Andrzej Jan Lech (born 15 May 1946 in Gdynia) is a former Polish handball player who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics.
In 1972 he was part of the Polish team which finished tenth. He played four matches and scored two goals.
Kolejowy Klub Sportowy Lech Poznań S.A., commonly referred to as KKS Lech Poznań or simply Lech Poznań, is a Polish professional football club based in Poznań and currently competing in the Ekstraklasa, the nation's highest division.
Presidential elections were held in Poland on 8 October 2000. Incumbent President Aleksander Kwaśniewski was easily re-elected in the first round with more than 50% of the vote.
Poland competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 207 competitors, 180 men and 27 women, took part in 116 events in 18 sports.
The Polish Mathematical Society is the main professional society of Polish mathematicians and represents Polish mathematics within the European Mathematical Society (EMS) and the International Mathematical Union (IMU).
Andrzej Mieczysław Juskowiak is a Polish former professional footballer who played as a forward for the Poland national team.
Zbigniew Gut was a Polish football defender who played for the Poland national team in the 1974 FIFA World Cup and the 1972 Summer Olympics. The football club he was with for the longest part of his career was Odra Opole. His other clubs were Iskra Wymiarki, Promień Żary, Lech Poznań, and Red Star FC (1982–1984).
Piotr Mowlik is a Polish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Andrzej Zgutczyński is a Polish former professional footballer who played as a striker.
Andrzej Bohdan Celiński is a Polish politician. Until 1989 activist of the democratic opposition in Poland. Former Member of Senate and Sejm. Minister of Culture in the government of Prime Minister Leszek Miller (2001-2002).
Marek Kazimierz Cieślak is a Polish former speedway rider and current coach.
Lech is a Polish masculine given name. Lech was the name of the legendary founder of Poland. Lech also appears as a surname, with 14,289 people having the name in Poland.
Andrzej Supron is a Polish wrestler who completed for Poland at the 1972 Summer Olympics and the 1976 Summer Olympics. He won a silver medal for Poland at the 1980 Summer Olympics in the 68 kg (lightweight) event.
Andrzej Fidyk is a Polish documentary filmmaker, producer, and professor of the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School in Katowice. He is best known for work his 1989 documentary Defilada, which depicts the mass parades choreographed to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in 1988.
Lech Wałęsa is a Polish statesman, dissident, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who served as the President of Poland between 1990 and 1995. After winning the 1990 election, Wałęsa became the first democratically elected President of Poland since 1926 and the first-ever Polish president elected by popular vote. A shipyard electrician by trade, Wałęsa became the leader of the Solidarity movement, and led a successful pro-democratic effort, which in 1989 ended Communist rule in Poland and ushered in the end of the Cold War.
Prof. Lech Szczucki was a Polish historian of philosophy and culture, particularly noted since the 1960s for his work on the Polish Brethren. He was a professor emeritus of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), Institute of Philosophy and Sociology. A regular member of the Warsaw Scientific Society, a member of the Society for the Promotion and Propagation of Sciences. A former editor of "Archivum", and now on the Program Committee. Prof. Szczucki was awarded the Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science for explaining the cultural ties between Central and Western Europe in a monumental edition of the correspondence of Andrzej Dudycz, the 16th-century thinker, religious reformer and diplomat.
Lech Koziejowski is a Polish fencer. He won a gold medal in the team foil event at the 1972 Summer Olympics and a bronze in the same event at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
Walesa: Man of Hope is a 2013 Polish biopic film directed by Andrzej Wajda, starring Robert Więckiewicz as Lech Wałęsa. Wajda stated at Kraków's Off Plus Camera Film Festival in April 2012 that he foresaw trouble following the film's release. The film was selected as the Polish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards, but was not nominated.
Koszykarski Klub Sportowy Lech Poznań was the professional basketball section of the Polish multi-sports club of Lech Poznań.
Andrzej Lech Kondratiuk was a Polish film director, screenwriter, actor, and cinematographer.