Famous People with Name Henryk

Henryk Leliwa-Roycewicz            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Henryk Leliwa-Roycewicz: was a Polish horse rider who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.In 1936 he and his horse Arlekin III won the silver medal as part of the Polish eventing team, after finishing 15th in the individual eventing competition.

Henryk Budzinski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Henryk Budzinski: was a Polish rower who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.In 1932 he won the bronze medal with his partner Jan Krenz-Mikolajczak in the coxless pairs event.

Henryk Grynberg            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Henryk Grynberg: is a Polish-Jewish writer and actor who survived the Nazi occupation. He was an award-winning novelist, short-story writer, poet, playwright and essayist who had authored twenty books of prose and poetry and two dramas. Grynberg, known as the “chronicler of the fate of the Polish Jews”, tackled in his writings the Holocaust experience and the post-Holocaust trauma.[1][2]In 1959, Grynberg graduated from Warsaw University with a master’s degree in journalism. As an actor, Grynberg had connections with the Jewish State Theater company in Warsaw. It was during this time when he started publishing prose and poetry.[1][2]

Henryk Roman Gulbinowicz            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Henryk Roman Gulbinowicz: is member of the clergy of Bialystok, emeritus Archbishop of Wroclaw and Cardinal Priest.He was ordained by Archbishop Romuald Jalbrzykowski on 18 June 1950, and was an associate pastor at Szudzialowo. After a year of parish experience, he was sent to Lublin to continue his preparation in theology at the Catholic University of Lublin. He earned a doctorate in moral theology in 1955; from 1956 to 1959 he was university chaplain in Bialystok. Following this he taught in the seminary at Warmia, while also working in the diocesan Curia of Olsztyn.

Henryk Richard De Kwiatkowski            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Henryk Richard De Kwiatkowski: was a Polish-born member of the Royal Air Force who became an aeronautical engineer and made a fortune in business in North America and who owned Calumet Farm, one of the most prestigious Thoroughbred horse breeding and racing farms in the United States.