Famous People with Name Jadwiga

Jadwiga Pilsudska-Jaraczewska            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Jadwiga Pilsudska-Jaraczewska: is a pilot, who served in the Air Transport Auxiliary during the Second World War. She is a daughter of Marshal and Naczelnik Józef Pilsudski.In 1937 Jadwiga began flying gliders and obtained a pilot's licence. In 1939 she passed her examinations from secondary school and made plans to study aircraft engineering at the Warsaw Polytechnic.In September 1939, Poland was invaded by the Nazis, initiating the Second World War and her family made plans to leave the country immediately. Pilsudska fled with her mother and elder sister, Wanda, to Lithuania and eventually arrived in the United Kingdom. She resumed her studies, in 1940, matriculating at Cambridge University.

Jadwiga Andrzejewska            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Jadwiga Andrzejewska: was a Polish film and theater actress, very popular between the World Wars in Poland and Germany.

Jadwiga Tyszka            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Jadwiga Tyszka: was an actress in theater, TV and film in Poland and a community activist in the Ivy Hill section of Newark, New Jersey. She was married to painter Andre de Krayewski and had two children. She died on February 26, 2005.

Jadwiga Doering            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Jadwiga Doering: is a Polish sprint canoer who competed in the late 1960s. She finished ninth in the K-2 500 m event at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.

Jadwiga Ksiazek            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Jadwiga Ksiazek: is a Polish former volleyball player who competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics and in the 1968 Summer Olympics.In 1964 she was part of the Polish team which won the bronze medal in the Olympic tournament. She played all five matches.Four years later she won her second Olympic bronze medal with the Polish team. She played three matches.