Pope John Paul II

Pope John Paul II

male, deceased (2005)
anti-communist, Time Magazine Person of the Year, polish, Roman Catholic, pope, Shooting victim…Portuguese language, Croatian language, polishlanguage, korean language, spanish language
Pope John Paul II born (May 18, 1920, Wadowice, Poland – April 2, 2005, Vatican City) reigned as the 264th Pope of the Catholic Church and So...
Bruno Schulz

Bruno Schulz

male, deceased (1942)
assimiliated, Jewish assimilation, death by firearm in Ukraine, Holocaust victim, murdered, polish…polishlanguage
Bruno Schulz (July 12, 1892 - November 19, 1942) was a Polish novelist and painter, widely considered to be one of the greatest Polish prose...
Zbigniew Brzezinski

Zbigniew Brzezinski

male, 81 years old
Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski, Geostrategist, Center for Strategic and International Studies, project for the new american century, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, Republican…polish, polishlanguage, Polish-American
Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski (born March 28, 1928, Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish-American political scientist, geostrategist, and statesman who...
Irena Sendler

Irena Sendler

female, 99 years old
polishlanguage, Catholic, Żegota, Polish Underground, Righteous Among the Nations, helped Jews during the Holocaust…Polish resistance fighter, Polish anti-Holocaust resistance
Irena Sendler (also called "Irena Sendlerowa" in Polish language) (born 15 February 1910 in Warsaw). Polish social worker. During World War II she...
Jan Brzechwa

Jan Brzechwa

male, deceased (1966)
Jan Wiktor Lesman, Polish family of Jewish descent, Polish Jew, Polish-Soviet War, Polish literature, polishlanguage…polish, Polish poet, Polish-Jewish, Polish Society of Authors and Composer
Jan Brzechwa, real name Jan Wiktor Lesman (August 15, 1898 - July 2, 1966) was a Polish poet and author, mostly known for his contribution to...
Frédéric Chopin

Frédéric Chopin

male, deceased (1849)
composer, nocturne, waltz, Romantic music, Romantic composer, ballade…polishlanguage, polish
Frédéric Chopin (Polish: Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin, sometimes "Szopen"; French: Frédéric François Chopin; English surname pronunciation: or ; March...

Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński

male, deceased (1944)
Warsaw University alumni, Związek Harcerstwa Polskiego, writer, polishlanguage, polish, warsaw uprising…Polish Scouts and Guides
Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński - Polish poet and Home Army soldier. Baczyński was born in Warsaw in the family of renowned literary critic Stanisław Bac...
Vytautas The Great

Vytautas The Great

male, deceased (1430)
Grand Duke of Lithuania, German, polishlanguage, polish, Alexander Vitoldus, Witold…Ruthenian language, Lithuanian language
Vytautas the Great (Lithuanian: '; ; Ruthenian: "Vitovt"; Latin: "Alexander Vitoldus"; ca. 1350 - October 27 1430), also known in English by the...
L. L. Zamenhof

L. L. Zamenhof

male, deceased (1917)
esperanto, Esperantist, Bible translator, German, French, Philologist…polishlanguage, polish, spanish language, Constructed language, Lithuanian language
Ludvic Lazarus (Ludwik Lejzer, Ludwik Łazarz) Zamenhof was an eye doctor, philologist, and the initiator of Esperanto, the most widely spoken and s...
Jan Miodek

Jan Miodek

male, 63 years old
linguistics, Wroclaw University, polish, linguist, polishlanguage, from Silesia…Polish Language Council
Jan Miodek, Professor of Wroclaw University, is a linguist in the normative tradition. With numerous television appearances ("Ojczyzna...