100 Notable Alumni of Adam Mickiewicz University

Jan Kulczyk

Born in: Poland
Years: 1950-2015 (aged 65)
Enrolled in Adam Mickiewicz University: Graduated with magister degree in law
Occupations: entrepreneurjurist
Biography: Jan Jerzy Kulczyk was a Polish billionaire businessman. He was the founder and owner of Kulczyk Holding (headquartered in Warsaw) and an international investment house Kulczyk Investments (former name: Kulczyk Investment House) with headquarters in Luxembourg and offices in London and Kyiv, Ukraine. According to Forbes, Kulczyk was the richest Pole at the time of his death.

Adam Michnik

Born in: Poland
Years: 1946-.. (age 80)
Enrolled in Adam Mickiewicz University: In 1975 graduated with magister degree in study of history
Occupations: dissidentwriterpoliticiantrade unionistjournalist
Biography: Adam Michnik is a Polish historian, essayist, former dissident, public intellectual, as well as co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza.

Roman Giertych

Born in: Poland
Years: 1971-.. (age 55)
Enrolled in Adam Mickiewicz University: In 1994 graduated with magister degree in study of history; In 1995 graduated with magister degree in law
Occupations: historianlawyerpolitician
Biography: Roman Jacek Giertych is a Polish political figure and attorney, who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Poland and Minister of National Education from 2006 to 2007.

Marian Rejewski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1905-1980 (aged 75)
Enrolled in Adam Mickiewicz University: Studied in 1923-1929
Occupations: cryptologistmathematicianinventor
Biography: Marian Adam Rejewski was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who in late 1932 reconstructed the sight-unseen German military Enigma cipher machine, aided by limited documents obtained by French military intelligence.

Dominika Kulczyk

Born in: Poland
Years: 1977-.. (age 49)
Enrolled in Adam Mickiewicz University: Studied sinology
Occupations: businessperson
Biography: Dominika Kulczyk is a Polish billionaire businesswoman, and the daughter of Jan Kulczyk, who was Poland's richest man. She is the co-founder and president of the Kulczyk Foundation, chair of the supervisory board of Kulczyk Holding, chair of the supervisory board of Polenergia SA, and co-founder of the Values Consulting Group. She is the author of a TV series, the Domino Effect. As of August 2022, her net worth was estimated at US$1.9 billion.

Rudolf Weigl

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1883-1957 (aged 74)
Occupations: physicianbiologistimmunologistuniversity teacher
Biography: Rudolf Stefan Jan Weigl was a Polish biologist, physician and inventor, known for creating the first effective vaccine against epidemic typhus. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine each year between 1930 and 1934, and from 1936 to 1939.

Julia Przyłębska

Born in: Poland
Years: 1959-.. (age 67)
Occupations: assessorconsuldiplomatjudge
Biography: Julia Anna Przyłębska is a Polish judge, she was President of the Constitutional Tribunal of the Republic of Poland from December 2016 to November 2024, until she resigned.

Beata Tadla

Born in: Poland
Years: 1975-.. (age 51)
Occupations: journalist
Biography: Beata Edyta Tadla is a Polish radio,TV journalist as well as a TV presenter.

Jan Nowak-Jeziorański

Born in: Germany
Years: 1914-2005 (aged 91)
Enrolled in Adam Mickiewicz University: In 1936 studied economics
Occupations: political scientistsocial activistwritersoldierpolitician
Biography: Jan Nowak-Jeziorański was a Polish journalist, writer, politician, social worker and patriot. He served during the Second World War as one of the most notable resistance fighters of the Home Army. He is best remembered for his work as an emissary shuttling between the commanders of the Home Army and the Polish Government in Exile in London and other Allied governments which gained him the nickname "Courier from Warsaw", and for his participation in the Warsaw Uprising. After the war he worked as the head of the Polish section of Radio Free Europe, and later as a security advisor to the US presidents Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter. In 1996, President Bill Clinton awarded him with America's highest civilian award the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Sebastian Kulczyk

Born in: Poland
Years: 1980-.. (age 46)
Occupations: businessperson
Biography: Sebastian Tomasz Kulczyk is a Polish billionaire businessman, and the son of Jan Kulczyk, who was the richest man in Poland, and Grażyna Kulczyk. He is president of Kulczyk Investments and specializes in the new technology sector. As of August 2024, his net worth was estimated at US$1.6 billion.

Arkady Fiedler

Born in: Poland
Years: 1894-1985 (aged 91)
Occupations: military officerwriterjournalistzoologisttraveler
Biography: Arkady Fiedler was a Polish writer, journalist and adventurer.

Grażyna Kulczyk

Born in: Poland
Years: 1950-.. (age 76)
Occupations: entrepreneurjurist
Biography: Grażyna Maria Kulczyk is a Polish lawyer, investor, art collector and philanthropist. In 2015, she was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta for her contributions to Polish culture and the promotion of Polish art.

Katarzyna Kotula

Born in: Poland
Years: 1977-.. (age 49)
Enrolled in Adam Mickiewicz University: Graduated with master's degree in English studies
Occupations: activistlanguage teacher
Biography: Katarzyna Agata Kotula is a Polish politician, teacher, and social activist. Since 2019, she is a member of Sejm of Poland, from 2023 to 2025, she held the office of the Minister of Equality. She is a member of the New Left party, and one of the leaders of the All-Poland Women's Strike movement.

Adam Szłapka

Born in: Poland
Years: 1984-.. (age 42)
Occupations: deputypolitical scientistpolitician
Biography: Adam Stanisław Szłapka is a Polish politician. He has been a member of the Sejm (Polish Parliament) for the 8th, 9th, and 10th terms (since 2015). He has served as the leader of the Modern Party (Nowoczesna) from 2019–25 and had been the Minister for European Union Affairs in Donald Tusk's third government from 2023 to 2025.

Jan A. P. Kaczmarek

Born in: Poland
Years: 1953-2024 (aged 71)
Enrolled in Adam Mickiewicz University: Studied law
Occupations: composerfilm score composer
Biography: Jan Andrzej Paweł Kaczmarek was a Polish composer. He wrote scores for more than 70 feature films and documentaries, including Finding Neverland (2004), for which he won an Oscar and a National Board of Review Award. Other notable scores were for Hachi: A Dog's Tale, Unfaithful, Evening, The Visitor, and Washington Square.

Jerzy Waldorff

Born in: Poland
Years: 1910-1999 (aged 89)
Occupations: music criticliterary criticwriter
Biography: Jerzy Waldorff-Preyss of the Nabram coat of arms was a Polish media personality, public intellectual, socialite, music critic and music aficionado. He wrote over twenty books, mostly on the subject of classical music and society. Waldorff is known as "the last baron of the Polish People's Republic".

Marek Jurek

Born in: Poland
Years: 1960-.. (age 66)
Occupations: historianpolitician
Biography: Marek Jurek is a right-wing politician who was Marshal of the Sejm and Member of the European Parliament. Since 20 April 2007 he has been the leader of the aspirant party Right of the Republic. Politically, he is most known for being a Marshal of the Sejm in the years 2005–2007.

Paulina Hennig-Kloska

Born in: Poland
Years: 1977-.. (age 49)
Enrolled in Adam Mickiewicz University: Studied in 2001
Occupations: spokespersonentrepreneurpolitician
Biography: Paulina Hennig-Kloska is a Polish politician and entrepreneur, a Member of Parliament (Sejm) for the 8th, 9th, and 10th terms (since 2015), and the Minister of Climate and Environment in Donald Tusk's third cabinet (since 2023).

Stanisław Barańczak

Born in: Poland
Years: 1946-2014 (aged 68)
Occupations: trade unionistcriticuniversity teacherpoetliterary critic
Biography: Stanisław Barańczak was a Polish poet, literary critic, scholar, editor, translator and lecturer. He is perhaps most well known for his English-to-Polish translations of the dramas of William Shakespeare and of the poetry of E.E. Cummings, Elizabeth Bishop, Emily Dickinson, Wystan Hugh Auden, Seamus Heaney, Thomas Hardy, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Thomas Stearns Eliot, John Keats, Robert Frost, Edward Lear and others.

Krzysztof Grabowski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1965-.. (age 61)
Occupations: composerguitaristsingermusician
Biography: Krzysztof „Grabaż" Grabowski is a Polish poet, singer, author of lyrics and music for songs by bands Pidżama Porno, Strachy na Lachy, Ręce Do Góry and Lavina Cox.

Jacek Jaśkowiak

Born in: Poland
Years: 1964-.. (age 62)
Occupations: economistathletics competitorpolitician
Biography: Jacek Jaśkowiak is a Polish politician and entrepreneur. He is the current mayor of the city of Poznań, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland, and a member of the Civic Platform political party, in which he is considered as a part of the party's socially liberal wing.

Marek Magierowski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1971-.. (age 55)
Enrolled in Adam Mickiewicz University: In 1994 studied hispanism
Occupations: diplomatpoliticianjournalist
Biography: Marek Grzegorz Magierowski is a Polish journalist, columnist, politician and diplomat; from 2021 to 2024 ambassador to the United States and from 2018 to 2021 ambassador to Israel.

Elżbieta Zawacka

Born in: Poland
Years: 1909-2009 (aged 100)
Occupations: historianmilitary officeruniversity teacher
Biography: Elżbieta Zawacka, known also by her war-time nom de guerre Zo, was a Polish freedom fighter during World War II, a Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent, and university professor. She was promoted to brigadier general of the Polish Land Forces (after Maria Wittek the second woman to hold this rank) by President Lech Kaczyński on 3 May 2006. Sometimes called "the only woman among the Cichociemni" (Silent Unseen), she served as a courier for the Polish Home Army, carrying letters and other documents from Nazi-occupied Poland to the Polish government-in-exile in London and back. Her regular route ran from Warsaw through Berlin and Sweden to London. She was also responsible for organizing routes for other couriers of the Home Army.

Józef Zych

Born in: Poland
Years: 1938-.. (age 88)
Enrolled in Adam Mickiewicz University: In 1966 graduated with magister degree in law
Occupations: legal counselorjuristjudgepolitician
Biography: Józef Zych is a Polish lawyer, academic, and politician of the Polish People's Party. Between 1983 and 1991, he served as President of the National Council of Attorneys-at-law. He was Member of the Sejm for the United People's Party and the Polish People's Party from 1989 to 2015, Deputy Marshal of the Sejm for the first, second and fourth terms from 1991 to 1995 and 2004 to 2005, Senior Marshal of the Sejm for the fifth and seventh terms, and member of the State Tribunal from 2015 to 2019 and since 2023.

Henryk Zygalski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1908-1978 (aged 70)
Enrolled in Adam Mickiewicz University: Studied in 1926-1931
Occupations: cryptographermathematician
Biography: Henryk Zygalski was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who worked at breaking German Enigma-machine ciphers before and during World War II.

Bartłomiej Wróblewski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1975-.. (age 51)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Bartłomiej Piotr Wróblewski is a Polish politician, lecturer and lawyer. He is a member of the Sejm from Law and Justice.

Krzysztof Skubiszewski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1926-2010 (aged 84)
Occupations: diplomatjudgepolitician
Biography: Krzysztof Jan Skubiszewski [ˈkʂɨʂtɔf skubʲiˈʂɛfskʲi] was a Polish politician, a former Minister of Foreign Affairs (1989–1993) and an established scholar in the field of international law.

Jakub Rutnicki

Born in: Poland
Years: 1978-.. (age 48)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Jakub Adam Rutnicki is a Polish politician who has served as Minister of Sport and Tourism since 2025.

Robert Kozyra

Born in: Poland
Years: 1968-.. (age 58)
Occupations: journalist
Biography: Robert Tadeusz Kozyra between 1995 and 2009 was the program director and then from 2000 to 2009 executive of Radio Zet. In 2008 he founded radio Chilli Zet. In 2011 he was announced as judge on the fourth series of Poland's Got Talent where he replaced Kuba Wojewódzki.

Andrzej Przyłębski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1958-.. (age 68)
Enrolled in Adam Mickiewicz University: 1977-1982 graduated with magister degree
Occupations: translatordiplomatphilosopheruniversity teacher
Biography: Andrzej Przyłębski is a Polish philosopher and the author of six books on Neo-Kantianism and hermeneutics. He served as an informer Służba Bezpieczeństwa informer (under the codename TW Wolfgang) and as ambassador to Germany from 2016 to 2022

Michał Goleniewski

Born in: Belarus
Years: 1922-1993 (aged 71)
Occupations: spy
Biography: Michał Franciszek Goleniewski, also known as 'SNIPER' and 'LAVINIA', was a Polish spy and military officer.

Paweł Szałamacha

Born in: Poland
Years: 1969-.. (age 57)
Occupations: opinion journalistpoliticianlawyerjuristlegal counselor
Biography: Paweł Włodzimierz Szałamacha is a Polish politician, member of the National Bank of Poland Management Board, and a former Minister of Finance.

Adam Szejnfeld

Born in: Poland
Years: 1958-.. (age 68)
Occupations: trade unionistpolitician
Biography: Adam Stanisław Szejnfeld is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 26,568 votes in 38 Piła district as a candidate from the Civic Platform list.

Jerzy Różycki

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1909-1942 (aged 33)
Occupations: cryptographermathematician
Biography: Jerzy Witold Różycki was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who worked at breaking German Enigma-machine ciphers before and during World War II.

Rafał Grupiński

Born in: Poland
Years: 1952-.. (age 74)
Occupations: literary criticuniversity teacherlibrarianpoliticianjournalist
Biography: Rafał Szymon Grupiński is a Polish politician, member of the Sejm (2005–2023) and member of the Senate since 2023. He serves in the current Senate as the Deputy Marshal.

Andrzej Mikołaj Dera

Born in: Poland
Years: 1961-.. (age 65)
Occupations: chess playerpolitician
Biography: Andrzej Mikołaj Dera is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 7520 votes in 36 Kalisz district as a candidate from Law and Justice list.

Krzysztof Paszyk

Born in: Poland
Years: 1979-.. (age 47)
Enrolled in Adam Mickiewicz University: Studied in 2005
Occupations: politician
Biography: Krzysztof Paszyk is a Polish politician serving as minister of economic development and technology since 2024. He has been a member of the Sejm since 2015.

Alice Bota

Born in: Poland
Years: 1979-.. (age 47)
Occupations: journalistwriter
Biography: Alice Bota is a German journalist, presently working for the weekly Die Zeit, and a book author. Born in Poland, she studied in both Germany and Poland and focuses on topics of Eastern Europe.

Gerard Labuda

Born in: Poland
Years: 1916-2010 (aged 94)
Occupations: university teacherhistorianregional historianpedagoguemedievalist
Biography: Gerard Labuda was a Polish historian whose main fields of interest were the Middle Ages and the Western Slavs. He was born in Kashubia. He lived and died in Poznań, Poland.

Stanisława Przybyszewska

Born in: Poland
Years: 1901-1935 (aged 34)
Occupations: playwrightscreenwriterwriter
Biography: Stanisława Przybyszewska was a Polish dramatist who is mostly known for her plays about the French Revolution. Her 1929 play The Danton Case, which examines the conflict between Maximilien Robespierre and Georges Danton, is considered to be one of the most exemplary works about the Revolution, and was adapted (albeit with significant ideological edits) by Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda for his 1983 film Danton.

Krystyna Łybacka

Born in: Poland
Years: 1946-2020 (aged 74)
Occupations: mathematicianpolitician
Biography: Krystyna Maria Łybacka was a Polish political figure who served in the country's national Parliament (Sejm), since 1991 to 2014 and from October 2001 to May 2004, and was a member of the cabinet, with the title of Minister of National Education.

Jacek Tomczak

Born in: Poland
Years: 1973-.. (age 53)
Enrolled in Adam Mickiewicz University: In 1998 graduated with magister degree in law
Occupations: notarylegal counselorpolitician
Biography: Jacek Jerzy Tomczak is a Polish politician and lawyer. He is a member of the Sejm for Poland Comes First, having been a member for Law and Justice from 2005 to 2010.

Iwo Byczewski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1948-.. (age 78)
Enrolled in Adam Mickiewicz University: In 1971 graduated with magister degree in law
Occupations: diplomatjuristpolitician
Biography: Iwo Byczewski is a Polish diplomat. He served as Deputy Foreign Minister (1991–1995), Ambassador to Belgium and Permanent Representative to the European Union.

Marcin Libicki

Born in: Poland
Years: 1939-.. (age 87)
Occupations: art historianpolitician
Biography: Marcin Wojciech Libicki is a Polish politician, former member of the Polish parliament (Sejm), elected for the Poznań constituency.

Urszula Zybura

Born in: Poland
Years: 1952-.. (age 74)
Occupations: Esperantistpoetwriter
Biography: Urszula Irena Zybura is a Polish poet, President of the Board of the Wielkopolska Branch of the Polish Writers' Union, publisher, and Esperantist.

Andrzej Stelmachowski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1925-2009 (aged 84)
Occupations: politicianuniversity teacherlawyerjuristminister
Biography: Andrzej Stanisław Ksawery Stelmachowski was a Polish academic and politician.

Zbigniew Hoffmann

Born in: Poland
Years: 1963-.. (age 63)
Occupations: political scientist
Biography: Zbigniew Grzegorz Hoffmann is a former Polish politician who was a Voivode of Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship (2006–2009) and a Vice-Voivode of Greater Poland Voivodeship (2006).

Tadeusz Zwiefka

Born in: Poland
Years: 1954-.. (age 72)
Occupations: journalistpolitician
Biography: Tadeusz Antoni Zwiefka is a Polish journalist and politician. Since 2004, member of the European Parliament.

Zbigniew Chlebowski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1964-.. (age 62)
Occupations: politicianeconomist
Biography: Zbigniew Chlebowski is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 18,281 votes in 2 Wałbrzych district as a candidate from the Civic Platform list.

Katarzyna Ueberhan

Born in: Poland
Years: 1975-.. (age 51)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Katarzyna Ueberhan is a Polish politician. She was elected to the Sejm (9th term) representing the constituency of Poznań.

Natalia Tułasiewicz

Born in: Poland
Years: 1906-1945 (aged 39)
Occupations: pedagogue
Biography: Natalia Tułasiewicz was a Polish teacher in Poznań, Second Polish Republic, and a leader in the Catholic lay apostolate. A member of the Polish Underground State, she was murdered in a gas chamber at the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Tułasiewicz was beatified in 1999 as one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II.

Halina Szwarc

Born in: Poland
Years: 1923-2002 (aged 79)
Enrolled in Adam Mickiewicz University: In 1948 studied medicine
Occupations: physician
Biography: Halina Szwarc de domo Kłąb - was a member of the Polish resistance during the Second World War, working undercover first under the pseudonym Ryszard, then Jacek II. Postwar, she became a professor of medicine in gerontology, and in 1970/1971, the prorector of the Józef Piłsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw.

Ryszard Krynicki

Born in: Austria
Years: 1943-.. (age 83)
Occupations: translatorpoetpublisherwriter
Biography: Ryszard Krynicki is a Polish poet and translator, member of the Polish "New Wave" Movement. He is regarded as one of the most prominent post-war contemporary Polish poets. In 2015, he was awarded the Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award as a recognition for his poetry works.

Yevhen Pobihushchyi

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1901-1995 (aged 94)
Occupations: military officer
Biography: Yevhen Pavlovych Pobihushchyi-Ren was a Ukrainian military commander and Axis collaborator who served as commander of the Roland Battalion and Schutzmannschaft Battalion 201, and as one of the commanders of 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician).

Paweł Olszewski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1979-.. (age 47)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Paweł Bartosz Olszewski is a Polish economist and politician, Bydgoszcz City Councillor (2002–05) and member of the Sejm (since 2005).

Sławomira Wronkowska-Jaśkiewicz

Born in: Poland
Years: 1943-.. (age 83)
Occupations: juristlawyerjudgeuniversity teacher
Biography: Sławomira Kazimiera Wronkowska-Jaśkiewicz, PR is a Polish legal scholar, Professor emeritus of Jurisprudence at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. She has a particular interest in legal theory, legislation, legal interpretation, legal reasoning and philosophy of law. She belongs to the Poznań school of legal theory.

Jerzy Topolski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1928-1998 (aged 70)
Enrolled in Adam Mickiewicz University: Studied in 1946-1950
Occupations: historianphilosopheruniversity teacher
Biography: Jerzy Topolski was a Polish historian specializing in economic history, history of material culture, the early modern period, and theory and methodology of history. Member of Polish Academy of Sciences, professor of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, he wrote over 1.100 articles and about 30 books.

Bolesław Filipiak

Born in: Poland
Years: 1901-1978 (aged 77)
Occupations: Catholic priestCatholic bishopjudgetheologian
Biography: Bolesław Filipiak was a Polish Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Dean of the Roman Rota from 1967 to 1976, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1976.

Waldemar Sługocki

Born in: Poland
Years: 1971-.. (age 55)
Occupations: university teacherpolitical scientistpolitician
Biography: Waldemar Jan Sługocki, ['waldɛmar jan swuɡɔt͡ski]; born 9 September 1971 in [Sulechów]. Polish political scientist, government official and politician, from 2010 to 2011 undersecretary of state in the Ministry of Regional Development., in 2015 secretary of state in the Ministry of Infrastructure and Development, deputy to the Sejm 2011–2015., and the Senate2015-2019. President of the Civic Platform in the Lubusz Voivodeship since 2017. In the 2019 Polish parliamentary election he was re-elected deputy to the Sejm, running for the Civic Platform and receiving 29,580 votes He became vice-chairman of the Committee for Local Self-Government and Regional Policy, a member of the Committee for Economy and Development and chairman of the Lubusz Parliamentary Group. In 2023 Polish parliamentary election Waldemar Sługocki was re-elected deputy to the Sejm, running for the Civic Platform and receiving 25,037 votes. He was elected vice-chairman of the Committee on Local Self-Government and Regional Development. On 19 December 2023, he was appointed Secretary of State at the Ministry of Development and Technology

Jerzy Limon

Born in: Poland
Years: 1950-2021 (aged 71)
Occupations: literary criticuniversity teacherwritertranslatorliterary scholar
Biography: Jerzy Limon was a Polish literary scholar, translator and writer specialising in Shakespearean and Elizabethan theatre. He initiated the creation of the Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre and served as its first director.

Stefan Kieniewicz

Born in: Belarus
Years: 1907-1992 (aged 85)
Occupations: historianarchivistuniversity teacher
Biography: Stefan Kieniewicz was a Polish historian and university professor, notable for his works on the 19th-century history of Poland. During his work at various universities he became the tutor of several generations of Polish historians and his views on the last two centuries of Poland's history remain influential in modern scholarly works.

Dariusz Sośnicki

Born in: Poland
Years: 1969-.. (age 57)
Occupations: editing staffpoetwritertranslatornon-fiction writer
Biography: Dariusz Sośnicki is a Polish poet. He was born in 1969 in Kalisz, and studied philosophy at the Adam Mickiewicz University. From 1994 to 1996, he edited the literary journal Nowy Nurt [New Current]. In 2001 he attended the University of Iowa on a writer's grant. He has published numerous books and his work has been translated into English and Romanian, among other languages. He has also translated the work of WH Auden into Polish.

Jan Szczepański

Born in: Poland
Years: 1913-2004 (aged 91)
Occupations: politiciansociologist
Biography: Jan Szczepański was a Polish sociologist and politician. Professor of University of Łódź, its rector from 1952 to 1956. His works concentrated on theory of sociology, history of sociology, as well as studying of transformations of social structure.

Bianka Zalewska

Born in: Poland
Years: 1979-.. (age 47)
Occupations: journalist
Biography: Bianka Zalewska is a Polish humanitarian worker and journalist. She has covered the Russian invasion of Ukraine. She was awarded the International Women of Courage Award in 2023.

Kazimierz Kordylewski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1903-1981 (aged 78)
Occupations: university teacherastronomer
Biography: Kazimierz Kordylewski was a Polish astronomer. He is known for his discovery of the Kordylewski clouds, two clouds of dust concentrated at the Moon's L4 and L5 Lagrange points.

Witold Pahl

Born in: Poland
Years: 1961-.. (age 65)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Witold Pahl is a Polish politician from the Civic Platform.

Eugeniusz Grzeszczak

Born in: Poland
Years: 1954-.. (age 72)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Eugeniusz Tomasz Grzeszczak is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 5,181 votes in 37 Konin district as a candidate from the Polish People's Party list.

Zygmunt Ziembiński

Born in: Poland
Years: 1920-1996 (aged 76)
Occupations: university teacherlogicianjurist
Biography: Zygmunt Ziembiński OPR, usually cited as Z. Ziembinski, was a Polish legal philosopher, logician, and one of the most prominent theoreticians of law in Poland in the second half of the 20th century.

Katarzyna Kretkowska

Born in: Poland
Years: 1958-.. (age 68)
Occupations: translator
Biography: Katarzyna Maria Kretkowska is a Polish politician. She was elected to the Sejm (9th term) representing the constituency of Poznań.

Janusz Ziółkowski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1924-2000 (aged 76)
Occupations: politiciansociologistuniversity teachertrade unionist
Biography: Janusz Aleksander Ziółkowski was a Polish sociologist and politician. He was a professor of sociology at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, and briefly (in 1981) its rector. He was a Solidarity activist and participated in the Polish Round Table Agreement. He was elected a senator (1989–1991), and from 1991 to 1995 he was the Chief of The Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland.

August Chełkowski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1927-1999 (aged 72)
Occupations: physicistpoliticianuniversity teachertrade unionist
Biography: August Chełkowski was a prominent Polish physicist and politician.

Krzysztof Czyżewski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1958-.. (age 68)
Occupations: translatorpoetessayisteditor
Biography: Krzysztof Czyżewski is a Polish author, one of the initiators of the Borderland Foundation in Sejny, Poland.

Andrzej Pruszkowski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1960-.. (age 66)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Andrzej Marek Pruszkowski is a Polish Politician who formerly served as the president (mayor) of Lublin from 1998 to 2006. Member of Law and Justice.

Agnieszka Kozłowska-Rajewicz

Born in: Poland
Years: 1969-.. (age 57)
Occupations: biologistpolitician
Biography: Agnieszka Kozłowska-Rajewicz is a Polish politician and biology academic, who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) during the eighth term from 2014 till 2019 representing Greater Poland. She is a member of the Civic Platform, part of the European People's Party.

Andrzej Lesicki

Years: 1950-.. (age 76)
Occupations: biologist
Biography: Andrzej Lesicki is a Polish biologist, zoologist, malacologist and a professor at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (AMU), in Poland. Between 2008 and 2016 he was Vice-President of AMU responsible for human resources and development and is now AMU's Rector for the term of office from 2016 until 2020.

Zygmunt Vetulani

Born in: Poland
Years: 1950-.. (age 76)
Occupations: computer scientistcomputational linguistmathematicianengineerfencer
Biography: Zygmunt Władysław Vetulani is a Polish mathematician and computer scientist who specializes in language engineering and artificial intelligence, professor of technical sciences and professor at the Adam Mickiewicz University where he is also Head of the Department of Information Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence.

Arkadiusz Trochanowski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1973-.. (age 53)
Occupations: Catholic deaconCatholic bishopCatholic priest
Biography: Bishop Arkadiusz Trochanowski is a Polish Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch as the first eparchial bishop of the newly created Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Olsztyn–Gdańsk since 25 November 2020.

Jan Węglarz

Born in: Poland
Years: 1947-.. (age 79)
Occupations: computer scientistmathematician
Biography: Jan Węglarz is a Polish computer scientist. His current research focuses on operations research. He is the winner of the 2000 Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science.

Hélène Sparrow

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1891-1970 (aged 79)
Occupations: biologistuniversity teacherhead of laboratorymicrobiologistacademic
Biography: Hélène Sparrow, was a Polish medical doctor and bacteriologist. She is best known for her work on the control of many epidemics including: typhoid fever, cholera, dysentery, and smallpox. Throughout the 1920s, Sparrow worked with the Polish Armed Forces at the State Institute of Hygiene in Warsaw. While at the State Institute of Hygiene, she worked vigilantly to produce the first vaccine against typhus and ran several large-scale vaccination campaigns to control the spread of diphtheria and scarlet fever all along the eastern frontiers of Poland. In 1933, Sparrow began to study flea-borne and louse-borne rickettsia diseases in Tunis, where she became the head of her own department at the Pasteur Institute. In her later years, she expanded her studies to include Mexico and Guatemala. While in Mexico and Guatemala, Sparrow developed a protective vaccine against typhus. She contributed a great amount of research to the World Health Organization on relapsing fever specifically in Ethiopia.

Jadwiga Rotnicka

Born in: Poland
Years: 1943-.. (age 83)
Occupations: geographerpolitician
Biography: Jadwiga Kazimiera Rotnicka is a Polish politician. She was elected to the Senate of Poland (10th term) representing the constituency of Poznań.

Dmytro Anatoliyovych

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1983-2024 (aged 41)
Occupations: juristpolitician
Biography: Dmytro Anatoliyovich Habinet was a Ukrainian jurist and politician. He was governor of Khmelnytskyi Oblast from 2019 to 2020. Habinet died on 17 December 2024, at the age of 41.

Jadwiga Żylińska

Born in: Poland
Years: 1910-2009 (aged 99)
Occupations: opinion journalistwritertranslator
Biography: Jadwiga Żylińska was a Polish author. Mainly a novelist and essayist, she also wrote the screenplay for Rozstanie (1961). Author of the historical novel based on archaeological findings from the matriarchal societies of the Neolithic and Bronze Ages Kapłanki, amazonki i czarownice (1972).

Lech Raczak

Born in: Poland
Years: 1946-2020 (aged 74)
Occupations: playwrightfilm directordirectoractorpedagogue
Biography: Lech Raczak was a Polish theatre director and theatre practitioner.

Dariusz Lipiński

Born in: Poland
Years: 1955-.. (age 71)
Occupations: physicistpolitician
Biography: Dariusz Tadeusz Lipiński is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 4,482 votes in 39 Poznań district as a candidate from the Civic Platform list. In the 2007 parliamentary election he got 20,695 votes and was elected for his second term in the Sejm.

Jacek Pyl

Born in: Poland
Years: 1962-.. (age 64)
Occupations: Catholic deaconCatholic bishopCatholic priest
Biography: Bishop Jacek Pyl, O.M.I. is a Polish-born Ukrainian Roman Catholic prelate, who serves as an Auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Odesa-Simferopol and the Titular Bishop of Nova Sinna since 21 October 2006.

Marek Woźniak

Born in: Poland
Years: 1960-.. (age 66)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Marek Woźniak is a Polish politician who has served as Marshal of Greater Poland Voivodeship since October 2005.

Stefan Ignar

Born in: Poland
Years: 1908-1992 (aged 84)
Occupations: university teachereconomistpolitician
Biography: Stefan Ignar, who went by "Kurek" and "Sylwester",. was a Polish politician, a member of the rural movement, a soldier in the Peasants' Battalions, a full professor of economic sciences, and the chairman of the United People's Party from 1956 to 1962 and in 1981, as well as the chairman of the Central Board of the Polish-Soviet Friendship Society from 1955 to 1957. He served as a deputy to the Sejm of the Polish People's Republic during the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th convocations of the Sejm of the Polish People's Republic, Deputy Prime Minister of Poland from 1956 to 1969, deputy chairman of the Council of State from 1952 to 1956, and a member of the Council of State from 1969 to 1972.

Jakub Nowakowski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1924-.. (age 102)
Occupations: soldierzoologist
Biography: Jakub Tomasz Nowakowski, pseud. "Tomek", "Tomasz" is a Polish zoologist, participant of the Warsaw Uprising, independence conspiracy activist during World War II, and a retired major of the Polish Armed Forces.

Jerzy Ozdowski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1925-1994 (aged 69)
Occupations: economist
Biography: Jerzy Ozdowski was a Polish economist.

Wanda Wesołowska

Born in: Poland
Years: 1950-.. (age 76)
Occupations: botanistgeographerbiologistzoologistornithologist
Biography: Wanda Wesołowska is a Polish zoologist known for her work with jumping spiders. She has described more species of jumping spider than any contemporary writer, and is second only to Eugène Simon in the history of arachnology. Originally a student of ornithology, she developed an interest in jumping spiders while still a student at the Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities in the 1970s.

Włodzimierz Kołos

Born in: Belarus
Years: 1928-1996 (aged 68)
Occupations: physicisttheoretical chemist
Biography: Włodzimierz Kołos was a Polish chemist and physicist who was one of the founders of modern quantum chemistry, and pioneered accurate calculations on the electronic structure of molecules.

Krzysztof Jassem

Born in: Poland
Years: 1965-.. (age 61)
Occupations: computer scientistbridge player
Biography: Krzysztof Jassem is a Polish bridge player.

Czesław Madajczyk

Born in: Poland
Years: 1921-2008 (aged 87)
Occupations: historian
Biography: Czesław Madajczyk was a Polish historian. His studies on the German occupation of Europe after 1938, and in particular on the occupation of Poland and on World War II Polish culture, are considered particularly important by the European scholarly community.

Kurt Lück

Born in: Poland
Years: 1900-1942 (aged 42)
Occupations: historian
Biography: Kurt Lück was a German historian and SS Obersturmbannführer. He was an ethnographer, an activist minority in Poland and lieutenant colonel in the body of SS officers, doctor of philosophical sciences.

Aleksander Lasik

Born in: Poland
Years: 1953-.. (age 73)
Occupations: historiansociologist
Biography: Aleksander Lasik is a Polish historian specializing in the history of the Schutzstaffel (SS) within German concentration camps. A professor at the Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, he has worked as an historian for Poland's Institute of National Remembrance.

Witold Hensel

Born in: Poland
Years: 1917-2008 (aged 91)
Occupations: prehistoriananthropologistmedievalistuniversity teacherpolitician
Biography: Witold Maria Hensel was a Polish archaeologist. He was a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and a member of the Sejm in PRL (SD, 1985–1989).

Maciej Henneberg

Born in: Poland
Years: 1949-.. (age 77)
Enrolled in Adam Mickiewicz University: In 1976 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
Occupations: anthropologist
Biography: Maciej Henneberg is a Polish-Australian anatomist, Emeritus Professor at the University of Adelaide and Adjunct Professor at Flinders University interested in human evolution, forensic science, human anatomy, as well as physical anthropology. From 1996 to 2021 he was Wood Jones Professor of Anthropological and Comparative Anatomy at the University of Adelaide, Australia. He has held various academic positions at the University of Oxford, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Cape Town, the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and the University of Zurich.

Marek Karpinski

Years: 1948-.. (age 78)
Occupations: computer scientistmathematicianuniversity teacher
Biography: Marek Karpinski is a computer scientist and mathematician known for his research in the theory of algorithms and their applications, combinatorial optimization, computational complexity, and mathematical foundations. He is a recipient of several research prizes in the above areas.

Sidonia Jędrzejewska

Born in: Poland
Years: 1975-.. (age 51)
Occupations: diplomatpolitician
Biography: Sidonia Elżbieta Jędrzejewska is a Polish politician and MEP. She was the Undersecretary of State in the Office of the Committee for European Integration in Poland (2008–2009).

Monika Michaliszyn

Years: 1974-.. (age 52)
Enrolled in Adam Mickiewicz University: Studied humanities
Occupations: philologistdiplomatlinguistcertified translator
Biography: Monika Iwona Michaliszyn is a Polish philologist, translator and diplomat, between 2018 and 2024 serving as a Poland ambassador to Latvia.