Famous People with Name Jerzy

Jerzy Adam Kraska            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Jerzy Adam Kraska: a former Polish football player.On the national level he played for Poland national team (13 matches) and was a participant at the 1972 Summer Olympics, where his team won the gold medal.

Jerzy Antoni Wilim            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Jerzy Antoni Wilim: a retired Polish footballer (striker) connected most of time with Szombierki Bytom. He played also for Górnik Zabrze and Stade Rennes. Wilim played 8 times in Poland national football team. (1963–1969)

Jerzy Jagielski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Jerzy Jagielski: was a Polish chess master and journalist.He played several times in Warsaw City championships, where tied for 12-13th in 1926, 10-11th in 1930, 5-6th in 1931, 7-8th in 1932, and took 12th in 1934. He won twice in local tournaments at Warsaw 1929 (ahead of Mieczyslaw Najdorf and Moshe Czerniak) and 1933, and took 4th place in 1938/1939

Jerzy Lewi            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Jerzy Lewi: was a Polish chess master.He won five-times Polish Junior championships in 1965–1969. He took 3rd, behind Anatoly Karpov and Andras Adorjan, at Groningen 1967 (European Junior Championship). In 1968, he tied for 2nd-5th in Lódz (25th Polish Championship). In 1969, he won in Lublin (26th POL-ch). He took 12th at Athens 1969 (zonal; Milan Matulovic won), and had decided to stay in the West. As a refugee, he lived in Sweden where he died in a traffic accident.

Jerzy Jan Rubach            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Jerzy Jan Rubach: a Polish and American linguist who specializes in phonology. He is a professor of linguistics at the University of Iowa and the University of Warsaw (Poland).His written works include Cyclic and Lexical Phonology: The Structure of Polish (1984, Foris) and The Lexical Phonology of Slovak (1993, Oxford University Press).In recent years, Rubach has advocated Derivational Optimality Theory, a version of Optimality Theory in phonology which recognizes the need for derivational levels.