Polish Famous Names Starting with Letter S

A retired Polish football player, a defender of both Górnik Zabrze and Poland.His career started in

A retired Polish football player, a defender of both Górnik Zabrze and Poland.His career started in a local club Sosnica Gliwice, and in 1956 he moved to Górnik Zabrze, one of strongest teams in Poland. In Górnik, he was nine times champion of Poland as well as five times winner of the Cup of Poland. Regarded as one of best defenders in the country, he was an expert on slide tackles.

Born 1895 in Lvov, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine) - 1940) was a Polish mathematician. His Ka

Born 1895 in Lvov, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine) - 1940) was a Polish mathematician. His Kaczmarz Method provided the basis for many modern imaging technologies, including the CAT scan.

Was a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the late 1950s to the mid 1960s. Competing in three Sum

Was a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the late 1950s to the mid 1960s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Rome in 1960.Kaplaniak also won two gold medals at the 1958 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Prague, earning them in the K-1 500 m and K-2 500 m events.

Was a Polish writer and essayist. He has published several novels and screenplays, mainly comedies.

Was a Polish writer and essayist. He has published several novels and screenplays, mainly comedies.

(March 7, 1911 Warsaw - September 27, 1991 Warsaw, Poland), nicknames Kisiel, Julia Holynska, Teodor

(March 7, 1911 Warsaw - September 27, 1991 Warsaw, Poland), nicknames Kisiel, Julia Holynska, Teodor Klon, Tomasz Stalinski, was a Polish writer, publicist, composer and politician, one of the members of Znak.

Was a Polish born painter and sculptor, who worked in Great Britain.[1] He developed and patented a

Was a Polish born painter and sculptor, who worked in Great Britain.[1] He developed and patented a technique of painting with enamel paint on steel facilitating decorating public architectural structures.In 1935 he began studies at the Lwów Polytechnic. After the outbreak of World War II Soviet Union occupied Lwów, murdered Knapp's father and sent Stefan to a gulag in Siberia.[2] There, among other things, he worked building schools for Russian children who had been orphaned because their parents had been imprisoned or murdered for political reasons.[3] While in the Gulag, because artistic endeavors were limited, he made chess sets out of bread and playing cards out of trash for his fellow prisoners.

1888-1941) was a famous Polish biologist. Pioneer of insect endocrinology. Studied at the Jagielloni

1888-1941) was a famous Polish biologist. Pioneer of insect endocrinology. Studied at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. Work at Pulawy Agricultural Research Station in Poland between 1915 and 1920 helped determine the role of the insect brain in hormone production. Arrested by Gestapo in 1940 together with his daughter Maria and son Stanislaw in an action against the Polish undergroun

Was a Polish agrarian politician, lawyer, journalist and a notable member of the wartime authorities

Was a Polish agrarian politician, lawyer, journalist and a notable member of the wartime authorities of the Polish Secret State. Among others, he was the last person to hold the post of the Government Delegate at Home. Arrested by the NKVD in 1945, he was released soon afterwards, only to be forced into the exile. He settled in the United States, where he remained active among the local Polish diaspora. An active journalist, he was among the few people whose names were completely banned by the communist censorship in Poland.

Stefan Kudelski is a Polish audio engineer, famous for creating the top quality Nagra series of prof

Stefan Kudelski is a Polish audio engineer, famous for creating the top quality Nagra series of professional audio recorders.

Was a Polish literature critic and writer.

Was a Polish literature critic and writer.

Born January 31, 1956 in Bydgoszcz) is a retired Polish football player and later a football manager

Born January 31, 1956 in Bydgoszcz) is a retired Polish football player and later a football manager.

(born September 25, 1888 in Warsaw, then Russian Empire – died June 19, 1945, Grodzisk Mazowiecki,

(born September 25, 1888 in Warsaw, then Russian Empire – died June 19, 1945, Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Poland) was a Polish mathematician who worked in mathematical analysis, topology, and probability. He was a student of Waclaw Sierpinski and a member of the Polish Academy of Learning (PAU). His students included Karol Borsuk, Bronislaw Knaster, Kazimierz Kuratowski, Stanislaw Saks, and Antoni Zygmun

Born July 4, 1942, in Lyon, France, died February 4, 2008, in Warsaw, Poland[citation needed]) was a

Born July 4, 1942, in Lyon, France, died February 4, 2008, in Warsaw, Poland[citation needed]) was a Polish diplomat and academician. He served as foreign minister of Poland from October 31, 2005, to May 9, 2006, in the cabinet of Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz. He was a graduate from the faculty of history of the University of Warsaw

Was a Polish architect and artist, as well as a noted art conservator and restorer.He was born in Gr

Was a Polish architect and artist, as well as a noted art conservator and restorer.He was born in Grozny, then in Imperial Russia, where his father had followed a career of a physician. Early in Narebski's childhood the family moved to Vilnius, where he graduated from one of the local schools and continued his education at the Institute for Civilian Engineers in St. Petersburg and then at the Warsaw University of Technology. Between 1927 and 1928 he was appointed the municipal architect of the town of Wloclawek. In the following years he held the same post in the city of Vilnius, where - among his other projects - he restored the Archbishop's Palace. He was also a professor at the Stefan Batory University. After the war he was expelled to Poland, where he settled in Torun. There he helped creating the Fine Arts Division of the Nicolaus Copernicus University. Since 1946 he served as its dean.

Was a Polish chemist. He discovered the Niementowski quinoline synthesis and the Niementowski quinaz

Was a Polish chemist. He discovered the Niementowski quinoline synthesis and the Niementowski quinazoline synthesis.

Was a Polish engineer who was during his lifetime promoted as one of Europe's best-known psychics.[1

Was a Polish engineer who was during his lifetime promoted as one of Europe's best-known psychics.[1] Two notable persons who credited his claims were pioneering French parapsychologist Gustave Geley and Nobel Prize-winning physiologist Charles Richet, who called Ossowiecki "the most positive of psychics."

December 25, 1895 - August 2, 1944) was a Polish general, journalist and the leader of the Armia Kra

December 25, 1895 - August 2, 1944) was a Polish general, journalist and the leader of the Armia Krajowa.

Was a nuclear physicist, specialising in quantum mechanics. Trapped outside Poland when World War I

Was a nuclear physicist, specialising in quantum mechanics. Trapped outside Poland when World War I started, he and his parents ended up in Denmark and spent four years from 1915 there before they returned to their native Poland in 1919 after the war. He received his PhD from the University of Kraków in 1928.He later held an assistant position with Werner Heisenberg in Leipzig between 1929 and 1934 and lectured in Kraków between 1934 and 1938. Due to the rising Antisemitism in Poland he emigrated to Denmark and arrived in Copenhagen in March 1938 where Niels Bohr admitted him to his institute. From 1940, after Hendrik Anthony Kramers (from 1916) and Léon Rosenfeld (from 1934), he was Niels Bohr's personal assistant for almost fifteen years, whom he assisted even into the early sixties after both returned to Copenhagen in 1945.

(January 19, 1893 - c. October 17, 1943) was a Polish politician, economist, writer and statesman, P

(January 19, 1893 - c. October 17, 1943) was a Polish politician, economist, writer and statesman, President of Warsaw before and during the Siege of Warsaw in 1939.

A former Polish American soccer defender. He earned six caps during his career, three with Poland an

A former Polish American soccer defender. He earned six caps during his career, three with Poland and three with the United States.Most sources for Szefer’s early career are in Polish, but they indicate that he played at least one season with Dutch club MVV Maastricht in 1960, scoring two goals.[2] In 1964, he was with Slask Wroclaw.[3] He then played for LKS Lódz from 1966 to 1968.

Was a Polish was a pioneer Polish aviator, as well as an Air Force Major-General and was among the f

Was a Polish was a pioneer Polish aviator, as well as an Air Force Major-General and was among the first to join the new Polish Air Force in 1919.He fought in World War I for Imperial Russia and later, after the Russian revolution, with the counterrevolutionary White Russians.[1]During the Polish Defensive War of 1939, he was staff officer and commander of the Polish Air Forces in the Army Kraków, then in the Army Lublin. He escaped to Romania, later to France and Great Britain. In London he became the Chief Inspector of the Staff of the Polish Air Forces in Great Britain.

Was a Polish explorer of Africa. He was planning to create a Polish colony in Cameroon.Rogozinski wa

Was a Polish explorer of Africa. He was planning to create a Polish colony in Cameroon.Rogozinski was born in Kalisz, Russian partition of Poland. After a career in the Imperial Russian Navy, he organized an expedition to Africa with Klemens Tomczek and Leopold Janikowski. His Cameroon expedition lasted from 1882 to 1884. After his return, in 1895, he joined the Royal Geographical Society. In 1892-1893 he organized an expedition to Egypt.

Was a Polish writer and journalist. He is most fondly remembered for his humorous feuilletons, which

Was a Polish writer and journalist. He is most fondly remembered for his humorous feuilletons, which chronicled the everyday life of Warsaw and cultivated the Warsaw dialect.During the Warsaw Uprising he was cut-off from his house on the other side of the river, in the Old Town. There he collaborated with numerous newspapers published in the Polish-held part of town, notably the Powstaniec. Sharing the fate of the rest of Warsaw's civilians, Wiechecki was forced out of the city after the end of the uprising. However, he returned soon after the town was retaken from the Germans and resumed his duties as a journalist. Some of his humorous stories were published in book form, while others continued to be published by Warsaw-based newspapers.

(1801– 1847) was a Polish poet of the Romantic period.

(1801– 1847) was a Polish poet of the Romantic period.

(3 August 1901 - 28 May 1981) was a Polish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the bi

(3 August 1901 - 28 May 1981) was a Polish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the bishop of Lublin from 1946 to 1948, archbishop of Warsaw and archbishop of Gniezno from 1948 to 1981