Famous People with Name Janusz

Janusz Karweta            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Janusz Karweta: is a Polish pair skater. He competes with Krystyna Klimczak. They are the 2007 Polish national silver medalists. They have competed internationally on the junior level at both Junior Grand Prix events and at the World Junior Figure Skating Championships and received the host wildcard entry to the 2007-2008 Junior Grand Prix Final, where they placed 9th. He also competes as a singles skater at the national level.

Janusz Lubomir Slazak            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Janusz Lubomir Slazak: was a Polish rower who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics, in the 1932 Summer Olympics, and in the 1936 Summer Olympics.Four years later he won the silver medal as member of the Polish boat in the coxed pairs competition as well as the bronze medal as member of the Polish boat in the coxed fours competition.

Janusz Korczak            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Janusz Korczak: was a Polish-Jewish children's author, pediatrician, and child pedagogue, known as Pan Doktor (Mr Doctor) or Stary Doktor (Old Doctor).Korczak was born in Warsaw to an assimilated Jewish family. His mother Cecylia Glebicka was the daughter of prominent Kalisz Jews and his father Józef Goldszmit was from a family of proponents of the haskalah. Korczak's father died in 1896, possibly by his own hand, leaving the family without a source of income. Over the next few years, the family was forced to abandon their spacious apartment and, during his teens, Korczak was the sole breadwinner for his mother, sister, and grandmother.

Janusz Minkiewicz            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Janusz Minkiewicz: was a Polish writer, translator, journalist and satirist.Active in various journals, he was considered one of the heirs to the Skamander group of poets. In 1939 he fled Nazi-occupied part of Poland to Vilna, then under Lithuanian occupation, where in 1940 (after the Soviet take-over of the city) he ran a satirical theatre, as well as the "Ksantypa" cabaret in Bialy Sztral cafe. [1]Following the German take-over of the city in 1941 he moved back to Warsaw, where he collaborated with numerous officially-approved theatres. [2] After the war he became a noted translator of literature, mostly Russian. He collaborated with satiric journals Szpilki, Przekrój and Cyrulik Warszawski.

Janusz Stanislaw Pasierb            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Janusz Stanislaw Pasierb: Polish catholic priest, poet and writer, historian.

Ewald Stefan Janusz            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Ewald Stefan Janusz: is a Polish sprint canoer who competed in the late 1960s. He finished eighth in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.

Artur Januszewski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Artur Januszewski: a polish footballer, who plays as a defender for polish second-tier side Znicz Pruszków.