Famous People with Name Pawel

Pawel Adamowicz            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Pawel Adamowicz: is the mayor of the city of Gdansk and a Platforma Obywatelska party politician.He studied law at the University of Gdansk, where he also became a prominent student movement member. He was one of the organizers of the 1988 strike and became the headperson of the strike committee.[1] Between 1990 and 1993 served as a vice-rector at his alma mater.In 1990 Adamowicz was elected a member of the City Council in Gdansk and held this post until 1998, when he was elected the Mayor of Gdansk. On 10 November 2002 he was re-elected and gained 72% of votes.[2]

Pawel Finder            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Pawel Finder: was a Polish communist leader and First secretary of the PPR from 1943 to 1944.Finder came from an affluent Jewish shopkeeping family in Bielsko-Biala, where he was educated. He briefly flirted with Zionism while still at school and visited Palestine. He studied chemistry in Vienna, Mulhouse and Paris, where he was a researcher at the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers and an assistant to Frédéric Joliot-Curie. A highly able scientist and linguist, he graduated as a Chemical Engineer. From 1922 to 1924 he was a member of the Austrian Communist Party, and from 1924 to 1928 of the French Communist Party, serving in the Central Committee apparatus and writing articles for l'Humanité. He was expelled from France for Communist activity in 1928 and returned to Poland. He completed military service in officer school. He was active in the underground KPP until his arrest in 1934, serving as secretary in Silesia, Lódz, Warsaw, Zaglebia Dabrowska and Kraków, and as a member of the National Secretariat in 1933.

Pawel Malaszynski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Pawel Malaszynski: is a Polish TV and film actor. He also leads a music band "Cochise".

Pawel Pawlikowski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Pawel Pawlikowski: is a Polish-born, Oxford-based, BAFTA Award-winning filmmaker and academic. He garnered much acclaim for his BAFTA Award-winning Last Resort which he wrote and directed in 2000 and My Summer of Love, loosely based on Helen Cross' novel, which also won a BAFTA and a string of other awards at festivals around the world.In the late 1980s and '90s Pawlikowski was best known for his documentaries, whose unique blend of lyricism and irony won him many fans and awards around the world. Moscow Pietushki was a poetic journey into the world of the Russian cult writer Venedikt Erofeev, for which he won Emmy and RTS Awards and others. The multi-award winning Dostoevsky's Travels was a tragi-comic road movie with a St Petersburg tram driver and the only living descendant of Fyodor Dostoevsky

Pawel Zaremba            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Pawel Zaremba: was a Polish historian, publicist, lawyer, radio journalist and publisher. His area of study was primarily history of Poland, history of the United States and history of the interwar period.Zaremba was an editor of Orzel Bialy ("The White Eagle") and Pokrzywy ("Nettles"), managing director of publishing house Gryf in London, collaborator with the Parisian Kultura ("The Culture"). In 1967 he became a collaborator with Polish section of the Radio Free Europe.