Famous People with Name Jadwiga

Jadwiga Wajs            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Jadwiga Wajs: (born January 30, 1912 in Pabianice – died February 1, 1990) was a Polish athlete who mainly competed in the discus throw.

Jadwiga Jedrzejowska            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Jadwiga Jedrzejowska: (born October 15, 1912 in Kraków, Poland – died February 28, 1980 in Katowice) was a tennis player from Poland. Because of her long and very difficult to pronounce name, she was called "Jed" or "Ja-Ja."

Jadwiga Pilsudska-Jaraczewska            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Jadwiga Pilsudska-Jaraczewska: is a pilot, who served in the Air Transport Auxiliary during the Second World War. She is a daughter of Marshal and Naczelnik Józef Pilsudski.In 1937 Jadwiga began flying gliders and obtained a pilot's licence. In 1939 she passed her examinations from secondary school and made plans to study aircraft engineering at the Warsaw Polytechnic.In September 1939, Poland was invaded by the Nazis, initiating the Second World War and her family made plans to leave the country immediately. Pilsudska fled with her mother and elder sister, Wanda, to Lithuania and eventually arrived in the United Kingdom. She resumed her studies, in 1940, matriculating at Cambridge University.

Jadwiga Andrzejewska            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Jadwiga Andrzejewska: was a Polish film and theater actress, very popular between the World Wars in Poland and Germany.

Jadwiga Tyszka            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Jadwiga Tyszka: was an actress in theater, TV and film in Poland and a community activist in the Ivy Hill section of Newark, New Jersey. She was married to painter Andre de Krayewski and had two children. She died on February 26, 2005.