Famous People with Name Bronislaw

Bronislaw Antoni Szwarce            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Bronislaw Antoni Szwarce: was a Polish engineer and political activist. Born in France to Polish immigrants and educated there, he returned to partitioned Poland and joined the radical democratic pro-independence underground. He became part of the Central National Committee but was arrested by the Russian authorities shortly before the January 1863 Uprising and exiled to Siberia. (The CNC became a provisional Polish government and Szwarce, had he not been arrested, would likely have become one of the Uprising's leaders.)

Bronislaw Zaleski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Bronislaw Zaleski: was a Polish political activist, writer. He was a secretary of the Towarzystwo Historyczno-Literackie (since 1866) and editor of Roczniki, director of the Polish Library in Paris (since 1868), member of the Academy of Learning. Author of Wygnancy polscy w Orenburgu [Polish exiles in Orenburg] (1866); reminiscential and biographial works about Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, Józef Hieronim Kajsiewicz, Ludwik Orpiszewski. Zaleski was a follower of Hôtel Lambert and also a friend of Cyprian Kamil Norwid.

Bronislaw Chromy            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Bronislaw Chromy: is a Polish sculptor, medallist, painter, and draughtsman, and a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. Chromy is a Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Letters. He was born at Lencze near Lanckorona in 1925, he was educated at the Secondary School of Fine Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, graduating in 1956. He was a student of Xawery Dunikowski.His works are in the collections of the Warsaw National Museum, Kraków National Museum, Museum of Medal Art in Wroclaw and Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, Paris, Copenhagen, Moscow, Skopje, Helsinki, Barcelona, Dijon, Ravenna, Hasselt, Bochum, Arezzo.

Bronislaw "Bronek" Czech            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Bronislaw "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 jumping. A member of the Polish national team at three consecutive Winter Olympics, he was also one of the pioneers of mountain rescue in the Tatra Mountains and a glider instructor. He perished in the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Bronislaw Wildstein            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Bronislaw Wildstein: is a former Polish dissident of Jewish origin.[1][2] Wildstein is a journalist, freelance author and, from May 11, 2006 to February 28, 2007, he was the CEO of Telewizja Polska, state-owned television. Wildstein rose to nationwide prominence in Poland in January and February 2005, after he had smuggled a file of informers and victims of the former communist secret police (Sluzba Bezpieczenstwa) out of the Institute for National Remembrance (IPN) and then distributed it among fellow journalists.[3] The file is commonly referred to as "Wildstein's List" (Polish: lista Wildsteina).