Can you think of any famous Polish personalities?

That's as maybe, but other than two of the Warner Brothers, all are Polish born, and as our German 'friend' stated many times, that is was defines your nationality and whether the Polish get to claim that person (or whether the Germans get to steal them)

Anna German
Boguslaw Linda
Maryla Rodowic

The question is who is trying to hide the war?


But it's you who thinks it is necessary to underline the achievements of Germans in the thread about famous Poles. How much more confused can you be. If Germans are such over achievers and geniuses then your roots are certainly not German.


It is you, however, who thinks it is necessary to come to a Polish forum to bash Poles. Could it be that you see yourself personally as inferior and need reassurance once in a while?


German culture? Could you be more specific which "German culture" you mean. I hope you don;t mean the one shown by one professor, Obersturmbannführer SS Bruno Müller, in Cracow on November 6, 1939.

If he is a representative of the German intellect then I can only consider myself lucky my roots are not German.

Special gift form Israel

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Poles

Polish Mexicans:

The Paleta family:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zbigniew_Paleta
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwika_Paleta
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominika_Paleta

Others:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Zabludovsky_%28architect%29

There are more, but I can't be bothered to find them at the moment.

Leszek Balcerowicz

When I was little, I had a couple of pop-up books by Jan Pieńkowski.

Right now, I'm listening to the Blue Aeroplanes, a band from Bristol (that's in the great U of K, by the way). One of their number goes by the name of Wojtek Dmochowski.

a list of Polish people with Polish ancestry (most aren't 100%, but still, they have to count for something):

nndb.com/ancestry/937/000043808/

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Polish_Americans

Monika...

Jane Kaczmarek (the mother in "Malcolm In The Middle")
The fat lady from the "Drew Carey Show"....I believe her name was Mimi on the show

Pope John Paul and of course MEEEEE!

Henryk Gorecki, Krzysztof Penderecki

M-G

Harry Morris (Hirsch/Moses), Albert (Abraham, not Aaron) and Samuel Louis (Schmuel) Warner were all born in the Russian Empire (in the "Russian Pale," now Poland). Eichelbaum was their mother's maiden name. I don't know why it would be said that Harry and Albert were Eichelbaums, even as a middle name. More on the early history of the Warners can be found at

dougsinclairsarchives.com/benjaminwarnerfamily.htm.

This corrects long held beliefs about who in the family came over from Russia/Poland and when.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Poles

What on earth is Copernikus doing on that list, he's German ;)

Where's the map, £uki?

And I am Swede (sic!)

You are certainly a neep, that's for sure ;) Swede you are :)

Richard Kuklinski

Dorota Rabczewska-Majdan

(AKA Doda Elektroda)

Zawisza Czarny

Karen O.. half Polish, completely insane..

Is Zbigniew Zamachowski popular in Poland? I just viewed Zmruż Ochy, and it was a great film. and didn't he work with Kieślowski in Dekalog? The Polish film schools seem to have made some great aktors....any Polish people know what he is working at now?

Yes, he rather is.


Only in the 10th episode. But he was also starring in Kieślowski's Three Colors: White.
After that he made some commercials (probably not even used in Poland) for a Belgian beer company, so he had his "five minutes of fame", but I'm not sure if he's recognized outside of Poland anymore.

And one of my favorite films with Zamachowski is Pułkownik Kwiatkowski (with the leading part of Marek Kondrat).


Well, I usually check projects being in production at this site:
imdb.com/name/nm0952498

olis adebi, spelled phoneticaly of course

well, I have seen Zurek, and the one about 'making a grandson'? Zróbmy sobie wnuke. And of course, White. I don't know Pułkownik Kwiatkowski, how is that translated? I am just fascinated with the guy, he's an 'everyman', I think.

And, can anyone translate for me polkrople, cwierckrople? I tried Polish translation online, to no avail.

ME ! I have been called a famous person for many things

Famous or infamous?

At times both I would say