Jurek Becker was a Polish-born German writer, screenwriter and East German dissident. His most famous novel is Jacob the Liar, which has been made into two films. He lived in Łódź during World War II for about two years and survived the Holocaust.
Zieliński is the eighth most common surname in Poland, and is also common in other countries in various forms. The first Polish records of the surname date to the 15th century. Without diacritical marks, it is spelled Zielinski. The Russianized form is Zelinsky (Зелинский).
Władysław Jerzy Engel is a Polish former footballer and coach.
Żuławski is a Polish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Jerzy "Jurek" Dybał is a Polish conductor and soloist double-bass. Since 2013, he is the director of the International Krzysztof Penderecki Festival in Zabrze, Poland. Since 2014, he is the director of orchestra at Sinfonietta Cracovia in Kraków.
Kowalewski is a Polish surname. It may refer to:
Jerzy is the Polish version of the masculine given name George. The most common nickname for Jerzy is Jurek, which may also be used as an official first name. Occasionally the nickname Jerzyk may be used, which means "swift" in Polish.
Łuczak is a Polish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Pawłowski is a Polish surname derived from the given name Paweł. In some cases, it is a noble surname derived from villages named Pawłowo. It is ranked about 20th in the list of the most common Polish surnames, with more than 50,000 carriers. It is popular especially in the mid-northern part of the country.
Juraj is a given name used in a number of Slavic languages, including Czech, Slovak, and Croatian. Pronounced "You-rye" but with a trilled r.
Adamski is a Polish surname, it may refer to:
Bielecki is a Polish-language surname. It is related to a number of surnames in other languages.
Dudek is a surname of Slavic-language origin. The Czech/Slovak feminine form is Dudková.
Rogalski is a Polish locational surname, which means a person from Rogal in Poland. The name may refer to:
Szewczyk is a Polish occupational surname, derived from the occupation of szewc ("shoemaker"). It is related to the Czech name Ševčík and Ukrainian surname Shevchik (Шевчик).
Jerzy Kluger was a Polish Jewish businessman who lived in Rome. He was born in 1921 in Kraków and raised in Wadowice where, as a small boy, he met and became a personal friend of Karol Wojtyła, later Archbishop of Kraków and eventually Pope John Paul II.
Kowalik is a Polish surname, a diminutive of Kowal, meaning "smith". Notable people with the surname include:
Danielewicz is a Polish-language surname, of patronymic origin, meaning meaning descendants of Daniel or Danilo. Notable people with this surname include:
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