Menachem Begin

Menachem Begin

male, deceased (1992) (Israel)
buried at the Mount of Olives Warsaw University alumni Former Member of the Knesset Nobel Prize winner belarusian Polish-Jewish
"'"' (August 16, 1913 – March 9, 1992) was a Polish-Jewish head of the Zionist underground group the Irgun, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and the fi... More
Yitzhak Shamir

Yitzhak Shamir

male, 93 years old (Israel)
Former Member of the Knesset Warsaw University alumni politician Member of the Knesset Civil Servant Revisionist Zionist
Shamir first described a meeting he had recently had with a Vermont-based psychoanalyst, the nephew of Israel's first Prime Minister, David... More
Lech Kaczyński

Lech Kaczyński

male, 59 years old
Prawo i Sprawiedliwość politician Warsaw University alumni lawyer Republic of Poland Law and Justice Lech Aleksander Kaczyński
Lech Aleksander Kaczyński, IPA: (born June 18, 1949) is the President of the Republic of Poland and a politician of the conservative party Prawo i S... More
Joseph Rotblat

Joseph Rotblat

male, deceased (2005)
Polish Briton Russell-Einstein Manifesto immigrant to the United Kingdom Warsaw University alumni Jewish person Refugee
Sir Joseph Rotblat, KCMG, CBE, FRS, (4 November, 1908 - 31 August, 2005) was a Polish-born British-naturalised physicist. His work on nuclear... More

Bronisław Geremek

male, 76 years old
Jewish Warsaw University alumni Berele Lewartow Partia Demokratyczna – demokraci.pl Centre for Polish Culture Natolin
Professor Bronisław Geremek (IPA: ,(born Berele Lewartow March 6, 1932 in Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish social historian and politician. He is of J... More
Alfred Tarski

Alfred Tarski

male, deceased (1983)
Polish-American mathematical model University of California, Berkeley Warsaw University alumni model logic
Alfred Tarski (January 14, 1902, Warsaw, Russian-ruled Poland – October 26, 1983, Berkeley, California) was a logician and mathematician who sp... More
Adam Michnik

Adam Michnik

male, 62 years old
Warsaw University alumni Erasmus Prize winner Polish 1968 political crisis Socjaldemokracja Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej shock therapy Flying University
Adam Michnik is the editor-in-chief of Gazeta Wyborcza a major Polish newspaper, where he sometimes writes under the pen-names of Andrzej Zagozda... More
Karol Borsuk

Karol Borsuk

male, deceased (1982)
Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences Erdős number 2 Warsaw University alumni Ph.D. From Warsaw doctorate
Karol Borsuk (May 8, 1905, Warsaw - January 24, 1982, Warsaw) was a Polish mathematician. His main interest was topology. Borsuk introduced the... More

Jacek Kuroń

male, deceased (2004)
historian Member of Polish Sejm 1991-1993 Member of Polish Sejm 1993-1997 Member of Polish Sejm 1997-2001 atheist Solidarity activist … Warsaw University alumni
Jacek Jan Kuroń was a Polish historian, dissident and opposition leader with the Solidarity movement. During his political career he was well k... More
Zygmunt Bauman

Zygmunt Bauman

male, 83 years old
Warsaw University alumni Polish Briton Communist Party of Poland immigrant to the United Kingdom Polish United Workers' Party Sociologist
Zygmunt Bauman is a Polish-born sociologist who, since 1971, has resided in England after being driven there by an anti-Semitic purge organized by... More