Famous Polish people (that we have actually heard of)

VE Day :)

On the flip side, the killed German pilot would not come back flying a new plane, to kill more Brits.

The experience Polish pilots had was from Poland, and I'm pretty sure Poles applied exactly the same "honor code" towards Germans that Germans applied towards them.

why did you put it in past tense?

Something for you to read.

literia.pl/113376,Ksiazki_nauki-spoleczne_Question-of-Honor-The-Forgotten-Polish-Heroes-of-World-War.html - 53k - Kopia - Podobne strony

Don't you ever forget, Pope John Paul II who has made Poland very populat indeed. !

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Historically Famous Polish people

I knew Copurnicus and Chopin were Polish but I just found out Marie Curie was of Polish decent too.

How many more historically famous people are of polish decent?

Marie Curie, is a fascinating Polish woman from Warsaw, Poland. Maria Sklodowska defied the conventions of a woman of her time. She studied Physics and Mathematics at the Sorbonne. Together with her husband made one of the greatest breakthroughs in 20th century science. In 1903, awarded the Nobel Prize for discovering Radium.

The challenge of research, the triumph of achievement and their profound love made it a thrilling pursuit and accomplishment.

I read somewhere that Pierre Curie only married her because she was a genius and he wanted to leach on her ideas. He started helping her and paid her attention only after she did her discovery and was working on her thesis already.

I was watching a legends of jazz program on television yesterday. The drummer in an orchestra was Polish-American, named Gene Krupa. Boy did he do a fantastic job of hitting those drums.

Actor Robert Conrad (aka Konrad Robert Falkowski.)
He was superb in his heyday.

Ahem....again one of those germolish mongrels!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Conrad#Early_life

Looks like this discussion ended a year ago.. too bad, can we resurrect it? :) My company has actually been researching this subject and we started a page on facebook called Polish American Celebs dedicated to featuring PolAms in art, film, literature, sports, business etc. (Of course we will get to the 'basics' like Copernicus and Kosciusko too.) It's an exciting (down time) project... and I would love to get opinions and suggestions from you all! Thanks for reading!

Wyspiański was a painter but he was never an impressionist painter.

Richie Sambora of Bon Jovi is 3/4 Polish.


Would be even more exciting if you spell his name correctly.

Pola Negri
Stephanie Powell (if anybody knows her)
the guy who plays Stephan in the Vampires Diaries (he's reaaaly sweet!)
plenty of others connected to the film industry - and the beginning of film industry in the USA
current ones - ALan Stark I think is his current name in the USA...two times winner for costume design -Schindler's List being one of them? cant remember the second one

as for you, I suggest to start with Stella Walsh, my uni friend's great aunt, disqualified during some athlete thingy in Poland and being taken for a man on many occasions

britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/634342/Stanislawa-Walasiewicz

Kościuszko, is that better.. a typo, I did go to Polish school. (But glad you noticed.) Already have Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, Ed Kowalczyk, Pola Negri, Stephanie Powell, Jane Krakowski, Bonnie Hunt, Christine Baranski, Jane Kaczmarek, Paul Wesley (Wasilewski)--Vampire Diaries and many others. Why don't you check out the FB celeb page? There should be no typos there... ;) And I would love to get some more feedback on our progress!

glamorous Facebook...

:/

I tried but I guess I'm not allowed to post a link... if you go to facebook, you can find the page under: "Polish American Celebs" in the search window.

didnt check those few pages before I answered and you talk to me FB??

I'll have a look if dont have to join the group/whatever
but good luck with the project

Thanks for the invitation but maybe another time.

Thanks.. and not looking for people to join, this is just a fun project (albeit time consuming~there are many famous Polish Americans out there!). My post was also in answer to the initial one here "Famous Polish people - we've actually heard of." (I'm Polish American so that's why I'm personally focusing on famous PolAms.) Just thought folks out there would find our research interesting and would like to offer comments/suggestions! We already have too many listed with photos/bios and how exactly they are 'Polish' to post them all here.

P.S. We have Stella/Stanislawa listed as well, BTW!

In Politics:

Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski is of Polish descent

In Sports:

Sebastian Janikowski
Mariusz Pudzianowski (surprised no one mentioned him, since he's one of the most famous strongmen in history)
Krzysztof Oliwa
Mariusz Czerkawski
Wojtec Wolski

Wayne Gretzky, Ed Olczyk, Bryan Smolinski, James Wisniewski, Lee Stempniak, Mike Komisarek, Travis Zajac, Brian Rafalski, and Daniel Tzaczuk are all of Polish descent.

Maybe all of these people aren't famous, but anyone who follows hockey to some extent should ahve heard of most of these names.

Max Factor?

A Roman Polanski 'Wannabe'.

^ Of course, that would be Andrew Luster, but still. ^ :)

I think, you should think about ur attitude here, i mean ur last entry was only a slightly bit offensive. I cannot find any reference to whever someone called u a nazi or a fuckin bratwurst, so hey, chill, coz otherwise people here cannot have a discussion about the facts but their nationality.

There were actually polonized Germans, it might a bit more difficult to determine whether he was Polish or German. Given the current circumstances i dont we all can be SURE what he was.

Its fair enough u have got ur opinion, but u cannot suggest to ppl that they gotta read more books or are not a good example of the chanuks....i mean WFT? Who r u to judge whether she is a good or a bad example.

Take the chip off ur shoulder and refocus on the fact. No need to comment on ppls background....ansonsten bleibste ne bratwurst,...und bratwuerste koennen nicht denken.

Roman Polanski, a film director

Juliette Binoche, polish-french (honored citizen of Częstochowa)
Jane Krakowski, "Ally McBeal" - polish father
Matt Pokora, french-polish
Jerry Springer, parents from Szczecinek
Ivonne Strachovsky, "Chuck", "The killer elite"
Jared Padalecki, "Supernatural"
Jesse Eisenberg, "The Social Network" , parents polish jew - both from Szczecin

and of course Chuck Norris :P

jerry is a former brit and his folks were from germany

what city exacly??

Angela Merkel. Quarter Polish.

Neustettin, which is now in Poland and called Szczecinek. His family immigrated before it became Polish, so it would be deceptive to say that he has any connection with Poland.

Rather not... but Charles Bronson was Polish.