Witold (given name)
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Witold is a male given name used mostly in Poland.
It may refer to:
It may refer to:
- Vytautas the GreatVytautas the GreatVytautas ; styled "the Great" from the 15th century onwards; c. 1350 October 27, 1430) was one of the most famous rulers of medieval Lithuania. Vytautas was the ruler of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania which chiefly encompassed the Lithuanians and Ruthenians...
(1350–1430), ruler of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1392 to 1430 - Witold BaranWitold BaranWitold Stanisław Baran is a retired middle distance champion runner from Poland.-References:* *...
(born 1939), Polish middle distance runner - Witold GombrowiczWitold GombrowiczWitold Marian Gombrowicz was a Polish novelist and dramatist. His works are characterized by deep psychological analysis, a certain sense of paradox and an absurd, anti-nationalist flavor...
(1904–1969), Polish novelist and dramatist - Witold HurewiczWitold HurewiczWitold Hurewicz was a Polish mathematician.- Early life and education :Witold Hurewicz was born to a Jewish family in Łódź, Russian Empire ....
(1904–1956), Polish mathematician - Witold Lutosławski (1913–1994), Polish composer
- Witold Małcużyński (1914–1977), Polish pianist
- Witold PileckiWitold PileckiWitold Pilecki was a soldier of the Second Polish Republic, the founder of the Secret Polish Army resistance group and a member of the Home Army...
(1901–1948), founder of the Secret Polish Army (Tajna Armia Polska) - Witold PruszkowskiWitold PruszkowskiWitold Pruszkowski was a Polish painter and draughtsman.Pruszkowski lived his youth in Odessa and Kiev. He later went to Paris where he served an apprenticeship under the renowned portrait painter Tadeusz Gorecki. He continued his studies in Munich and then Kraków under Jan Matejko...
(1846–1896), Polish painter - Witold RybczynskiWitold RybczynskiWitold Rybczynski , is a Canadian-American architect, professor and writer.Rybczynski was born in Edinburgh of Polish parentage and raised in Surrey, England before moving at a young age to Canada. He attended Loyola High School , located on Sherbrooke street, in Montreal-Ouest...
(born 1943), professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania - Witold TomczakWitold TomczakWitold Tomczak is a right-wing Polish politician, currently a member of the European Parliament.Before his political career, Tomczak worked as a physician He graduated from the Medical University of Silesia in Katowice in 1987 and specialized in general medicine...
(born 1957), Polish Member of the European Parliament - Witold WojtkiewiczWitold WojtkiewiczWitold Wojtkiewicz was a Polish neoromantic painter. He started his education at the Warsaw School of Drawing in 1898 and continued at the Academy in Kraków. His original and inventive work anticipated Polish Expressionism. Wojtkiewicz often employed grotesque motifs and irony in his work...
(1879–1909), Polish painter