Famous People with Name Mieczyslaw

Mieczyslaw Chwojnik            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Mieczyslaw Chwojnik: was a Polish-born Israeli chess master and mathematician.Chwojnik was the strongest Cracovian chess player in 1920s; thrice winner of the Cracow championships (1919, 1925, 1926). He won the Nowy Dziennik tournament in Cracow in 1926

Mieczyslaw Fogg            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Mieczyslaw Fogg: was a very popular Polish singer of the twentieth century. His popularity started well before World War II and continued well into the 1980s. He had a characteristic way of staying very serious yet slightly emotional on stage when singing. He can be compared to French Tino Rossi in style. He had a lyric baritone voice.

Mieczyslaw Munz            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Mieczyslaw Munz: was a Polish-American pianist.He was a teacher of Emanuel Ax, David Oei, Ann Schein, Virginia Reinecke and Adolovni Acosta.Americus Records, Inc. has issued a compact disc purporting to contain all extant recordings of Munz: The Art of Mieczyslaw Munz, AMR20021022. It includes Mozart's Piano Concerto In D Minor, K466; Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini; and various short works, several being virtuoso transcriptions.

Mieczyslaw Sylwester Garsztka            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Mieczyslaw Sylwester Garsztka: was a Polish pilot, a flying ace of the German air force during World War I.He was born in a Polish family in Bromberg (Bydgoszcz), and in sources, he is often referred to as Sylvester Garsztka, but Mieczyslaw was his first name and was the one used by him[1]. He intended to study medicine, but in November 1915 he was mobilized into the German army. Initially, he served in the infantry on the Western Front (Grenadier Regiment 110 and Infantry Regiment 87). After completing officer school in April 1917, he became a Lieutenant. He was slightly injured commanding a company in the 1st battalion of the 1st Nassau Infantry Regiment Nr. 87, and was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class. Then he asked to be transferred to the air service, and in November 1917 he was sent to flying school.

Mieczyslaw Czechowicz            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Mieczyslaw Czechowicz: was a Polish actor. A graduate of Warsaw's State Theatrical Academy (Panstwowa Wyzsza Szkola Teatralna), Czechowicz played in numerous films, plays and cabarets. He worked for the renowned National Theatre as well as other Warsaw's theaters. In 1987 he was awarded the Polonia Restituta. As a movie actor, he played in such productions, as Janosik (TV series), Czterej Pancerni i Pies, Lalka, Die Blechtrommel, and comedies by Stanislaw Bareja. Czechowicz's voice is known by almost all kids in Poland, as he voiced the friendly teddy bear in a popular cartoon Mis Uszatek.