Famous People with Name Leszek

Leszek Cichy            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Leszek Cichy: is a Polish mountaineer, geodesist, financier, and entrepreneur. He was born in Pruszków, Poland on November 14, 1951. He is best known for making the first winter ascent of Mount Everest together with Krzysztof Wielicki in 1980 which established the winter ascent record of 8,848 meters. He was also the first Polish climber to complete the Seven Summits and a number of other prestigious climbs.

Leszek Moczulski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Leszek Moczulski: is a Polish historian and politician, a member of various organizations opposing the communist regime in the People's Republic of Poland and the co-founder of the first non-communist and not-underground political party in the Eastern Bloc.In 1951 he graduated from the Academy of Political Studies, a school of cadres for the communist regime. The following year he graduated also from the faculties of Law and Journalism at the Warsaw University. He completed his education in 1958 by graduating from the faculty of history at the same university. About that time he started to work as a journalist for various Warsaw-based newspapers and weeklies, among them the Zycie Warszawy, Dookola Swiata and Stolica weekly. As a historian, Moczulski focused mostly on modern history of Poland, including the history of the Polish Defensive War.

Leszek Blazynski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Leszek Blazynski: was a boxer from Poland, who twice won the bronze medal in the men's flyweight (– 51 kg) division at the Summer Olympics. He first did so in 1972, when Munich hosted the Games. Four years later in Montreal, Canada he once again captured the bronze, after a loss in the semifinals against eventual winner Leo Randolph of the United States. Blazynski died in 1992, aged 43.

Leszek Marian Kosedowski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Leszek Marian Kosedowski: is a retired boxer from Poland, who won the bronze medal in the men's featherweight division (– 57 kg) at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. There he was defeated in the semifinals by eventual silver medalist Richard Nowakowski of East Germany.His younger brothers Krzysztof Kosedowski and Dariusz Kosedowski were also boxers who competed in the Olympics for Poland.

Leszek Beblo            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Leszek Beblo: is a former long-distance runner from Poland, who represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1992 in Barcelona, Spain. He set his personal best (2:09:42) in the classic distance in 1995.