35 Notable alumni of
Gdansk University of Technology
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The Gdansk University of Technology is 921st in the world, 325th in Europe, and 19th in Poland by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 35 notable alumni from the Gdansk University of Technology sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Krzysztof Klenczon
- Enrolled in the Gdansk University of Technology
- Studied in 1959-1960
- Occupations
- composermusicianpop singersongwriterlead vocalist
- Biography
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Krzysztof Antoni Klenczon was a Polish composer, singer and guitarist, member of Czerwone Gitary (1965-1970), later Trzy Korony (1970-1972).
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Michał Kalecki
- Occupations
- university teachereconomist
- Biography
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Michał Kalecki was a Polish Marxian economist. Over the course of his life, Kalecki worked at the London School of Economics, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, and Warsaw School of Economics, and was an economic advisor to the governments of Poland, France, Cuba, Israel, Mexico, and India. He also served as the deputy director of the United Nations Economic Department in New York City.
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Andrzej Gwiazda
- Occupations
- engineertrade unionistpolitician
- Biography
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Andrzej Gwiazda is an engineer and prominent opposition leader, who participated in Polish March 1968 Events and December 1970 Events; one of the founders of Free Trade Unions, Member of the Presiding Committee of the Strike at Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk in August 1980, Vice President of the Founding Committee of Solidarity, then Vice President of Solidarity in 1980 and 1981; in December 1981 interned and next imprisoned with six other Solidarność leaders (see Martial Law in Poland). His wife, Joanna Duda-Gwiazda (they married in 1961) also was a prominent member of the anticommunist opposition in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Sylwester Kaliski
- Occupations
- physicistengineer
- Biography
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Sylwester Kaliski was a Polish engineer, professor and military general. He was a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN).
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Janusz Śniadek
- Occupations
- mechanical engineertrade unionistpolitician
- Biography
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Janusz Józef Śniadek is a Polish labor and political leader who was Chairman of Solidarity in the years 2002-2010.
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Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz
- Occupations
- sailorexplorer
- Biography
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Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz was a Polish naval engineer and sailor as well as the first woman to have sailed single-handed (i.e. solo) around the world, repeating the accomplishment of Joshua Slocum. She sailed from the Canary Islands on 28 March 1976, and returned there on 21 April 1978, completing a circumnavigation of 31,166 nautical miles (57,719 km) in 401 days.
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Abraham Esau
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teachernuclear physicist
- Biography
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Robert Abraham Esau was a German physicist.
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Dariusz Drelich
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Dariusz Drelich is a Polish businessman and politician that has served as Voivode of Pomeranian Voivodeship from 8 December 2015 to 20 December 2023.
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Zygmunt Choreń
- Occupations
- marine engineer
- Biography
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Zygmunt Choreń is a Polish naval architect and the proprietor of the naval architectural firm Choreń Design and Consulting. He is a graduate of the Gdańsk University of Technology and the Leningrad Ship-Building Institute.
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Włodzimierz Julian Korab-Karpowicz
- Occupations
- engineerpolitical scientistphilosopher
- Biography
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Włodzimierz Julian Korab-Karpowicz is a Polish philosopher and political theorist.
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Jan Klawiter
- Occupations
- politicianchemist
- Biography
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Jan Klawiter is a Polish politician. Since 2015 he has been a member of the Sejm from the parliamentary constituency of Gdynia. He was also mayor of his hometown of Rumia for ten years.
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Stanisław Sołdek
- Occupations
- engineerwelder
- Biography
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Stanisław Sołdek was a Polish shock worker, labor leader, a Gdańsk Shipyard marker, and a graduate of the Gdańsk University of Technology.
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Antoni Mężydło
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Antoni Mężydło is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm on October 21, 2007, receiving 42,052 votes in the 5 Toruń district, running on the Civic Platform list. He is active in the Central European Initiative.
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Jacek Namieśnik
- Occupations
- researcherchemist
- Biography
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Jacek Namieśnik was a Polish chemist, full professor of Gdańsk University of Technology. He was head of Analytical Department (1995–2019), dean of Faculty of Chemistry (1996–2002, 2005–2012), rector of Gdańsk University of Technology since 1 September 2016 until his death.
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Andrzej Januszajtis
- Occupations
- university teacherregional historianhistorianphysicist
- Biography
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Andrzej Januszajtis is a Polish physicist, professor and politician who served as the Chairman of the City Council of Gdańsk from 1991 to 1994.
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Mieczysław Ostojski
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Mieczyslaw Stefan Ostojski was the second vice-president of the World Meteorological Organization and former director general of the Polish Institute of Meteorology and Water Management.
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Jacek Starościak
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jacek Mariusz Starościak ([ˈjat͡sɛk starɔɕt͡siak] (10 September 1947, Gdańsk – 8 May 2021) was a Polish politician who was the mayor of Gdańsk from 1990 to 1991.
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Jan Wyrowiński
- Enrolled in the Gdansk University of Technology
- Studied in 1971
- Occupations
- engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Jan Alfons Wyrowiński is a Polish politician and Kashubian activist. He was the chairman of Kashubian-Pomeranian Association in the period 1994–1999.
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Paweł Tarnowski
- Occupations
- windsurfer
- Biography
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Paweł Aleksander Maria Tarnowski is a Polish sailor, son of Jacek Tarnowski, (businessman and the politician, in 2005–2006 Head of the Chancellery of the Polish Prime Minister) and Monika Wanicka. Tarnowski already competed at the top-level when he was a teenager, becoming a multiple medal winner in Junior World Championships. In 2011 and 2012, he won a gold medal at the RS:X Junior World Championships, and he won medals in European Champion. In first he started in classes Techno 293 class and then the RS:X class, (including in a category age under 17 (U-17) and under 21 years of age (U-21). He competed in the 2024 Olympics in the iQfoil class and came 10th.
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Tomasz Imieliński
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Tomasz Imieliński is a Polish-American computer scientist, most known in the areas of data mining, mobile computing, data extraction, and search engine technology. He is currently a professor of computer science at Rutgers University in New Jersey, United States.
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Lam Quang My
- Occupations
- poetphysicist
- Biography
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Lâm Quang Mỹ was a Polish-Vietnamese poet. He studied electronics at Gdańsk University of Technology. before returning to work for the Science and Technology Research Center in Hanoi. He returned to Poland in 1989 where he completed a PhD in physics from the Physics Institute of the Polish Academy of Science.
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Jan Kilian
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jan Kilian was a Polish politician who served as a member of the Sejm.
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Franz Ollendorff
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Franz Heinrich Ollendorff was an Israeli physicist.
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Zbigniew Kozak
- Occupations
- engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Zbigniew Ryszard Kozak is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 7,901 votes in 26 Gdynia district as a candidate from the Law and Justice list.
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Wilhelm Schuler
- Occupations
- entrepreneurchemist
- Biography
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Wilhelm Alfons Schuler was a chemist, inventor and entrepreneur in the second half of the 20th century.
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Marianna Sankiewicz-Budzyńska
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Marianna Sankiewicz-Budzyńska was a Polish electronics engineer, academic lecturer, organiser of scientific activities and education.
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Jacek M. Zurada
- Occupations
- university teacherartificial intelligence researchercomputer scientistengineer
- Biography
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Jacek M. Zurada is a Polish-American computer scientist who serves as a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Louisville, Kentucky. His M.S. and Ph.D. degrees are from Politechnika Gdaṅska ranked as #1 among Polish universities of technology. He has held visiting appointments at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Princeton, Northeastern, Auburn, and at overseas universities in Australia, Chile, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Poland, Singapore, Spain, and South Africa. He is a Life Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of International Neural Networks Society and Doctor Honoris Causa of Czestochowa Institute of Technology, Poland.
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Alfons Hoffmann
- Occupations
- electrical engineer
- Biography
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Professor Alfons Hoffmann was a Polish engineer and political activist.
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Wolfgang Händler
- Occupations
- computer scientistmathematician
- Biography
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Wolfgang Händler was a German mathematician, pioneering computer scientist and professor at Leibniz University Hannover (Lehrstuhl für elektronische Rechenanlagen) and University of Erlangen–Nuremberg (Institut für Mathematische Maschinen und Datenverarbeitung) known for his work on automata theory, parallel computing, artificial intelligence, man-machine interfaces and computer graphics.
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Henryk Krawczyk
- Years
- 1946-.. (age 79)
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Henryk Krawczyk is a professor and rector of Gdańsk University of Technology since 2008.
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Wojciech Szpankowski
- Occupations
- computer scientistmathematician
- Biography
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Wojciech Szpankowski is the Saul Rosen Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University. He is known for his work in analytic combinatorics, analysis of algorithms and analytic information theory. He is the director of the NSF Science and Technology Center for Science of Information.
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Ryszard Kotla
- Occupations
- journalisthistorian
- Biography
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Ryszard Kotla is a Polish travel writer, tour guide, activist, journalist, academic teacher and lifeguard instructor at the Polish Life Saving Association. While he is an electrical engineer by education, he is considered to be a leading expert on history and tourism in Szczecin and the greater region of Western Pomerania. He is the brother of Zdzislaw Kotla and the father of Pavel Kotla.
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Marek Dzida
- Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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Marek Władysław Dzida is a Polish professor of Gdańsk University of Technology. His fields of interest are Mechanical Engineering and Operation, and Power Engineering.
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Janusz Smulko
- Occupations
- academicengineer
- Biography
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Janusz Smulko is a Polish electronics engineer, full professor of Gdańsk University of Technology. Research Interests: reliability assessment of electronic devices (electrochromic materials, supercapacitors, varistors, thin metal foil capacitors), fluctuation-enhanced sensing (various systems and sensors), gas sensing, Raman spectroscopy, noise in biological systems, signal processing. Since September 2016 – Vice-Rector for Scientific Research, Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland.
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Richard B. Hetnarski
- Occupations
- editortranslatormechanical engineerprofessor
- Biography
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Richard B. Hetnarski was a Polish-born American academic and translator who was a professor in the department of mechanical engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology. He was an ASME Fellow since 1983 and a New York State Licensed Professional Engineer since 1976. He is best known for his contributions to the fields of Thermal Stresses and Thermoelasticity.
