- Matthew Of Kraków
Matthew of Kraków, was a renowned Polish scholar and preacher of the fourteenth century. - Whitey Krakow
Whitey Krakow or Krakower (d. July 30, 1941) was a New York mobster who, during the 1930s, served as a hitman for Murder Inc.. He was later suspected in the 1939 gangland slaying of Harry "Big Greenie" Greenburg with Frankie Carbo and brother-in-law Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel. Implicated by fellow Murder Inc. members Abe "Kid Twist" Reles and Allie "Tick Tock" Tannenbaum, he was one of the first members of Murder Inc. - Robert Kubica
Robert Kubica is the first Polish Formula One racing driver, driving for BMW Sauber. - Jacek Majchrowski
Jacek Majchrowski is the mayor of the Royal Capital City of Kraków, a lawyer, and a professor at Jagiellonian University. He has written many books about history. He is a member of the Democratic Left Alliance, a major left-wing Polish political party. He was also one of very few prominent Polish politicians (alongside Jacek Kuroń) who openly criticized war in Iraq and Polish participation in the war. - Zbigniew Ziobro
Zbigniew Ziobro is a Polish politician, Minister of Justice and Attorney General since October 2005. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 in the 13th Kraków district, running on the Prawo i Sprawiedliwość list. Zbigniew Ziobro's work has been highly acclaimed. He received over 120,000 votes in the parliamentary election, the highest percentage constituency result on a nationwide scale. - Jan Matejko
Jan Matejko (also known as Jan Mateyko; June 24, 1838, Free City of Kraków; - November 1, 1893, Kraków) was a Polish painter known for paintings of notable historical Polish political and military events. His most famous works include oil on canvas paintings like "Battle of Grunwald", paintings of numerous other battles and court scenes, and a gallery of Polish kings. He is counted among the most famous Polish painters. - Czesław Miłosz
Czesław Miłosz, was a Polish poet, writer, academic, and translator. In 1961 he became a professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley, and in 1980 he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. - Grzegorz Turnau
Grzegorz Turnau is a Polish composer, poet and singer. He was born on July 31 1967 in Kraków, Poland. His first album, recorded in 1991, was "Naprawdę nie dzieje się nic" ("Nothing really happens"). Afterwards, he has had such hits as "Między ciszą a ciszą" ("Between silence and silence") from 1995, among others. His latest album is "Historia pewnej podróży", recorded in 2006. - Adam Zagajewski
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 1981. In 2002 he has moved to Kraków. His poem "Try To Praise The Mutilated World", printed in The New Yorker, became famous after 9/11. He currently is on faculty at The University of Houston Creative Writing Program. - Jan Rokita
Jan Rokita is a Polish liberal-conservative politician, a member of Sejm, the lower chamber of the Polish parliament. He was chairman of the parliamentary club of Platforma Obywatelska ("Civic Platform") from 2003 to 2005. Rokita graduated from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków with a degree in law. He joined a dissident "Wolność i Pokój" (WiP, "Freedom and Peace") organization. - Stanisław Wyspiański
Stanisław Wyspiański was a Polish playwright, poet, painter and architect, as well as a skilful cabinetmaker. Wyspiański was one of the most outstanding and multifaceted artist of his time in Europe. He successfully joined trends of modernism with themes of Polish folk tradition and Romantic history. In a series of stained-glass windows in Franciscan church in Kraków he expressed an enormous dose of his religious devotion. - Marek Grechuta
Marek Grechuta was a Polish singer, songwriter, composer, and lyricist, famous and beloved in Poland throughout his professional musical career. - Krakus
Krakus or Krak or Grakch is the name given to a legendary Polish prince and founder of Kraków, the ruler of the tribe of Lechitians (Poles). Krakus is also credited with building the Wawel Castle. The first record about Krakus, then written as "Grakch", is in the Chronica seu originale regum et principum Poloniae from 1190. Historian J. Banaszkiewicz attributes Krak's name to a pre-Slavic word "krakula", meaning judge's staff. - Bronisław Wildstein
Bronisław Wildstein is a former Polish dissident, journalist, freelance author and, from May 11 2006 to February 28 2007, the CEO of Telewizja Polska, state-owned television. He rose to nationwide prominence in Poland in January and February 2005, after he had smuggled a file of informers and victims of the former communist secret police (Służba Bezpieczeństwa) out of the Institute for National Remembrance (IPN) and then distributed it among fellow journalists. - Józef Tischner
Józef Stanisław Tischner was an eminent Polish priest and philosopher. The first chaplain of the trade union, "Solidarity" (Polish "Solidarność"), he was an exceptional moral authority and one of the most admired figures in Poland, both during and after the anti-communist uprising. Tischner was born in Stary Sącz to a Gorals family and grew up in the village Łopuszna in the south east of Poland. He studied at Jagiellonian University in Kraków. - Jerzy Pilch
Jerzy Pilch is one of the most important contemporary Polish writers and journalists. Critics have compared Pilch's style to Witold Gombrowicz, Milan Kundera, or Bohumil Hrabal. Born and raised in the small town of Wisła in the Beskids in Southern Poland, Pilch studied Polish philology at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and became active in the city's underground literary scene in the late 1970s. He began making his name under the martial law in the 1980s, … - Franciszek Macharski
"His Eminence" Franciszek Cardinal Macharski is a Polish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the Archbishop of Kraków from 1978, succeeding Karol Cardinal Wojtyła to the chair of St. Stanisław, until his resignation in 2005. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1979. - Tadeusz Kantor
Tadeusz Kantor was a Polish painter, assemblage artist, set designer and theatre director. Kantor was well renowned for his revolutionary performances in Poland and abroad. Born in Wielopole Skrzyńskie, Galicia (in what was then Austria-Hungary), Kantor graduated from the Cracow Academy in 1939. During the Nazi occupation of Poland, he founded the Independent Theatre, … - Stanisław August Poniatowski
Stanisław August Poniatowski was the last King and Grand Duke of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1764-95). He was the son of Stanisław Poniatowski, Castellan of Kraków, and Konstancja Czartoryska; brother of Michał Jerzy Poniatowski, primate of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland; and uncle to Prince Józef Poniatowski. - Maria Peszek
Maria Peszek is a Polish actress, singer and songwriter. She was born in Wrocław, Poland into a family of actors. She debuted in a theatrical adaptation of "Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass" in 1995 at Juliusz Słowacki Theatre in Kraków. She graduated from acting school in Kraków in 1996. Since her appearance in "Dom Juan" in 1996 she became associated with Studio Theatre in Warsaw. - Faustyna Kowalska
Maria Faustina Kowalska, commonly known as Saint Faustina, born Helena Kowalska (August 25, 1905, Głogowiec, then in Russian Empire - October 5, 1938, Kraków, Poland) was a Polish nun and mystic, now venerated in the Roman Catholic Church as a saint. - Urszula Radwańska
Urszula Radwańska is a Polish tennis player and a younger sister of Agnieszka Radwańska. Height: 1.73 m, weight: 55 kg, residence: Kraków. In May 2007 she won her first doubles WTA title in Istanbul, playing together with her sister, Agnieszka. On July 8th 2007 she won the Girls Singles Wimbledon Tournament and the Girls Doubles Wimbledon Tournament. - Jan Długosz
Jan Długosz, also known as Joannes, Ioannes or Johannes Longinus or Dlugossius, was a Polish chronicler, diplomat, soldier, and secretary to Bishop Zbigniew Cardinal Oleśnicki of Kraków. He is best known for his "Annales seu cronici incliti regni Poloniae" ("The Annals of Jan Długosz"), covering events in southeastern Europe, but also in Western Europe, from 965 to 1480, the year he died. - Krzysztof Zanussi
Krzysztof Zanussi is a Polish producer and film director. He is a professor of European film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland where he conducts a summer workshop. He is also a professor at the Silesian University in Katowice. Zanussi studied physics at Warsaw University (Uniwersytet Warszawski) and philosophy at the Jagiellonian University (Uniwersytet Jagielloński) in Kraków. - Tadeusz Konwicki
Tadeusz Konwicki (born 1926) is a Polish writer and film director, a member of the Polish Language Council. Konwicki was born June 22, 1926 in Nowa Wilejka near Vilnius, where he spent his early childhood. He spent his adolescence in Vilnius, attending a local gymnasium. Immediately following the outbreak of World War II, Vilnius was occupied by the Soviet Union and subsequently by Nazi Germany, and all education for Poles was discontinued. - Nawojka
Nawojka (1300s - 1400s) was a semi-legendary medieval Polish woman known to have dressed as a boy in order to study in the university at Krakow in the 15th century. She later became a nun. She is considered to be the first female student and teacher in Poland. - Veit Stoss
Veit Stoss was one of the most important sculptors of the late Gothic period. After moving a period, in 1473 he came to Nuremberg where married Barbara Hertz. Also, his eldest son Andreas was born here. In 1477 he renounced his Nuremberg citizenship and went to Kraków, where he stayed until 1496. During the Kraków period he carved the magnificent polychrome wooden Altar of Veit Stoss in St Mary's Church. It was the largest altar of this time. - Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer
Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer was a Polish poet, novelist, playwright, journalist and writer. He was a member of the Young Poland movement. Przerwa-Tetmajer was born in Ludźmierz near the Tatra Mountains in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in ("Podhale"), and died in Warsaw. From 1884-1889 Przerwa-Tetmajer studied classics and philosophy at the Jagiellonian University. He then became a journalist for Kurier Polski. He lived both in the Tatras and in Kraków. - Jerzy Fedorowicz
Jerzy Feliks Fedorowicz is a Polish actor, theatre director, poet, politician and member of Sejm (2005-2009). After graduating from the Academy for the Dramatic Arts in Kraków, he became an actor of Teatr Rozmaitości ("Variety Theatre") in Kraków, Teatr Dramatyczny ("Dramatic Theatre") in Szczecin (1970-1971) and Teatr Stary ("The Old Theatre") in Kraków (1971-1989). - Andrzej Trzaskowski
Andrzej Trzaskowski was a Polish jazz musician. He played the piano as a child and later studied musicology at university in Kraków (to 1957); he also took private lessons in composition and contemporary music theory and was active at the experimental studio of Polish radio. In 1951 he helped to form Melomani, one of the first Polish swing and bop groups. During 1958 he played and recorded with the Jazz Believers, … - Piotr Skarga
Piotr Skarga (February 2, 1536 – September 27, 1612 ; actual name: "Piotr Powęski"; referred to in some English sources as "Peter Skarga") was a Polish Jesuit, preacher, hagiographer, polemicist, and leading figure of the Counter-reformation in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. He was called the "Polish Bossuet" due to his oratorical abilities. Educated at Grójec and Kraków, he began life as a tutor to the family of Andrew Tenczynski, … - Zdzisław Beksiński
Zdzisław Beksiński was a renowned Polish painter, photographer, and fantasy artist. He was born in the town of Sanok, in southern Poland. After studying architecture in Kraków, he returned to Sanok in 1955. Subsequent to this education, he spent several years as a construction site supervisor, which he hated. At that time, he became interested in artistic photography and photomontage, sculpture and painting. He made his sculptures of plaster, metal and wire. - Andrzej Adamczyk
Andrzej Adamczyk is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 1582 votes in 13 Kraków district, candidating from Prawo i Sprawiedliwość list. - Jan Zamoyski
Jan Zamoyski 1542-1605, was a Polish szlachcic, magnate, 1st Ordynat of the Zamosc estate. Royal Secretary from 1566, Lesser Crown Kanclerz (Chancellor) from 1576, Greater Crown Kanclerz from 1578, and Greater Crown Hetman of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1581. General starost of Kraków from 1580 to 1585, starost of Bełz, Międzyrzecze, Krzeszów, Knyszyn and Derpsk. Important advisor to Kings Sigismund II Augustus and Stephen Báthory, … - Wincenty Kadłubek
Blessed Wincenty Kadłubek, also known as Vincent Kadlubek, Vincent Kadlubo, Vincent Kadlubko, Vincent of Kraków, was a thirteenth century Bishop of Cracow and historian of Poland. - Ireneusz Raś
Ireneusz Raś is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 6690 votes in 13 Kraków district, candidating from Platforma Obywatelska list. - Eric P. Kelly
Eric Philbrook Kelly was an American journalist, academic and author of books for young readers, whose book, "The Trumpeter of Krakow", won the Newbery Medal for children's literature in 1929. He was a professor of English at Dartmouth College and a lecturer at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Kelly was born in 1884 in Amesbury, Massachusetts. While a student at Dartmouth College (BA, 1906), Kelly was a member of the French club. - Adam Asnyk
Adam Asnyk, was a Polish poet and dramatist. Born September 11, 1838 in Kalisz to a szlachta family, he was educated for a heir of his family's estate. As such he received education at the Institute of Agriculture and Forestry in Marymont and then the Medical Surgeon School in Warsaw. He continued his studies abroad in Breslau, Paris and Heidelberg. In 1862 he returned to Congress Poland and took part in the January Uprising against Russia. - Stanisław Kot
Stanisław Kot was a Polish scientist and politician, member of the Polish Government in Exile. Born in 1885 in Ruda, Austria-Hungary, Kot studied philosophy at the University of Lwów, obtaining a PhD in 1911. He made several study trips to France, Germany, Sweden and Italy. In 1911 he Married Ida Proksch. In his youth he was an active member of the organization of the Polish Studying Youth (Independent Group), under the Austro-Hungarian regime in the former Galicia. - Roman Polko
Brigadier General Roman Polko is a Polish Army officer, commander of "GROM". Polko graduated from the"Tadeusz Kościuszko Land Forces Military Academy" in Wrocław. He served in a reconnaissance unit in Dziwnowo, then in the "1st Special Regiment" in Lubliniec, as commander of commando groups. From 1992 until 1994 he took part in the UNPROFOR peace mission in former Yugoslavia. In 1994 Polko began to study at the "Academy of National Defence" in Warsaw, …
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