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Helena Modrzejewska, known professionally as Helena Modjeska, was a renowned Polish actress who specialized in Shakespearean and tragic roles.

Oleg Vladimirovich Deripaska is a Russian oligarch and industrialist. He is the founder of Basic Element, one of Russia's largest industrial groups, and Volnoe Delo, Russia's largest charitable foundation. Until 2018, he was the president of En+ Group, a Russian energy company, and until 2018 headed United Company Rusal, the second-largest aluminium company in the world.

Mia Wasikowska is an Australian actress. She made her screen debut on the Australian television drama All Saints in 2004, followed by her feature film debut in Suburban Mayhem (2006). She first became known to a wider audience following her critically acclaimed work on the HBO television series In Treatment. She was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female for That Evening Sun (2009).

Ella Balinska is an English actress. She is known for starring in the 2019 action comedy film Charlie's Angels, the third film installment within the franchise of the same name.

Mathilda-Marie Feliksovna Kschessinskaya was a Polish ballerina from a Polish noble family Krzesiński. Her father Feliks Krzesiński and her brother both danced in Saint Petersburg. She was a mistress of the future Tsar Nicholas II of Russia prior to his marriage, and later the wife of his cousin Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich of Russia.

Ludmilla "Lucy" Diakovska is a Bulgarian-born German singer-songwriter, music producer, dancer, stage actress and television personality, who rose to fame as one of the founding members of the successful all-female pop band No Angels, the "biggest-selling German girlband to date," according to the German media.

Marianna Frantsivna Poplavska was a Ukrainian actress, producer, comedian, teacher.

Georges Stanislas Malif Dinga-Pinto, better known by the stage name Niska, is a French rapper from Évry, Essonne. He is signed to Universal Music France and Barclay Records. He was initially in the rap group Negro Deep before going solo. Niska is a derivative of his nickname Stany in reverse (Nista), replacing the "t" with a "k". Niska has released four albums, Charo Life (2015), Zifukoro (2016), Commando (2017) and Mr Sal (2019), with the first two reaching number 3 on SNEP, the official French Albums chart and the third and fourth topping the French chart.

Princess Elżbieta Izabela Czartoryska, better known under her married name of Izabela Lubomirska, was a Polish noblewoman.

María Olvido Gara Jova better known as Alaska is a Spanish-Mexican singer, DJ, and television personality famous in Spain and Hispanic America. She was one of the founding members of the La Movida Madrileña, the cultural and artistic movement that followed the end of Francoist Spain. This movement, in which music, the arts, cinema and fashion erupted and collided to show what Spain had become under Franco. She has participated, since the late 1970s, in several music groups: Kaka de Luxe 1977, Alaska y los Pegamoides 1980, Alaska y Dinarama 1983, and since 1989, the Spanish electropop band, Fangoria. Today, Alaska continues to perform and has become an icon of 1980s Spain.

Agnieszka Roma Radwańska (listen) is a Polish former professional tennis player. Known for making intelligent use of the court, she won 20 career singles titles, two doubles titles, and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 2 on 9 July 2012. Her achievements include winning the season-ending WTA Finals in 2015, Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Fan Favourite Award six times, Shot of the Year five times, and Shot of the Month on a regular basis.

Věra Čáslavská was a Czechoslovak artistic gymnast and Czech sports official. She won a total of 22 international titles between 1959 and 1968 including seven Olympic gold medals, four world titles and eleven European championships. Čáslavská is the most decorated Czech gymnast in history and is one of only two female gymnasts, along with Soviet Larisa Latynina, to win the all-around gold medal at two consecutive Olympics.

Nadia Podoroska is an Argentine professional tennis player. Podoroska has won one doubles title on the WTA Tour, as well as 14 singles and seven doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 12 October 2020, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 48 after reaching the semifinals of the French Open. On 23 October 2017, she peaked at No. 111 in the WTA doubles rankings.

Stanisława Leszczyńska was a Polish midwife who was incarcerated at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II, where she delivered over 3,000 children. She is an official candidate for canonization (sainthood) by the Catholic Church.

Anthime Joseph "Tim" Gionet, more commonly known as Baked Alaska, is an American far-right media personality. Gionet gained attention through his advocacy on behalf of alt-right and white supremacist ideology, and through his promotion of antisemitic conspiracy theories such as white genocide and Jewish control of the media. He has also used the alias Tim Treadstone.

Barbara Brylska is a Polish actress who gained critical acclaim in 1960s and was featured in numerous films throughout the countries of the Warsaw Pact including the Soviet Union. She is noted especially for her role as Nadya in the 1976 Soviet comedy film Irony of Fate.

Maria Faustyna Kowalska, also known as Saint Maria Faustyna Kowalska of the Blessed Sacrament and popularly spelled Faustina, was a Polish Roman Catholic nun and mystic. Her apparitions of Jesus Christ inspired the Roman Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy and earned her the title of "Secretary of Divine Mercy".

Ewa Janina Kłobukowska is a Polish former sprinter. She competed at the 1964 Olympics in the 4×100 m relay and 100 m sprint and won a gold and a bronze medal, respectively. She also won two gold and one silver medal at the 1966 European Championships. Kłobukowska set three world records, one in the 100 m and two in the 4×100 m relay. They were annulled by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) after a gender identification test in 1967 wrongly labeled her as not female. The test procedures were later found to be inadequate.

Magdalena Brzeska is a German retired individual rhythmic gymnast of Polish descent.

Rula Lenska is an English-Polish actress. She mainly appears in British stage and television productions, but is known in the United States for a series of commercials for Alberto VO5 hairspray in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Her first husband was actor Brian Deacon and her second husband was actor Dennis Waterman. She has also appeared as Claudia Colby on Coronation Street.

Zofia Stryjeńska was a Polish painter, graphic designer, illustrator, stage designer, a representative of art deco. Along with Olga Boznańska and Tamara de Lempicka, she was one of the best-known Polish women artists of the interwar period. In the 1930s she was nominated for the prestigious Golden Laurel of the Polish Academy of Literature, but declined the offer.

Iwona Kuczyńska is a retired professional tennis player from Poland. She won one doubles title in 1988, partnering with Martina Navratilova. From 2010 to 2017, she lived in the village of Omice in Czech Republic, with her partner, former Wimbledon champion Jana Novotná.

Anna Lewandowska is a Polish athlete, a graduate of the Academy of Physical Education in Warsaw, a specialist on nutrition, karate and representative of the country in traditional karate. She is a multiple medalist of the World, European, and national Championships troy.

Olga Boznańska was a Polish painter of the turn of the 20th century. She was a notable female painter in Poland and Europe, and was stylistically associated with the French impressionism, though she rejected this label.

Edyta Śliwińska is a Polish professional ballroom dancer who is starring in the stage show Dance Temptation. She is best known for her appearances on the American version of the reality television series Dancing with the Stars, where she appeared on all of the first ten seasons of the show.

Petra Cetkovská is a retired tennis player from the Czech Republic. Having turned professional in 2000, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 25, on 18 June 2012. Over her career, Cetkovská defeated top-ten players Marion Bartoli, Elena Dementieva, Angelique Kerber, Li Na, Agnieszka Radwańska, Caroline Wozniacki, and Vera Zvonareva.

Aska, Ryo Aska or Ryō Asuka is a Japanese singer-songwriter.

Hélène Elizabeth Louise Amélie Paula Dolores Poniatowska, known professionally as Elena Poniatowska is a French-born Mexican journalist and author, specializing in works on social and political issues focused on those considered to be disenfranchised especially women and the poor. She was born in Paris to upper-class parents, including her mother whose family fled Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. She left France for Mexico when she was ten to escape the Second World War. When she was eighteen and without a university education, she began writing for the newspaper Excélsior, doing interviews and society columns. Despite the lack of opportunity for women from the 1950s to the 1970s, she wrote about social and political issues in newspapers, books in both fiction and nonfiction form. Her best known work is La noche de Tlatelolco about the repression of the 1968 student protests in Mexico City. Due to her leftwing views, she has been nicknamed "the Red Princess". She is considered to be "Mexico's grande dame of letters" and is still an active writer.

Michalina Olszańska is a Polish actress and writer. She is a daughter of actors Agnieszka Fatyga and Wojciech Olszański. She has published two novels as a teenager.

Jan Triska or Jan Tříska was a Czech actor. He played Captain Henry Wirz in the American television film Andersonville and the serial murderer Joseph Paul Franklin in the feature film The People vs. Larry Flynt.