Jarosław Aleksander Kaczyński is a Polish politician who served as Prime Minister of Poland in 2006 and 2007 and is currently a leader of the Law and Justice party (PiS) and Deputy Prime Minister of Poland.
Antoni Macierewicz is a Polish politician and the former Minister of National Defence. He previously served as the Minister of Internal Affairs, Head of the Military Counterintelligence Service, and Minister of State in the Ministry of National Defence.
Dagny Juel-Przybyszewska was a Norwegian writer, famous for her liaisons with various prominent artists, and for the dramatic circumstances of her death. She was the model for some of Edvard Munch's paintings. She had relationships with Munch and briefly with Swedish playwright and painter August Strindberg. In 1893, she married the Polish writer Stanisław Przybyszewski. Together they had two children. She was shot dead in a hotel room in Tbilisi, Georgia in 1901, three days before her thirty-fourth birthday.
The Workers' Defense Committee was a Polish civil society group that was established to give aid to prisoners and their families after the June 1976 protests and ensuing government crackdown. KOR was an example of successful social organizing based on specific issues relevant to the public's daily lives. It was a precursor and inspiration for efforts of the Solidarity trade union a few years later.
The Committee for Social Self-Defense KOR or KSS KOR was a Polish civil society group that emerged under the communist rule. It was created in 1977-1978 from the Workers' Defense Committee. It was one of the movements whose activities led to the creation of Solidarity. The KOR was absorbed into Solidarity in 1981.
Ewa Milewicz is a Polish print journalist currently working for Gazeta Wyborcza.
Eva Mozes Kor was a Romanian-born American survivor of the Holocaust. Along with her twin sister Miriam, Kor was subjected to human experimentation under the direction of SS Doctor Josef Mengele at the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland during World War II. Her parents and two older sisters were killed in the gas chambers at Birkenau; only she and Miriam survived.
Gale S. Pollock is a retired United States Army major general who served as the Deputy Surgeon General of the United States Army from October 2006 to March 2007, and also as chief of the Army Nurse Corps. She became acting Surgeon General of the United States Army for nine months following the 20 March 2007 retirement of her predecessor, Kevin C. Kiley, due to fallout from the Walter Reed Army Medical Center neglect scandal. She was the first woman and the first non-physician to hold the position.
Leontyna Aniela Aszpergerowa, known professionally as Aniela Aszpergerowa, was a Polish stage actress who achieved wide fame in Poland and in the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania. She also took part in the January Uprising against Imperial Russia in 1863 and was sent to prison. Her great-grandson was John Gielgud.
Mirosław Chojecki is a Polish publisher and film producer. He was an activist in the democratic anti-communist opposition during the period of the People's Republic of Poland.
Jeannette Chong-Aruldoss is a Singaporean lawyer and politician. She started her political career by joining the opposition Reform Party in 2009, but left in 2011 to join another opposition party, the National Solidarity Party (NSP). During the 2011 general election, she contested as a NSP candidate in Mountbatten SMC but lost to the People's Action Party (PAP) candidate Lim Biow Chuan after getting 41.38% of the vote. From October 2013 to January 2015, she served as the NSP's secretary-general before leaving to join another opposition party, the Singapore People's Party (SPP). She contested in Mountbatten SMC again during the 2015 general election as a SPP candidate, but lost to the PAP's Lim Biow Chuan again, garnering just 28.14% of the vote. She left the SPP in 2019 and was seen accompanying Workers' Party members on a walkabout in Marine Parade GRC.
Aniela Pająkówna was a Polish painter; mostly of portraits. Her daughter was the dramatist Stanisława Przybyszewska.
Maciej Stanisław Rayzacher is a Polish theatre and film actor, writer, voiceover provider, councillor and an activist of the democratic opposition during the times of the communist Polish People's Republic.
Aniela is a Polish feminine given name, cognate with the Greek-derived name Angela. Anielka is a hypocorism of this name. The name Aniela became popular in the 18th century mainly due to the Ursulines. People with these names include:
Jolanta Fraszyńska is a Polish actress in film and theater.
Małgorzata Barbara Niemczyk-Wolska is a Polish volleyball player, coach, and member of the Sejm.
Małgorzata Maria Dzieduszycka-Ziemilska is a Polish publicist, theater critic and the Consul General in Montreal from 1992 to 1996.
Aniela Pawlikowska known as Lela Pawlikowska, was a Polish artist, illustrator, and society portrait painter who came to prominence in the United Kingdom in the 1950s and '60s.
Aniela Kupiec was a Polish Czech poet and public figure from the Trans-Olza region. She wrote her poetry in the Cieszyn Silesian dialect.
Helena Skłodowska-Szalay was a Polish educator, inspector of Warsaw schools, educational activist, and a member of the women's election committee of the Nation-State Union political party. She is known for her memoirs of her sister, Marie Curie, and the school she established for girls in Warsaw.
