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Mike Wozniak
Mike Wozniak is a British comedian, writer, and actor. Raised in Portsmouth, he is best known for portraying Brian in the Channel 4 sitcom Man Down and as a member of the team that make Small Scenes for BBC Radio 4.
Steve Wozniak
Stephen Gary Wozniak, also known by his nickname "Woz", is an American electronics engineer, programmer, philanthropist, and technology entrepreneur. In 1976, he co-founded Apple Inc. with business partner Steve Jobs, which later became the world's largest information technology company by revenue and the largest company in the world by market capitalization. Through their work at Apple in the 1970s and 1980s, he and Jobs are widely recognized as two prominent pioneers of the personal computer revolution.
Paul Ziemiak
Paul Ziemiak is a German politician of the CDU who has been serving as Secretary General of his party since 8 December 2018, under the leadership of chairwoman Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer. He is a member of the Bundestag.
Gary Kubiak
Gary Wayne Kubiak is a former American football coach and quarterback. He served as head coach for the NFL's Houston Texans from 2006 to 2013 and of the Denver Broncos in 2015 and 2016 before stepping down from the position on January 1, 2017, citing health reasons. Earlier in his coaching career, he served as an assistant coach for the Broncos, Texas A&M University and San Francisco 49ers. He was also the offensive coordinator for the Baltimore Ravens in 2014. He last served as the assistant head coach and offensive coordinator for the Minnesota Vikings in 2020.
Penny Oleksiak
Penelope Oleksiak is a Canadian-American competitive swimmer who specializes in the freestyle and butterfly events. During the 2016 Summer Olympics, she became the first Canadian to win four medals in the same Summer Games and the country's youngest Olympic champion, with a gold in the 100 m freestyle, a silver in the 100 m butterfly, and two bronzes in the women's freestyle relays. With her gold medal win, she became the first athlete born in the 2000s to claim an Olympic gold medal in an individual event.
Wally Szczerbiak
Walter Robert Szczerbiak is a Spanish-born American former basketball player and current color analyst for the New York Knicks on MSG Network. He played 10 seasons for four teams in the National Basketball Association, and was named an NBA All-Star during the 2001/02 season. He played college basketball for Miami University, and is one of five players to have his Miami jersey retired.
Grzegorz Krychowiak
Grzegorz Krychowiak is a Polish professional footballer who plays for Lokomotiv Moscow and the Poland national team as a defensive midfielder.
Olena Shuliak
Olena Oleksiivna Shuliak is a Ukrainian politician and entrepreneur. She heads of the Servant of the People political party. Shuliak was elected to the Verkhovna Rada in 2019.
Erika Eleniak
Erika Eleniak is an American actress, Playboy Playmate, and former model best known for her role in Baywatch as Shauni McClain. Her film debut was a small part in E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982). She later starred in the films The Blob (1988), Under Siege (1992), and The Beverly Hillbillies (1993).
Jamie Oleksiak
Jamieson Oleksiak is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing for the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League (NHL). Nicknamed the "Big Rig", Oleksiak was selected 14th overall in the first round of the 2011 NHL Entry Draft by the Stars, the highest draft choice in Northeastern University's history.
Mel Fronckowiak
Melanie "Mel" Nunes Fronckowiak is a Brazilian actress, writer, and TV host. Fronckowiak became known after starring in several advertising and TV commercials while working as a model in Sao Paulo, at the Ford Models agency, which led her to participate in the Brazilian youth soap opera Rebeldes, playing the character of Carla. In 2013, Fronckowiak launched herself as a writer. In her first book, Inclassíficavel: Memórias da Estrada, she tells the experiences she lived traveling around forty Brazilian cities with the band Rebeldes.
Daniel Wozniak
Daniel Patrick Wozniak is a former American community theatre actor who was convicted of killing two people in September 2016. In May 2010, Wozniak murdered his neighbor and friend, PFC Samuel Eliezer "Sam" Herr and Herr's friend, Juri "Julie" Kibuishi, as part of a plan to frame Herr for Kibuishi’s murder and steal his savings. Wozniak was deeply in debt and wanted money to finance his upcoming wedding and honeymoon. Wozniak and his then-fiancée, Rachel Mae Buffett, lived in the same apartment complex as Herr in Costa Mesa, California.
Sergei Ursuliak
Sergei Vladimirovich Ursuliak is a Russian filmmaker, screenwriter and actor, TV presenter.
Kyle Bochniak
Kyle Bochniak is an American mixed martial artist currently competing in the Featherweight division. A professional competitor since 2014, he has competed in the Ultimate Fighting Championship and CES MMA.
Evhen Cherniak
Evgeny Chernyak is a businessman, listed on Forbes TOP-100, head of the supervisory board of the holding Global Spirits, owner of the brand Khortytsia.
Ludovic Obraniak
Ludovic Joseph Obraniak is a French manager and former footballer of Polish descent. He primarily played as an attacking midfielder. He represented the Poland national team. He was appointed to his first head coach position, with French Championnat National 3 side Le Touquet in June 2021.
Skye McCole Bartusiak
Skye McCole Bartusiak was an American child actress and child model. She appeared in The Patriot (2000), Don't Say a Word (2001), as Rose Wilder in Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder (2002), 24 (2002–03), Boogeyman (2005), and Kill Your Darlings (2006).
Tom Lysiak
Thomas James Lysiak was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. Selected in the first round, second overall, of the 1973 NHL Amateur Draft by the Atlanta Flames, he was additionally selected by the Houston Aeros in the second round of the 1973 WHA Amateur Draft at 23rd overall.
Ján Kuciak
Ján Kuciak was a Slovak investigative journalist. Kuciak worked as a reporter for the news website Aktuality.sk, focused mainly on investigating tax fraud of several businessmen with connections to top-level Slovak politicians. He and his fiancée, Martina Kušnírová, were shot dead in February 2018 in their home in Veľká Mača, Galanta District, Slovakia.
Vladislav Tretiak
Vladislav Aleksandrovich Tretiak, MSM is a Russian former goaltender for the Soviet Union national ice hockey team. Considered to be one of the greatest goaltenders in the history of the sport, he was voted one of six players to the International Ice Hockey Federation's (IIHF) Centennial All-Star Team in a poll conducted by a group of 56 experts from 16 countries. He is the current president of the Ice Hockey Federation of Russia and was the general manager of the Russian 2010 Winter Olympic team.
Chloe Lukasiak
Chloe Elizabeth Lukasiak is an American actress, dancer, author, model, producer and reality television personality. She is best known for being an original cast member of Lifetime's reality television series Dance Moms during Season 1 through Season 4. She returned as a guest during the Season 7A finale and had a recurring role in Season 7B.
Lindsay Czarniak
Lindsay Ann Czarniak, is an American sports anchor and reporter. She currently works for Fox Sports as a studio host for NASCAR coverage and a sideline reporter for NFL games. After spending six years with WRC-TV, the NBC owned-and-operated station in Washington, D.C., Czarniak joined ESPN as a SportsCenter anchor in August 2011 and left ESPN in 2017.
Hilde Lysiak
Hilde Kate Lysiak is an American journalist who publishes the Orange Street News, a local newspaper in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania from 2014 to 2019 and in Patagonia, Arizona since 2019. She is the youngest member of the Society of Professional Journalists. She has a book series with Scholastic and a TV mystery series inspired by her life, titled Home Before Dark, premiered on Apple TV+ in April 2020, with Brooklynn Prince playing Lysiak. On May 10, 2019, Lysiak became possibly the youngest person in U.S. history to deliver a college commencement speech when she addressed the graduating class at West Virginia University's Reed College of Media. Lysiak was awarded a Junior Zenger Award for Press Freedom in 2019, given to a journalist who fights for freedom of the press and the people's right to know.
Daniel Wozniak
Daniel Wozniak is a paralympic athlete from Poland competing mainly in category T12 sprint events. Wozniak has competed in the sprints at three paralympics starting in 2000. In 2000 he competed in all three sprint events winning the silver medal in the 400m, at the following games in 2004 he again competed in all three sprints but failed to win any medals. In Beijing in the 2008 he competed in the 200m and 400m but again was unable to add to his medal tally.
Mickey Moniak
McKenzie Matthew "Mickey" Moniak is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball (MLB). Moniak was selected by the Phillies with the first overall pick of the 2016 MLB draft.
Roger Walkowiak
Roger Walkowiak was a French road bicycle racer who won the 1956 Tour de France. He was a professional rider from 1950 until 1960. He died on 6 February 2017 at the age of 89.
Saskia Bartusiak
Saskia Bartusiak is a German retired footballer. She played as a centre back.
Héléna Ciak
Héléna Ciak is a French basketball player for Basket Lattes and the French national team, where she participated at the 2014 FIBA World Championship. Ciak switched to Dynamo Kursk in 2016 and won with her team the EuroLeague.
Jutta Wachowiak
Jutta Wachowiak is a German actress. She has appeared in more than 60 films and television shows since 1962. She starred in the 1986 film So Many Dreams, which was entered into the 37th Berlin International Film Festival.
Oleksandr Khyzhniak
Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Khyzhniak is a Ukrainian amateur boxer. He won gold medals at the 2017 World Championships, 2017 European Championships and the 2019 European Games.