100 Notable alumni of
Jagiellonian University
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Jagiellonian University is 61st in the world, 21st in Europe, and 2nd in Poland by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Jagiellonian University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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John Paul II
- Enrolled in Jagiellonian University
- 1953-1954 graduated with Doctor of Sacred Theology
- Occupations
- archbishopwriterpopeLatin Catholic priesttransitional deacon
- Biography
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Pope John Paul II was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his death in 2005.
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Nicolaus Copernicus
- Enrolled in Jagiellonian University
- Studied in 1491-1495
- Occupations
- mathematicianphysicistdiplomatastronomerphilosopher
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Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center. In all likelihood, Copernicus developed his model independently of Aristarchus of Samos, an ancient Greek astronomer who had formulated such a model some eighteen centuries earlier.
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Andrzej Duda
- Enrolled in Jagiellonian University
- 1991-1996 graduated with magister degree in jurisprudence
- Occupations
- lawyeruniversity teacherpoliticianinternational forum participantjurist
- Biography
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Andrzej Sebastian Duda is a lawyer and politician who has served as president of Poland since 6 August 2015. Before becoming president, Andrzej Duda was a member of the Polish Lower House (Sejm) from 2011 to 2014 and the European Parliament from 2014 to 2015.
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Stanisław Lem
- Occupations
- futuristresearcherphilosopherpoetsatirist
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Stanisław Herman Lem was a Polish writer of science fiction and essays on various subjects, including philosophy, futurology, and literary criticism. Many of his science fiction stories are of satirical and humorous character. Lem's books have been translated into more than 50 languages and have sold more than 45 million copies. Worldwide, he is best known as the author of the 1961 novel Solaris. In 1976 Theodore Sturgeon wrote that Lem was the most widely read science fiction writer in the world.
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John III Sobieski
- Occupations
- politicianmonarchmilitary leader
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John III Sobieski was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1674 until his death in 1696.
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Beata Szydło
- Occupations
- politicianethnologistlawyer
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Beata Maria Szydło is a Polish politician who has served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2019. A member of Law and Justice (PiS), she previously served as Prime Minister of Poland from 2015 to 2017. Szydło became the third woman to hold the office, after Hanna Suchocka and her immediate predecessor Ewa Kopacz. She currently is a vice-chair of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group in the European Parliament.
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Wisława Szymborska
- Occupations
- essayistcriticwritertranslatorliterary critic
- Biography
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Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska was a Polish poet, essayist, translator, and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Prowent (now part of Kórnik in west-central Poland), she resided in Kraków until the end of her life. In Poland, Szymborska's books have reached sales rivaling prominent prose authors', though she wrote in a poem, "Some Like Poetry" ("Niektórzy lubią poezję"), that "perhaps" two in a thousand people like poetry.
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Ivo Andrić
- Enrolled in Jagiellonian University
- In 1914 studied philosophy
- Occupations
- diplomatwriternovelistessayistpoet
- Biography
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Ivo Andrić was a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under Ottoman rule.
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Jan Kochanowski
- Enrolled in Jagiellonian University
- In 1544 studied liberal arts education
- Occupations
- poetplaywrighttranslatorwriter
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Jan Kochanowski was a Polish Renaissance poet who wrote in Latin and Polish and established poetic patterns that would become integral to Polish literary language. He has been called the greatest Polish poet before Adam Mickiewicz (the latter, a leading Romantic writer) and one of the most influential Slavic poets prior to the 19th century.
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Bronisław Malinowski
- Enrolled in Jagiellonian University
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in mathematics and physical sciences
- Occupations
- ethnologistuniversity teacherethnographeranthropologistphotographer
- Biography
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Bronisław Kasper Malinowski was a Polish-British anthropologist and ethnologist whose writings on ethnography, social theory, and field research have exerted a lasting influence on the discipline of anthropology.
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Krzysztof Penderecki
- Occupations
- composerconductorpedagoguemusic teacherviolinist
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Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki was a Polish composer and conductor. His best-known works include Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima, Symphony No. 3, his St Luke Passion, Polish Requiem, Anaklasis and Utrenja. His oeuvre includes four operas, eight symphonies and other orchestral pieces, a variety of instrumental concertos, choral settings of mainly religious texts, as well as chamber and instrumental works.
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Jan Matejko
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- 1838-1893 (aged 55)
- Occupations
- university teacherpainter
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Jan Alojzy Matejko was a Polish painter, a leading 19th-century exponent of history painting, known for depicting nodal events from Polish history. His works include large scale oil paintings such as Rejtan (1866), the Union of Lublin (1869), the Astronomer Copernicus, or Conversations with God (1873), or the Battle of Grunwald (1878). He was the author of numerous portraits, a gallery of Polish monarchs in book form, and murals in St. Mary's Basilica, Kraków. He is considered by many as the most celebrated Polish painter, and sometimes as the "national painter" of Poland. Matejko was among the notable people to receive an unsolicited letter from the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, as the latter tipped, in January 1889, into his psychotic breakdown while in Turin.
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Juli Zeh
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- juristscience fiction writerwriteressayist
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Juli Zeh is a German writer and former judge. She is known for novels such as The Method (2009), Unterleuten (2016) and About People (2021).
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Agata Kornhauser-Duda
- Occupations
- germanistteacher
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Agata Kornhauser-Duda is a Polish former teacher and the current First Lady of Poland. She is married to the president of Poland, Andrzej Duda.
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Stefan Banach
- Enrolled in Jagiellonian University
- Studied in 1916-1920
- Occupations
- university teachermathematician
- Biography
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Stefan Banach was a Polish mathematician who is generally considered one of the 20th century's most important and influential mathematicians. He was the founder of modern functional analysis, and an original member of the Lwów School of Mathematics. His major work was the 1932 book, Théorie des opérations linéaires (Theory of Linear Operations), the first monograph on the general theory of functional analysis.
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Edward Rydz-Śmigły
- Occupations
- writerpainterpoliticianmilitary officerpoet
- Biography
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Marshal Edward Rydz-Śmigły [ˈɛdvard ˈrɨdz ˈɕmiɡwɨ], also called Edward Śmigły-Rydz, was a Polish politician, statesman, Marshal of Poland and Commander-in-Chief of Poland's armed forces, as well as a painter and poet.
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Zbigniew Ziobro
- Enrolled in Jagiellonian University
- In 1994 graduated with magister degree in law
- Occupations
- politicianlawyerjurist
- Biography
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Zbigniew Tadeusz Ziobro is a Polish politician. He served as the Minister of Justice of the Republic of Poland in the Cabinet of Mateusz Morawiecki until 27 November 2023. He previously served in the same role from October 2005 to November 2007, simultaneously serving as the Public Prosecutor General. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005 in the 13th Kraków district, running on the Law and Justice party list. He received over 120,000 votes in the parliamentary election, the highest percentage constituency results in the election.
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Stanisław Wyspiański
- Occupations
- scenographerplaywrightwritertranslatorarchitect
- Biography
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Stanisław Mateusz Ignacy Wyspiański was a Polish playwright, painter and poet, as well as interior and furniture designer. A patriotic writer, he created a series of symbolic, national dramas within the artistic philosophy of the Young Poland Movement.
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Ivan Fyodorov
- Years
- 1510-1583 (aged 73)
- Occupations
- typographerprinterpublisher
- Biography
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Ivan Fyodorov or Ivan Fеdorov sometimes transliterated as Fiodorov, was one of the fathers of Eastern Slavonic printing (along with Schweipolt Fiol and Francysk Skaryna), he was the first known Russian printer in Moscow and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, he was also a skilled cannon maker and the inventor of a multibarreled mortar.
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Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz
- Enrolled in Jagiellonian University
- Studied in 2006
- Occupations
- physicianpolitician
- Biography
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Władysław Marcin Kosiniak-Kamysz is a Polish physician and politician. Since 2023, he has served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Poland and the Minister of National Defence and since 2015, he has served as the chairman of the Polish People's Party (PSL). From 2011 to 2015, he was Minister of Labor and Social Affairs in the governments of Donald Tusk and Ewa Kopacz. He was a candidate for president in 2020.
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Jarosław Gowin
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacheropinion journalistphilosopher
- Biography
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Jarosław Adam Gowin is a Polish conservative politician and editor. Gowin served as Minister of Justice in the cabinet of Prime Minister Donald Tusk between 2011 and 2013, and as Minister of Science and Higher Education in the cabinet of Mateusz Morawiecki between 2015 and 2020, Minister of Economic Development, Labour and Technology and Deputy Prime Minister from October 2020 until his dismissal in August 2021.
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Ryszard Terlecki
- Enrolled in Jagiellonian University
- In 1976 graduated with magister degree in study of history
- Occupations
- journalisthistorianpoliticianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Ryszard Iwon Terlecki is a Polish politician, the Parliamentary Caucus Head of the Law and Justice party between 2015–2023. Terlecki, a historian and professor of humanities, lectures at the Pontifical University of John Paul II. He is a member of the Sejm, serving since 2007. He served as the Deputy Marshal of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland 2015–2023.
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Karl Radek
- Occupations
- university teacherrevolutionaryjournalistcommunistpolitical prisoner
- Biography
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Karl Berngardovich Radek was a Russian revolutionary and writer active in the Polish and German social democratic movements before World War I and a Communist International leader in the Soviet Union after the Russian Revolution.
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Jerzy Stuhr
- Occupations
- directorscreenwriterfilm actoractorwriter
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Jerzy Oskar Stuhr is a Polish film and theatre actor. He is one of the most popular, influential and versatile Polish actors. He also works as a screenwriter, film director and drama professor. He served as the Rector of the Ludwik Solski Academy for the Dramatic Arts in Kraków for two terms: from 1990 to 1996 and again from 2002 to 2008.
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Maciej Stuhr
- Occupations
- stage actorfilm actoractorperforming artistcomedian
- Biography
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Maciej Jerzy Stuhr is a Polish actor, comedian and occasional film director.
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Francysk Skaryna
- Occupations
- writerpublisherBible translatorphysicianentrepreneur
- Biography
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Francysk Skaryna was a Belarusian humanist, physician, and translator. He is known to be one of the first book printers in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and in all of Eastern Europe, laying the groundwork for the development of the Belarusian izvod of the Church Slavonic language.
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Adam Bielecki
- Occupations
- mountaineer
- Biography
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Adam Radosław Bielecki is a Polish alpine and high-altitude climber, known for the first winter ascents of the eight-thousanders: Gasherbrum I and Broad Peak. In his book Spod zamarzniętych powiek written with co-author Dominik Szczepański, Bielecki tells the story of his climbings, memories from Himalayan expeditions, and the effort the highest mountains demand.
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Józef Cyrankiewicz
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Józef Adam Zygmunt Cyrankiewicz was a Polish Socialist (PPS) and after 1948 Communist politician. He served as premier of the Polish People's Republic between 1947 and 1952, and again for 16 years between 1954 and 1970. He also served as Chairman of the Polish Council of State from 1970 to 1972.
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Zbigniew Herbert
- Occupations
- writeressayistpoetauthorplaywright
- Biography
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Zbigniew Herbert was a Polish poet, essayist, drama writer and moralist. He is one of the best known and the most translated post-war Polish writers. While he was first published in the 1950s (a volume titled Chord of Light was issued in 1956), soon after he voluntarily ceased submitting most of his works to official Polish government publications. He resumed publication in the 1980s, initially in the underground press. Since the 1960s, he was nominated several times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. His books have been translated into 38 languages.
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Rudolf Weigl
- Occupations
- biologistphysicianuniversity teacherimmunologist
- Biography
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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.
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Robert Makłowicz
- Enrolled in Jagiellonian University
- 1982-1989 studied history and law
- Occupations
- writertraveleropinion journalisttelevision producerjournalist
- Biography
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Robert Witold Makłowicz is a Polish food critic, journalist, historian and television personality, notable as a promoter of the Polish cuisine and slow food.
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Carl Menger
- Occupations
- economistprofessor
- Biography
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Carl Menger von Wolfensgrün was an Austrian economist and the founder of the Austrian School of economics. Menger contributed to the development of the theories of marginalism and marginal utility, which rejected cost-of-production theory of value, such as developed by the classical economists such as Adam Smith and David Ricardo. As a departure from such, he would go on to call his resultant perspective, the subjective theory of value.
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Stanisław Sosabowski
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Stanisław Franciszek Sosabowski was a Polish general in World War II. He fought in the Polish Campaign of 1939 and at the Battle of Arnhem (Netherlands), as a part of Operation Market Garden, in 1944 as commander of the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade.
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Krzysztof Zanussi
- Enrolled in Jagiellonian University
- 1959-1962 studied philosophy
- Occupations
- film directorwriterscreenwriterfilm producer
- Biography
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Krzysztof Pius Zanussi is a Polish film and theatre director, producer and screenwriter. He is a professor of European film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland where he conducts a summer workshop. He is also a professor at the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School of the University of Silesia in Katowice.
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Ignacy Łukasiewicz
- Occupations
- entrepreneurchemistpharmacistinventoracademic
- Biography
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Jan Józef Ignacy Łukasiewicz was a Polish pharmacist, engineer, businessman, inventor, and philanthropist. He was one of the most prominent philanthropists in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, crown land of Austria-Hungary. He was a pioneer who in 1856 built the world's first modern oil refinery.
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Jadwiga Emilewicz
- Enrolled in Jagiellonian University
- In 1998 studied political science
- Occupations
- politiciancultural managerpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Jadwiga Katarzyna Emilewicz is a Polish politician and political scientist. In 2020, she was Deputy Prime Minister of Poland. In 2019, she became Minister of Development, upon her three-year service as an undersecretary of state in the Ministry of Development, and from 2018 to 2019, she was Minister of Entrepreneurship and Technology in the government of Mateusz Morawiecki.
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Mikołaj Rej
- Occupations
- writerpoliticianmusicianpoettranslator
- Biography
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Mikołaj Rej or Mikołaj Rey of Nagłowice was a Polish poet and prose writer of the emerging Renaissance in Poland as it succeeded the Middle Ages, as well as a politician and musician. He was the first Polish author to write exclusively in the Polish language, and is considered (with Biernat of Lublin and Jan Kochanowski), to be one of the founders of Polish literary language and literature.
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Zbigniew Preisner
- Occupations
- musiciancomposerfilm score composer
- Biography
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Zbigniew Preisner is a Polish film score composer, best known for his work with film director Krzysztof Kieślowski. He is the recipient of the Gold Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis as well as the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. He is a member of the French Film Academy.
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Róża Maria Barbara Gräfin von Thun und Hohenstein
- Enrolled in Jagiellonian University
- In 1979 studied English studies
- Occupations
- politiciantranslator
- Biography
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Róża Maria Thun, is a Polish politician, more usually known as Róża Thun than by her formal style of Countess and from 1990 her style changed to Princess.
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Wojciech Smarzowski
- Occupations
- film directordirectorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Wojciech Smarzowski is a Polish screenwriter and director. He studied filmmaking at the Jagiellonian University and the National Film School in Łódź (1990). His 2004 film, The Wedding (not to be confused with the Andrzej Wajda film of the same title) earned special jury mention at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2005. He began his film career as a video camera operator.
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Tadeusz Różewicz
- Occupations
- prose writerdramaturgetranslatorwriterpoet
- Biography
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Tadeusz Różewicz was a Polish poet, playwright, writer, and translator. Różewicz was in the first generation of Polish writers born after Poland regained its independence in 1918, following the century of foreign partitions. He was born in Radomsko, near Łódź, in 1921. He first published his poetry in 1938. During World War II, he served in the Polish underground Home Army. His elder brother, Janusz, also a poet, was executed by the Gestapo in 1944 for serving in the Polish resistance movement. His younger brother, Stanisław, became a noted film director and screenwriter.
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Zygmunt Berling
- Occupations
- military officerpolitician
- Biography
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Zygmunt Henryk Berling was a Polish general and politician. He fought for the independence of Poland in the early 20th century. Berling was a co-founder and commander of the First Polish Army, which fought on the Eastern Front of World War II.
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Wanda Półtawska
- Enrolled in Jagiellonian University
- In 1951 studied medicine
- Occupations
- physicianpsychiatrist
- Biography
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Wanda Wiktoria Półtawska was a Polish physician, author, Holocaust survivor and pro-life activist.
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Vasyl Stefanyk
- Occupations
- politicianwriter
- Biography
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Vasyl Semenovych Stefanyk was an influential Ukrainian modernist writer and political activist. He was a member of the Austrian parliament from 1908 to 1918.
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Norman Davies
- Enrolled in Jagiellonian University
- In 1968 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- university teacherhistorian
- Biography
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Ivor Norman Richard Davies is a British and Polish historian, known for his publications on the history of Europe, Poland and the United Kingdom. He has a special interest in Central and Eastern Europe and is UNESCO Professor at the Jagiellonian University, professor emeritus at University College London, a visiting professor at the Collège d'Europe, and an honorary fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford. He was granted Polish citizenship in 2014.
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Marian Banaś
- Occupations
- officialpolitician
- Biography
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Marian Banaś is a Polish politician and civil servant. He served twice as Chief Executive of the Customs Service from 2005 to 2008 and 2015 to 2017. He briefly served in politics as the Minister of Finance for the First Cabinet of Mateusz Morawiecki from 4 June to 30 August 2019. He now serves as the President of the Supreme Audit Office, one of the oldest state institutions in Poland.
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Jan Długosz
- Occupations
- historianCatholic priestmilitary personnelgeographerCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Jan Długosz, also known in Latin as Johannes Longinus, was a Polish priest, chronicler, diplomat, soldier, and secretary to Bishop Zbigniew Oleśnicki of Kraków. He is considered Poland's first historian.
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Adam Stefan Sapieha
- Occupations
- politicianCatholic priestCatholic deacontheologianCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Prince Adam Stefan Stanisław Bonifacy Józef Cardinal Sapieha was a senior-ranking Polish prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Kraków from 1911 to 1951. Between 1922 and 1923, he was a senator of the Second Polish Republic (Polish Rzeczpospolita). In 1946, Pope Pius XII created him a Cardinal.
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Franciszek Macharski
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- theologianCatholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Franciszek Macharski was a Polish cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was appointed Archbishop of Kraków from 1978, named by Pope John Paul II to succeed him in that role. Macharski was elevated to the cardinalate in 1979, and resigned as archbishop in 2005.
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Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński
- Occupations
- writerpediatricianuniversity teacherpoetphysician
- Biography
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Tadeusz Kamil Marcjan Żeleński was a Polish stage writer, poet, critic and, above all, the translator of over 100 French literary classics into Polish. He was a pediatrician and gynecologist by profession.
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Jacek Majchrowski
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- historianpoliticianteacher
- Biography
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Jacek Maria Majchrowski is a Polish politician, lawyer, historian, professor at the Jagiellonian University, and the current mayor of Kraków since 2002; making him the longest serving mayor in the history of the city, and the only one who was elected by the townspeople five times in a row.
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Wanda Wasilewska
- Occupations
- editing staffplaywrightwriterpoliticianscreenwriter
- Biography
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Wanda Wasilewska, also known by her Russian name Vanda Lvovna Vasilevskaya (Russian: Ва́нда Льво́вна Василе́вская) (21 January 1905 – 29 July 1964), was a Polish and Soviet novelist and journalist and a left-wing political activist.
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Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer
- Occupations
- writerprose writerpoetplaywrightjournalist
- Biography
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Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer was a Polish Goral poet, novelist, playwright, journalist and writer. He was a member of the Young Poland movement.
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Hugo Kołłątaj
- Occupations
- historianwriteruniversity teacherphilosopherCatholic priest
- Biography
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Hugo Stumberg Kołłątaj, also spelled Kołłątay, was a prominent Polish constitutional reformer and educationalist, and one of the most prominent figures of the Polish Enlightenment. He served as Deputy Chancellor of the Crown between 1791–92. He was a Roman Catholic priest, social and political activist, political thinker, historian, philosopher, and polymath.
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Stanisław Żółtek
- Enrolled in Jagiellonian University
- Studied mathematics
- Occupations
- politicianentrepreneur
- Biography
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Stanisław Józef Żółtek is a Polish politician who is the current leader of the Congress of the New Right. He was a Member of the European Parliament representing Lesser Poland and Świętokrzyskie. He was a candidate for president of Poland in the 2020 Polish presidential election.
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Maciej Stryjkowski
- Occupations
- poethistorianwriterdiplomat
- Biography
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Maciej Stryjkowski was a Polish historian, writer and a poet, known as the author of Chronicle of Poland, Lithuania, Samogitia and all of Ruthenia (1582). The work is generally considered to be the first printed book on the history of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
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Jakub Żulczyk
- Enrolled in Jagiellonian University
- Studied journalism studies
- Occupations
- journalistwriterscreenwriter
- Biography
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Jakub Żulczyk is a Polish writer and journalist who writes for Elle, Machina, Przekrój and Onet.pl. He lives in Warsaw.
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Jerzy Pilch
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- writeropinion journalistscreenwriterplaywrightjournalist
- Biography
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Jerzy Pilch was a Polish writer, columnist, and journalist. Critics have compared Pilch's style to Witold Gombrowicz, Milan Kundera, or Bohumil Hrabal.
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Arkady Fiedler
- Occupations
- writertravelermilitary officerzoologistjournalist
- Biography
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Arkady Fiedler was a Polish writer, journalist and adventurer.
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Edward Ochab
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Edward Ochab was a Polish communist politician and top leader of Poland between March and October 1956.
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Marek Jackowski
- Occupations
- guitarist
- Biography
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Marek Norbert Jackowski was a Polish rock musician, best known as a member of the rock band Maanam.
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Ryszard Legutko
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ryszard Antoni Legutko; born 24 December 1949) is a Polish philosopher and politician. He is a professor of philosophy at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, specializing in ancient philosophy and political theory. He has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2009.
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Elżbieta Bieńkowska
- Enrolled in Jagiellonian University
- Studied in 1996
- Occupations
- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Elżbieta Ewa Bieńkowska is a Polish politician who served as Poland's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Regional Development and Transport before becoming a European Commissioner in the team of Jean-Claude Juncker from 2014 to 2019.
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Ignacy Daszyński
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- journaliststatespersonwriterpolitician
- Biography
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Ignacy Ewaryst Daszyński was a Polish socialist politician, journalist, and very briefly Prime Minister of the Second Polish Republic's first government, formed in Lublin in 1918.
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Jan Sztaudynger
- Occupations
- poetsatiristtranslatorwriter
- Biography
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Jan Izydor Sztaudynger was a Polish poet and satirist who enjoyed enormous popularity after World War II.
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Marcin Wrona
- Occupations
- film directorbasketball playerscreenwriterdirector
- Biography
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Marcin Wrona was a Polish film director. His film Demon was shown at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. He debuted at the TIFF in 2010, with The Christening, and was also director of the Polish television series Medics.
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Jacek Dukaj
- Enrolled in Jagiellonian University
- Graduated with magister degree in philosophy
- Occupations
- authorscience fiction writerwriter
- Biography
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Jacek Józef Dukaj is a Polish science fiction and fantasy writer. He has received numerous literary prizes including the European Union Prize for Literature and Janusz A. Zajdel Award.
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Wacław Sierpiński
- Enrolled in Jagiellonian University
- Studied in 1906-1908
- Occupations
- mathematiciantopologistuniversity teacherteacher
- Biography
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Wacław Franciszek Sierpiński was a Polish mathematician. He was known for contributions to set theory (research on the axiom of choice and the continuum hypothesis), number theory, theory of functions, and topology. He published over 700 papers and 50 books.
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Jan Rokita
- Occupations
- lawyertrade unionistpoliticianopinion journalist
- Biography
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Jan Władysław Rokita is a Polish liberal politician, a member of the Sejm, the lower chamber of the Polish parliament. He was chairman of the parliamentary club of the Civic Platform party from 2003 to 2005.
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Jerzy Vetulani
- Enrolled in Jagiellonian University
- In 1957 studied chemistry and biology
- Occupations
- university teacherpharmacologistbiologistpharmacistneurologist
- Biography
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Jerzy Adam Gracjan Vetulani was a Polish neuroscientist, pharmacologist and biochemist, professor of natural sciences, member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Polish Academy of Learning, one of the most frequently cited Polish scientists in the field of biomedicine after 1965.
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Adam Zagajewski
- Occupations
- authortranslatorwriteruniversity teacherlinguist
- Biography
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Adam Zagajewski was a Polish poet, novelist, translator, and essayist.
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Paweł Kowal
- Enrolled in Jagiellonian University
- In 1999 studied study of history
- Occupations
- university teachermuseologistpolitical scientisthistorianpolitician
- Biography
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Paweł Robert Kowal is a Polish politician and former Member of the European Parliament. During his time in the EP, he served as the Chairman of the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee in the European Parliament.
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Stanisław Pięta
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Stanisław Jan Pięta is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 7,240 votes in 27 Bielsko-Biała district as a candidate from the Law and Justice list.
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Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz
- Enrolled in Jagiellonian University
- In 1987 graduated with magister degree in study of history
- Occupations
- historianpoliticianopinion journalistministerjournalist
- Biography
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Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz is a Polish politician who served as the minister of the interior in the government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk from 25 February 2013 to 22 September 2014. Since December 2023, he has served as minister of culture and national heritage in the third cabinet of Donald Tusk.
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Krystyna Zachwatowicz
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- scenographercostume designeruniversity teacheractorfilm director
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Krystyna Zachwatowicz-Wajda is a Polish scenographer, costume designer and actress. She is a daughter of architect and restorer Jan Zachwatowicz and Maria Chodźko h. Kościesza, and wife of film director Andrzej Wajda. Member of the Polish Film Academy. She is a co-founder (with Andrzej Wajda) of Centre of Japanese Art and Technology "Manggha" in Kraków.
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Feliks Koneczny
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- philosopherhistorian
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Feliks Karol Koneczny was a Polish historian, theatrical critic, librarian, journalist and social philosopher. He founded the original system of the comparative science of civilizations.
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Piotr Skarga
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- missionaryhagiographerCatholic priestpriestpreacher
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Piotr Skarga was a Polish Jesuit, preacher, hagiographer, polemicist, and leading figure of the Counter-Reformation in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Due to his oratorical gifts, he has been called "the Polish Bossuet".
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Tadeusz Konwicki
- Enrolled in Jagiellonian University
- Studied Polish studies
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- dramaturgewriterscreenwriterscience fiction writerjournalist
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Tadeusz Konwicki was a Polish writer and film director, as well as a member of the Polish Language Council.
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Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
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- phenomenologistuniversity teacherphilosopher
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Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka was a Polish philosopher, phenomenologist, founder and president of The World Phenomenology Institute, and editor (from its inception in the late 1960s) of the book series, Analecta Husserliana. She had a thirty-two-year friendship and occasional academic collaboration with Pope John Paul II.
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Edward Bernard Raczyński
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- historianwriterpoliticiandiplomat
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Count Edward Bernard Raczyński was a Polish diplomat, writer, politician, President of Poland-in-exile (between 1979 and 1986).
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Yuriy Drohobych
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- writeruniversity teacherphilosopherastrologerastronomer
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Yuriy Drohobych or Yuriy Kotermak was a Ruthenian philosopher, astronomer, writer, medical doctor, rector of the University of Bologna, and professor of Kraków Academy, and the first publisher of a Church Slavonic printed text. He is the author of Iudicium Pronosticon Anni 1483 Currentis.
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Jan Baudouin de Courtenay
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- phoneticianprofessoresperantologistlinguistslavist
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Jan Niecisław Ignacy Baudouin de Courtenay, also Ivan Alexandrovich Baudouin de Courtenay was a Russian and Polish linguist and Slavist, best known for his theory of the phoneme and phonetic alternations.
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Zbigniew Wassermann
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- politician
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Zbigniew Franciszek Wassermann was a Polish politician. He was an MP representing Law and Justice (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość).
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Manuela Gretkowska
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- journalistwriterpoliticianscreenwriter
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Manuela Gretkowska is a Polish writer, screenwriter, feminist and politician. She is the foundress of the Feminist Initiative.
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Krzysztof Gonciarz
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- film directorexplorerYouTuberphotographer
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Krzysztof Jan Gonciarz is an internet creator, filmmaker, journalist, and YouTuber, responsible of the channels Zapytaj Beczkę, Krzysztof Gonciarz, and TheUwagaPies on YouTube. He is the owner and creator of Japanese-based filmmaking company Tofu Media. He formerly worked as a journalist for Gry-Online.
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Oskar Lange
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- professoreconomistpoliticiandiplomat
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Oskar Ryszard Lange was a Polish economist and diplomat. He is best known for advocating the use of market pricing tools in socialist systems and providing a model of market socialism. He responded to the economic calculation problem proposed by Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek by claiming that managers in a centrally-planned economy would be able to monitor supply and demand through increases and declines in inventories of goods, and advocated the nationalization of major industries. During his stay in the United States, Lange was an academic teacher and researcher in mathematical economics. Later in socialist Poland, he was a member of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party.
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Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski
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- military officerpolitician
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Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski was a Polish physician, general, freemason and politician who served as Minister of Internal Affairs and as the 28th Prime Minister of Poland before and at the Outbreak of World War II.
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Andrzej Zoll
- Enrolled in Jagiellonian University
- 1959-1964 graduated with magister degree in jurisprudence
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- university teacherjudgelawyer
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Andrzej Stanisław Zoll is a Polish lawyer, former judge and president of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal, former Polish Ombudsman, former president of the State Electoral Commission, former president of the Legislative Council, co-author of the Polish Penal Code of 1997. Professor of criminal law at the Jagiellonian University.
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Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski
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- writerhumanistpoliticianphilosopherscientist
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Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski was a Polish Renaissance scholar, humanist and theologian, called "the father of Polish democracy". His book De Republica emendanda (O poprawie Rzeczypospolitej) was widely read and praised across most of Renaissance Europe, influencing thinkers such as Jean Bodin, Hugo Grotius and Johannes Althusius.
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Stanisław Koniecpolski
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- diplomat
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Stanisław Koniecpolski was a Polish military commander, regarded as one of the most talented and capable in the history of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. He was also a magnate, a royal official (starosta), a castellan, a member of the Polish nobility (szlachta), and the voivode (governor) of Sandomierz from 1625 until his death. He led many successful military campaigns against rebelling Cossacks and invading Tatars. From 1618 he held the rank of Field Crown Hetman before becoming the Grand Crown Hetman, the military commander second only to the King, in 1632.
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Jan Hartman
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- university teachernon-fiction writerphilosopher
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Jan Marek Hartman is a Polish of Jewish descent philosopher specializing in bioethics, writer, anticlerical, opinion journalist and politician, professor of the humanities.
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Tadeusz Pieronek
- Enrolled in Jagiellonian University
- Studied in 1954
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishopCatholic deacon
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Tadeusz Pieronek was a Polish Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop-emeritus, Catholic academic and professor of theology and civil law. Pieronek was a leading member of the Stefan Batory Foundation (a George Soros Foundation branch in Poland).
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Józef Maria Bocheński
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- writertheologianuniversity teachermathematicianphilosopher
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Józef Maria Bocheński or Innocentius Bochenski was a Polish Dominican, logician and philosopher.
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Krzysztof Warlikowski
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- artistic directoropera directortheatrical director
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Krzysztof Warlikowski is a Polish theatre director. He is the creator and artistic director of Nowy Teatr (New Theatre) in Warsaw.
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Krzysztof Szczerski
- Enrolled in Jagiellonian University
- 1992-1997 graduated with magister degree in political science
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- politicianuniversity teacherpolitical scientistopinion journalist
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Krzysztof Maria Szczerski is a Polish political scientist and politician who has been serving as Poland's Ambassador to the United Nations in New York since 2021.
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Edmund Niziurski
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- science fiction writerwriter
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Edmund Niziurski was a popular Polish writer, author of numerous humorous novels and stories for children, recipient of the Order of the Smile.
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Bruno Jasieński
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- poetscience fiction writerwriterplaywright
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Bruno Jasieński pronounced [ˈbrunɔ jaˈɕeɲskʲi], born Wiktor Bruno Zysman, was a Polish poet, novelist, playwright, Catastrophist, and leader of the Polish Futurist movement in the interwar period. Jasieński was also a communist activist in Poland, France and the Soviet Union, where he was executed during the Great Purge. He is acclaimed by members of the various modernist art groups as their patron. An annual literary festival Brunonalia is held in Klimontów, Poland, his birthplace, where one of the streets is also named after him.
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John Cantius
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- physicistpriesttheologianuniversity teacher
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John Cantius was a Polish Catholic priest, scholastic philosopher, physicist and theologian.
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Franciszek Blachnicki
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- university teacherCatholic priestwriterlecturersoldier
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Franciszek Blachnicki was a Polish Roman Catholic priest and the founder of the Light-Life movement – also known as the Oasis Movement – and the Secular Institute of the Immaculate Mother of the Church. He founded several other movements and religious congregations that would address a range of social and ethical issues. These issues included anti-alcoholism and human rights. His movements first came about after starting out as simple retreats designed for both altar servers and families that later began to address a series of issues in Poland at the time. His concern for human rights came during the communist era in Poland as well as his experiences as a prisoner of war during World War II in which he was incarcerated in Auschwitz and other concentration camps under the German Nazi regime.
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Rafał Bochenek
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- politicianjurist
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Rafał Bochenek is a Polish lawyer and politician.
