Jerzy
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Jerzy (ˈjɛʐɨ) is the Polish
Polish language
Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...

 version of the masculine given name George
George (given name)
George, from the Greek word γεωργός , "farmer" or "earth-worker", which became a name in Greek: Γεώργιος , and Latin: Georgius. The word γεωργός is a compound word, formed by the words ge , "earth", "soil" and ergon , "work"...

. The most common nickname for "Jerzy" is "Jurek" .

People with this given name

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  • Jerzy Andrzejewski
    Jerzy Andrzejewski
    Jerzy Andrzejewski was a prolific Polish author. His novels, Ashes and Diamonds , and Holy Week , have been made into film adaptations by the Oscar-winning Polish director Andrzej Wajda...

  • Jerzy Antczak
    Jerzy Antczak
    Jerzy Antczak is a Polish film director. His film Nights and Days was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and was entered into the 26th Berlin International Film Festival....


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  • Jerzy Bajan
    Jerzy Bajan
    Jerzy Bajan was a prominent Polish sports and military aviator, winner of the Challenge 1934 contest.-Early military career:...

  • Jerzy Bartminski
    Jerzy Bartminski
    Jerzy Bartmiński is a Polish linguist and ethnologist.-Biography:Jerzy Bartminski moved to Lublin in 1956. He studied Polish philology, and in 1971, he earned a PhD degree, focusing his research on the language of folklore...

  • Jerzy Bielecki
    Jerzy Bielecki
    Jerzy Bielecki is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 4748 votes in 6 Lublin district, candidating from Prawo i Sprawiedliwość list.-External links:...

  • Jerzy Bitschan
    Jerzy Bitschan
    Jerzy Bitschan was one of the youngest Polish defenders of Lwów, over which in late 1918 a Polish-Ukrainian conflict ensued....

  • Jerzy Adam Brandhuber
    Jerzy Adam Brandhuber
    Jerzy Adam Brandhuber was a Polish painter and a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp.Brandhuber was born in Kraków, Poland...

  • Jerzy Braun
    Jerzy Braun
    Jerzy Braun was a Polish rower who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics and in the 1936 Summer Olympics....

  • Jerzy Browkin
  • Jerzy Brzęczek
    Jerzy Brzeczek
    Jerzy Józef Brzęczek is a former Polish footballer, who played as a midfielder.In a professional career which spanned nearly twenty years and brought nearly 50 caps with the national team, he played in his country, Austria and Israel.-Club:During his career, Brzęczek played for Raków Częstochowa,...

  • Jerzy Budnik
    Jerzy Budnik
    Jerzy Budnik is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 8396 votes in 26 Gdynia district, candidating from Platforma Obywatelska list.He was also a member of Sejm 1997-2001 and Sejm 2001-2005....

  • Jerzy Bulanow
    Jerzy Bulanow
    Jerzy Bulanow was a Russian-Polish footballer.As a teenager, started playing soccer in Nazdar Moscow, then moved to another local team - MKLS Moscow...

  • Jerzy Buzek
    Jerzy Buzek
    Jerzy Karol Buzek is a Polish engineer, academic lecturer and politician who was the ninth post-Cold War Prime Minister of Poland from 1997 to 2001...


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  • Jerzy Chromik
    Jerzy Chromik
    Jerzy Chromik was a foremost long-distance runner from Poland.-Biography:Chromik took eight national titles at long distances: 3000 m steeplechase , 5000 m , 10,000 m .He participated in three European Championships in Athletics in Bern , Stockholm , Belgrade...

  • Jerzy Konstanty Czartoryski
    Jerzy Konstanty Czartoryski
    Prince Jerzy Konstanty Czartoryski was a Polish noble .Jerzy was married to Marie Čermáková, married on May 2, 1861 in Vienna; his brother-in-law was the painter Jaroslav Čermák....

  • Jerzy Czeszejko-Sochacki
    Jerzy Czeszejko-Sochacki
    Jerzy Czeszejko-Sochacki was a socialist, later communist politician in Poland and an early victim of Stalinist repression. He joined the Polish Socialist Party in 1914, and the Communist Party of Poland in 1921. From 1921-33 he was a member and alternate member of the KPP Central Committee,...


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  • Jerzy Dąbrowski
    Jerzy Dabrowski
    Jerzy Dąbrowski was a Polish aeronautical engineer. He was the lead designer of the famed PZL.37 Łoś medium bomber....

  • Jerzy Drzewiecki
    Jerzy Drzewiecki
    Jerzy Drzewiecki was a Polish aeroplane constructor, an engineer and one of the founders of the RWD construction bureau, along with Rogalski and Wigura. Among his most notable constructions is the RWD-7 aeroplane....

  • Jerzy Duda-Gracz
    Jerzy Duda-Gracz
    'Jerzy Duda-Gracz' was a Polish painter. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków in 1968...

  • Jerzy Dudek
    Jerzy Dudek
    Jerzy Henryk Dudek is a retired Polish footballer who played as a goalkeeper.After beginning his career in his home country, he went on to have successful spells in Netherlands and England, winning the UEFA Champions League with Liverpool in 2005, appearing in 186 official games for the club over...

  • Jerzy Dybał

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  • Jerzy Einhorn
    Jerzy Einhorn
    Jerzy Einhorn was a Polish-born Swedish medical doctor, researcher and politician . His Hebrew name was Chil Josef, after his paternal grandfather....

  • Jerzy Engel
    Jerzy Engel
    Władysław Jerzy Engel was a Polish footballer and coach. Engel began his career in football at an early age playing at local club Junak Wloclawek, before moving to Polonia Warsaw , Hutnik Warszawa and several other clubs.Engel, nicknamed "Jurek", began playing in midfield or attack before, at...


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  • Jerzy Farensbach
  • Jerzy Fedorowicz
    Jerzy Fedorowicz
    Jerzy Feliks Fedorowicz is a Polish actor, theatre director, poet, politician and member of Sejm ....

  • Jerzy Ficowski
    Jerzy Ficowski
    Jerzy Ficowski was a Polish poet, writer and translator .- Biography and works :During the German occupation of Poland in World War II, Ficowski who lived in Włochy near Warsaw was a member of the Polish resistance...

  • Jerzy Detloff Fleming

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  • Jerzy Garpiel
    Jerzy Garpiel
    Jerzy Garpiel is a former Polish handball player who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics.In 1980 he was part of the Polish team which finished seventh in the Olympic tournament. He played five matches and scored eight goals....

  • Jerzy Giedroyc
    Jerzy Giedroyc
    Jerzy Giedroyc was a Polish writer and political activist....

  • Jerzy Giedymin
    Jerzy Giedymin
    Jerzy Giedymin was a philosopher and historian of mathematics and science.-Life:Giedymin, of Polish origin, was born in 1925.He studied at the University of Poznan under Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz...

  • Jerzy Gorgoń
    Jerzy Gorgon
    Jerzy Paweł Gorgoń was a Polish football player who is remembered for his participation in the 1972 Summer Olympics. He was a 6'4" tall defender who became well-known in 1967 while playing for Górnik Zabrze. He helped Zabrze to five consecutive Polish cups in 1968-72.He received 55 international...

  • Jerzy Gosiewski
    Jerzy Gosiewski
    Jerzy Gosiewski is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 3782 votes in 35 Olsztyn district, candidating from Law and Justice list.-External links:...

  • Jerzy Grotowski
    Jerzy Grotowski
    Jerzy Grotowski was a Polish theatre director and innovator of experimental theatre, the "theatre laboratory" and "poor theatre" concepts....


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  • Jerzy Hacek
  • Jerzy Hausner
    Jerzy Hausner
    Jerzy Hausner is a Polish politician and economist. He is a Member of the 4th Sejm of the Republic of Poland....

  • Jerzy Hoffman
    Jerzy Hoffman
    Jerzy Hoffman is a Polish film director and screenwriter. He is the father of early Macintosh development team member Joanna Hoffman.-Selected filmography:*Battle of Warsaw 1920...

  • Jerzy Hryniewski
    Jerzy Hryniewski
    Jerzy Hryniewski was a Polish politician, who is best known for serving as Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile from 18 January to 13 May 1954...


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  • Jerzy Jagielski
    Jerzy Jagielski
    Jerzy Jagielski was a Polish chess master and journalist.He played several times in Warsaw City championships, where tied for 12-13th in 1926, 10-11th in 1930, 5-6th in 1931, 7-8th in 1932, and took 12th in 1934...

  • Jerzy Jan Lerski
    Jerzy Jan Lerski
    Jerzy Jan Lerski Jerzy Jan Lerski Jerzy Jan Lerski (nom de guerre: Jur; also known as George Jan Lerski; was a Polish lawyer, soldier, historian, political scientist and politician...

  • Jerzy Janicki
    Jerzy Janicki
    Jerzy Janicki was a Polish writer, journalist and scriptwriter. Author of many radio auditions, among them most famous is the radio drama Matysiakowie. He wrote many books about Kresy, particularly about the city of Lwów .-External links: , Gazeta Wyborcza, 2007-04-15,...

  • Jerzy Janiszewski
    Jerzy Janiszewski
    Jerzy Janiszewski is a Polish artist, best known for designing the Solidarity logo in 1980.He received a diploma of Gdansk Academy of Fine Arts in 1976. His creations include logotypes, posters, scenogaphies and open-air installations....

  • Jerzy Jarnuszkiewicz
    Jerzy Jarnuszkiewicz
    -See also:**...

  • Jerzy Jazłowiecki
  • Jerzy Jurandot
    Jerzy Jurandot
    Jerzy Jurandot, born Jerzy Glejgewicht , Polish poet, dramatist, satirist and songwriter....

  • Jerzy Jurka, scientist and founder of the Genetic Information Research Institute
    Genetic Information Research Institute
    The Genetic Information Research Institute is a non-profit institution that was founded in 1994 by Jerzy Jurka. The mission of the institute "is to understand biological processes which alter the genetic makeup of different organisms, as a basis for potential gene therapy and genome engineering...

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  • Jerzy Kawalerowicz
  • Jerzy Kaźmirkiewicz
    Jerzy Kazmirkiewicz
    Jerzy Kaźmirkiewicz was a Polish scientist and university professor, a specialist in wood industry at the Warsaw Agricultural University .- Biography :...

  • Jerzy Kenar
    Jerzy Kenar
    Jerzy S. Kenar is a Polish-American sculptor in the United States. Kenar works in wood, bronze as well as in an Acrylic-based composite.Born on January 19, 1948 in the town of Iwonicz-Zdrój, he left Poland permanently in 1973 for Sweden...

  • Jerzy Kiedrowski
  • Jerzy Kirchmayer
    Jerzy Kirchmayer
    Jerzy Maria Kirchmayer was a Polish historian and military commander, a brigadier general of the Polish Army and one of the first historians of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944.-Life:...

  • Jerzy Klempel
    Jerzy Klempel
    Jerzy Klempel is a former Polish handball player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics and in the 1980 Summer Olympics....

  • Jerzy Kłoczowski
  • Jerzy Kloczowski
    Jerzy Kloczowski
    Jerzy Kłoczowski - Polish historian, professor at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, former member of the Polish Senate....

  • Jerzy Knetig
    Jerzy Knetig
    Professor Jerzy Knetig is an opera singer and the Chair of Vocal Studies at in Warsaw, Poland.-Education:Knetig first studied engineering at the Warsaw Polytechnic, where he graduated in 1973. He then went on to study solo singing under Eugenia Szaniawska at the Secondary Music School in Warsaw,...

  • Jerzy Konorski
    Jerzy Konorski
    Jerzy Konorski was a Polish neurophysiologist who further developed the work of Ivan Pavlov by discovering secondary conditioned reflexes and also operant conditioning...

  • Jerzy Kosinski
    Jerzy Kosinski
    Jerzy Kosiński , born Józef Lewinkopf, was an award-winning Polish American novelist, and two-time President of the American Chapter of P.E.N.He was known for various novels, among them The Painted Bird and Being There...

  • Jerzy Kossak
    Jerzy Kossak
    Jerzy Kossak was a Polish realist painter specializing in military scenes; son of painter Wojciech Kossak and grandson of painter Juliusz Kossak — a third-generation artist from a well-known and sought after family of painters, writers and poets.Jerzy Kossak was a prolific painter of mostly...

  • Jerzy Koszla
    Jerzy Koszla
    Jerzy Koszla was a Polish luger who competed during the late 1950s. He won the silver medal in the men's doubles event at the 1958 FIL World Luge Championships in Krynica, Poland....

  • Jerzy Kozdroń
    Jerzy Kozdron
    Jerzy Kozdroń is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 3868 votes in 25 Gdańsk district, candidating from Platforma Obywatelska list.-External links:...

  • Jerzy Kraska
    Jerzy Kraska
    Jerzy Adam Kraska is a former Polish football player.On the national level he played for Poland national team and was a participant at the 1972 Summer Olympics, where his team won the gold medal....

  • Jerzy Kropiwnicki
    Jerzy Kropiwnicki
    Jerzy Janusz Kropiwnicki is a Polish right-wing politician, member of Law and Justice party.He was leader of small party Christian-National Union . He was a president of the city of Łódź from 2002 until 2010...

  • Jerzy Kryszak
    Jerzy Kryszak
    Jerzy Kryszak is a Polish comedian.-References:...

  • Jerzy Kukuczka
    Jerzy Kukuczka
    Jerzy Kukuczka , born in Katowice, Poland, was a Polish alpine and high-altitude climber. On 18 September 1987, he became the second man, after Reinhold Messner, to climb all fourteen eight-thousanders in the world....

  • Jerzy Franciszek Kulczycki
  • Jerzy Kulej
    Jerzy Kulej
    Jerzy Kulej is a retired boxer and politician.He twice won the gold medal in the Light welterweight division Jerzy Kulej (born October 19, 1940 in Częstochowa, Poland) is a retired boxer and politician.He twice won the gold medal in the Light welterweight division Jerzy Kulej (born October 19,...

  • Jerzy Kuryłowicz

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  • Jerzy and Eugenia Latoszyński
    Jerzy and Eugenia Latoszynski
    Jerzy and Eugenia Latoszyński were a Polish husband and wife who saved the life of a Jewish boy named Artur Citryn, during the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Poland in World War II. They were posthumously bestowed the title of the Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem on May 23, 2005...

  • Jerzy Jan Lerski
    Jerzy Jan Lerski
    Jerzy Jan Lerski Jerzy Jan Lerski Jerzy Jan Lerski (nom de guerre: Jur; also known as George Jan Lerski; was a Polish lawyer, soldier, historian, political scientist and politician...

  • Jerzy Leśniak
    Jerzy Lesniak
    Jerzy Leśniak - , is a Polish journalist, author and historian of the city of Nowy Sącz and the whole region of Sądecczyzna...

  • Jerzy Lewi
    Jerzy Lewi
    Jerzy Lewi was a Polish chess master.He won five-times Polish Junior championships in 1965–1969. He took 3rd, behind Anatoly Karpov and Andras Adorjan, at Groningen 1967 . In 1968, he tied for 2nd-5th in Łódź . In 1969, he won in Lublin...

  • Jerzy Linderski
    Jerzy Linderski
    Jerzy Linderski is a Polish contemporary scholar of ancient history and Roman religion and law.Currently George L. Paddison Professor of Latin Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Jerzy Linderski is one of the foremost classical philologists and Roman historians of the...

  • Jerzy Łojek
  • Jerzy Łoś
  • Jerzy Lubomirski
    Jerzy Lubomirski
    - Polish nobility :* Jerzy Sebastian Lubomirski , rebel* Jerzy Dominik Lubomirski , Polish noble* Jerzy Aleksander Lubomirski , Polish noble* Jerzy Ignacy Lubomirski , Polish nobleman...

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  • Jerzy Łukaszewski
  • Jerzy Lukowski
    Jerzy Lukowski
    Jerzy Tadeusz Lukowski is a Polish-British historian at University of Birmingham. He specializes in studies of the 18th century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.- Selected publications :...


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  • Jerzy Maksymiuk
    Jerzy Maksymiuk
    Jerzy Maksymiuk is a Polish orchestra conductor.Maksymiuk studied violin, piano, conducting and composition at the Warsaw Conservatory. In 1964 he won first prize in the Paderewski Piano Composition. Conducting soon became his principal career...

  • Jerzy Makula
    Jerzy Makula
    Jerzy Makula is a Polish pilot who won the FAI World Glider Aerobatic Championships six times.- Glider aerobatics :He was World Glider Aerobatic Champion in 1985, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1993,1999 and 2011. In 1995, 2001, 2003 and 2005 he was World Vice-Champion. In the World Glider Aerobatic...

  • Jerzy Markuszewski
    Jerzy Markuszewski
    Jerzy Markuszewski was a Polish theater director and anti-Communist dissident. Born in Warsaw, Markuszewski was one of the co-signers of Letter of 59, which protested the altering of the Constitution of the People's Republic of Poland in 1975.Markuszewski died in Warsaw, Poland, on 16 October...

  • Jerzy Materna
    Jerzy Materna
    Jerzy Materna is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 5371 votes in 8 Zielona Góra district, candidating from Prawo i Sprawiedliwość list.-External links:...

  • Jerzy Matulewicz
  • Jerzy Matuszkiewicz
    Jerzy Matuszkiewicz
    Jerzy Matuszkiewicz is a Polish jazz musician and composer. He was a pioneer of the post-WWII jazz movement in Poland. Between 1950-58 he was head of the well-known Polish jazz group, Melomani. Throughout 1964 he performed both inside and outside of Poland. In 1965 he began to mainly produce music...

  • Jerzy Melcer
    Jerzy Melcer
    Jerzy Melcer is a former Polish handball player who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics and in the 1976 Summer Olympics....

  • Jerzy Mniszech
    Jerzy Mniszech
    Jerzy Mniszech was a nobleman in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Member of the Mniszchowie family. Krajczy koronny in 1574, castellan of Radom in 1583, voivode of Sandomierz Voivodship in 1590, żupnik ruski, starost of Lwów in 1593, starost of Sambor, Sokal, Sanock, Rohatyn.Father of Marina...

  • Jerzy Montag
    Jerzy Montag
    Jerzy Montag is a German politician of Polish birth. He is a member of the Green Party.After his Abitur in Mannheim in 1966 Montag studied sociology, political science and law in Heidelberg,Mannheim and Munich. Since he passed his second Bar examination in 1975 Montag has worked as a freelancing...

  • Jerzy Myriel

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  • Jerzy Neyman
    Jerzy Neyman
    Jerzy Neyman , born Jerzy Spława-Neyman, was a Polish American mathematician and statistician who spent most of his professional career at the University of California, Berkeley.-Life and career:...

  • Jerzy Niezbrzycki
    Jerzy Niezbrzycki
    Jerzy Niezbrzycki was a captain of the Polish Army, officer of the Polish intelligence service, whose main field of interest was the Soviet Union. He also was the director of the Department "East" of the Second Bureau of the Headquarters of the Polish Army- Early life :Niezbrzycki was born on July...

  • Jerzy Nos
    Jerzy Nos
    Jerzy Nos was a mediaeval Polish and Lithuanian politician. Originally a starost of Drohiczyn and Mielnik, he also held numerous posts in the administration of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Following the battle of Ugra he was made the royal envoy of King Wladyslaw II Jagiello of Poland and became...

  • Jerzy Robert Nowak
    Jerzy Robert Nowak
    Jerzy Robert Nowak is a Polish historian, publicist, and conservative political activist.During the time of the People's Republic of Poland, he was a journalist, employee of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and activist of the Democratic Party between 1981 and 1991.In the years 1970-1976,...

  • Jerzy Nowosielski
    Jerzy Nowosielski
    Jerzy Nowosielski was a Kraków-born Polish painter, graphic artist, scenographer, and illustrator.He was well-known for his religious compositions in the Orthodox Churches in Kraków, Białystok and Jelenia Góra, the Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Cross at Wesoła, the Franciscan Church in the...


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  • Jerzy Onuch
    Jerzy Onuch
    Jerzy Onuch is a contemporary artist and curator. He has been working as an artist since the late 1970s, presenting performance and installation works in Europe and North America...

  • Jerzy Opara
    Jerzy Opara
    Jerzy Janusz Opara is a Polish sprint canoer who competed in the 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the C-2 500 m event at Montreal in 1976....

  • Jerzy Ossoliński
    Jerzy Ossolinski
    Prince Jerzy Ossoliński was a Polish szlachcic, Crown Court Treasurer from 1632, voivode of Sandomierz from 1636, Reichsfürst since 1634, Crown Deputy Chancellor from 1639, Great Crown Chancellor from 1643, starost of Bydgoszcz , Lubomel , Puck and Bolim , magnate, politician and diplomat...

  • Jerzy Owsiak
    Jerzy Owsiak
    Jerzy Owsiak is a Polish journalist and social campaigner.He is a founder and President of the Wielka Orkiestra Świątecznej Pomocy , one of the biggest non-governmental, non-profit, charity organizations in Poland.He is the main initiator and activist for the group's Grand...


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  • Jerzy Pajaczkowski-Dydynski
    Jerzy Pajaczkowski-Dydynski
    Jerzy Casimir Pajaczkowski-Dydynski was thought to be the UK's oldest man at the time of his death at the age of 111 and one of the last surviving veterans of the First World War living in the UK. The army veteran died at a nursing home in Cumbria...

  • Jerzy Passendorfer
    Jerzy Passendorfer
    Jerzy Passendorfer was a Polish film director, specialising in films about the German occupation of Poland in World War II, and member of parliament....

  • Jerzy Pawłowski
  • Jerzy Petersburski
    Jerzy Petersburski
    Jerzy Petersburski was a Polish pianist and composer of popular music, renowned mostly for his Tangos, some of which were milestones in popularization of the musical genre in Poland and are still widely known today, more than half a century after their creation.Jerzy Petersburski was born April...

  • Jerzy Pietrzyk
    Jerzy Pietrzyk
    Jerzy Pietrzyk is a retired Polish sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.He was born in Warsaw and represented the clubs Górnik Zabrze and Gwardia Warszawa. He became European junior champion in 1973...

  • Jerzy Pilch
    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....

  • Jerzy Płaczkiewicz
  • Jerzy Plebański
    Jerzy Plebanski
    Jerzy Franciszek Plebański Rosiński was a Polish theoretical physicist best known for his extensive research into general relativity and supergravity.-Sources:*...

  • Jerzy Pniewski
    Jerzy Pniewski
    Jerzy Pniewski was a Polish physicist.In 1952, he co-discovered the hypernucleus with Marian Danysz. In 1962, he discovered hypernuclear isomery....

  • Jerzy Podbrożny
    Jerzy Podbrozny
    Jerzy Podbrożny is a former Polish football striker, one of the top scorers in Polish football history.Podbrożny led the Polish league in scoring: in 1992 with 20 goals and in 1993 with 25 goals, both times for Lech Poznań. After winning the championship both those years, he transferred to Legia...

  • Jerzy Polaczek
    Jerzy Polaczek
    Jerzy Polaczek is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on 25 September 2005 getting 39,335 votes in the 31st Katowice district as a candidate for the Prawo i Sprawiedliwość list....

  • Jerzy Popiełuszko
  • Jerzy Prokopiuk
    Jerzy Prokopiuk
    Jerzy Prokopiuk is a Polish anthroposophist, gnostic, philosopher, and translator of literature. He has translated into Polish works written by Aldous Huxley, Rudolf Steiner, Carl Gustav Jung, Max Weber and many other authors....


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  • Jerzy Radziwiłł
  • Jerzy Radziwiłł (cardinal)
  • Jerzy Rembas
    Jerzy Rembas
    Jerzy Rembas is a former international motorcycle speedway rider who appeared in the Speedway World Championship finals twice, missing out on a rostrum place after finishing third in the third place run-off to Scott Autrey and Dave Jessup.Rembas rode for Stal Gorzów in Poland from 1971 until his...

  • Jerzy Różycki
    Jerzy Rózycki
    Jerzy Witold Różycki was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who worked at breaking German Enigma-machine ciphers.-Life:Różycki was born in what is now Ukraine, the fourth and youngest child of Zygmunt Różycki, a pharmacist and graduate of Saint Petersburg University, and Wanda, née Benita. ...

  • Jerzy Rubach
    Jerzy Rubach
    Jerzy Jan Rubach is a Polish and American linguist who specializes in phonology. He is a professor of linguistics at the University of Iowa and the University of Warsaw ....

  • Jerzy Rudlicki
    Jerzy Rudlicki
    Rudlicki Jerzy was a Polish aerospace engineer who invented and in 1930 patented the V-tail configuration for aircraft combining the ailerons and elevators in one system. He both worked in the World War I and World War II on aircraft...

  • Jerzy Rybicki
    Jerzy Rybicki
    Jerzy Rybicki is a retired boxer from Poland, who represented his native country at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montréal, Canada...

  • Jerzy Rzedowski
    Jerzy Rzedowski
    Jerzy Rzedowski Rotter is a Mexican botanist. He was born in Lwów, Poland .While he was young he was made prisoner by the Germans. He remained in a concentration camp until World War II finished and he was liberated by the Allies...


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  • Jerzy Samp
    Jerzy Samp
    Jerzy Samp is a Polish writer, publicist and historian of the literature and culture of Pomerania and especially of the Kashubian literature...

  • Jerzy Sarnecki
    Jerzy Sarnecki
    Jerzy Sarnecki is a professor in criminology at Stockholm University, Sweden.Sarnecki was born to Jewish parents in Warsaw, Poland. He is a trained surveyor in Poland and came to Sweden together with his family in 1968, following the 1968 antisemitic purges. He earned a Ph.D. in sociology at...

  • Jerzy Semkow
    Jerzy Semkow
    Jerzy Semkow is a Polish conductor. He has served as music director of the Saint Louis Symphony, principal conductor of the Royal Danish Opera and the Royal Danish Orchestra in Copenhagen, Music Advisor and Principal Conductor of the Rochester Philharmonic, Music Director of the Orchestra of...

  • Jerzy Siemiginowski-Eleuter
    Jerzy Siemiginowski-Eleuter
    Jerzy Eleuter Szymonowicz Siemiginowski was a prominent Polish painter and engraver of the Baroque, court painter of king John III Sobieski and a Polish–Lithuanian noble...

  • Jerzy Skolimowski
    Jerzy Skolimowski
    Jerzy Skolimowski is a Polish film director, screenwriter, dramatist and actor. A graduate of the prestigious National Film School in Łódź, Skolimowski has directed more than twenty films since his 1960 début Oko wykol...

  • Jerzy Skolimowski (rower)
    Jerzy Skolimowski (rower)
    Jerzy Walerian Skolimowski was a Polish rower who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics, in the 1932 Summer Olympics, and in the 1936 Summer Olympics.He was born in Łuków and died in London, Great Britain...

  • Jerzy Smolicz
    Jerzy Smolicz
    Prof. Jerzy Jarosław Smolicz AM was Polish-born sociologist and educationalist acknowledged widely as a major contributor to cultural understanding in Australia....

  • Jerzy Sosnowski
    Jerzy Sosnowski
    Jerzy Ksawery Franciszek Sosnowski was a major of the Second Department of the General Headquarters of the Polish Army and a Polish spy in Weimar Germany , using pseudonyms Georg von Nalecz-Sosnowski and Ritter von Nalecz...

  • Jerzy Stuhr
    Jerzy Stuhr
    Jerzy Stuhr is one of the most popular, influential and versatile Polish actors. He also works as a screenwriter, film director and drama professor...

  • Jerzy Świrski
    Jerzy Swirski
    Jerzy Świrski was a Polish vice admiral and officer in the Russian Navy and Polish Navy....

  • Jerzy Szacki
    Jerzy Szacki
    Jerzy Ryszard Szacki is a Polish sociologist and historian of ideas, and emeritus professor of the University of Warsaw....

  • Jerzy Szczakiel
    Jerzy Szczakiel
    Jerzy Szczakiel is a Speedway rider. He is one of two Polish nationales to win the Speedway World Championship, the other being 2010 Speedway Grand Prix champion Tomasz Gollob....

  • Jerzy Szmajdziński
    Jerzy Szmajdzinski
    Jerzy Andrzej Szmajdziński was a Polish politician who was a Vice-Marshal of Polish Sejm and previously served as Minister of Defence. He was a candidate for President of Poland in the 2010 election....

  • Jerzy Szwajcer
    Jerzy Szwajcer
    Jerzy Szwajcer "Jotys" was a Polish artist. Studied and debuted in Brussels. Contributed to many magazines in Poland and abroad. His work has been published many albums on portrait caricature; one of most famous portrait caricaturists in Poland...


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  • Jerzy Toeplitz
    Jerzy Toeplitz
    Jerzy Toeplitz AO was born in 1909 in Kharkiv . He was educated in Warsaw. After World War II he was the co-founder of the Polish Film School, and later took up an appointment in Australia for the Film and TV School.Between 1948 and 1972 he was Vice-President of the International Film and...

  • Jerzy Tomaszewski
    Jerzy Tomaszewski
    Jerzy Tomaszewski , known as Jur Tomaszewski, was a Polish artist, reporter and photographer.He is known for the 1,000-odd pictures of the Warsaw Uprising that he took in 1944. He was assigned by the Polish underground Bureau of Information and Propaganda to document the battle...

     (disambiguation)
  • Jerzy Tomaszewski (historian)
    Jerzy Tomaszewski (historian)
    Jerzy Tomaszewski is a Polish political scientist and historian. Former employee of the Warsaw University of Life Science, professor of the Warsaw University...

  • Jerzy Tomaszewski (photographer)
  • Jerzy Topolski
    Jerzy Topolski
    Jerzy Topolski was a Polish historian. Professor of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, he wrote over 30 books and hundreds of articles. He specialized in modern history of Poland and Europe, history of historiography and theory and methodology of history....

  • Jerzy Trubczewski
  • Jerzy Trubecki
  • Jerzy Turowicz
    Jerzy Turowicz
    Jerzy Turowicz was a leading Polish Catholic journalist and editor for much of the post-Second World War period.He edited the Catholic weekly Tygodnik Powszechny from 1945 until his death in 1999, with only a three-year interruption beginning in 1953....

  • Jerzy Tyszkiewicz
    Jerzy Tyszkiewicz
    Jerzy Tyszkiewicz was auxiliary bishop of Vilnius from 1627 to 1633, bishop of Samogitia from 1633 to 1649, and bishop of Vilnius from 1649 to 1656.He was born in Vištytis town, to a prominent noble family of Tyszkiewicz ....


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  • Jerzy Urban
    Jerzy Urban
    Jerzy Urban , also known as: Jerzy Kibic, Jan Rem, Klakson born Jerzy Urbach, is a Jewish-Polish journalist, commentator, writer and politician, editor-in-chief of the weekly Nie and owner of the company which owns it, Urma.-Before 1989:Urban was born in Jewish family in Łódź. His father was an...

  • Jerzy Ustupski
    Jerzy Ustupski
    Jerzy Ustupski was a Polish rower who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.He was born in Zakopane and died in Zakopane....


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  • Jerzy Wasowski
    Jerzy Wasowski
    Jerzy Wasowski is a famous Polish composer, pianist, actor and director. He was the creator of Kabaret Starszych Panów with Jeremi Przybora.Many of his songs were popular. He created about 700 songs altogether.-External links:...

  • Jerzy Wenderlich
    Jerzy Wenderlich
    Jerzy Wenderlich is a Polish politician. He was initially elected to Sejm in 1993, representing the Democratic Left Alliance, and was reelected in 1997, 2001, 2005 and 2007....

  • Jerzy Wiatr
    Jerzy Wiatr
    Jerzy Józef Wiatr is a Polish politician, sociologist and political scientist. Professor of the University of Warsaw, Chairman of the European School of Law and Administration rector of a private tetriary education institution in Warsaw. Member of the Polish United Workers Party, he supported the...

  • Jerzy Wilim
    Jerzy Wilim
    Jerzy Antoni Wilim is a retired Polish footballer connected most of time with Szombierki Bytom. He played also for Górnik Zabrze and Stade Rennes. Wilim played 8 times in Poland national football team from 1963 to 1969.-References:...

  • Jerzy Wojnar
    Jerzy Wojnar
    Jerzy Wojnar was a Polish pilot and luger who competed from the mid 1950s to the late 1960s...

  • Jerzy Wołkowicki
  • Jerzy Michał Wołodyjowski
  • Jerzy Wostal
    Jerzy Wostal
    Jerzy Adolf Wostal was a Polish soccer player, one of best forwards of interwar Poland. He was born in 1914 in Königshütte .In the late 1930s Wostal played for AKS Chorzów. The best year in his career was 1937...


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  • Jerzy Zagórski
    Jerzy Zagórski
    Jerzy Zagórski was a Polish poet, essayist and translator. Member of literary group Żagary. Awarded the Righteous Among the Nations together with his wife Maria Zagórska, translator of belles-lettres....

  • Jerzy Zaruba
    Jerzy Zaruba
    Jerzy Zaruba was a Polish graphic artist, stage scenographer and caricaturist; author of satirical drawings, political crèches and illustrations for books and magazines...

  • Jerzy Zathey
    Jerzy Zathey
    Jerzy Krzysztof Stanisław Zathey was a Polish historian of Medieval and Renaissance culture, librarian, manuscripts expert. He was a co-originator of the scientific method of elaborating medieval manuscripts...

  • Jerzy Zawieyski
    Jerzy Zawieyski
    Jerzy Zawieyski, born Henryk Nowicki, was a Polish playwright, prose writer, Catholic political activist and amateur stage actor...

  • Jerzy Zawisza
    Jerzy Zawisza
    Jerzy Zawisza is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 5338 votes in 15 Tarnów district, candidating from Samoobrona Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej list.-External links:...

  • Jerzy Zbaraski
    Jerzy Zbaraski
    Jerzy Zbaraski was a Polish-Lithuanian szlachcic.He was Krajczy of the Crown since 1612, Podczaszy of the Crown since 1619, Castellan of Kraków since 1620 and Starost of Pinsk, sokalski, radohoski. Brother of Krzysztof Zbaraski. Last of the Zbaraski family....

  • Jerzy Zborowski
    Jerzy Zborowski
    Jerzy Eugeniusz Zborowski was born on July 26, 1922 in Warsaw and died in September 1944 in Warsaw, Poland)....

  • Jerzy Zdziechowski
    Jerzy Zdziechowski
    Jerzy Zdziechowski was a Polish politician, economist and economical activist, author of economical works....

  • Jerzy Ziętek
    Jerzy Zietek
    Jerzy Ziętek was a Polish politician and general. A Silesian Insurrectionist in his youth, during the Second World War he joined the Polish armed forces in the U.S.S.R and later became an important politician representing Silesia in the People's Republic of Poland.- Biography :Jerzy Ziętek was...

  • Jerzy Zubrzycki
    Jerzy Zubrzycki
    Prof. Jerzy B. Zubrzycki AO CBE was a Polish-born Australian sociologist, widely regarded as the "Father of Australian Multiculturalism". He was a member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.-External links:*...

  • Jerzy Żurawlew
    Jerzy Zurawlew
    Jerzy Żurawlew was a Polish pianist, conductor, and professor at the Warsaw conservatory. He studied with Aleksander Michałowski, and was a favourite pupil. He was the founder of the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition, at Warsaw in 1927.- Source :*J...

  • Jerzy Żuławski
  • Jerzy Żyszkiewicz
    Jerzy Zyszkiewicz
    Jerzy Żyszkiewicz is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 10527 votes in 3 Wrocław district, candidating from Samoobrona Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej list.-External links:...


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  • Jerzy the Giant, the second album by "The Terrible Twos"
  • Jerzy Ziętek Rondo
    Jerzy Zietek Rondo
    The Rondo Generała Jerzego Ziętka in Katowice is the roundabout in the center of the city, in the Silesian Voivodship in southern Poland. On that main traffic circle, the Aleja Korfantego and the road 79, part of the Drogowa Trasa Średnicowa, meet....

    , a roundabout in Katowice
  • Jerzyce
    Jerzyce
    Jerzyce is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Piotrków Kujawski, within Radziejów County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Piotrków Kujawski, south-west of Radziejów, and south of Toruń.-References:...

    , a village in north-central Poland
  • Jerzyków
    Jerzyków
    Jerzyków is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Męcinka, within Jawor County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. Prior to 1945 it was in Germany.It lies approximately west of Jawor, and west of the regional capital Wrocław....

    , a village in south-western Poland
  • Jerzykowice Małe, a village in south-western Poland
  • Jerzykowice Wielkie
    Jerzykowice Wielkie
    Jerzykowice Wielkie is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Lewin Kłodzki, within Kłodzko County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. Prior to 1945 it was in Germany....

    , a village in in south-western Poland
  • Jerzyska
    Jerzyska
    Jerzyska is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Łochów, within Węgrów County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Łochów, north-west of Węgrów, and north-east of Warsaw....

    , a village in in east-central Poland
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