- Martha Stewart
Martha’s public turnaround on fur began this spring, when she responded from jail to a letter from PETA Vice President Dan Mathews , explaining that the fur she famously wore the day of her sentencing was fake. Martha credits her vegetarian daughter, Alexis , who costars in her new show, The Apprentice: Martha Stewart , with making her aware of animal issues. - Zbigniew Brzezinski
Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski (born March 28, 1928, Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish-American political scientist, geostrategist, and statesman who served as United States National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981. Known for his hawkish foreign policy at a time when the Democratic Party was increasingly dovish, he is a foreign policy realist and considered by some to be the Democrats' response to Republican realist Henry Kissinger. - Eddie Blazonczyk
Eddie Blazonczyk is a polka musician and leader of the band The Versatones. Their album "Another Polka Celebration" won the 1986 Grammy in the Polka Category. He was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship in 1998. Before becoming a polka artist, and founding Chicago-based Bel-Aire Records in 1963, Eddie Blazonczyk recorded under the name Eddy Bell for Mercury Records and Lucky Four Records, both labels also based in Chicago. - Jan Karski
Jan Karski, was a Polish World War II resistance fighter and scholar. He visited the Warsaw Ghetto after the summer 1942 deportations. Disguised as a guard, he then managed to enter what he thought was the Bełżec death camp for one day where he witnessed mass murder. In 1942 and 1943 Karski reported to the Polish government in exile and the British and U.S. governments on the situation in Poland, especially the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto and the extermination camps. - Matt Urban
Lieutenant Colonel Matt Louis Urban (August 25, 1919- March 4, 1995) was a U. S. Army officer who served with distinction in World War II. He was belatedly awarded the Medal of Honor, in 1980 for repeated acts of heroism in combat in France and Belgium in 1944. According to the Guiness Book of World Records, he is the most decorated American serviceman (others at "See also" below). Urban was born Matty Louis Urbanowicz, a son of Stanley and Helen Urbanowicz, on August 25, … - Daniel Libeskind
Daniel Libsekind's architectural designs are endless juxtapositions. They honor the historical yet are unapologetically modern. Some view his work, such as the spiral addition to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, as controversial - while others view it as a brilliant representation of modern-day architecture in all its glory. His work harmoniously combines materials, shapes, and structure in a way most thought impossible, improbable, and many would even say, questionable. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer (November 21, 1902 (see notes below) – July 24, 1991) was a Nobel Prize-winning Polish born American writer of both short stories and novels. He wrote in Yiddish. - Barbara Mikulski
Barbara Ann Mikulski (born July 20, 1936), a member of the Democratic Party, is the current Class III United States Senator representing the State of Maryland. The first, and, to date, only, woman elected to represent Maryland in the Senate, she has served as senator since 1987, and is currently the most senior female U.S. Senator. - Casimir Funk
Kazimierz Funk (February 23, 1884 - January 19, 1967), commonly anglicized as Casimir Funk, was a Polish biochemist, generally credited with the first formulation of the concept of Vitamins in 1912, which he called "vital amines" or "vitamines". - Edward Moskal
Edward Moskal (May 21 1924 - March 22 2005) was the outspoken President of the Polish National Alliance and Polish American Congress. - Alfred Korzybski
Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski was born on July 3, 1879 in Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire and died on March 1, 1950, in Lakeville, Connecticut, USA. He is probably best-remembered for developing the theory of general semantics. - Arthur Rubinstein
Arthur (born Artur) Rubinstein KBE (January 28 1887 - December 20 1982) was a Polish-American pianist who is widely considered as one of the greatest piano virtuosos of the 20th Century. He received international acclaim for his performances of Chopin and Brahms and his championing of Spanish music. - Michael Bloomberg
Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born 14 February 1942) is an American businessman, philanthropist, and the founder of Bloomberg L.P., currently serving as the Mayor of New York City. He was a general partner at Salomon Brothers before founding the financial software service company in 1981. Although a lifelong Democrat, he ran on the Republican ballot and was elected mayor in 2001, and was reelected to a second term in 2005. - Rose Marie
Rose Marie (born August 15, 1923) is an actress who had a career as a child star under the name Baby Rose Marie, but is best known for her adult role as "Sally Rogers" on "The Dick Van Dyke Show". Born Rose Marie Mazetta in New York City to Italian-American Frank Mazzetta and Polish-American Stella Gluszcak, she became a performer at the age of three. At five she became a radio star on NBC and made a series of films. - Jan T. Gross
Jan Tomasz Gross (born December 8, 1947 in Warsaw)- an American historian of Polish Jewish origin. He is the Norman B. Tomlinson '16 and '48 Professor of War and Society at Princeton University. He was raised in Poland, and attended Warsaw University. He emigrated to the United States in 1969 after being imprisoned during the March 1968 events. He later earned a Ph.D. in sociology from Yale University, and has taught at Yale, NYU, and Paris, in addition to Princeton. - Daniel Pipes
Daniel Pipes (born September 9, 1949) is an American historian and counter-terrori sm analyst who specializes in the Middle East. He has written or co-written 18 books, maintains a blog, and lectures around the world presenting his analysis of world trends. His work has attracted both admiration and criticism as a result of his view that Islamism is incompatible with democracy, freedom, multiculturalis m, and human rights. - Adam Zamoyski
Count Adam Zamoyski (born January 11, 1949, New York City, United States) is a historian and a member of the ancient Zamoyski family of Polish nobility. Zamoyski was born in New York City but reared in England and educated at Downside School and Queen's College in Oxford. He is Chairman of the Board of the Princes Czartoryski Foundation. On June 16, 2001, in London, England, he married Emma Sergeant. - Helena Rubinstein
Helena Rubinstein (December 25, 1872 Krakau, Austria-Hungary (now Poland) - April 1, 1965 New York, USA) was a Polish-American cosmetics industrialist. She was the founder and eponym of Helena Rubinstein, Incorporated, which made her one of the world's richest women. At the age of 18, she moved to Australia, where she mixed medical formulas and ointments. In 1902, she opened the world's first beauty salon in Melbourne. In 1908, she opened a beauty salon in London, … - Andrew Filipowski
"'Andrew J. "Flip" Filipowski" a Polish American technology entrepreneur born in 1950 in Chicago IL. He is currently the Executive Chairman and CEO of SilkRoad Equity, a private investment firm, and founded Platinum Technology in 1987. He founded or cofounded Blue Rhino Corporation, Primo Water, SilkRoad technology, inc., DBMS, Inc., the House of Blues, SolidSpace, Inc., onramp Branding, MissionMode and InterAct 911 Corp. He was the COO of Cullinet - Tamara de Lempicka
Tamara de Lempicka, noted Art Deco painter, was born Maria Górska in a wealthy family in Warsaw, Poland (then in the Russian Empire). - Bobby Vinton
Bobby Vinton (born April 16, 1935) is an American pop music singer. Born Stanley Robert Vintula, Jr. in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania (near Pittsburgh), he was the only child of a locally popular bandleader, Stan Vinton (Stanley Vintula, Sr.). At 16, Vinton formed his first band, which played clubs around the Pittsburgh area. With the money he earned, Vinton helped finance his college education at Duquesne University, … - Emanuel Ax
Emanuel Ax (born June 8, 1949) is a Jewish-American pianist. Born in Lviv, Ukraine (then a constituent republic of the Soviet Union) to parents Joachim and Hellen Ax, both Nazi concentration camp survivors. Emanuel began to study piano at the age of six and Joachim was his first piano teacher. When he has eight the family moved to Warsaw and then two years later, to Winnipeg, Canada where he continued to study music, … - Jerzy Kosinski
Jerzy Kosinski (orig. Kosiński with Polish diacritic sign; birth name: Josek Lewinkopf was a Polish-American novelist. He is best known for his novels "The Painted Bird" (1965) and "Being There" (1971), which was made into an Oscar-winning movie in 1979. - Chuck Hagel
Charles Timothy "Chuck" Hagel (born October 4, 1946) is the senior United States Senator from Nebraska. A member of the Republican Party, he was first elected in 1996 and was reelected in 2002. He is a potential candidate for the 2008 presidential election. - Marek Jan Chodakiewicz
Marek Jan Chodakiewicz (born in 1962 in Warsaw, Poland) is an American historian specializing in East Central European history of the 19th and 20th century. He earned B.A. degree from the San Francisco State University in 1988, MPhil from Columbia University, and Ph.D. with distinction from Columbia University in 2001. His Ph.D. thesis was titled: "Accommodation and Resistance: A Polish County Krasnik during the Second World War and its Aftermath, 1939-1947". - Max Weber
Max Weber was an American painter who worked in the style of cubism before migrating to Jewish themes towards the end of his life. Born in Białystok, part of Poland belonging to Russia at that time, he immigrated to America with his parents at the age of 10. He studied art at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn under Arthur Wesley Dow. - Leo Gerstenzang
Leo Gerstenzang (?-) was a Polish-American who in 1923 invented the cotton swab or Q-Tips®. His product, which he named "Baby Gays", went on to become the most widely-sold brand name, "Q-tip", where Q stood for quality. There are many anecdotes about how Mr. Gerstenzang came to create this invention. One goes like this: ::"One day in 1923, … - Stan Musial
Stanley Frank Musial, original Stanisław Franciszek Musiał ; nicknamed Stan The Man, Stash, and The Donora Greyhound (born November 21, 1920 in Donora, Pennsylvania), is an American former player in Major League Baseball who played 22 seasons for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1941 to 1963. - Alfred Tarski
Alfred Tarski (January 14, 1902, Warsaw, Russian-ruled Poland – October 26, 1983, Berkeley, California) was a logician and mathematician who spent four decades as a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. A member of the interwar Warsaw School of Mathematics, and active in the USA after 1939, he wrote on topology, geometry, measure theory, mathematical logic, set theory, metamathematics, and above all, model theory, abstract algebra, … - Samuel Goldwyn
Samuel Goldwyn (July 1882 - 31 January 1974) was an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning producer, also a well-known Hollywood motion picture producer and founding contributor of several motion picture studios. - Arthur Szyk
Arthur Szyk (Łódź, Poland, 1894 - New Canaan, Connecticut, September 13, 1951) was a Poland-born American artist, famous for his anti-Axis political illustrations, caricatures, and cartoons during World War II, as well as his illustrations for magazine and newspaper articles and books; including an illustrated Haggadah of Pesach, the Szyk Hagaddah, … - Martha Kostyra
Harriet Martha Ruszowski Kostyra (b. September 16, 1914, in Buffalo, New York) is the mother of American business magnate, author, editor, and homemaking advocate Martha Stewart. Kostyra has occasionally appeared demonstrating recipes on various incarnations of Stewart's television programs. Kostyra was the second child of Polish immigrants, Joseph and Franciska (Albiniak) Ruszowski. - Ralph Modjeski
Ralph Modjeski (born Rudolf Modrzejewski was a Polish-born American engineer who achieved prominence in the United States. He was born in Bochnia, Austrian Empire on January 27, 1861 to Gustav Sinnmayer Modrzejewski and actress Helena Opid Modrzejewska (best-known as "Helena Modjeska"). His father died in 1865 and in 1868 his mother married Count Bożenty Chłapowski. Together they emigrated to America in July 1876, … - Florian Znaniecki
Florian Witold Znaniecki (January 15 1882 - March 23 1958) was a philosopher and a sociologist. He taught and wrote in Poland and the United States. He was the 44th President of the American Sociological Association and the founder of academic sociology studies in Poland. His theoretical and methodological work contributed to the development of Sociology as a distinct academic discipline. - Oskar Halecki
Oskar Halecki (1891 in Vienna - 1973 near New York) Polish historian, social and Catholic activist. As a historian, Halecki was an expert on medieval history of Poland and Lithuania, and history of Byzantine Empire. Halecki was one of the founders of Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America in 1942, its first Executive Director and later its President (1952-1964). - Marcy Kaptur
Marcia Carolyn "Marcy" Kaptur (born June 17, 1946) is the U.S. Representative for the Ninth Congressional District of Ohio, based in Toledo. She is a member of the Democratic Party. Kaptur is currently the longest-serving woman in the House of Representatives. Kaptur, who is of Polish descent, was born in Toledo and graduated from St. Ursula Academy in 1964. - Adam Makowicz
Adam Makowicz (born Adam Matyszkowicz August 18 1940 in Gnojnik, Germany) is a Polish pianist living in Toronto, who plays mostly jazz. Besides playing solo, he has worked with such musicians as Michał Urbaniak and Leszek Możdżer. His technical mastery has been compared to that of Art Tatum and Errol Garner, among others. - Leopold Godowsky
Leopold Godowsky (February 13, 1870-November 21, 1938), was a famed Polish-American pianist, composer, and teacher. He has been described as the "Pianist of Pianists". He became a naturalised American, but was born to Jewish parents in Sozły, near Vilna, in what was then Russian territory but is now part of Lithuania. He considered himself of Polish heritage. As a child, he received some lessons in basic piano playing and music theory; at age fourteen, … - Albert Sabin
<b>Albert Bruce Sabin</b> (August 26, 1906 - March 3, 1993) was a renowned American medical researcher of Jewish and Polish ancestry who is best-known for having developed the hugely successful oral vaccine for polio. Born in 1906 in Białystok, Russia (now Poland), to Jewish parents, he emigrated in 1921 to America with his family. In 1930, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. Sabin received a medical degree from New York University in 1931. - Pola Negri
Pola Negri (3 January, 1897 - August 1, 1987) was a Polish film actress who achieved notoriety as a "femme fatale" in silent films between 1910's and 1930's.
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