Famous People with Name Lech

Lech Majewski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Lech Majewski: is a Polish-American film and theatre director, writer, poet, and painter.In 2006, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City hosted a complete (until then) retrospective of Majewski's work. This was their first ever full retrospective of a Polish filmmaker, and one of their only ever mid-career retrospectives. For that program, Majewski created the film eventually called Glass Lips, though initially it was known as Blood of a Poet.

Lech Gardocki            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Lech Gardocki: lawyer and judge, since October 17, 1998 Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Poland.

Lech Lasko            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Lech Lasko: is a Polish former volleyball player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics and in the 1980 Summer Olympics.In 1976 he was part of the Polish team which won the gold medal in the Olympic tournament. He played all six matches.Four years later he finished fourth with the Polish team in the 1980 Olympic tournament. He played all six matches again.

Lech Badkowski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Lech Badkowski: Polish writer, journalist, publicist and Kashubian-Pomeranian activist, promoter of regional history and culture, co-founder and leader of the Kashubian-Pomeranian Association, opponent of the Communist rules in postwar Poland.Lech Badkowski was born Leszek Buntkowski on the 24th January 1920 in Torun, Poland. There he completed primary school and a male gymnasium. In 1938 he entered law faculty at the Józef Pilsudski University in Warsaw, but was first drafted into the Polish army, and in 1939 took part in the September campaign, that he later described in his book "Soldiers from the Bzura River”. In 1940, he managed to escape to France, and then England. He fought under Narvik in Norway, where he showed immense courage. In July 1941 he was decorated by Gen. Wladyslaw Sikorski the Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari War Order, the biggest Polish military honour. He underwent partisan-parachutist instructing course and was to be sent to Poland. He finished the army as a sublieutenant. In England he learned the language, educated himself and was active in Pomeranian Union. amongst others he wrote a booklet „The Pomeranian Political Thought” (1945).