Maria Konopnicka

Maria Konopnicka

female, deceased (1910)
Maria Konopnicka was a Polish poet, novelist, translator and essayist. She sometimes used pen names, often "Jan Sawa." Konopnicka was a...

Ignacy Mościcki

male, deceased (1946)
Ignacy Mościcki was a Polish politician and chemist, president of Poland (1926-1939). Ignacy Mościcki was born December 1, 1867, in Mierzanów (a sma...
Kazimierz Bartel

Kazimierz Bartel

male, deceased (1941)
Kazimierz Bartel was a Polish mathematician and politician who served as Prime Minister of Poland from 1926 to 1930. He was born in Lemberg (Lwów, i...

Stanisław Żółkiewski

male, deceased (1620)
Stanisław Żółkiewski was a Polish nobleman, magnate and military commander. He took part in many military operations both in Poland and on its sout...
Adam Zagajewski

Adam Zagajewski

male, 64 years old
Adam Zagajewski (b. 21 June 1945 in Lwów, Soviet Union (now Lviv, Ukraine)) is a Polish poet, novelist, and essayist. He had lived in Paris since 1...

Stanisław Leszczyński

male, deceased (1766)
Stanisław Leszczyński was King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Duke of Lorraine and count of the empire (bestowed by Emperor Frederick II...

Marian Jaworski

male, 83 years old
Marian Cardinal Jaworski is a Cardinal Priest and Archbishop of Lviv of the Latins in the Roman Catholic Church. Born as son of Wincenty and...
Piotr Skarga

Piotr Skarga

male, deceased (1612)
Piotr Skarga (February 2, 1536 – September 27, 1612 ; actual name: "Piotr Powęski"; referred to in some English sources as "Peter Skarga") was a Pol...
Gabriela Zapolska

Gabriela Zapolska

female, deceased (1921)
Gabriela Zapolska is the pseudonym of the Polish naturalist novelist and actress Maria G. Śnieżko-Błocka. She was born in Podhajce, Austrian Gal...

Józef Olszyna-Wilczyński

male, deceased (1939)
Józef Konstanty Olszyna-Wilczyński was a Polish general and one of the high-ranking commanders of the Polish Army. A veteran of World War I, Po...