Famous People with Name Kazimierz

Kazimierz Wegrzyn            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Kazimierz Wegrzyn: former Polish footballer (defender) . During his career he played for such a clubs like Wisla Kraków , Cracovia Kraków or GKS Katowice . He played 20 matches for Poland national football team. (1991-1999). Now he is a football commentator

Kazimierz Nowak            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Kazimierz Nowak: was a Polish traveller, correspondent and photographer, born in Stryi. After the First World War he lived in Poznan.From 1931 to 1936, he travelled alone, on foot and by bicycle across Africa, covering a distance of 40,000 km [1]. He was probably the first man in the world to do this.

Kazimierz Alchimowicz            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Kazimierz Alchimowicz: was a Lithuanian-born Polish romantic painter.Alchimowicz was banished to Siberia for six years for his participation in the January Uprising. After his return, he enrolled in a drawing class in Warsaw taught by Wojciech Gerson. The class had a great influence on his later artistic works. He later studied art in Munich, Germany and Paris, France. While staying in France, Alchimowicz was a craftsmen decorating porcelain and earthenware crafts. He settled permanently in Warsaw in 1880 to paint professionally. His artistic inspiration mainly came from patriotic topics and history. Among his most noted works is a series of twelve tablets entitled Goplana. This was greeted with great enthusiasm by art critics of the time. He died in Warsaw.

Kazimierz Idaszewski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Kazimierz Idaszewski: was a Polish scholar and specialist of the electric machines and of electrochemistry, professor of the universities of Lvov, Silesia and Wroclaw, and a member of Polish Academy of Sciences.

Kazimierz Leski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Kazimierz Leski: was a Polish engineer, co-designer of Polish submarines ORP Sep and ORP Orzel, a fighter pilot, and an officer of the World War II Home Army's intelligence and counter-intelligence. He is credited, during World War II, with at least 25 journeys across German-held Europe, usually in the uniform of a Wehrmacht Major General.After the war, he was imprisoned by the communist authorities of the People's Republic of Poland. He spent seven years on death row before being rehabilitated in 1956. Thereafter he resumed his career as an engineer.