteur was a French chemist, pharmacist, and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization, the last of which was...

Jan Cybis

11 Jan Cybis was a prominent Polish painter and art teacher.                                           

Gustaw Orlicz-Dreszer

11 Gustaw Konstanty Orlicz-Dreszer was a Polish general, and a political and social activist.         

Tadeusz Rozwadowski

11 Count Tadeusz Jordan-Rozwadowski was a Polish military commander, diplomat, and politician, a general of the Austro-Hungarian Army and then the Polish Army.

Bartholomew the Apostle

11 Bartholomew was one of the twelve apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. Most scholars today identify Bartholomew as Nathanael, who appears in the Gospel of John.

Andrew the Apostle

11 Andrew the Apostle was an apostle of Jesus. According to the New Testament, he was a fisherman and one of the Twelve Apostles chosen by Jesus.

Peter Pan (play and novel)

11 Peter Pan; or, The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, often known simply as Peter Pan, is a work by Scottish novelist J. M. Barrie, in the form of a 1904 play and a 1911 novel titled Peter and Wendy. Both...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

11 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a Classical composer and musician. In his brief life, he completed more than 800 works including outstanding examples of most of the genres of his time: symphonies,...

Benedykt Dybowski

11 Benedykt Tadeusz Dybowski was a Polish naturalist and physician.                                   

Sigismund I the Old

11 Sigismund I the Old was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1506 until his death in 1548. He was a member of the Jagiellonian dynasty, the son of Casimir IV and younger brother of Kings...

Tadeusz Ślusarski

11 Tadeusz Ślusarski was a Polish Olympic gold medalist in pole vault at the 1976 Olympics, as well as a silver medalist at the 1980 Olympics.

Józef Tischner

11 Józef Stanisław Tischner was a Polish priest and philosopher. The first chaplain of the trade union, "Solidarity".

Edmund Taczanowski

11 Edmund Taczanowski was a Polish general, insurrectionist, member of the Taczanowski magnate dynasty, and Lord of the estate of Choryń in the province of Poznań.

Krzysztof Komeda

11 Krzysztof Trzciński, known professionally as Krzysztof Komeda, was a Polish film score composer and jazz pianist widely regarded as one of the most influential Polish jazz musicians. He is best known...

Stanisław Gabriel Worcell

10 Stanisław Gabriel Worcell was a socialist Polish revolutionary. Throughout his life, he lived in France, England, and Jersey. On August 11, 1831, he was awarded the Silver Cross of the Virtuti...

Jan Pietrusiński

10 Jan Pietrusiński – polski tkacz, działacz ruchu robotniczego.                                       

Tomasz Nocznicki

10 Tomasz Nocznicki, ps. Paweł spod Grójca, Tomasz Wiejski – polski działacz ruchu ludowego i niepodległościowego, publicysta, współzałożyciel „Zarania”, poseł na Sejm i senator. Minister bez teki w...

Leopold Lis-Kula

10 Leopold Lis-Kula was a Colonel of Infantry of the Polish Army, and recipient of the Virtuti Militari. Lis Kula was born on November 11, 1896, in the village of Kosina near Łańcut, and died on March...

Ludwik Rydygier

10 Ludwik Antoni Rydygier was a Polish surgeon, professor of medicine, rector of the University of Lwów and Brigadier General of the Polish Army. He was one of the most distinguished Polish and...

Jan Parandowski

10 Jan Parandowski was a Polish writer, essayist, and translator. Best known for his works relating to classical antiquity, he was also the president of the Polish PEN Club between 1933 and 1978, with a...

Robert Koch

10 Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch was a German physician and microbiologist. He won the 1905 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his investigations and discoveries in relation to tuberculosis".

Stefan Drzewiecki

10 Stefan Drzewiecki was a Polish scientist, journalist, engineer, constructor and inventor, known for designing and constructing the world's first electric-powered submarine. He worked mainly in France...

Karol Kniaziewicz

10 Baron Karol Otto Kniaziewicz was a Polish general and political activist.                           

Fryderyk Skarbek

10 Fryderyk Florian Skarbek, a member of the Polish nobility, was an economist, novelist, historian, social activist, administrator, politician, and penologist who designed the Pawiak Prison of World...

Ludwik Hirszfeld

10 Ludwik Hirszfeld was a Polish microbiologist and serologist. He is considered a co-discoverer of the inheritance of ABO blood types.

Maria Zientara-Malewska

10 Maria Zientara-Malewska – poetka, nauczycielka i działaczka warmińska. Budownicza Polski Ludowej.   

Józef Rostek

10 Józef Rostek – polski lekarz i działacz narodowy w Raciborzu, znany działacz społeczny Górnego Śląska, założyciel kilku stowarzyszeń polskich.

Jan Zygmunt Skrzynecki

10 Jan Zygmunt Skrzynecki was a Polish general, and commander-in-chief of the November Uprising (1830–1831).

Edward Śmigły-Rydz

10 Marshal Edward Śmigły-Rydz also Edward Rydz-Śmigły, was a Polish politician, statesman, Marshal of Poland and Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Armed Forces, as well as a painter and poet.

Irena Sendler

10 Irena Stanisława Sendler, operating under the nom de guerre Jolanta, was a Polish humanitarian, social worker, and nurse who served in the Polish Underground Resistance during World War II in...

Lucjan Żeligowski

10 Lucjan Żeligowski was a Polish general, politician, military commander and veteran of World War I, the Polish-Soviet War and World War II. He is mostly remembered for his role in Żeligowski's Mutiny...

Halina Konopacka

10 Halina Konopacka was a Polish athlete. She won the discus throw event at the 1928 Summer Olympics, defeating American silver medal winner Lillian Copeland, breaking her own world record, and becoming...

Władysław Komar

10 Władysław Stefan Komar was a Lithuanian-born Polish shot putter, actor and cabaretist. Competing in three Summer Olympics between 1964 and 1972, he won the gold medal at the Munich Games in 1972 with...

Władysław Podkowiński

10 Władysław Podkowiński was a Polish master painter and illustrator associated with the Young Poland movement during the Partition period.

Henryk Dembiński

10 Count Henryk Dembiński was a Polish engineer, traveler and general.                                 

Jan Kozietulski

10 Baron Jan Leon Hipolit Kozietulski was a Polish noble, military commander and an officer of the armed forces of the Duchy of Warsaw during the Napoleonic Wars. He is best remembered as the heroic...

Mieczysław Jastrun

10 Mieczysław Jastrun born Mojsze Agatstein was a Polish poet and essayist of Jewish origin. The main themes of his poetry are philosophy and morality. He translated French, Russian, and German poetry...

Ignacy Solarz

10 Ignacy Solarz, ps. Chrzestny – polski pedagog, działacz ruchu ludowego i spółdzielczego, założyciel Związku Młodzieży Wiejskiej RP i uniwersytetów ludowych.

Hanka Ordonówna

10 Hanka Ordonówna or Ordonka was a Polish singer, dancer and actress.                                 

Henryk Górecki

10 Henryk Mikołaj Górecki was a Polish composer of contemporary classical music. According to critic Alex Ross, no recent classical composer has had as much commercial success as Górecki. He became a...

George Washington

9 George Washington was a Founding Father and the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. As commander of the Continental Army, Washington led Patriot forces to victory in the...

Ignacy Potocki

9 Count Roman Ignacy Potocki, generally known as Ignacy Potocki, was a Polish nobleman, member of the influential magnate Potocki family, owner of Klementowice and Olesin, a politician, statesman,...

Franciszek Ratajczak

9 Franciszek Ratajczak – polski wojskowy i działacz niepodległościowy. Pierwszy powstaniec wielkopolski poległy w walce.

Paweł Włodkowic

9 Paweł Włodkowic was a Polish scholar, jurist, statesman and rector of the Kraków Academy. He advocated a form of religious tolerance and defended Poland and non-Christian Baltic tribes against the...

Zbyszko z Bogdańca

9 Zbyszko z Bogdańca – pierwszoplanowa postać literacka z powieści Krzyżacy Henryka Sienkiewicza.     

Klemens Janicki

9 Klemens Janicki (1516–1543), also known as Clemens Ianicius, was a Polish writer and one of the most outstanding 16th-century poets in Latin.

Tomasz Judym

9 Tomasz Judym – fikcyjna postać literacka, główny bohater powieści Stefana Żeromskiego pt. „Ludzie bezdomni”.

Adam Próchnik

9 Adam Feliks Próchnik was a Polish socialist activist, politician and historian.                     

Krzysztof Celestyn Mrongovius

9 Krzysztof Celestyn Mrongovius was a Protestant pastor, writer, philosopher, distinguished linguist, and translator. Mrongovius was a noted defender of the Polish language in Warmia and Masuria.

Piotr Niedurny

9 Piotr Niedurny – polski działacz niepodległościowy.                                                 

Leo Tolstoy

9 Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential authors of all time.

Marcin Kromer

9 Marcin Kromer was Prince-Bishop of Warmia (Ermland), a Polish cartographer, diplomat and historian in the Kingdom of Poland and later in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. He was a personal...

Ludwik Krzywicki

9 Ludwik Joachim Franciszek Krzywicki was a Polish Marxist anthropologist, economist, and sociologist.

Mikołaj Bołtuć

9 Mikołaj Bołtuć was a brigadier-general of the Polish Army, commander of the IV Polish infantry Division during World War II.

Władysław Skoczylas

9 Władysław Skoczylas was a Polish watercolorist, woodcutter, sculptor and art teacher.               

Karol Lipiński

9 Karol Józef Lipiński was a Polish music composer and virtuoso violinist active during the partitions of Poland. The Karol Lipiński University of Music in Wrocław, Poland is named after him.

August Hlond

9 August Józef Hlond, SDB was a Polish Salesian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Poznań and Gniezno from 1926 to 1946 and as Archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw from 1946 until...

Alfred Nobel

9 Alfred Bernhard Nobel was a Swedish chemist, inventor, engineer, and businessman. He is known for inventing dynamite, as well as having bequeathed his fortune to establish the Nobel Prizes. He also...

Maria Kuncewiczowa

9 Maria Kuncewiczowa was a Polish writer and novelist. Kuncewiczowa's works range from short stories to novels, radio novels and literary diaries.

Krzysztof Arciszewski

9 Krzysztof Arciszewski was a Polish nobleman, military officer, engineer, and ethnographer. Arciszewski also served as a general of artillery for the Netherlands and Poland.

Michał Grażyński

9 Michał Grażyński was a Polish military leader and activist. He was doctor of philosophy and law, voivode of the Silesian Voivodeship, Scouting activist and president of Związek Harcerstwa Polskiego.

Tadeusz Banachiewicz

9 Tadeusz Julian Banachiewicz was a Polish astronomer, mathematician and geodesist.                   

Leon Kruczkowski

9 Leon Kruczkowski was a Polish writer, publicist and public figure. He wrote books and dramas and was prominent in Polish theatre of the post-World War II period. His best known work is the drama...

Ryszard Kukliński

9 Ryszard Jerzy Kukliński was a Polish Army colonel and Cold War spy for NATO. He was posthumously promoted to brigadier general by Polish President Andrzej Duda.

Jan Aleksander Karłowicz

9 Jan Aleksander Ludwik Karłowicz herbu Ostoja – polski etnograf, muzykolog, językoznawca, folklorysta, członek Akademii Umiejętności, członek honorowy Towarzystwa Muzeum Narodowego Polskiego w...

Andrzej Wajda

9 Andrzej Witold Wajda was a Polish film and theatre director. Recipient of an Honorary Oscar, the Palme d'Or, as well as Honorary Golden Lion and Honorary Golden Bear Awards, he was a prominent member...

Wacław Sieroszewski

9 Wacław Kajetan Sieroszewski was a Polish writer, Polish Socialist Party activist, and soldier in the World War I-era Polish Legions. For activities subversive of the Russian Empire, he had spent many...

Tadeusz Jasiński

9 Tadeusz Jasiński was a Polish soldier notable for being one of the youngest defenders of Grodno in September 1939, captured and used by the Soviets as a "human shield".

Aleksander Zawadzki

9 Aleksander Zawadzki, alias Kazik, Wacek, Bronek, One, was a Polish communist politician, divisional general of the Polish Army, and the Chairman of the Council of State of the Polish People's...

Franciszek Myśliwiec

9 Franciszek Myśliwiec – polski działacz narodowy na Śląsku Opolskim, prezes Dzielnicy Śląskiej Związku Polaków w Niemczech.

Jurand ze Spychowa

9 Jurand ze Spychowa – fikcyjna postać z powieści Krzyżacy Henryka Sienkiewicza (1887–1900); polski rycerz, który po śmierci swej żony stał się pogromcą odpowiedzialnych za jej zgon Krzyżaków; ojciec...

Barbara Radziwiłł

9 Barbara Radziwiłł was Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania as the second wife of Sigismund II Augustus, the last male monarch of the Jagiellon dynasty. Barbara, already widowed and...

Stanisław Orzechowski

9 Stanisław Orzechowski (1513–1566) was a Polish-Ruthenian political writer. The son of a Catholic father and a Ruthenian Orthodox mother, he was a strict Roman Catholic for much of his life but at one...

Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff

9 Joseph Karl Benedikt Freiherr von Eichendorff was a German poet, novelist, playwright, literary critic, translator, and anthologist. Eichendorff was one of the major writers and critics of...

Bolek and Lolek

9 Bolek and Lolek, also known in English as Benny and Lenny, Jym and Jam and Tim and Tom, are two Polish cartoon characters from the children's animated comedy television series by the same name. The...

Ewaryst Estkowski

9 Ewaryst Estkowski was a Polish teacher, education activist, and editor of Szkoła Polska magazine. Ewaryst Estkowski died 1856 in Germany Bad Soden am Taunus near Frankfurt Main.

Jan Wiktor (pisarz)

9 Jan Wiktor – polski pisarz, publicysta, dziennikarz, działacz ludowy, poseł na Sejm PRL I kadencji. 

Bronisław Markiewicz

9 Bronisław Markiewicz, SDB was a Polish Roman Catholic priest and a professed member of the Salesians of Don Bosco. Markiewicz established the Congregation of Saint Michael the Archangel that devoted...

Saint Rosalia

9 Rosalia, nicknamed la Santuzza was a virgin and hermit on Monte Pellegrino. She is venerated as the patroness saint of Palermo in Italy, Camargo in Chihuahua, and three towns in Venezuela: El...

Janusz Meissner

8 Janusz Meissner was a Polish writer and journalist, and a pilot of Polish Air Force.               

Mother Teresa

8 Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu, better known as Mother Teresa or Saint Mother Teresa, was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity and a Catholic saint. Born in Skopje, then part...

Tadeusz Szeligowski

8 Tadeusz Szeligowski was a Polish composer, educator, lawyer and music organizer. His works include the operas The Rise of the Scholars, Krakatuk and Theodor Gentlemen, the ballets The Peacock and the...

Szymon Szymonowic

8 Szymon Szymonowic was a Polish Renaissance poet. He was known as "the Polish Pindar."               

Ryszard Wincenty Berwiński

8 Ryszard Wincenty Berwiński was a noted Polish poet, translator, folklorist, and nationalist.       

Mieczysław Orłowicz

8 Mieczysław Emil Orłowicz – polski doktor prawa, urzędnik ministerialny II Rzeczypospolitej i Polski Ludowej, z zamiłowania krajoznawca i popularyzator turystyki. Autor licznych przewodników...

Mieczysław Romanowski

8 Mieczysław Romanowski (1833–1863) was a Polish Romantic poet.                                       

Wacław Potocki

8 Wacław Potocki was a Polish nobleman (szlachcic), moralist, poet, and writer. He was the podczaszy of Kraków from 1678 to 1685. He is remembered as one of the most important Polish baroque artists....

Marian Smoluchowski

8 Marian Smoluchowski was a Polish physicist who worked in the territories of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was a pioneer of statistical physics and made significant contributions to the theory of...

Narcyza Żmichowska

8 Narcyza Żmichowska pronounced [narˈt͡sɨza ʐmʲiˈxɔfska], also known under her popular pen name Gabryella, was a Polish novelist and poet. She is considered a precursor of feminism in Poland.

Marcin Borelowski

8 Marcin Maciej Borelowski, ps. „Lelewel” – polski rzemieślnik, działacz społeczny i patriotyczny, pułkownik w powstaniu styczniowym, komisarz wojenny województwa podlaskiego w maju i czerwcu 1863 roku.

Anton Chekhov

8 Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short story writer, widely considered one of the greatest writers of all time. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best...

Walenty Roździeński

8 Walenty Roździeński − polski hutnik, właściciel kuźni, zarządca hut, poeta i literat epoki baroku. Autor poematu Officina ferraria.

Stanisław Grochowiak

8 Stanisław Antoni Grochowiak, pen-name "Kain" was a Polish poet and dramatist. His is often classified as a representative of turpism, because of his interest in the physical, ugly and brutal, but he...

Zyndram of Maszkowice

8 Zyndram of Maszkowice was a Polish knight, nobleman, and military commander of the late 14th and early 15th centuries. Serving as Sword-bearer of Kraków under King Władysław II Jagiełło, he rose to...

Józef Wajda

8 Józef Wajda – polski duchowny rzymskokatolicki, działacz społeczny i narodowy na Górnym Śląsku, poseł do parlamentu Rzeszy (1908–1912) oraz do pruskiego Landtagu (1922–1923).

Casimir II the Just

8 Casimir II the Just was Duke of Wiślica in Lesser Poland from 1166 to 1173, and Duke of Sandomierz from 1173 onward. In 1177, he became ruler of the Polish Seniorate Province at Kraków and thereby...

Stefan Szolc-Rogoziński

8 Stefan Szolc-Rogoziński was a Polish explorer of Africa. He was planning to create a Polish colony in Cameroon.

Francesco Nullo

8 Francesco Nullo was an Italian patriot, military officer and merchant, and a close friend and confidant of Giuseppe Garibaldi. He supported independence movements in Italy and Poland. He was a...

Pope Urban I

8 Pope Urban I, also known as Saint Urban (175?–230), was the bishop of Rome from 222 to 23 May 230. He was born in Rome and succeeded Callixtus I, who had been martyred. It was believed for centuries...

Michał Tokarzewski-Karaszewicz

8 General Michał Tadeusz Tokarzewski-Karaszewicz, Trąby coat of arms; pseudonyms Doktor, Stolarski, Torwid was a Polish general and founder of the resistance movement Polish Victory Service.

Władysław Żeleński (composer)

8 Władysław Marcjan Mikołaj Żeleński was a Polish composer, pianist and organist.                     

Kazimierz Pużak

8 Kazimierz Pużak (1883–1950) was a Polish socialist politician of the interwar period. Active in the Polish Socialist Party, he was one of the leaders of the Polish Secret State and Polish resistance,...

Gustaw Daniłowski

8 Gustaw Daniłowski ps. Władysław Orwid – polski pisarz, publicysta, działacz socjalistyczny i niepodległościowy.

Stanisław Koniecpolski

8 Stanisław Koniecpolski was a Polish military commander, regarded as one of the most talented and capable in the history of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. He was also a magnate, a royal official...

Padre Pio

8 Pio of Pietrelcina, widely known as Padre Pio was an Italian friar of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, priest, stigmatist and mystic. He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church, and his...

Lech Bądkowski

8 Lech Bądkowski was a Polish writer, journalist, publicist and Kashubian-Pomeranian activist, a promoter of regional history and culture, co-founder and leader of the Kashubian-Pomeranian Association,...

Kazimierz Kruczkowski

8 Kazimierz Kruczkowski – major piechoty Wojska Polskiego, w kampanii wrześniowej dowódca II batalionu 94 pułku piechoty rezerwowego oraz dowódca III batalionu 164 pułku piechoty rezerwowego.

Jan Karnowski

8 Jan Karnowski was a Kashubian judge, poet and ideologist and contributor of the Young Kashubians movement.

Johannes Kepler

8 Johannes Kepler was a German astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, natural philosopher and music theorist. He is a key figure in the 17th-century Scientific Revolution, best known for his laws of...

Augustyn Necel

8 Augustyn Necel właśc. Netzel – pisarz, najwybitniejszy i najpłodniejszy kaszubski autor powieści historycznych, z zawodu rybak, „kaszubski Sienkiewicz”, zwany też „kronikarzem spod Rozewskiej Blizy”.

Tadeusz Różewicz

8 Tadeusz Różewicz was a Polish poet, playwright, writer, and translator. Różewicz was in the first generation of Polish writers born after Poland regained its independence in 1918, following the...

Tadeusz Kantor

8 Tadeusz Kantor was a Polish painter, assemblage and Happenings artist, set designer and theatre director. Kantor is renowned for his revolutionary theatrical performances in Poland and abroad....

Irena Kosmowska

8 Irena Kosmowska was a Polish educator and politician. She was one of the first group of women elected to the Legislative Sejm in 1919, serving in parliament until 1930.

Edward Bernard Raczyński

8 Count Edward Bernard Raczyński was a Polish diplomat, writer, politician who served as President of Poland-in-exile.

Roch Kowalski

8 Roch Kowalski herbu Korab – postać literacka, bohater powieści Potop Henryka Sienkiewicza, oficer dragonów pana Mieleszki.

Ewa Szelburg-Zarembina

8 Ewa Szelburg-Zarembina was a Polish novelist, poet and screenplay writer who was born in Bronowice and died in Warsaw.

Florian Marciniak

8 Florian Marciniak was a Polish scoutmaster (harcmistrz), and the first Naczelnik of the paramilitary scouting resistance organization, the Szare Szeregi, during the Second World War.

Klementyna Hoffmanowa

8 Klementyna Hoffmanowa, born Klementyna Tańska was a Polish novelist, playwright, editor, translator, teacher and activist. She was the first woman in Poland to support herself from writing and...

Kajetan Koźmian

8 Kajetan Koźmian herbu Nałęcz, krypt.: X. – polski prawnik i poeta, reprezentant klasycyzmu, krytyk literacki i teatralny, mason, publicysta, pamiętnikarz, tłumacz; referendarz Rady Stanu Księstwa...

Edmund Biernacki

8 Edmund Faustyn Biernacki was a Polish physician.                                                   

Witold Doroszewski

8 Witold Doroszewski (1899–1976) was a Polish lexicographer and linguist.                             

Jan Bażyński

8 Hans von Baysen or Jan Bażyński was a Prussian knight and statesman, leader of the Prussian Confederation and the first Polish governor of Royal Prussia.

Sławomir Mrożek

8 Sławomir Tangolo Mrożek was a Polish playwright.                                                   

Józef Chociszewski

7 Józef Chociszewski – polski redaktor, wydawca, pisarz ludowy, działacz narodowy.                   

Robert Schuman

7 Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Robert Schuman was a Luxembourg-born French statesman. Schuman was a Christian democratic political thinker and activist. Twice Prime Minister of France, a reformist Minister of...

Hubert Wagner

7 Hubert Aleksander Wagner was a Polish volleyball player and coach. He was a member of the Poland national team from 1963 to 1971, a participant in the Mexico 1968 Olympics, and a bronze medallist at...

Emilia Gierczak

7 Emilia Gierczak was a Polish soldier of the Polish Armed Forces in the East during the Second World War. After being killed in combat, several streets and organisations were subsequently named after...

Our Lady of Fátima

7 Our Lady of Fátima is a Catholic title of Mary, mother of Jesus, based on the Marian apparitions reported in 1917 by three shepherd children at the Cova da Iria in Fátima, Portugal. The three...

Andrzej Małkowski

7 Andrzej Juliusz Małkowski was a Polish Scoutmaster (harcmistrz) activist of youth and independence organisations. He and his wife, Olga, are widely regarded as the founders of Scouting in Poland. To...

Kamila Skolimowska

7 Kamila Skolimowska was a Polish hammer thrower. She is best known for her gold medal in the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics, which made her the youngest Olympic hammer champion, as well as for her two...

Władysław Bandurski

7 Władysław Bandurski – polski duchowny rzymskokatolicki, doktor, biskup pomocniczy archidiecezji lwowskiej i archidiecezji wileńskiej, honorowy kapelan Legionów Polskich, naczelny kapelan Wojska Litwy...

Józef Mackiewicz

7 Józef Mackiewicz was a Polish writer, novelist and political commentator; best known for his documentary novels Nie trzeba głośno mówić, and Droga donikąd. He staunchly opposed communism, referring...

Sebastian Klonowic

7 Sebastian Fabian Klonowic, alternatively known by his Latin epithet Acernus, was a Polish poet, composer and mayor of Lublin.

Adam Prazmowski

7 Adam Józef Ignacy Prażmowski (1821–1885) was a Polish astronomer and astrophysicist of the 19th century. He worked in 1839 to 1850 at the Warsaw Observatory. Among his many discoveries, he discovered...

Szymon Konarski

7 Szymon Konarski was a 19th-century Polish-Lithuanian radical democratic politician and revolutionary, one of the leaders of the November Uprising of 1831. As a politician, he supported the radical...

Adam Chętnik

7 Adam Chętnik was a Polish ethnographer who studied the Kurpie. He is the author of several books on the Kurpie residing in Puszcza Zielona. In 1927 he founded Skansen Kurpiowski in Nowogród, an...

Bolesław Krupiński

7 Bolesław Krupiński – specjalista w dziedzinie górnictwa, profesor Akademii Górniczo-Hutniczej i Politechniki Śląskiej. Członek korespondent Polskiej Akademii Nauk od 1961 r., członek Polskiego...

Teodor Axentowicz

7 Teodor Axentowicz was a Polish-Armenian painter and university professor. He was also the rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. As an artist, Axentowicz was famous for his portraits and...

Stanisław Pigoń

7 Stanisław Pigoń – historyk literatury polskiej, edytor, wychowawca i pedagog, w latach 1926–1928 rektor Uniwersytetu Stefana Batorego w Wilnie.

Paweł Maria Sapieha

7 Paweł Maria Sapieha – oficer Wojska Polskiego II RP, podpułkownik Armii Stanów Zjednoczonych, pracownik kontrwywiadu.

Emanuel Konstanty Imiela

7 Emanuel Konstanty Imiela, ps. „Karol Dym” – górnośląski pisarz, urzędnik państwowy, działacz oświatowy i plebiscytowy.

Stefan Żółkiewski

7 Stefan Jakub Żółkiewski was a Polish theoretist, historian of literature and literary critic. He was born and died in Warsaw. He was a co-founder of the Polish Workers' Party, editor-in-chief of...

Sabała

7 Sabała or Sablik was a Goral amateur musician, storyteller and folk singer active in or around the Tatra Mountains. A friend to many renowned Polish artists of the late 19th century, he is featured...

Mordechai Anielewicz

7 Mordechai Anielewicz was the Polish leader of the Jewish Combat Organization during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; the largest Jewish resistance movement during the Second World War. Anielewicz inspired...

Łukasz Ciepliński

7 Łukasz Ciepliński was a Polish soldier who fought in the Polish anti-Nazi and anti-communist resistance movements. He used various aliases: Pług, Ostrowski, Ludwik, Grzmot, and Bogdan. Ciepliński was...

Franciszek Fenikowski

7 Franciszek Jan Fenikowski – polski poeta, prozaik, reportażysta, autor popularnych powieści historycznych, legend i baśni regionalnych.

Hedwig of Silesia

7 Hedwig of Silesia, a member of the Bavarian comital House of Andechs, was Duchess of Silesia from 1201 and of Greater Poland from 1231 as well as High Duchess consort of Poland from 1232 until 1238....

Ferdinand Magellan

7 Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer best known for planning and leading the 1519–22 Spanish expedition to the East Indies. During this expedition, he discovered the Strait of Magellan,...

Franciszek Zabłocki

7 Franciszek Ksawery Mikołaj Zabłocki, is considered the most distinguished Polish comic dramatist and satirist of the Enlightenment period. He descends from an old aristocratic family of Poland with...

Józef Londzin

7 Józef Londzin – polski ksiądz katolicki, działacz społeczny i polityczny, historyk, burmistrz Cieszyna.

Gustaw Herling-Grudziński

7 Gustaw Herling-Grudziński was a Polish writer, journalist, essayist, World War II underground fighter, and political dissident abroad during the period of Soviet and communist rule. He is best known...

Elżbieta Drużbacka

7 Elżbieta Drużbacka was a Polish poet of the late Baroque period. Little is known of her life. She learned French at the court of Elżbieta Sieniawska. She married a Jewish man, and had two daughters,...

Gustaw Gizewiusz

7 Gustaw Herman Marcin Gizewiusz, or Gustav Gisevius was a Polish political figure, folklorist, and translator. He was married to a Mazur Polish woman, who encouraged him to become a political figure....

Good Shepherd

6 The Good Shepherd is an image used in the pericope of John 10:1–21, in which Jesus Christ is depicted as the Good Shepherd who lays down his life for his sheep. Similar imagery is used in Psalm 23...

Mieczysław Smorawiński

6 Brigadier General Mieczysław Makary Smorawiński (1893–1940), was a Polish military commander and officer of the Polish Army. He was one of the Polish generals identified by forensic scientists of the...

Jeremi Wiśniowiecki

6 Prince Jeremi Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki, nicknamed Hammer on the Cossacks, was a notable member of the aristocracy of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Prince of Vyshnivets, Lubny and Khorol in...

Marian Rejewski

6 Marian Adam Rejewski was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who in late 1932 reconstructed the sight-unseen German military Enigma cipher machine, aided by limited documents obtained by French...

Jerzy Ziętek

6 Jerzy Jan Antoni Ziętek was a Polish politician and general. A Silesian Insurrectionist in his youth, during the Second World War he joined the Polish armed forces in the USSR and later became an...

Bronisław Trentowski

6 Bronisław Ferdynand Trentowski was a Polish Messianist philosopher, pedagogist, journalist and Freemason, and the chief representative of the Polish Messianist national philosophy.

Julian Ejsmond

6 Julian Ejsmond – polski poeta, bajkopisarz, tłumacz literatury, porucznik piechoty Wojska Polskiego, odznaczony Krzyżem Walecznych.

Sophie of Pomerania, Duchess of Pomerania

6 Sophia of Pomerania-Stolp, was a Duchess of Pomerania by birth, and married to Eric II, Duke of Pomerania.

Karol Koziołek

6 Karol Koziołek – polski ksiądz katolicki i działacz narodowy na Śląsku Opolskim, prezes I Dzielnicy ZPwN, poseł do Sejmiku Opolskiego (1928–1932).

Stanisław Kujot

6 Stanisław Kujot – polski duchowny katolicki, historyk, członek Towarzystwa Historycznego we Lwowie. 

Maria Grzegorzewska

6 Maria Grzegorzewska was a Polish educator who brought the special education movement to Poland. Born to a family from the Żmudź region, she was strongly influenced by her parents' beliefs in...

Lech Kaczyński

6 Lech Aleksander Kaczyński was a Polish politician who served as the 4th president of Poland from 2005 to 2010, when he died in the Smolensk air disaster. Earlier he served as the city mayor of Warsaw...

Wincenty Styczyński

6 Wincenty Styczyński – polski działacz narodowy, lekarz, w latach 1919–1922 radny miejski, przewodniczący frakcji polskiej w Gliwicach.

Ludwik Nabielak

6 Ludwik Nabielak – polski działacz polityczny, poeta, krytyk literacki, historyk, inżynier górnictwa.

Karol Adamiecki

6 Karol Adamiecki was a Polish engineer, management researcher, economist, and professor.             

Franciszek Hynek

6 Franciszek Hynek – major pilot balonowy Wojska Polskiego, dwukrotny zdobywca Pucharu Gordona Bennetta.

Karol Brzostowski

6 Hrabia Karol Brzostowski – reformator społeczny, właściciel ziemski, twórca Rzeczypospolitej Sztabińskiej, producent maszyn rolniczych oraz konstruktor mechanicznej dojarki pedałowej i...

Rafał Krajewski

6 Rafał Krajewski herbu Jasieńczyk, ps. Wujaszek, August, Helena – dyrektor Wydziału Spraw Wewnętrznych w Rządzie Narodowym w czasie powstania styczniowego.

Daniel Chodowiecki

6 Daniel Niklaus Chodowiecki was a German painter and printmaker of Huguenot and Polish ancestry, who is most famous as an etcher. He spent most of his life in Berlin, and became the director of the...

Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński

6 Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński was a Polish messianist philosopher, mathematician, physicist, inventor, lawyer, occultist and economist. In mathematics, he is known for introducing a novel series...

Władysław Bełza

6 Wladyslaw Belza was a Polish poet. He was born in Warsaw.                                           

Johannes Dantiscus

6 Johannes Dantiscus, was prince-bishop of Warmia and Bishop of Chełmno (Culm). In recognition of his diplomatic services for Polish kings, the bishop and poet is also known as the "Father of Polish...

Benedict of Nursia

6 Benedict of Nursia, often known as Saint Benedict, was a Christian monk. He is famed in the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Lutheran Churches, the Anglican Communion, and Old...

John of Dukla

6 John of Dukla is a saint in the Roman Catholic Church. He is one of the patron saints of Poland and Lithuania.

Paweł Pośpiech

6 Paweł Pośpiech was a Polish priest, activist and journalist.                                       

Antoni Amilkar Kosiński

6 Antoni Amilkar Kosiński herbu Rawicz – generał polski, uczestnik insurekcji kościuszkowskiej i wojen napoleońskich, współtwórca Legionów Polskich we Włoszech.

Jacek Kuroń

6 Jacek Jan Kuroń was a Polish social activist, politician, and one of the most prominent democratic leaders of the opposition in the People's Republic of Poland (PRL). Kuroń played a pivotal role in...

Władysław Szpilman

6 Władysław Szpilman was a Polish Jewish pianist, classical composer and Holocaust survivor. Szpilman is widely known as the central figure in the Roman Polanski film The Pianist, which was based on...

Eugeniusz Lokajski

6 Eugeniusz Zenon Lokajski was a Polish athlete, gymnast and photographer. He is notable as the Champion of Poland in javelin throw and the creator of more than 1000 photos documenting the Warsaw...

Witold Budryk

6 Prof. Witold Budryk – polski inżynier górnictwa, naukowiec, profesor zwyczajny Akademii Górniczej, późniejszej Akademii Górniczo-Hutniczej w Krakowie, dziekan Wydziału Górniczego Akademii...

Jan Marcin Szancer

6 Jan Marcin Szancer was a Polish illustrator, scenographer and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.

Zofia Stryjeńska

6 Zofia Stryjeńska was a Polish painter, graphic designer, illustrator, stage designer, and a representative of art deco. Along with Olga Boznańska and Tamara de Lempicka, she was one of the best-known...

Władysław Biegański

6 Władysław Biegański was a Polish medical doctor, philosopher and social activist. He dealt with almost all fields, especially infectious diseases, disease diagnostics and logic in medicine.

Franciszek Blachnicki

6 Franciszek Blachnicki was a Polish Roman Catholic priest and the founder of the Light-Life movement, also known as the Oasis Movement, and the Secular Institute of the Immaculate Mother of the...

Józef Cygan

6 Józef Cygan – major piechoty Wojska Polskiego, kawaler Orderu Virtuti Militari, doktor praw, sędzia, prokurator, ofiara zbrodni katyńskiej.

August Bebel

6 Ferdinand August Bebel was a German social democratic politician. He is best known as one of the founders of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany (SDAP) in 1869, which in 1875 merged with...

Zenon Zając

6 Zenon Zając – polski ślusarz, pracownik Kopalni Węgla Kamiennego Wujek, ofiara pacyfikacji kopalni w grudniu 1981 roku.

Ludwik Osiński

6 Ludwik Osiński was a Polish literary critic, historian, literary theorist, translator, poet, playwright and speaker, who also served as a minister in the government of Congress Poland.

Raphael Kalinowski

6 Raphael of Saint Joseph Kalinowski was a Polish Carmelite, social activist, participant in the January Uprising, and a saint of the Catholic Church. Before his conversion, he served in the Imperial...

Albertus Magnus

6 Albertus Magnus, also known as Saint Albert the Great, Albert of Swabia, Albert von Bollstadt, or Albert of Cologne, was a German Dominican friar, philosopher, scientist, and bishop. He is considered...

Jan Stapiński

6 Jan Stapiński – polski polityk, jeden z twórców i przywódców polskiego ruchu ludowego, publicysta, poseł do parlamentu austriackiego i na Sejm II RP.

Leon Schiller

6 Leon Schiller or Leon Schiller de Schildenfeld was a Polish theatre and film director, as well as critic and theatre theoretician. He also wrote theatre and radio screenplays and composed music. He...

Józef Sebastian Pelczar

6 Józef Sebastian Pelczar was a Polish Roman Catholic bishop and was also the co-founder of the Sister Servants of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus which he had established in 1894 with Ludwika Szczęsna....

Charles Dickens

6 Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and journalist. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian...

John Bosco

6 John Melchior Bosco, SDB, popularly known as Don Bosco, was an Italian Catholic priest, educator and writer. While working in Turin, where the population suffered many of the ill effects of...

Franciszek Bohomolec

6 Franciszek Bohomolec, S.J., Bogoria Coat of Arms, writing pseudonymously as: Daniel Bobinson, Dzisiejkiewicz, F. B., F. B. S. J., Galantecki, J. U. P. Z., Jeden Zakonnik S. J., Jeden Zakonnik...

Cecilia of Rome

6 Cecilia of Rome, also spelled Cecelia, was a Christian virgin martyr, who is venerated in Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, and some Lutheran churches, such as the Church of Sweden. She became the...

Zbigniew Wodecki

6 Zbigniew Stanisław Wodecki was a Polish singer, musician, composer, actor and TV presenter.         

Jan Paweł Woronicz

5 Jan Paweł Woronicz herbu Pawęża, pseud. i krypt.: I. W.; J. W.; Jeden z Synów Ojczyzny – polski duchowny rzymskokatolicki, kaznodzieja, jezuita do 1772, poeta, mówca, dziekan warszawskiej kapituły...

Wojciech Oczko

5 Wojciech Oczko, also known as Ocellus, was a Polish philosopher, doctor, Royal Secretary and court physician to kings Sigismund II Augustus, Stephen Báthory, and Sigismund III Vasa. One of the...

Konrad Prószyński

5 Konrad Prószyński, pen name Kazimierz Promyk, was a Polish writer and editor from the Russian Empire. He was the author of primers (textbooks), editor-in-chief of Gazeta Świąteczna ; the founder of...

Saint Sebastian

5 Sebastian was an early Christian saint and martyr. According to traditional belief, he was killed during the Diocletianic Persecution of Christians. He was initially tied to a post or tree and shot...

Józef Bohdan Zaleski

5 Józef Bohdan Zaleski was a Polish Romantic poet. A friend of Adam Mickiewicz, Zaleski founded the Ukrainian poetic school.

Zenon Klemensiewicz

5 Zenon Klemensiewicz was a Polish linguist, specialist in the Polish language, professor of the Jagiellonian University. He fought in World War I and World War II, and took part in the underground...

Józef Kostrzewski

5 Józef Kostrzewski was a Polish archaeologist.                                                       

Stanisław Brzozowski (philosopher)

5 Stanisław Leopold Brzozowski was a Polish philosopher, writer, publicist, literary and theatre critic. Considered to be an important Polish philosopher, Brzozowski is known for his concept of the...

Tadeusz Mazowiecki

5 Tadeusz Mazowiecki was a Polish author, journalist, philanthropist and politician, formerly one of the leaders of the Solidarity movement, and the first non-communist Polish prime minister since...

Ludwik Czyżewski

5 Ludwik Czyżewski was a Polish General during the Invasion of Poland during World War II. He commanded the 2nd Legions' Infantry Regiment during the Battle of Borowa Góra but was defeated in the...

Józef Unrug

5 Józef Unrug was a German and Polish admiral who helped establish Poland's navy after World War I. During the opening stages of World War II, he served as the Polish Navy's commander-in-chief. As a...

Nikolai Gogol

5 Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, and playwright of Ukrainian origin.

Stanisław Szczepanowski

5 Stanisław Szczepanowski (1846–1900) was a Polish economist, engineer, businessman, and politician. Deputy to parliaments of Austria and Galicia.

Wacław Berent

5 Wacław Berent was a Polish novelist, essayist and literary translator from the Art Nouveau period, publishing under the pen names S.A.M. and Wł. Rawicz. He studied Natural Science in Kraków and...

Aleksander Kotsis

5 Aleksander Kotsis was a Polish painter. He created landscapes, portraits, and genre scenes in a combination Romantic and Realistic style. Most of his paintings are small. He was born and died in...

Wacław Gąsiorowski

5 Wacław Gąsiorowski, ps. Wiesław Sclavus, Jan Mieroszewicz – polski powieściopisarz, dziennikarz, publicysta, a także scenarzysta, działacz polonijny i niepodległościowy. W 1900 wydawca i redaktor...

Seweryn Udziela (etnograf)

5 Seweryn Udziela – etnograf, badacz i popularyzator folkloru i kultury ludowej Małopolski.           

Walery Sławek

5 Walery Jan Sławek was a Polish politician, freemason, military officer and activist, who in the early 1930s served three times as Prime Minister of Poland. He was one of the closest aides of Polish...

Stanislav Piętak

5 Stanislav Piętak is a Czech theologian and pedagogue.                                               

Bolesław Kominek

5 Bolesław Kominek was a Polish cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Wrocław from 1972 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1973.

Łukasz Górnicki

5 Łukasz Górnicki, was a Polish Renaissance, poet, humanist, political commentator as well as secretary and chancellor of king Sigismund Augustus of Poland. His family used Ogończyk coat of arms.

Henry Probus

5 Henry IV Probus was a member of the Silesian branch of the royal Polish Piast dynasty. He was Duke of Silesia at Wrocław from 1266 as well as the ruler of the Seniorate Province of Kraków and High...

Karol Szajnocha

5 Karol Szajnocha was a Polish writer, historian, and independence activist. Self-taught, he would nonetheless become a notable Polish historian of the partitions period.

Stanisław Chudoba

5 Stanisław Chudoba ps. Stefan – działacz socjalistyczny. Lider organizacji Polscy Socjaliści a następnie Robotniczej Partii Polskich Socjalistów w okresie okupacji niemieckiej. Schwytany w wyniku...

Mieczysław Boruta-Spiechowicz

5 Mieczysław Ludwik Boruta-Spiechowicz was a Polish military officer, a general of the Polish Army and a notable member of the post-war anti-communist opposition in Poland.

Leonard of Noblac

5 Leonard of Noblac is a Frankish saint closely associated with the town and abbey of Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat, in Haute-Vienne, in the Limousin region of France. He was converted to Christianity along...

Jan Nikodem Jaroń

5 Jan Nikodem Jaroń, pseudonim Nikodem Arios – polski poeta i dramatopisarz, walczył w III powstaniu śląskim.

Jan Krzysztof Kluk

5 Jan Krzysztof Kluk was a Polish naturalist agronomist and entomologist.                             

Jan Maklakiewicz

5 Jan Adam Maklakiewicz was a Polish composer, conductor, critic, and music educator. His most known compositions belong to the choral music.

Rafał Urban

5 Rafał Urban – polski pisarz, gawędziarz śląski, autor dramatu Termin Nyski, czyli sterylizacja naiwnego baranka nieludzka komedia autochtoniczna z epoki Trzeciego Rajchu w 5 aktach biurokratycznych …...

Johannes Gutenberg

5 Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg was a German inventor and craftsman who invented the movable-type printing press. Though movable type was already in use in East Asia, Gutenberg's...

Wilhelm Pluta

5                                                                                                    

Zenon Przesmycki

5 Zenon Franciszek Przesmycki was a Polish poet, translator and an art critic of the literary period of Młoda Polska, who studied law in Italy, France and England; in years of 1887 and 1888, he served...

John of Nepomuk

5 John of Nepomuk was a saint of Bohemia. He was executed by King Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia for disobedience. John was thrown into the Vltava river.

Karol Namysłowski

5 Karol Namysłowski – kompozytor, dyrygent, skrzypek, twórca Orkiestry Włościańskiej w Zamościu.     

Stanisław Wokulski

5 Stanisław Wokulski – postać literacka, protagonista powieści Lalka Bolesława Prusa; postać Wokulskiego stała się w polskiej kulturze masowej symbolem przedsiębiorczości.

Władysław Tatarkiewicz

5 Władysław Tatarkiewicz was a Polish philosopher, historian of philosophy, historian of art, esthetician, and ethicist.

Miron Białoszewski

5 Miron Białoszewski was a Polish poet, novelist, playwright and actor.                               

Stanisław Marusarz

5 Stanisław Marusarz ; 18 June 1913 – 29 October 1993) was a Polish Nordic skiing competitor in the 1930s. Honoured Master of Sport of Poland.

Albert Einstein

5 Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist best known for developing the theory of relativity. Einstein also made important contributions to quantum theory. His mass–energy equivalence...

Thomas Edison

5 Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, which...

Bruno Schulz

5 Bruno Schulz was a Polish Jewish writer, artist, literary critic and art teacher. He is regarded as one of the great Polish-language prose stylists of the 20th century. In 1938, he was awarded the...

Wacław Nałkowski

5 Wacław Piotr Nałkowski, ps. „Przewłocki”, „Nerwowy” – polski geograf, pedagog, publicysta i działacz społeczny. Twórca teorii nieokreśloności terytorium Polski. Ojciec Zofii Nałkowskiej i Hanny...

Jan Trepczyk

5 Jan Trepczyk was a Kashubian poet, songwriter, ideologist, lexicographer, and teacher. He was a member of the Regional Kashub Association of Kartuzy, of the Zrzeszeńcy (associationists), and of the...

Piotr Dunin

5 Piotr Dunin was a Polish knight, leader. He was Starost of Malbork from 1478–1484, castellan of Sieradz from 1478, and voivode of Brześć Kujawski Voivodeship from 1481.

Dobrosława of Pomerania

5 Dobrosława of Pomerania was a princess from Griffin dynasty. She was Countess of Gützkow and Schlawe. She was most likely the daughter of Bogusław I, duke of Pomerania, and his wife, Walpurga.

Mikołaj Gomółka

5 Mikołaj Gomółka was a Polish Renaissance composer and a member of the royal court of Sigismund II Augustus. At the court, he served as a singer, flutist, and trumpeter.

Władysław Hańcza

5 Władysław Hańcza was a Polish actor and theatre director.                                           

Władysław Planetorz

5 Władysław Planetorz – działacz Związku Harcerstwa Polskiego w Niemczech, podharcmistrz.             

Bolesław Orliński

5 Bolesław Orliński was a Polish aviator, military, sports and test pilot.                           

Kazimierz Jeżewski

5 Kazimierz Antoni Jeżewski – polski pedagog i działacz oświatowy, twórca i ideolog Gniazd Sierocych i Wiosek Kościuszkowskich.

Jan Drzeżdżon

5 Jan Drzeżdżon – polski pisarz i poeta regionalny, krytyk, badacz, redaktor i wydawca kaszubski, tworzący również w języku polskim. Uważany za jednego z czołowych pisarzy w literaturze kaszubskiej.

Tomasz Rogala

5 Tomasz Rogala – rzemieślnik (szewc), kaszubski działacz ludowy, społecznik, członek delegacji polskiej na konferencję w Wersalu (1919), lokalny polityk, zasłużony obywatel Kościerzyny, podobnie jak...

Jan Nagórski

5 Alfons Jan Nagórski (1888–1976), also known as Ivan Iosifovich Nagursky, was a Polish engineer and pioneer of aviation, the first person to fly an airplane in the Arctic and the first aviator to...

Karolina Kózka

5 Karolina Kózka was a sixteen-year old Polish victim of a sex attack and murder. Prior to that she was known locally for her strong faith and her eagerness to catechize her neighbours and children....

Edward Szymański (poeta)

5 Edward Szymański – lewicowy poeta i dziennikarz związany z warszawską Wolą, satyryk, działacz PPS. 

Klemens Bachleda

5 Klemens "Klimek" Bachleda was a pioneering Polish mountain guide and mountain rescuer in Austria-Hungary. He died during an unsuccessful mountain rescue attempt in the High Tatras.

King Matt the First

5 King Matt the First is a children's novel published in 1923 by Polish author, pediatrician, and child pedagogue Janusz Korczak. In addition to telling the story of a young king's adventures, it...

Cyryl Ratajski

5 Cyryl Ratajski was a Polish politician and lawyer.                                                 

Jerzy Giedroyc

5 Jerzy Władysław Giedroyć was a Polish writer, lawyer, publicist and political activist. For many years, he worked as editor of the highly influential Paris-based periodical, Kultura.

Bolesław V the Chaste

5 Bolesław V the Chaste was Duke of Sandomierz in Lesser Poland from 1232 and High Duke of Poland from 1243 until his death, as the last male representative of the Lesser Polish branch of Piasts.

Jerzy Lanc

5 Jerzy Lanc – polski nauczyciel.                                                                     

Józef Czapski

5 Józef Czapski was a Polish artist, author, and critic, as well as an Major of the Polish Army reserves. As a painter, he is notable for his membership in the Kapist movement, which was heavily...

Witold Urbanowicz

5 Witold Urbanowicz was a Polish fighter ace of the Second World War. According to the official record, Witold Urbanowicz was the second highest-scoring Polish fighter ace, with 17 confirmed wartime...

Gottlieb Daimler

5 Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler was a German engineer, industrial designer and industrialist. He was a pioneer of internal-combustion engines and automobile development. He invented the high-speed liquid...

Jan Szczepanik

5 Jan Szczepanik was a Polish inventor, with several hundred patents and over 50 discoveries to his name, many of which are still applied today, especially in the motion picture industry, as well as in...

Zbigniew Cybulski

5 Zbigniew Hubert Cybulski was a Polish film and theatre actor, one of the best-known and most popular personalities of the post-World War II history of Poland.

Tadeusz Nalepa

5 Tadeusz Nalepa was a Polish composer, guitar player, vocalist, and lyricist.                       

Stanisław Hadyna

5 Stanisław Hadyna – polski kompozytor, dyrygent, muzykolog i pisarz. Założyciel i wieloletni kierownik artystyczny Zespołu Pieśni i Tańca „Śląsk”.

Aleksander Brückner

4 Aleksander Brückner was a Polish scholar of Slavic languages and literature (Slavistics), philologist, lexicographer, and historian of literature. He is among the most notable Slavicists of the late...

Karl Marx

4 Karl Marx was a German philosopher, social and political theorist, economist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. He is best-known for the 1848 pamphlet The Communist Manifesto, and his...

Stanisław Czernik

4 Stanisław Czernik – polski powieściopisarz, folklorysta i poeta, przedstawiciel kierunku zw. autentyzmem, postulującego wiązanie w sztuce prawdy artystycznej i życiowej.

National Armed Forces

4 National Armed Forces was a Polish right-wing underground military organization of the National Democracy operating from 1942. During World War II, NSZ troops fought against Nazi Germany and...

Józef Szujski

4 Józef Szujski was a Polish politician, historian, poet and professor of the Jagiellonian University.

Cyril and Methodius

4 Cyril and Methodius were brothers, Byzantine Christian theologians and missionaries. For their work evangelizing the Slavs, they are known as the "Apostles to the Slavs".

Konstanty Matyjewicz-Maciejewicz

4 Konstanty Matyjewicz-Maciejewicz, „Kapitan Kapitanów”, „Macaj” – kapitan żeglugi wielkiej, ostatni komendant „Lwowa” i pierwszy komendant „Daru Pomorza”. Wykładowca w szkołach morskich w Tczewie,...

Wilhelm Röntgen

4 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was a German experimental physicist who produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays. In 1901, Röntgen became the first recipient of...

Marian Rapacki (trener)

4 Marian Tadeusz Rapacki – polski trener kajakarstwa, działacz sportowy, twórca i wieloletni kierownik Olsztyńskiego Muzeum Sportu, honorowy obywatel Olsztyna.

Marian Falski

4 Marian Falski, ps. Rafał Praski, Janka Swajak – polski pedagog i działacz oświatowy, specjalista w dziedzinie ustroju i organizacji szkolnictwa, autor najpopularniejszego polskiego elementarza –...

Józef Mianowski

4 Józef Mianowski (1804–1879) was a Polish medical researcher and practitioner, academic, social and political activist, and rector of the "Main School" incarnation (1862–69) of Warsaw University.

Alfred Sokołowski

4 Alfred Marcin Sokołowski was a Polish pulmonologist and professor of the University of Warsaw. He specialised in the field of Phthisiatry and he was one of the pioneers of modern treatment to...

Stanisław Lentz

4 Stanisław Lentz was a Polish painter, portraitist, illustrator, and a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw from 1909.

Walery Goetel

4 Walery Florian Goetel – polski geolog, ekolog i paleontolog, profesor, działacz społeczny.         

Bolesław Romanowski

4 Bolesław Romanowski was a submarine commander of the Polish Navy during World War II.               

Albert Brudzewski

4 Albert Brudzewski, also known as Albert Blar, Adalbertus,Albert of Brudzewo or Albert of Brudzew was a Polish astronomer, philosopher and diplomat. A major accomplishment of Albert's was his...

Taras Shevchenko

4 Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko was a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, folklorist, and ethnographer. He wrote poetry in Ukrainian and prose in Russian.

John Amos Comenius

4 John Amos Comenius was a Czech philosopher, pedagogue and theologian who is considered the father of modern education. He served as the last bishop of the Unity of the Brethren before becoming a...

Julian Filipowicz

4 Julian Filipowicz was a major general of the Polish Armed Forces and a commander of the Home Army in the Kraków-Silesia Area. He was also a commander of the Service for Poland's Victory in the Kraków...

Edward Abramowski

4 Józef Edward Abramowski was a Polish philosopher, libertarian socialist, anarchist, psychologist, ethician, and supporter of cooperatives. Abramowski is also one of the best known activists of...

Ignacy Chrzanowski

4 Ignacy Chrzanowski was a Polish historian of literature, professor of the Jagiellonian University, arrested by Germans as part of the Sonderaktion Krakau and killed in the Sachsenhausen concentration...

Emil Szramek

4 Emil Szramek was a Polish and Roman Catholic priest. He graduated from the University of Wrocław. He died in a Nazi concentration camp at Dachau. He is one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II who were...

Richard Wagner

4 Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, theatre director, essayist, and conductor, best known for his operas, although his mature works are often referred to as music dramas. Unlike most...

Edmund Osmańczyk

4 Edmund Jan Osmańczyk, was a Polish writer, author of Encyclopedia of the United Nations and International Agreements.

Émile Zola

4 Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of...

Rudolf Weigl

4 Rudolf Stefan Jan Weigl was a Polish biologist, physician and inventor, known for creating the first effective vaccine against epidemic typhus. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine each...

Bolesław Biegas

4 Bolesław Biegas (1877–1954) was a Polish surrealist and Symbolist painter and sculptor.             

Lucjan Siemieński

4 Lucjan Hipolit Siemieński was a Polish Romantic poet, prose writer, translator and literary critic. 

Augustyn Świder

4 Augustyn Świder, pseud. A. Ś., Kuba z Jagód, Robotnik, Sfinks − polski hutnik, poeta, publicysta, powstaniec oraz działacz społeczny.

Antoni Kocjan

4 Antoni Kocjan was a renowned Polish glider constructor and a contributor to the intelligence services of the Polish Home Army during World War II.

Tadeusz Reger

4 Tadeusz Reger – polski działacz socjalistyczny na Śląsku Cieszyńskim, poseł do austriackiej Rady Państwa i na sejm II RP (1919–1935), prezes Rady Narodowej Księstwa Cieszyńskiego.

Jan Samsonowicz (geolog)

4 Jan Samsonowicz – polski geolog i paleontolog, profesor uniwersytetów we Lwowie i Warszawie, wieloletni kierownik Katedry Geologii Historycznej Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, członek rzeczywisty...

Andrzej Galica

4 Andrzej Galica – generał brygady Wojska Polskiego, działacz niepodległościowy, kawaler Orderu Virtuti Militari, twórca formacji strzelców podhalańskich, inżynier, polityk, poseł na Sejm RP, działacz...

Jan Piwnik

4 Jan Piwnik was a Polish World War II soldier, a cichociemny and a notable leader of the Home Army in the Świętokrzyskie Mountains. He used the nickname Ponury and Donat.

Wincenty Rapacki

4 Wincenty Rapacki was a Polish actor and theatre director.                                           

Adam Jerzy Czartoryski

4 Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, also known as Adam George Czartoryski, was a Polish nobleman, statesman, diplomat and author who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian Empire.

Stanisław Bareja

4 Stanisław Sylwester Bareja was a Polish filmmaker. Some of his films have reached cult status in Poland.

Karl Liebknecht

4 Karl Paul August Friedrich Liebknecht was a German socialist politician and revolutionary. A leader of the far-left wing of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), Liebknecht was a co-founder...

Stefan Bobrowski

4 Stefan Bobrowski was a Polish politician and activist for Polish independence. He participated in the January 1863 Uprising as one of the leaders of its "Red" faction and as a member of that...

Marcin Bielski

4 Marcin Bielski was a Polish soldier, historian, chronicler, renaissance satirical poet, writer and translator. His son, Joachim Bielski, royal secretary to king Sigismund III Vasa, was also a...

Wacław Sierpiński

4 Wacław Franciszek Sierpiński was a Polish mathematician. He was known for contributions to set theory, number theory, theory of functions, and topology. He published over 700 papers and 50 books.

Stefan Bryła

4 Stefan Władysław Bryła was a Polish construction engineer and welding pioneer. He designed and built the first welded road bridge in the world.

Stanisław Bodych

4 Stanisław Bodych ps. Rawicz – dowódca kompanii w 7. pułku AK Garłuch.                               

Jan Baczewski

4 Jan Baczewski – polski działacz polityczny i oświatowy w Niemczech, w okresie Republiki Weimarskiej poseł do pruskiego Landtagu, poseł do polskiego Sejmu Ustawodawczego (1947–1952).

Roman Żuliński

4 Roman Żuliński - a Polish mathematician and co-commander of the January Uprising.                   

Prometheus

4 In Greek mythology, Prometheus is a Titan responsible for creating or aiding humanity in its earliest days. He defied the Olympian gods by taking fire from them and giving it to humanity in the form...

Walery Przyborowski

4 Walery Zygmunt Lucjan Przyborowski, ps. „Zygmunt Lucjan Sulima”, „Żelisław Krzywda" oraz "Wanda L." – polski historyk, pisarz, uczestnik powstania styczniowego (1863–1864).

Wiktor Gomulicki

4 Wiktor Teofil Gomulicki was a Polish poet, novelist and essayist. He was also a major advocate of Positivism.

Ivan Michurin (biologist)

4 Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin was a Russian practitioner of selection to produce new types of crop plants, Honorable Member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and academician of the Lenin All-Union...

Casimir Funk

4 Casimir Funk was a Polish biochemist generally credited with being among the first to formulate the concept of vitamins after publishing a landmark medical writing in 1912. He highlighted these...

Paweł Steller

4 Paweł Steller – artysta plastyk, uczeń Władysława Skoczylasa.                                       

Walenty Fojkis

4 Włodzimierz Walenty Fojkis – polski działacz narodowy na Górnym Śląsku, poseł na Sejm Śląski I kadencji w II RP.

Jędrzej Moraczewski

4 Jędrzej Edward Moraczewski was a Polish socialist politician who served as Prime Minister of Poland from 1918 to 1919. was one of the leaders of the Polish Socialist Party. He had previously served...

Dietrich Hrabak

4 Dietrich "Dieter" Hrabak was a German Luftwaffe military aviator and wing commander during World War II. Following the war, he became a Generalmajor in the German Air Force of West Germany. As a...

Józef Czempiel

4 Józef Czempiel was a Polish Roman Catholic priest, activist. He was murdered in Dachau concentration camp.

Marian Hemar

4 Marian Hemar (1901–1972), born Marian Hescheles, was a Polish poet, journalist, playwright, comedy writer, and songwriter. Hemar himself stated that before the outbreak of World War II he had already...

Józef Sierakowski (dyplomata)

4 Józef Sierakowski – polski historyk i polityk, radca stanu, członek Komisji Najwyższej Egzaminacyjnej w Królestwie w 1829 roku.

Władysław Bartoszewski

4 Władysław Bartoszewski was a Polish professor of History, politician, social activist, journalist, writer, historian and insurgent. A former Auschwitz concentration camp prisoner, he was a World War...

Henryk Sławik

4 Henryk Sławik was a Polish politician in the interwar period, social worker, activist, and diplomat, who during World War II helped save over 30,000 Polish refugees, including 5,000 Polish Jews in...

Jan Andrzej Morsztyn

4 Jan Andrzej Morsztyn (1621–1693) was a Polish poet, member of the landed nobility, and official in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. He was starosta of Zawichost, Tymbark and Kowal. He was also...

Henryk Baron

4 Henryk Baron ps. „Smukły”, „Garbarz” – polski działacz socjalistyczny. Członek Organizacji Bojowej PPS. Uczestnik wielu akcji zbrojnych. Stracony na Cytadeli w 1907.

Tadeusz Breza

4 Tadeusz Breza – polski powieściopisarz i eseista, a także dyplomata w służbie II Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej oraz Polskiej Rzeczypospolitej Ludowej.

Ursula Ledóchowska

4 Julia Ledóchowska, USAHJ, in religion Maria Ursula of Jesus, was a Polish Catholic religious sister who founded the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus.

Julian Skokowski

4 Julian Skokowski, ps. „Zaborski”, „Sulima” – generał brygady ludowego Wojska Polskiego. Komendant Polskiej Armii Ludowej podczas powstania warszawskiego. Więzień stalinowski. Kawaler Orderu Virtuti...

Mieczysław Słaby

4 Mieczysław Mikołaj Słaby was a Polish army officer and medic in the Polish Land Forces during the Invasion of Poland, notably during the Battle of Westerplatte. He was posthumously awarded the Order...

Józef Czyżewski (działacz narodowy)

4 Józef Czyżewski – polski drukarz, działacz narodowy w Gdańsku.                                     

Gregory of Sanok

4 Gregory of Sanok was a Polish bishop, a professor at the Kraków Academy, metropolitan archbishop of Lwów, scholar, philosopher and a major figure of Polish humanism.

Stanisława Walasiewicz

4 Stanisława Walasiewicz, also known as Stefania Walasiewicz, and Stella Walsh, was a Polish-American track and field athlete, who became a women's Olympic champion in the 100 metres. Born in Poland...

Józef Łukaszewicz (matematyk)

4 Józef Łukaszewicz – polski matematyk, żołnierz Armii Krajowej, profesor i rektor Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego w latach 1981–1982, działacz katolicki.

Leon Frankowski

4 Leon Frankowski, komisarz Rządu Narodowego w województwie lubelskim do lutego 1863 roku, dowódca oddziału w powstaniu styczniowym.

Jan Wantuła

4 Jan Wantuła, ps. Jan Gojański – polski ślusarz hutniczy, sadownik, pisarz ludowy i bibliofil.       

Stefan Skoczylas

4 Stefan Skoczylas, ps. Piotr Giela, Piotr Konar – polski wydawca i redaktor prasy podziemnej, komendant podokręgu Siedlce Okręgu Lublin Batalionów Chłopskich, pośmiertnie awansowany do stopnia...

Alexander Jagiellon

4 Alexander Jagiellon was Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1492 and King of Poland from 1501 until his death in 1506. He was the fourth son of Casimir IV and a member of the Jagiellonian dynasty. Alexander...

Ludwika Wawrzyńska

4 Ludwika Wawrzyńska was a Polish teacher who worked at an elementary school in Warsaw. On February 8, 1955 she rescued four children from a burning house where they had been locked by their parents as...

Władysław Zamoyski

4 Count Władysław Zamoyski (1853–1924) was a French-born Polish nobleman (szlachcic), diplomat and heir of Kórnik, Głuchów, Janusz, Babin and Bargów. Having acquired estates on the Polish side of the...

Ivan Krylov

4 Ivan Andreyevich Krylov is Russia's best-known fabulist and probably the most epigrammatic of all Russian authors. Formerly a dramatist and journalist, he only discovered his true genre at the age of...

Józef Sarna

4 Józef Sarna – podporucznik rezerwy piechoty Wojska Polskiego, dowódca obrony przeprawy przez Wisłę w pobliżu Tarnobrzega, w czasie kampanii wrześniowej 1939.

Antoni Dobrowolski

4 Antoni Dobrowolski was a Polish educator, teacher and Holocaust survivor. At the time of his death in 2012, Dobrowolski was the oldest known survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Teodora Gulgowska

4 Teodora Gulgowska – malarka, aktywistka społeczna, animatorka kaszubskiej kultury i sztuki ludowej. Współzałożycielka pierwszego na terenie Polski skansenu – muzeum na świeżym powietrzu we Wdzydzach...

Marian Mokwa

4 Marian Mokwa – polski malarz, podróżnik i działacz społeczny.                                       

Józef Wysocki (general)

4 Józef Wysocki was a Polish general, soldier in the November Uprising of 1830, the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 and the January Uprising of 1863.

Dominic Savio

4 Dominic Savio was a 19th-century Italian teenager who was a student of John Bosco and became a Catholic saint. He was studying to be a priest when he became ill and died at the age of 14, possibly...

Marcin Rożek

4 Marcin Rożek was a Polish sculptor and painter and co-founder and professor at the School of Decorative Arts in Poznań. Rożek is most closely associated with the region of Greater Poland and the city...

Samuel C. Lind

4 Samuel Colville Lind was a radiation chemist, referred to as "the father of modern radiation chemistry".

Zbigniew Burzyński

4 Zbigniew Jan Władysław Antoni Burzyński, was a Polish balloonist and constructor of balloons, pioneer of Polish balloons, who twice won the Gordon Bennett Cup in ballooning, also beat the world...

Czesław Wycech

4 Czesław Wycech was a Polish activist, politician and historian. He was a member of the Polish peasant's parties: the Polish People's Party "Wyzwolenie", the People's Party, the Polish People's Party,...

Adam Rapacki

4 Adam Rapacki was a leading Polish Communist politician and diplomat from 1947 to 1968. He started in the socialist movement but in 1948 joined the Central Committee of the new Polish United Workers'...

Karol Adwentowicz

4 Karol Adwentowicz was a Polish actor and theater director. Adwentowicz fought in the Polish Legions in World War I, and upon the return of Poland's sovereignty, embarked on a hugely successful...

Rajmund Rembieliński

4 Rajmund Rembieliński (1774–1841) was a Polish nobleman (szlachcic), political activist, and landowner.

Tytus Czyżewski

4 Tytus Czyżewski was a Polish painter, art theoretician, Futurist poet, playwright, member of the Polish Formists and a Colorist.

Nicholas von Renys

4 Nicholas von Renys (1360–1411) was a secular member of the Teutonic Knights and a participant in the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War (1409–1411). The Knights blamed him as a scapegoat for their defeat...

Marian Żelazek

4 Marian Żelazek was a Polish Roman Catholic priest of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD) who lived in India and served amongst the people of Orissa. He is remembered for his service and care towards...

Julian Goslar

4 Julian Maciej Goslar – polski działacz rewolucyjny, uczestnik Wiosny Ludów, autor broszur politycznych i poezji więziennej. Uczestniczył w przygotowaniach do rewolucji 1846 w Rzeszowskiem i na...

Bernard Wapowski

4 Bernard Wapowski (1475-1535) was one of the earliest Polish cartographers and is credited for making the first detailed map of Poland in 1526. Wapowski is considered to be the "Father of Polish...

Jadwiga Smosarska

4 Jadwiga Smosarska was a Polish film actress. She appeared in more than 25 films between 1919 and 1937, as well as various stage productions.

Józef Kapuściński

4 Józef Kapuściński – emisariusz Towarzystwa Demokratycznego Polskiego. Prowadził w okręgu Pilzno w Galicji przygotowania powstańcze, kierował m.in. atakiem na burmistrza Pilzna. Został ujęty, skazany...

Andrzej Samulowski (poeta)

4 Andrzej Samulowski – warmiński poeta ludowy, działacz oświatowy i społeczny, nauczyciel, żył i pracował w Gietrzwałdzie, gdzie założył w 1878 r. pierwszą polską księgarnię na Warmii. Budynek ten...

Ludwig van Beethoven

4 Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of classical music, and his symphonies redefined the medium for later...

Charles de Gaulle

4 Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces against Nazi Germany and Vichy France in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of...

Kazimierz Bogdanowicz (powstaniec)

4 Kazimierz Józef Bogdanowicz herbu Łada – polski szlachcic, dowódca oddziału wojsk polskich w czasie powstania styczniowego.

Jan Bytnar

4 Jan Roman Bytnar, nom de guerre "Rudy" (Ginger) was a Polish scoutmaster, a member of Polish scouting anti-Nazi resistance, and a lieutenant in the Home Army during the Second World War.

Karol Małłek

4 Karol Gustaw Małłek – działacz mazurski, pisarz, folklorysta, publicysta i nauczyciel. Pochodził z rodziny polskiej.

Saint Isidora

4 Saint Isidora, also known as Saint Isidore and Isidora of Tabenna, was a Christian nun and saint of the 4th century AD. She is considered among the earliest fools for Christ. While very little is...

Luke the Evangelist

4 Luke the Evangelist was one of the Four Evangelists—the four traditionally ascribed authors of the canonical gospels. The Early Church Fathers ascribed to him authorship of both the Gospel of Luke...

Mahatma Gandhi

4 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political thinker who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from...

Joanna Chmielewska

4 Joanna Chmielewska, was the pen name of Irena Kühn, a Polish novelist and screenwriter. Her work is often described as "ironic detective stories". Her novels, which have been translated into at least...

Mieczysław Fogg

4 Mieczysław Fogg was a Polish singer and artist. His popularity started well before World War II and continued well into the 1980s. He had a characteristic way of staying very serious yet slightly...

Mamert Stankiewicz

4 Mamert Stankiewicz was a Polish naval officer of the merchant marine, the commander of Lwów, Polonia and finally captain of the Polish ocean liner Piłsudski, which was incorporated into the UK Royal...

Bogumił Kobiela

4 Bogumił Kobiela was a Polish stage and film actor. He is best known for his performances as Drewnowski in Andrzej Wajda's 1958 drama film Ashes and Diamonds and as Jan Piszczyk in Andrzej Munk's...

Homer

4 Homer was an ancient Greek poet who is widely credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature. Although his life and...

Andrzej Grubba

4 Andrzej Stanisław Grubba was a Polish table tennis player.                                         

Anna Dorota Chrzanowska

4 Anna Dorota Chrzanowska was a Polish heroine of the Polish–Ottoman War (1672–76), known for her acts during the Battle of Trembowla in 1675. She also became known as Zofię Chrzanowską in the 19th...

Michał Marian Siedlecki

4 Michał Marian Siedlecki was a Polish zoologist.                                                     

Franciszek Morawski

4 Franciszek Dzierżykraj Morawski was a divisional general in the Polish army, a minister of war during the November Uprising, poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright.

Maćko z Bogdańca

4 Maćko z Bogdańca – fikcyjna postać z powieści Krzyżacy H. Sienkiewicza; rycerz, stryj i opiekun Zbyszka, marzący o odbudowie rodowej posiadłości w Bogdańcu.

Włodzimierz Perzyński

3 Włodzimierz Perzyński was a Polish writer and dramatist, who was a member of the Young Poland movement. His most famous plays include Lekkomyślna siostra (1907), Aszantka (1906), and Szczęście Frania...

Stanisław Henryk Józef Więckowski

3 Stanisław Henryk Józef Więckowski – pułkownik artylerii Wojska Polskiego.                           

Ludwik Michał Pac

3 Count Ludwik Michał Pac was a France-born commander in the Grande Armée, the Army of the Duchy of Warsaw and the Uprising of 1831. Depending on the source, he is called Lithuanian or Polish. He was...

Roald Amundsen

3 Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He was a key figure of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

Icchok Malmed

3 Icchok Malmed was a Polish Jew and fighter of the Białystok Ghetto during the German occupation of Poland in World War II.

Rosa Luxemburg

3 Rosa Luxemburg was a Polish and naturalised-German revolutionary and Marxist theorist. She was a key figure of the socialist movements in Poland and Germany in the early 20th century.

Tadeusz Romanowicz

3 Tadeusz Romanowicz – polski literat, polityk demokratyczny, poseł na galicyjski Sejm Krajowy i do austriackiej Rady Państwa, członek stowarzyszeń konspiracyjnych w Galicji, powstaniec styczniowy,...

Ludomił Rayski

3 Ludomił Antoni Rayski was a Polish engineer, pilot, military officer and aviator. He served as the commander of the Polish Air Force between 1926 and 1939, being responsible for modernization of...

Zygmunt Moczyński

3 Zygmunt Moczyński – pedagog muzyczny, kompozytor, dyrygent, przywódca pomorskiej organizacji konspiracyjnej Batalion Śmierci za Wolność w latach 1939–1940.

Jan Konstanty Żupański

3 Jan Konstanty Żupański – polski księgarz i wydawca.                                                 

Józef Pukowiec

3 Józef Pukowiec codename: Chmura, Pukoc was a Polish teacher, scoutmaster, and Polish resistance activist during the Second World War.

Władysław Nehring

3 Władysław Nehring – polski językoznawca i historyk, badacz języka starosłowiańskiego, autor prac naukowych i popularnonaukowych z dziedziny historii Słowian i gramatyki języków słowiańskich.

Józef Dietl

3 Józef Dietl was an Austro-Polish physician born to an Austrian father and Polish mother. He studied medicine in Lviv and Vienna. He was a pioneer in balneology, and a professor of Jagiellonian...

Franciszek Jan Smolka

3 Franciszek Jan Smolka – polski prawnik, działacz tajnych organizacji niepodległościowych, polityk demokratyczny i liberalny, działacz społeczny, prezydent Sejmu Ustawodawczego w Kromieryżu i...

Władysław Umiński

3 Władysław Jan Umiński – polski pisarz i eseista tworzący w nurcie powieści przygodowej oraz fantastyki naukowej, popularnie nazywany „polskim Juliuszem Verne’em” m. in. w czasopiśmie „Niwa”,...

Edward Wittig

3 Edward Wittig was a Polish sculptor and university professor, notable for designing many monuments in Warsaw.

Leon Wetmański

3 Leon Wetmański was a Polish Catholic auxiliary Bishop of the Płock diocese who was killed in Soldau concentration camp. He was beatified in 1999 as one of the 108 Blessed Polish Martyrs.

Zygmunt Działowski

3 Zygmunt Działowski herbu Prawdzic – polski działacz społeczny, bibliofil, kolekcjoner, poseł do Reichstagu.

Clara Zetkin

3 Clara Zetkin was a German Marxist theorist, communist activist, and advocate for women's rights.   

Stanisław Dygat

3 Stanisław Ludwik Dygat was a Polish writer. His most famous novel, "Jezioro Bodeńskie", was written during World War II and published in 1946. All of his works are partly autobiographical.

Helena Boguszewska

3 Helena Boguszewska, née Radlińska (1883–1978) was a Polish writer, columnist and a social activist. 

Zenon Kosidowski

3 Zenon Alojzy Kosidowski – polski pisarz, eseista, poeta.                                           

Leopold Tyrmand

3 Leopold Tyrmand was a Polish novelist, writer, and editor. Tyrmand emigrated from Poland to the United States in 1966 and five years later married an American, Mary Ellen Fox. He served as editor of...

Władysław Anczyc

3 Władysław Marceli Anczyc – polski współwłaściciel drukarni, filolog, muzykolog, pianista, geolog oraz taternik, działacz sportowy i kapitan Wojska Polskiego, ofiara zbrodni katyńskiej.

Teodor Parnicki

3 Teodor Parnicki (1908–1988) was a Polish writer, notable for his historical novels. He is especially renowned for works related to the early medieval Middle East, the late Roman and the Byzantine...

Honoré de Balzac

3 Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, described as a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.

Roman Zmorski

3 –                                                                                                   

Witold Wojtkiewicz

3 Witold Wojtkiewicz was a Polish painter, illustrator and printmaker. Although generally considered an Expressionist, some of his works are precursors of Surrealism.

Leonardo da Vinci

3 Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame...

Tadeusz Miciński

3 Tadeusz Miciński (1873-1918) was a Polish poet, novelist, and playwright associated with the Young Poland movement. Known for his mystical and symbolist themes, Miciński's works often explore the...

Franciszek Juszczak

3 Franciszek Juszczak – działacz polonijny związany z Wrocławiem i Dolnym Śląskiem, w latach 1922–1939 kierownik wrocławskiego oddziału Związku Polaków w Niemczech.

Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine

3 Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine was a French painter, draughtsman, engraver and caricaturist. Born in France, from 1774 to 1796 he resided in Poland.

Czesław Klimas

3 Czesław Klimas – ksiądz i działacz polski na Śląsku, poseł do sejmu pruskiego Republiki Weimarskiej.

Ivan Pavlov

3 Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was a Russian and Soviet experimental neurologist and physiologist known for his discovery of classical conditioning through his experiments with dogs. Pavlov also conducted...

Frédéric Joliot-Curie

3 Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie was a French chemist and physicist who received the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with his wife, Irène Joliot-Curie, for their discovery of induced radioactivity. They were...

Mieczysław Halka-Ledóchowski

3 Mieczysław Halka-Ledóchowski was a Polish Roman Catholic cardinal-priest. He was born in Górki in Russian-controlled Congress Poland to Count Josef Ledóchowski and Maria Zakrzewska. He was uncle to...

Kazimierz Bartel

3 Kazimierz Władysław Bartel was a Polish mathematician, freemason, scholar, diplomat and politician who served as 15th, 17th and 19th Prime Minister of Poland three times between 1926 and 1930 and a...

Artur Oppman

3 Artur Franciszek Oppman was a Young Poland poet who wrote under the pen name "Or-Ot".               

Maciej Miechowita

3 Maciej Miechowita was a Polish Renaissance scholar, professor of Jagiellonian University, historian, chronicler, geographer, medical doctor, alchemist, astrologer and canon in Kraków.

Jan Styczyński (lekarz)

3 Jan Roman Styczyński – lekarz, nauczyciel akademicki, dr hab. nauk medycznych, profesor zwyczajny Wydziału Lekarskiego i Katedry Pediatrii, Hematologii i Onkologii Collegium Medicum im. Ludwika...

Danuta Szaflarska

3 Danuta Szaflarska was a Polish film and stage actress. In 2008 she was awarded the Złota Kaczka for the best Polish actress of the century. Szaflarska participated in the Warsaw Uprising as a...

Giuseppe Garibaldi

3 Giuseppe Maria Garibaldi was an Italian general, revolutionary and republican. He contributed to the Unification of Italy (Risorgimento) and the creation of the Kingdom of Italy. He is considered to...

Czesław Witoszyński

3 Czesław Maciej Witoszyński – polski inżynier mechanik, konstruktor maszyn, profesor aerodynamiki, nazywany ojcem polskiego lotnictwa.

Tadeusz Pełczyński

3 Tadeusz Walenty Pełczyński was a Polish Army major general, intelligence officer and chief of the General Staff's Section II.

Jerzy Żuławski

3 Jerzy Żuławski was a Polish literary figure, philosopher, translator, alpinist and patriot whose best-known work is the science-fiction epic, Trylogia Księżycowa, written between 1901 and 1911.

Jan Kowalczyk

3 Jan Kowalczyk was a Polish show jumper who competed in the 1968, 1972 and 1980 Olympics. He won an individual gold and a team silver medal in 1980.

Mikhail Lermontov

3 Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov was a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus", the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin's death in 1837 and...

Konrad Guderski

3 Konrad Guderski, ps. „Konrad” – polski inżynier wodny, dowódca obrony Poczty Polskiej w Wolnym Mieście Gdańsku, podporucznik rezerwy piechoty Wojska Polskiego.

Bolesław Czerwieński

3 Bolesław Czerwieński – polski poeta i dramatopisarz, publicysta, działacz socjalistyczny, autor słów pieśni Czerwony sztandar (1881).

Józef Grzegorzek

3 Józef Grzegorzek – polski działacz narodowy, przywódca peowiacki, uczestnik akcji plebiscytowej i III powstania śląskiego.

Karl Godulla

3 Karl Godulla, Carolus Godulla, in Polish spelled Karol Godula was a Silesian self-made industrialist, and one of the best-known pioneers in the industrial development of Prussian Silesia.

Barnim I

3 Barnim I the Good, from the Griffin dynasty, was a Duke of Pomerania from 1220 until his death.     

Mikołaj Zyblikiewicz

3 Mikołaj Zyblikiewicz was a Polish politician and lawyer of Ruthenian origin. He was the two-term Mayor of Kraków – in the then Grand Duchy of Kraków. A street in Kraków's Old Town is named in his...

Mikołaj Wierzynek (młodszy)

3 Mikołaj Wierzynek (młodszy) – średniowieczny kupiec, patrycjusz i bankier, syn Mikołaja Wierzynka (starszego).

Stanisław Dębicki

3 Stanisław Mieczysław Dębicki, was a Polish painter and illustrator.                                 

Biernat of Lublin

3 Biernat of Lublin was a Polish poet, fabulist, translator, and physician. He was one of the first Polish-language writers known by name, and the most interesting of the earliest ones. He expressed...

Wawrzyniec Hajda

3 Wawrzyniec Bartłomiej Hajda – polski działacz ludowy i poeta, z zawodu górnik.                     

Stefan Pogonowski

3 Stefan Pogonowski was a Polish professional soldier and military officer. He served in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I and then the newly recreated Polish Army during the...

Wacław Seweryn Rzewuski

3 Wacław Seweryn Rzewuski was a Polish explorer, poet, orientalist and horse expert.                 

Henryk Wiercieński

3 Henryk Wojciech Jakub Wiercieński – uczestnik powstania styczniowego, sybirak, publicysta. Zaznaczył się jako obrońca ziemi chełmskiej. Mieszkał w Nałęczowie, Lublinie. Był społecznikiem na terenie...

Kazimierz Szpotański

3 Kazimierz Tadeusz Szpotański – polski inżynier elektryk, pionier przemysłu aparatów elektrycznych. 

Jan Nepomucen Umiński

3 Jan Nepomucen Umiński of Cholewa (1778–1851) was a Polish military officer and a brigadier general of the Army of the Duchy of Warsaw. A veteran of the Kościuszko Uprising, Napoleonic Wars and the...

Stanisław Smolka

3 Stanisław Smolka was a Polish historian and publicist, professor at the Jagiellonian University and the Catholic University of Lublin, Secretary General of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Jerzy Duda-Gracz

3 Jerzy Duda-Gracz was a Polish painter.                                                             

Karol Pomianowski

3 Karol Pomianowski – polski profesor hydrotechniki, inicjator budowy zapory na Dunajcu w Rożnowie, pierwszy dziekan Wydziału Inżynierii Lądowej na polskiej Politechnice Gdańskiej.

Hanna Januszewska

3 Hanna Januszewska-Moszyńska – polska prozaiczka, poetka, tłumaczka, autorka sztuk teatralnych i słuchowisk.

Józef Weyssenhoff

3 Józef Weyssenhoff was a Polish novelist, poet, literary critic, publisher. Close to the National Democracy political movement after 1905, he paid tribute to the tradition of the Polish landed gentry...

Adam Napieralski

3 Adam Napieralski ps. Marian Firlej – polski redaktor, polityk, poeta, powieściopisarz, działacz narodowy i społeczny. Wydawca pierwszej „gadzinówki”.

Michał Oczapowski

3 Michał Oczapowski – polski agronom, profesor Cesarskiego Uniwersytetu Wileńskiego, pionier doświadczalnictwa rolniczego, teoretyk rolnictwa.

Franciszek Ksawery Drucki-Lubecki

3 Prince Franciszek Ksawery Drucki-Lubecki was an important Polish politician, freemason and diplomat of the first half of the 19th century. He served as the minister of the treasury in the Congress...

Feliks Konarski

3 Feliks Konarski was a Polish poet, songwriter, and cabaret performer.                               

Kazimierz Michałowski

3 Kazimierz Józef Marian Michałowski was a Polish archaeologist and Egyptologist, art historian, member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, professor ordinarius of the University of Warsaw as well as...

Juliusz Rómmel

3 Juliusz Karol Wilhelm Józef Rómmel was a Polish military commander, a general of the Polish Armed Forces.

Stanisław Barcewicz

3 Stanisław Barcewicz was a Polish violinist, conductor and teacher. Although his repertoire included almost all of the classical and romantic violin literature, he was valued primarily for his...

Pablo Picasso

3 Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century,...

Ferdynand Ruszczyc

3 Ferdynand Ruszczyc (1870–1936) was a Polish painter, printmaker, and stage designer. He was a member of the aristocratic Ruszczyc de Lis family.

Adam Bień

3 Adam Bień – polski polityk ruchu ludowego, adwokat, sędzia, członek władz Polskiego Państwa Podziemnego. Kawaler Orderu Orła Białego.

Władysław Sebyła

3 Władysław Sebyła (1902–1940) was a Polish poet, a member of the Kwadryga (Four-in-Hand) literary group, which also included Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński and Stefan Flukowski. He is a victim of the...

Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz

3 Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz was a Polish athlete who was active as a secret agent in Greece and was collaborating with the Greek Resistance during World War II before his execution by the Germans.

Aleksander Czekanowski

3 Aleksander Piotr Czekanowski, or Aleksandr Lavrentyevich Chekanovsky was a Polish geologist and explorer of Siberia during his exile after participating in the January Uprising. He took part in and...

Eugeniusz Paukszta

3 Eugeniusz Paukszta – polski powieściopisarz i publicysta.                                           

Zbigniew Religa

3 Zbigniew Eugeniusz Religa was a Polish cardiac surgeon and politician.                             

Louis Braille

3 Louis Braille was a French educator and the inventor of a reading and writing system named after him, braille, intended for use by visually impaired people. His system is used worldwide and remains...

Antoni Stabik

3 Antoni Stabik – polski ksiądz katolicki, poeta, autor polskich wierszy zamieszczanych na łamach prasy oraz zebranych w tomie Żarty nieżarty wydanym w 1848 roku w Raciborzu. Autor pierwszego...

Franciszek Żymirski

3 Franciszek Żymirski herbu Jastrzębiec – generał polski, dowódca 2 dywizji piechoty, kawaler orderu Virtuti Militari.

Wacław Aleksander Lachman

3 Wacław Aleksander Lachman – kompozytor, dyrygent, pedagog, autor podręczników i śpiewników, animator życia muzycznego i działacz społeczny.

Franciszek Salezy Jezierski

3 Franciszek Salezy Jezierski was a Polish priest, social and political activist, and writer of the Enlightenment period.

Jan Rekowski-Styp

3 Jan Rekowski-Styp, również Jan Styp-Rekowski – włościanin kaszubski, działacz Związku Polaków w Niemczech, więzień niemieckiego obozu koncentracyjnego.

Jerzy Waldorff

3 Jerzy Waldorff-Preyss of the Nabram coat of arms was a Polish media personality, public intellectual, socialite, music critic and music aficionado. He wrote over twenty books, mostly on the subject...

Izydor Gulgowski

3 Izydor Gulgowski, także Ernst Seefried-Gulgowski – nauczyciel, współzałożyciel Kaszubskiego Towarzystwa Ludoznawczego w Kartuzach, poeta kaszubski, dziennikarz, publicysta, porucznik Wojska...

Archimedes

3 Archimedes of Syracuse was an Ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor from the city of Syracuse in Sicily. Although few details of his life are known, based on his...

Czesław Janczarski

3 Czeslaw Janczarski was a Polish writer of children's books as well as a translator from the Russian language.

Zbigniew Przybyszewski

3 Zbigniew Przybyszewski (1907–1952) was a Polish military officer and a Commander in the Polish Navy. During the early stages of World War II he served with distinction as the commanding officer of...

Józef Toczyski

3 Józef Toczyski – naczelnik Wydziału Skarbu Rządu Narodowego.                                       

Władysław Odonic

3 Władysław Odonic, nicknamed Plwacz or the Spitter, was a duke of Kalisz 1207–1217, duke of Poznań 1216–1217, ruler of Ujście in 1223, ruler of Nakło from 1225, and duke of all Greater Poland...

Augustyn Szamarzewski

3 Augustyn Szamarzewski – polski działacz społeczny i ksiądz związany z Wielkopolską.                 

Bernard Chrzanowski

3 Bernard Chrzanowski was a Polish social and political activist, president of the Union of the Greater Poland Falcons "Sokół".

Walerian Czuma

3 Walerian Czuma was a Polish general and military commander. He is notable for his command over a Polish unit in Siberia during the Russian Civil War, and the commander of the defence of Warsaw during...

Władysław Raczkiewicz

3 Władysław Raczkiewicz was a Polish politician, lawyer, diplomat and President of Poland-in-exile from 1939 until his death in 1947. Until 1945, he was the internationally recognized Polish head of...

Stanisław Trembecki

3 Stanisław Trembecki was a Polish Enlightenment poet and translator, well known for his poems Na dzień siódmy września and Nadgrobek hajduka that are said to have started a new trend in Polish...

Jan Piotr Szturmowski

3 Jan Piotr Szturmowski – polski rolnik, polityk i działacz społeczny, poseł na Sejm I, II i III kadencji w II RP z ramienia Związku Ludowo-Narodowego oraz Stronnictwa Narodowego.

Оксинский, Юзеф

3 Юзеф Оксинский — польский националист, революционер. Активный участник Польского восстания 1863 года. Майор повстанческих войск.

Juliusz Kraziewicz

3 Juliusz Bernard Kraziewicz – polski działacz oświatowo-gospodarczy.                                 

Alexander Herzen

3 Alexander Ivanovich Herzen was a Russian writer and thinker known as the precursor of Russian socialism and one of the main precursors of agrarian populism. With his writings, many composed while...

Krzysztof Żegocki

3 Krzysztof Jan Żegocki was a commander of partisan units which fought with Sweden during 1655–1659. He was also a voivod of Inowrocław, bishop of Chełm, starosta of Babimost and Konin, supporter of...

Pan Kleks

3 Professor Ambroży Kleks, commonly referred to as Pan Kleks, is a fictional character in the Pan Kleks series, a trilogy of books written by Polish author Jan Brzechwa. He is depicted as the founder...

Jerzy Różycki

3 Jerzy Witold Różycki was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who worked at breaking German Enigma-machine ciphers before and during World War II.

Paweł Cyms

3 Paweł Cyms was a soldier of the Imperial German Army and captain of infantry in the Second Polish Republic. He fought in World War I, Greater Poland Uprising (1918–19), Silesian Uprisings, Invasion...

Onufry Kopczyński

3 Onufry Kopczyński was an important educator and grammarian of the Polish language during the Polish Enlightenment.

Władysław Strzemiński

3 Władysław Strzemiński was a Polish painter, art theoretician, pedagogue, and soldier. He is regarded as a pioneer of Constructivist avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s and the developer of the theory...

Hieronim Dekutowski

3 Hieronim Dekutowski was a Polish boy scout and soldier, who fought in Polish September Campaign, was a member of the elite forces Cichociemni, fought in the Home Army and after World War II, fought...

Jakub Świnka

3 Jakub Świnka was a Polish Catholic priest, the Archbishop of Gniezno and a notable politician and statesman, supporter of the idea of unification of all Polish lands under the rule of Władysław I the...

Wiktor Czajewski

3 Wiktor Czajewski – literat, dziennikarz, historyk, wydawca gazet i właściciel drukarni prasowej; badacz kurpiowskiej Puszczy Zielonej.

Eugeniusz Bodo

3 Eugeniusz Bodo was a film director, producer, singer, pianist and one of the most popular Polish actors and comedians of the interwar period. He starred in some of the most popular Polish film...

Andrzej Niemojewski

3 Andrzej Niemojewski was a Polish social and political activist, poet, rationalist and writer of the Young Poland period.

Oddział Antoniego Jeziorańskiego

3 Oddział Antoniego Jeziorańskiego – partia powstańcza okresu powstania styczniowego, operująca w Łódzkiem a potem w Małopolsce.

Julian Korsak

3 Julian Korsak – polski poeta i tłumacz, przedstawiciel romantyzmu krajowego.                       

Karol Bohdanowicz

3 Karol Bohdanowicz was a Polish geologist, an expert in mining geology and physical geography. Bohdanowicz' research contributed to the construction of the Caspian railway line and enabled the...

Vladislaus II of Opole

3 Vladislaus II of Opole, nicknamed Naderspan, was Duke of Opole from 1356, Count palatine of Hungary (1367–1372), Duke of Wieluń (1370–1392), Governor of Ruthenia (1372–1378), Count palatine of Poland...

Stefan Myczkowski

3 Stefan Myczkowski – profesor botaniki leśnej i ekologii lasu na Wydziale Leśnym Akademii Rolniczej w Krakowie oraz w Zakładzie Ochrony Przyrody Polskiej Akademii Nauk, wicedyrektor Instytutu Hodowli...

Józef Zieliński (działacz robotniczy)

3 Józef Zieliński, pseud. dr Józef Zielczak, krypt. J. Z. – jeden z pierwszych polskich lekarzy-higienistów, społecznik, działacz anarchistyczny i socjalistyczny, publicysta i wydawca prasy...

Jan Czerski

3 Jan Stanisław Franciszek Czerski, also known as Ivan Dementievich Chersky or Yan Dominikovich Chersky, was a Polish, Belarusian, and Russian paleontologist, osteologist, geologist, geographer and...

Jan Klemens Branicki

3 Count Jan Klemens Branicki was a Polish nobleman, magnate and Hetman, Field Crown Hetman of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth between 1735 and 1752, and Great Crown Hetman between 1752 and 1771. One...

Maurice Ravel

3 Joseph Maurice Ravel was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with Impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the...

Błażej Stolarski

3 Błażej Stolarski – polski działacz społeczny i polityczny, jeden z przywódców ruchu ludowego, etnograf i publicysta, członek Zarządu Koła Parlamentarnego Obozu Zjednoczenia Narodowego w 1938 roku,...

Henryk Czeczott

3 Henryk Czeczott – polski inżynier, profesor Akademii Górniczej w Krakowie, kierownik Katedry Górnictwa.

Pius Weloński

3 Pius Weloński – polski rzeźbiarz, malarz.                                                           

Władysław Pytlasiński

3 Władysław Pytlasiński – polski zapaśnik, trener, oficer Policji Państwowej. Ze względu na swój wkład w rozwój polskiego zapaśnictwa jest nazywany „ojcem polskich zapasów”.

Wilhelm Mach

3 Wilhelm Mach, pen names il., Quidam, s., S., Współpracownik was a Polish writer, essayist, poet and literary critic.

Władysław Bortnowski

3 Władysław Bortnowski was a Polish historian, military commander and one of the highest ranking generals of the Polish Army. He is most famous for commanding the Pomorze Army in the Battle of the...

Helena Mniszek

3 Helena Mniszek was a Polish novelist. She was born in Volhynia and died in Sabnie. Her debut novel Trędowata written in 1909 brought her to prominence.

Wojciech Weiss

3 Wojciech Weiss was a prominent Polish painter and draughtsman of the Young Poland movement.         

Władysław Gurgacz

3 Władysław Gurgacz was a Polish Catholic priest, member of the Society of Jesus, and chaplain of the anti-communist underground.

Władysław Wiewiórowski

3 Władysław Wiewiórowski – nadleśniczy, działacz niepodległościowy, podporucznik i dowódca wrzesińskiego batalionu powstańczego w powstaniu wielkopolskim, kawaler Orderu Virtuti Militari.

Fryderyk Leyk

3 Fryderyk Leyk lub Lejk ps. Mirosław Różyński, Grom – mazurski działacz ludowy, publicysta, poeta.   

Josef Božek

3 Josef Božek was a Czech-Polish engineer and inventor. Born in the region of Cieszyn Silesia, he is considered one of founders of Czech mechanics. He put into operation one of the first steam engines...

Stanisław Miłkowski (literat)

3 Stanisław Miłkowski – polski literat ; powstaniec styczniowy. Autor powieści współczesnych, wspomnień i licznych przekładów.

Tadeusz Kulisiewicz

3 Tadeusz Kulisiewicz – polski grafik i rysownik.                                                     

Philip Neri

3 Saint Philip Neri, born Filippo Romolo Neri, pronounced [fiˈlippo ˈrɔːmolo ˈneːri] was an Italian Catholic priest who founded the Congregation of the Oratory, a society of secular clergy dedicated to...

Maria Piotrowiczowa

3 Maria Piotrowiczowa was a Polish January insurgent and a participant of the battle of Dobra. She was born in 1839 and killed on 24 February 1863.

Włodzimierz Steyer

3 Kontradmirał Włodzimierz Steyer was a Polish naval officer before and during the Second World War. During the Invasion of Poland in 1939 he commanded the Polish land forces defending the Hel...

Stanisław Pruszyński (generał)

3 Stanisław Napoleon Ursyn-Pruszyński herbu Rawicz – cesarski i królewski szambelan, Feldmarschalleutnant cesarskiej i królewskiej armii, generał dywizji Wojska Polskiego.

Augustine of Hippo

3 Augustine of Hippo was a Christian theologian and philosopher from Roman Africa. He was the bishop of Hippo Regius from Thagaste in Numidia Cirtensis,. His writings deeply influenced the development...

Józef Szermentowski

3 Józef Szermentowski, or Szermętowski, was a Polish landscape painter, influenced by the Barbizon School.

Heliodor Święcicki

3 Heliodor Święcicki – polski lekarz ginekolog, społecznik, filantrop, założyciel i pierwszy rektor Wszechnicy Piastowskiej.

Ernest Malinowski

3 Adam Stanisław Hipolit Ernest Nepomucen Malinowski was a Polish civil engineer best known for constructing the world's highest railway at the time, the Ferrovias Central, in the Peruvian Andes...

Wespazjan Kochowski

3 Wespazjan (Vespasian) Kochowski was one of the most noted historians and poets of Polish Baroque, the most typical representative of the philosophy and literature of Sarmatism.

Maria Sawicka

3 Maria Elżbieta Sawicka – polska działaczka społeczna, adwokat.                                     

Zygmunt Kaczkowski

3 Zygmunt Kaczkowski (1825–1896) was a Polish writer, independence activist, and an Austrian spy. He was convicted in 1864 of espionage by an underground court in the January Uprising. There is a...

Janusz I the Old

3 Janusz I of Warsaw, also known as Janusz I the Old, was a Polish prince member of the House of Piast in the Masovian branch, from 1373/74 Duke of Warsaw and after the division of the paternal...

Johann Gottfried Herder

3 Johann Gottfried von Herder was a German philosopher, theologian, pastor, poet, and literary critic. Herder is associated with the Age of Enlightenment, Sturm und Drang, and Weimar Classicism. He was...

Saints Faith, Hope and Charity

3 Saints Faith, Hope, and Charity , are a group of Christian martyred saints who are venerated together with their mother, Sophia ("Wisdom").

Ignacy Busza

3 Ignacy Busza – oficer armii niemieckiej, działacz niepodległościowy, powstaniec wielkopolski, porucznik Wojska Polskiego, kawaler Orderu Virtuti Militari.

Nikodem Sulik-Sarnowski

3 Nikodem Sulik-Sarnowski was an officer of the Russian Imperial Army, and Generał brygady of the Polish Army.

Matthew the Apostle

3 Matthew the Apostle was one of the twelve apostles of Jesus. According to Christian traditions, he was also one of the four Evangelists as author of the Gospel of Matthew, and thus is also known as...

Jude Thaddeus the Apostle

3 Jude the Apostle was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. He is generally identified as Thaddeus and is also variously called Judas Thaddaeus, Jude Thaddaeus, Jude of...

Władysław Gębik

3 Władysław Gębik – doktor nauk filozoficznych, pedagog, pisarz, literat, działacz społeczno-kulturalny spod znaku Rodła, członek Związku Polaków w Niemczech, etnograf.

Michał Spisak

3 Michał Spisak – polski kompozytor głównie utworów instrumentalnych, stanowiących przykład neoklasycyzmu.

Józef Patelski

3 Józef Patelski – polski szlachcic i wojskowy, uczestnik powstania listopadowego odznaczony orderem Virtuti Militari oraz uczestnik powstania styczniowego.

Stanisław Betlej

3 Stanisław Ludwik Betlej ps. „Lampart” – polski żołnierz, kapitan piechoty Wojska Polskiego.         

Orpheus

3 In Greek mythology, Orpheus was a Thracian bard, legendary musician and prophet. He was also a renowned poet and, according to legend, travelled with Jason and the Argonauts in search of the Golden...

Tony Halik

3 Tony Halik, born Mieczysław Antoni Sędzimir Halik was a Polish film operator, documentary film-maker, author of travel books, traveller, explorer, and polyglot.

Maria Danilewicz Zielińska

3 Maria Danilewicz Zielińska – polska pisarka, prozaiczka, krytyk literacki, bibliotekarka.           

John Lennon

3 John Winston Ono Lennon was an English musician and activist. He gained global fame as the founder, co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the Beatles. Lennon's songwriting partnership with Paul...

Adam Stefan Sapieha

3 Prince Adam Stefan Stanisław Bonifacy Józef Sapieha was a Polish Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Kraków from 1911 to 1951. A member of the Polish nobility, between 1922 and 1923 he was a...

Jan Czochralski

3 Jan Czochralski was a Polish chemist who invented the Czochralski method, which is used for growing single crystals and in the production of semiconductor wafers. It is still used in over 90 percent...

Ludwik Musioł

3 Ludwik Musioł – nauczyciel, wizytator, archiwista, historyk górnośląski, prekursor krajoznawstwa, historyk kultury oraz Kościoła katolickiego, lingwista, etnograf. Autor ponad 300 prac naukowych.

Karol Świerczewski

3 Karol Wacław Świerczewski was a Polish and Soviet Red Army general and statesman. He was a Bolshevik Party member and served in the Soviet Red Army during the Russian Civil War and participated in...

Stanisław Herbst

3 Stanisław Herbst was a Polish historian, researcher of modern history, and military historian. He was a professor at the University of Warsaw and the Dzerzhinsky Political-Military Academy in Warsaw,...

Kazimierz Grudzielski

3 Kazimierz Grudzielski – generał porucznik Wojska Polskiego, działacz niepodległościowy, kawaler Orderu Virtuti Militari.

Krzysztof Kieślowski

3 Krzysztof Kieślowski was a Polish film director and screenwriter. He is known internationally for Dekalog (1989), The Double Life of Veronique (1991), and the Three Colours trilogy (1993–1994)....

Anne of Green Gables

3 Anne of Green Gables is a 1908 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery. Written for all ages, it has been considered a classic children's novel since the mid-20th century. Set in the late 19th...

Kazimierz Drewnowski

3 Kazimierz Bolesław Drewnowski – polski profesor, inżynier, rektor Politechniki Warszawskiej, pułkownik łączności Wojska Polskiego, kawaler Orderu Virtuti Militari.

Teresa Remiszewska

3 Teresa Remiszewska-Damsz – polska żeglarka, jachtowy kapitan żeglugi wielkiej, instruktorka żeglarstwa, harcmistrz Związku Harcerstwa Polskiego i członkini Rady Harcerskiego Kręgu Morskiego,...

Józef Kałuża

3 Józef Ignacy Kałuża was a Polish footballer and later coach, regarded as one of the best Polish footballers of the 1920s.

Ryszard Riedel

3 Ryszard Henryk Riedel was the original lead singer of blues-rock band Dżem. He is often regarded as one of the most popular and well known Silesian vocalist, along with an occasional collaborator...

Gerhart Hauptmann

3 Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann was a German dramatist and novelist. He is counted among the most important promoters of literary naturalism, though he integrated other styles into his work as well....

Irena Szewińska

3 Irena Szewińska was a Polish sprinter who was one of the world's foremost track athletes for nearly two decades, in multiple events. She won a total of seven Olympic medals including three golds. She...

Kazimierz Wiłkomirski

3 Kazimierz Wiłkomirski; was a Polish cellist, composer and conductor. Son of Alfred Wiłkomirski, brother of Maria Wiłkomirska, Wanda Wiłkomirska and violinist Michael Wilkomirski. Graduate of the...

Jan Łaski

3 Jan Łaski or Johannes à Lasco was a Polish Calvinist reformer. Owing to his influential work in England (1548–1553) during the English Reformation, he is known to the English-speaking world by the...

Jan Žižka

3 Jan Žižka z Trocnova a Kalicha was a Czech military leader and Knight who was a contemporary and follower of Jan Hus, and a prominent Radical Hussite who led the Taborite faction during the Hussite...

Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski

3 Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, was a Polish poet. He is considered Europe's most prominent Latin poet of the 17th century, and a renowned theoretician of poetics.

Aleksander Bednarczyk

3 Aleksander Bednarczyk, ps. „Adam” – żołnierz wojny obronnej 1939, członek Armii Krajowej, Zrzeszenia Wolność i Niezawisłość.

Antonio Vivaldi

3 Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist and impresario of Baroque music. Regarded as one of the greatest Baroque composers, Vivaldi's influence during his lifetime was...

Anna of Masovia

3 Anna of Masovia was a Polish princess, Titular Duchess of Masovia and the last representative of the Masovian branch of the Piast dynasty.

Antoni Serbeński

3 Antoni Serbeński – polski malarz, grafik, pedagog.                                                 

Artur Malawski

3 Artur Malawski – polski kompozytor, pedagog i dyrygent.                                             

Marian Kukiel

3 Marian Włodzimierz Kukiel was a Polish major general, historian, social and political activist.     

Józef Węgrzyn

3 Józef Wegrzyn (1884–1952) was a Polish film actor.                                                 

Gandalf

3 Gandalf is a protagonist in J. R. R. Tolkien's novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. He is a wizard, one of the Istari order, and the leader of the Company of the Ring. Tolkien took the name...

Jacek Woszczerowicz

3 Marian Jacek Woszczerowicz (1904–1970) was a Polish actor.                                         

Stanisław Szeptycki

3 Stanisław Maria Jan Teofil Szeptycki was a Polish count, general and military commander.           

Olga Drahonowska-Małkowska

3 Olga Drahonowska-Małkowska, with her husband, founded scouting in Poland.                           

Stanisław Mastalerz

3 Stanisław Mastalerz, ps. Karol Gorczek, Wiktor Gans − kapitan piechoty Wojska Polskiego, działacz niepodległościowy, kawaler Orderu Virtuti Militari, uczestnik powstań śląskich.

Jan Łangowski

3 Jan Łangowski – dziennikarz, działacz Związku Polaków w Niemczech, autor głośnego "Memoriału dotyczącego praw ludności polskiej w Niemczech" z 1929 roku.