List of Famous people born in Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

Jarosław Kaczyński

Jarosław Aleksander Kaczyński
First Name Jarosław
Born on June 18, 1949 (age 76)

Jarosław Aleksander Kaczyński is a Polish politician and lawyer who is currently serving as leader of the Law and Justice party, which he co-founded in 2001 with his twin brother, Lech Kaczyński, who served as president of Poland until his death in 2010.

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Joseph Jastrow

First Name Joseph
Last Name Jastrow
Born on January 30, 1863
Died on January 8, 1944 (aged 80)

Joseph Jastrow was a Polish-born American psychologist, noted for inventions in experimental psychology, design of experiments, and psychophysics. He also worked on the phenomena of optical illusions, and a number of well-known optical illusions were either discovered or popularized in his work. Jastrow believed that everyone had their own, often incorrect, preconceptions about psychology. One of his goals was to use the scientific method to identify truth from error, and educate the layperson, which he did through speaking tours, popular print media, and radio.

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Krystyna Skarbek

Maria Krystyna Janina Skarbek
First Name Krystyna
Born on May 1, 1908
Died on June 15, 1952 (aged 44)
Spy

Maria Krystyna Janina Skarbek,, also known as Christine Granville, was a Polish agent of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War. She became celebrated for her daring exploits in intelligence and irregular-warfare missions in Nazi-occupied Poland and France. Journalist Alistair Horne, who described himself in 2012 as one of the few people still alive who had known Skarbek, described her as the "bravest of the brave." Spymaster Vera Atkins of the SOE described Skarbek as "very brave, very attractive, but a loner and a law unto herself."

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Tomasz Świątek

First Name Tomasz
Born on July 26, 1964 (age 61)

Tomasz Świątek is a Polish rower. He competed in the men's quadruple sculls event at the 1988 Summer Olympics, in which Poland won the "B" Final to finish seventh overall.

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Mary Fairfax

Marie Wein
First Name Mary
Last Name Fairfax
Born on August 15, 1922
Died on September 17, 2017 (aged 95)

Mary Elizabeth Fairfax, was a Polish-born Australian businesswoman and philanthropist. As the third wife of wealthy media proprietor Sir Warwick Fairfax, she became known as Lady Fairfax upon his knighthood in 1967. She inherited most of his vast fortune upon his death in January 1987, becoming one of Australia's richest women.

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Zbigniew Religa

First Name Zbigniew
Born on December 16, 1938
Died on March 8, 2009 (aged 70)

Zbigniew Eugeniusz Religa was a prominent Polish cardiac surgeon and politician.

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Tadeusz Pietrzykowski

First Name Tadeusz
Born on April 8, 1917
Died on April 17, 1991 (aged 74)

Tadeusz Pietrzykowski was a Polish boxer, a Polish Armed Forces soldier, and a prisoner at the Auschwitz-Birkenau and Neuengamme concentration camps run by the Nazis during World War II. He was part of the first mass transport to Auschwitz in June 1940, and was transferred to Neuengamme in 1943. He is remembered as the boxing champion of Auschwitz. Pietrzykowski's life story has been the subject of several books and movies.

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Paweł Pawlikowski

First Name Paweł
Born on September 15, 1957 (age 68)

Paweł Aleksander Pawlikowski is a Polish filmmaker, who has lived and worked most of his life in the United Kingdom. He garnered acclaim for a string of award-winning documentaries in the 1990s and for his feature films Last Resort and My Summer of Love, both of which won a BAFTA and many other European awards. His film Ida won the 2015 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. At the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, Pawlikowski won the Best Director prize for his 2018 film Cold War, a film which also earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director and Best Foreign Language Film.

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Tomasz Stankiewicz

First Name Tomasz
Born on December 28, 1902
Died on June 21, 1940 (aged 37)
Height 186 cm | 6'1

Tomasz Stankiewicz was a Polish track cyclist who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. He was born in Warsaw and died in Palmiry, executed by Nazis.

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Karolina Styczynska

First Name Karolina
Born on August 28, 1991 (age 34)

Karolina Fortin is a Polish women's professional shogi player. She is the first non-Japanese to be awarded professional status by the Japan Shogi Association.

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