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Aleksander Kazimierz Sapieha

Aleksander Kazimierz Sapieha (1624-1671) was a Polish nobleman and bishop of Samogitia since 1660 and Wilno since 1667.

Andrzej Garbuliński

Andrzej Garbuliński was a Polish farmer who lived in the village of Czerna with his family: Władysław, Eleonora,Marian,Helena, Kunegunda,Stanisław, Kazimierz, Jan and two wives Zofia and Kazimiera during the Nazi German occupation of Poland in World War II.

Andrzej Popiel

He is a son of Kazimierz Popiel and Anna Latinik, a grandson of Polish Army general Franciszek Latinik.

Antoni Gawryłkiewicz

During World War II, 18-year-old Gawryłkiewicz lived in the village of Korkuciany in Eastern Poland where he worked as laborer on a farm of Kazimierz Korkucz and his mother.

Avishay Hadari

During the 16th Jewish Culture Festival in July 2006, Hadari staged The Dybbuk as a dramatic séance at the Izaak Synagogue in Kazimierz, Cracow.

Biała Prudnicka

Some of the villages founded by settlers from Bela include Gościęcin (original German name: Kostenthal), founded in 1225, and Kazimierz (original German name: Kasimir bei Oberglogau), founded in 1240.

Culture of medieval Poland

Gothic secular buildings such as city halls also became numerous, for example in the new towns of Kazimierz and Wiślica.

Galeria Kazimierz

Galeria Kazimierz is a large shopping center located in the Grzegórzki borough of Kraków.

Jan Czyński

Jan Kazimierz Czyński (1801-1867) was a Polish independence activist, lawyer by education, writer and publicist, a life-time fighter for the emancipation of the Jews, trade supporter, utopian socialist, radical democrat.

Jan Kazimierz Wilczyński

Jan Kazimierz Wilczyński was born in Jasonys near Utena.

Jerzy Pajaczkowski-Dydynski

Jerzy Kazimierz Pajączkowski-Dydyński (Lwów, Austro-Hungary, (now the Ukraine), July 19, 1894 - Boarbank Hall, Grange-over-Sands, England, December 6, 2005) was Polish veteran of World War I and 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.

Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music

Piano: Tadeusz Żmudziński, Lidia Grychtołówna, Józef Stompel, Andrzej Jasiński, Kazimierz Morski, Wiesław Szlachta, Monika Sikorska-Wojtacha, Jerzy Sterczyński, Krystian Zimerman, Joanna Domańska, Krzysztof Jabłoński, Magdalena Lisak, Zbigniew Raubo, Anna Górecka, Wojciech Świtała, Beata Bilińska, Barbara Karaśkiewicz, Przemysław Lechowski, Szczepan Kończal

Kazimierz Boratyński

Kazimierz Boratyński (born July 30, 1906 in Gródek - December 8, 1991 in Wrocław) was a Polish chemist.

Kazimierz Czartoryski

Prince Kazimierz Czartoryski (4 March 1674 – 31 August 1741) was a Polish nobleman, Duke of Klewań and Żuków.

Kazimierz Gilarski

Brigadier General Kazimierz Gilarski (May 7, 1955 in Rudołowice – April 10, 2010 in Smolensk) was a Polish military figure, Commander of the Warsaw Garrison.

Kazimierz J. Kasperek

Kazimierz J. Kasperek ("Kazik") is veteran from the Polish Navy who was fighting during World War II.

Kazimierz Kmiecik

Kazimierz Kmiecik (born 19 September 1951 in Węgrzce Wielkie) is a retired Polish footballer who played almost all his career for Wisła Kraków, where he played 304 league matches and scored 153 goals.

Kazimierz Kordylewski

Kazimierz Kordylewski (b. 11 October 1903 in Posen - 11 March 1981 in Kraków, Poland) was a Polish astronomer.

Kazimierz Leski

Kazimierz Leski, nom de guerre Bradl (21 June 1912 — 27 May 2000), was a Polish engineer, co-designer of the Polish submarines ORP Sęp and ORP Orzeł, a fighter pilot, and an officer in World War II Home Army's intelligence and counter-intelligence.

Kazimierz Mastalerz

Kazimierz Władysław Mastalerz (20 November 1894 in Czeladz or Sosnowiec – 1 September 1939 at Krojanty) was a Polish military commander of the 18th Pomeranian Cavalry Regiment.

Kazimierz Orlik-Łukoski

He was born Kazimierz Łukoski in 1890, in the village of Sokół near Garwolin, in the Siedlce Governorate of the Russian Empire (in the Masovian Voivodeship of present-day Poland).

Kazimierz Pietkiewicz

Kazimierz Pietkiewicz (born 1861 - October 30, 1934 in Anin) was a Polish socialist and independence activist.

Kazimierz Tyszka

Kazimierz Tyszka (1872 Kalisz, Poland – 1952 London, UK) was the Polish Minister of Railways from 1923-25 under Władysław Grabski's government.

Kazimierz Waliszewski

Kazimierz Klemens Waliszewski (1849–1935) was a Polish author of history, who studied in Warsaw and Paris, and wrote primarily about Russian history.

Kosiv

Here, in 1911, one of the first units of the Polish Scouting and Guiding Association was created by Kazimierz and Witold Lutoslawski, and Olga Drohnowska.

Krzysztof Korwin Gosiewski

In 30 March, together with Jan Kazimierz he left the Bourbons’ capital.

Kupa Synagogue

It is located in the former Jewish quarter of Kazimierz developed from a neighborhood earmarked in 1495 by King Jan I Olbracht for the Jewish community, which has been transferred from the budding Old Town.

Museum of Polish History

The museum council includes Jolanta Choińska–Mika, Andrzej ChwalbaAndrzej Friszke, Rafał Habielski, Adolf Juzwenko, Marek Kraszewski, Krzysztof Mikulski, Andrzej Paczkowski, Kazimierz Przybysz, Wojciech Roszkowski, Andrzej Rottermund, Paweł ŚpiewakHenryk Samsonowicz, Wojciech Tygielski, and Zofia Zielińska.

Ostroh

Among people born in the town are actress Anna Ciepielewska, pilot Boleslaw Drobinski of the No. 303 Polish Fighter Squadron, Polish Army general Kazimierz Kardaszewicz, Polish senator Boguslaw Litwiniec, film and theatre actress Miroslawa Lombardo, and painter Wlodzimierz Tiunin.

Philip Czaplowski

Performers of Philip's music include the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, the New York Miniaturist Ensemble, Orquestra Antunes Câmara, Australia Pro Arte, the Canberra Wind Soloists, the Chamber Strings of Melbourne, Geelong Chamber Orchestra, the Australian Chamber Soloists, Australia Felix, the Monash Festival Orchestra, Kazimierz Dawidek, Harry Sparnaay, Prue Davis, James Strauss, Jeffrey Crellin, Carla Rees, and many of Australia’s leading musicians.

Provisional Council of State

Members of the Council were Józef Brudziński, Stanisław Bukowiecki, Stanisław Dzierzbicki, Ludwik Górski, Józef Higersberger, Marian Januszajtis-Żegota, Kazimierz Natanson, Józef Piłsudski, Franciszek Pius Radziwiłł, Wojciech Rostworowski, Eustachy Sapieha, Stanisław Chaniewski, Stanisław Staniszewski, Władysław Studnicki, Artur Śliwiński.

Pulaski Park

Pulaski Park refers to a number of places named after Casimir Pulaski (Kazimierz Pułaski), a Polish military commander and American Revolutionary War hero.

Sianowo

His and many other testimonies led Chełmno Kazimierz Bishop Józef Kowalski to address a request (1965) to Pope Paul VI to crown the miraculous statue as the Queen of the Kashubs.

Wojciech Siudmak

Wojciech Kazimierz "Wojtek" Siudmak (born 10 October 1942 in Wieluń) is a Polish painter, currently living in France.

Żarnowiec, Silesian Voivodeship

In 1355-56, Kazimierz Wielki imprisoned at Żarnowiec Castle his wife Adelaide of Hesse.


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