Famous People with Name Feliks

Feliks Dzierzynski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Feliks Dzierzynski: 1877 –July 20, 1926) was a Polish Communist revolutionary, famous as the founder of the Bolshevik secret police, the Cheka, later known by many names during the history of the Soviet Union.

Feliks Zukowski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Feliks Zukowski: was a Polish actor and theatre director. He worked in theatres in Warsaw, Vilnius, Lublin, Czestochowa and Lódz. Feliks was a manager of Stefan Jaracz Teatr in Olsztyn. He was also a soldier of Armia Krajowa, prisoner of Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

Feliks Falk            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Feliks Falk: is a Polish movie and theater director as well as writer of film scripts, stage plays, television plays, and radio shows. A 1966 graduate of Warsaw's Academy of Fine Arts, he also is a painter and graphic artist. Falk is one of creators of the 1970s wave of Polish cinematography, called Cinema of moral anxiety. Among his most famous movies there are Wodzirej (Top Dog) (1977) and Samowolka (AWOL) (1993). Falk has won a number of major filmmaking awards.

Feliks Baranski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Feliks Baranski: was a Polish mathematician and an active member of the so-called Lwow School of Mathematics. Born May 1915 in Lwow, Austria-Hungary (modern Lviv, Ukraine), he joined the circle of young, talented mathematicians formed around Stefan Banach and Hugo Steinhaus. During the period of German occupation of his hometown he made his living as a lice feeder in the institute of Rudolf Weigl. Expelled from Lwow after the war, he settled in Cracow, where he joined the local Kraków University of Technology. He was also admitted into the Polish Mathematics Society.

Feliks Sypniewski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Feliks Sypniewski: was a Polish painter and artist who painted mostly historic battle scenes drawn from the borderlands of Poland and Germany.His oil on canvas Knights From a Religious Order, also called The Teutonic Knights, was taken from the Lublin Museum in Poland during World War II German occupation. It was inventoried by the Germans, numbered III BR/7, and possibly taken back to Germany. It is now lost. This painting records the Teutonic Knights' retreat after the Battle of Grunwald in Tannenberg. On the morning of 15 July 1410, the armies of King Wladyslaw Jagiello met them.

Piotr Feliks            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Piotr Feliks: was a Polish political, social and education activist.He was imprisoned and murdered during the Second World War at Auschwitz concentration camp.

Tomasz Feliksiak            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Tomasz Feliksiak: a Polish footballer who plays for Polish second-tier side Znicz Pruszków.