Polish Famous Baby Names

Is a Polish weightlifter.She represented Poland at the 2000 Summer Olympics, ranking fifth in the 58

Is a Polish weightlifter.She represented Poland at the 2000 Summer Olympics, ranking fifth in the 58 kg category, with a total of 202.5 kg.[1]On April 11, 2002 Aleksandra Klejnowska and Dominika Misterska failed a drug test carried out in training by the World Anti-Doping Agency. Both appealed, but the IWF Executive Board decided on November 17, 2002 to suspend them for two years.[4]

Is a retired Polish tennis player. Her career highlights include winning of 1995 Wimbledon Champions

Is a retired Polish tennis player. Her career highlights include winning of 1995 Wimbledon Championships in both girls' singles and doubles. At the 1996 U.S. Open Olsza defeated World No. 12 Magdalena Maleeva.[2]At the 1996 U.S. Open, Olsza defeated World No. 12 player Magdalena Maleeva in the first round.[2]

Polish rhythmic gymnast. Started gymnast training at the age of 6.

Polish rhythmic gymnast. Started gymnast training at the age of 6.

Is a Polish rock climber. She was the fourth woman in the world to have redpointed 8c.

Is a Polish rock climber. She was the fourth woman in the world to have redpointed 8c.

Is a Polish painter.

Is a Polish painter.

Is a member of PEN American Center (New York), Fulbright Association (Washington, DC), SPP (Society

Is a member of PEN American Center (New York), Fulbright Association (Washington, DC), SPP (Society of Polish Writers, Warsaw) and ZAIKS (Society of Artists, Warsaw), Kosciuszko Foundation (New York), Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (New York), Union of Polish Writers Abroad (London). She resides in Wilmington, Delaware.Her books include: Blisko Wankowicza (Near Wankowicz; she served as personal assistant to writer Melchior Wankowicz from 1972–1974, and on his death he willed her his archives), Moje i zaslyszane (Mine and Overheard Stories), Kanada, Kanada..., Dreams and Reality (ISBN 0-9691756-0-4),The Roots Are Polish (ISBN 0-920517-05-6), Amerykanie z wyboru (Americans by Choice), Ulica Zólwiego Strumienia (Turtle Creek Boulevard), Podróze z moja kotka (Travels with my Cat), Kaja od Radoslawa, czyli historia Hubalowego Krzyza (Kaia, the Protector of the Hubal Cross - in December 2007, awarded the best book for 2006 by the Union of Polish Writers Abroad, London), "Otwarta rana Ameryki" (America's Open Wound).

November 12, 1923 – April 3, 2005) was a famous Polish boxer. He has won two Olympic medals for Po

November 12, 1923 – April 3, 2005) was a famous Polish boxer. He has won two Olympic medals for Poland: bronze in London 1948 in featherweight division (which was the only Polish medal at those Olympic Games and the first medal for Poland in boxing) and silver at the next Olympics in Helsinki 1952 in lightweight.

Was a Polish political activist of the 1920s whose influence rested in his status as the co-founder

Was a Polish political activist of the 1920s whose influence rested in his status as the co-founder and leader of the country's monarchist movement.A native of the Czestochowa County village of Sygontka, Aleksy Cwiakowski withdrew from politics in 1930 and, during the destruction of World War II and subsequent Communist takeover, was able to make his way to London, where he died in the year of his 68th birthday, 1953.

Is a boxer from Poland.Kuziemski won the bronze medal at light heavy at the 2003 World Amateur Boxin

Is a boxer from Poland.Kuziemski won the bronze medal at light heavy at the 2003 World Amateur Boxing Championships, and another bronze at the 2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships.He participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics. There he was beaten in the first round of the Light heavyweight (81 kg) division by Kazakhstan's Beibut Shumenov, who recently fought for a world title.

Was a Polish-Soviet researcher for the Iranian languages.

Was a Polish-Soviet researcher for the Iranian languages.

(born 1880, Warsaw – died 24 January 1926, Warsaw) was a Polish chess master.

(born 1880, Warsaw – died 24 January 1926, Warsaw) was a Polish chess master.

5 August 1461 – 19 August 1506), Grand Duke of Lithuania and later King of Poland and , was the fo

5 August 1461 – 19 August 1506), Grand Duke of Lithuania and later King of Poland and , was the fourth son of Casimir IV Jagiellon. He was elected Grand Duke of Lithuania on the death of his father (1492), and King of Poland on the death of his brother Jan I Olbracht (1501).

Was a Polish portrait painter who spent his adult life in France. He himself used the spelling Kucha

Was a Polish portrait painter who spent his adult life in France. He himself used the spelling Kucharsky,[2] but Kucharski is also often used. In the past, in France, the name has been given as Couaski.The king of Poland wanted Kucharsky to train as a historical painter, but instead he became a portrait artist, thus losing the king's patronage. From 1776 to 1778, Kucharsky was in the service of the Princes de Condé.[3]Kucharsky liked to paint half-length portraits in pastels or in oils, but he also worked in gouache and sometimes painted miniatures. His clients were mostly from the French and Polish aristocracy.[3] The latter had increased in numbers in France as a result of the alliance between King Louis XV and Marie Leczinska.[3]

Was an influential teacher as well as composer and arranger born in Poland in 1901. He attended Colu

Was an influential teacher as well as composer and arranger born in Poland in 1901. He attended Columbia University and studied composition and theory with Daniel Gregory Mason, Frank Ward and Franz Schreker. He was a student of piano under the tutelage of Leonid Kreutzer. In 1921, he was awarded the Clarence Barker Fellowship at Columbia through which he studied in Berlin from 1922-1924. Up through the 1940s, he composed concertos, songs, sonatas and pieces for piano. He also became a highly regarded teacher of music, and one of his students was Carol Moore Klooster.[1]

Is a Ukrainian pair skater who has also competed for Poland. He competed for Ukraine with Ekaterina

Is a Ukrainian pair skater who has also competed for Poland. He competed for Ukraine with Ekaterina Kovtunenko and Ekaterina Lebedeva, and for Poland with Dominika Piatkowska.He has been coached by Valentina Galinska and before by Miroslawa and Wlodzimierz Brajczewski.

(May 4, 1810 - October 27, 1868) was a Polish and French politician and diplomat. He was the son of

(May 4, 1810 - October 27, 1868) was a Polish and French politician and diplomat. He was the son of Napoleon I and his mistress Marie, Countess Walewski.

Was sent to Sibiria by Tsar Alexander II's troops after the peasants troubles in Lithuania. From the

Was sent to Sibiria by Tsar Alexander II's troops after the peasants troubles in Lithuania. From there he succeeded to escape to the West. He established in France and became a known doctor. There he wrote in Polish the story of his adventure, which was later translated to French by Joséphine Bohdan. The original Polish written version of the memoirs does still exist but were held by Jean and Madeleine Okinczyc, who didn't allow us to publish it on the Web. If you visit the town of Villepreux (30 km west far from Paris), you may ask the "Association des amis du vieux Villepreux" and see the little local museum about the "Docteur Alexandre", and the street named "rue du Docteur Alexandre".

Was a Polish born French film director best known for his crime drama films of the 1920s and 1930s.H

Was a Polish born French film director best known for his crime drama films of the 1920s and 1930s.His 1940 film Après Mein Kampf mes crimes (My Crimes after Mein Kampf) was a propaganda film directed against Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler's policies. Germany had invaded Poland, Ryder's homeland, a year earlier in 1939.

Is a Polish-born American linguist (PhD 1981, University of Chicago).He has published extensively on

Is a Polish-born American linguist (PhD 1981, University of Chicago).He has published extensively on syntactic typology (esp. in relation to Australian, Eskimo, and Austronesian languages); on phonological theory and its relation to phenomena such as versification and speech errors; on comparative linguistics and etymology (Indo-European, Uto-Aztecan, Yiddish), on glottochronology and genetic classification of languages (Nostratic, Altaic, Haida-Nadene, Pakawan/Coahuiltecan, Tonkawa-Nadene); on poetics (Vedic, Homeric, medieval Yiddish); and on the history of linguistics.

Was a Polish field hockey player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics and in the 1960 Summer Oly

Was a Polish field hockey player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics and in the 1960 Summer Olympics.He was part of the Polish field hockey team, which competed in the 1952 Olympic tournament. He played as forward in the only match for Poland in the

Was a Polish engineer.During the Stalinism era, Hoffmann was recalled from the position enabling him

Was a Polish engineer.During the Stalinism era, Hoffmann was recalled from the position enabling him to influence the development of Polish power engineering industry. He became a Technical University in Gdansk a instructor in the Engineering Department working under Prof. K. Kopecki.

Was a Polish painter.He painted mainly portraits of women.

Was a Polish painter.He painted mainly portraits of women.

Was a Polish painter.in 1911 he started to study art at the Munich Academy. During World War I he wa

Was a Polish painter.in 1911 he started to study art at the Munich Academy. During World War I he was imprisoned by the Russians and stayed in the camp for prisoners of war in Siberia. In 1921 in Poland, he began his studies at Kraków's Academy of Fine Arts under Professor Teodora Axentowicz, then lived in Paris. There he participated in numerous exhibitions, and in a Poland exhibition in the Gallery of Modern Art Editions in 1929. In the latter he organized the exhibition in 1931. In 1932 he exhibited in Warsaw and Lviv. From 1933 he belonged to a group of visual artists known as "Nowoczesni". In 1935 he took part in the exhibition of Polish artists in the Paris Galerie des Beaux-Arts. After World War II he made solo exhibitions in Paris (1952), London (1961) and Tel-Aviv (1962). He died in 1963 in Paris, and in 1970 in the Geneva Petit Palais arranged a retrospective exhibition of his art work.

Was a Polish Olympic fencer. He competed in the team sabre event at the 1924 Summer Olympics.

Was a Polish Olympic fencer. He competed in the team sabre event at the 1924 Summer Olympics.

Was a Polish pathologist born in Dukla.He studied medicine at the University of Vienna, earning his

Was a Polish pathologist born in Dukla.He studied medicine at the University of Vienna, earning his medical doctorate in 1862. In 1865 he became an assistant at the institute of pathological anatomy in Vienna under Karl Rokitansky. From 1868 to 1876 he was a professor of pathological anatomy at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, afterwards moving to Lviv where he served as Protomedikus, working as an organizer of health services.