Famous People with Name Kazimierz

Kazimierz Abramowicz            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Kazimierz Abramowicz: was a Polish mathematician and renowned professor at the University of Poznan.

Kazimierz Wojniakowski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Kazimierz Wojniakowski: was a Polish painter.His work as a portraitist was influenced by that of the Polish painter Józef Grassi, as in Wojniakowski's 1796 Portrait of Izabela Czartoryska, née Fleming.[Other note-worthy portraits by Wojniakowski include his portrait of Tadeusz Kosciuszko.Wojniakowski also produced religious works and scenes of contemporary historic events (e.g., The Constitution of May 3, 1791, 1806).

Kazimierz Krasinski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Kazimierz Krasinski: was a Polish noble, politician and patron of art.The last Grand Camp Leader of the Crown (since 1763) of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. He was Chamberlain of King Stanislaw Leszczynski and starost of Krasnystaw and Nowe Miasto Korczyn.In the youth he stayed on the court of King Louis XV and then educated on the Military Cadet School of Stanislaw Leszczynski in Lunéville.During the Four-Year Sejm in 1788, he was a member of the Military Commission of the Commonwealth and a supporter of the 3rd May Constitution.

Kazimierz Pietkiewicz            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Kazimierz Pietkiewicz: was a Polish socialist and independence activist. Member of the Polish Socialist Party, arrested several times by the Russian Empire's and exiled to Siberia. During the Russian Revolution, he was active in socialist organizations in Ukraine. Afterwards he lived in the newly independents Second Polish Republic, where he was involved in various socialist activities.

Kazimierz Puzak            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Kazimierz Puzak: was a Polish politician of the interwar period. Active in the Polish Socialist Party, he was one of the leaders of the Polish Secret State and Polish resistance, sentenced by the Soviets in the infamous Trial of the Sixteen in 1945.A member of the Combat Organization of the Polish Socialist Party, in 1909 together with Henryk Minkiewicz he participated in the assassination of a provocateur and police agent Edmund Taranowicz. In 1911 arrested by the Russian Empire government for activism in the Polish revolutionary and pro-independence movement, he was sentenced to 8 years of katorga and exile in Siberia afterwards. For a time he was imprisoned in Shlisselburg fortress. He was released during the Russian Revolution of 1917, in which he briefly participated.