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Jan Błachowicz
Jan Maciej Błachowicz is a Polish professional mixed martial artist. He currently competes in the Light Heavyweight division for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he is the current UFC Light Heavyweight Champion. A professional since 2007, he also competed for KSW and is the former KSW Light Heavyweight Champion. He is the second Polish champion in UFC history, after Joanna Jędrzejczyk and the first male Polish champion. As of January 25, 2021, he is #14 in the UFC men's pound-for-pound rankings.
Lucas Gregorowicz
Lucas Gregorowicz is a German-Polish actor.
Julian Filipowicz
Julian Filipowicz was a major general of the Polish Armed Forces and a commander of the Home Army in the Kraków-Silesia Area. He was also a commander of the Service for Poland's Victory in the Kraków area and inspector of the main headquarters of the Union of Armed Struggle and Home Army.
Herman J. Mankiewicz
Herman Jacob Mankiewicz was an American screenwriter who, with Orson Welles, wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane (1941). Earlier, he was a Berlin correspondent for Women"s Wear Daily, assistant theater editor at The New York Times and the first regular drama critic at The New Yorker. Alexander Woollcott said that Herman Mankiewicz was the "funniest man in New York". Both Mankiewicz and Welles received Academy Awards for their screenplay.
Alain Jakubowicz
Alain Jakubowicz is a French lawyer from Villeurbanne, in the suburbs of Lyon.
Karolina Kowalkiewicz
Karolina Kowalkiewicz is a Polish mixed martial artist. She currently fights for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). She is the former KSW Women's Flyweight Champion.
Paweł Adamowicz
Paweł Bogdan Adamowicz was a Polish politician and lawyer who served as the city mayor of Gdańsk from 1998 until his assassination in 2019.
Wanda Rutkiewicz
Wanda Rutkiewicz was a Polish mountain climber and computer engineer. She was the first woman to reach the summit of K2 and the third woman to climb Mount Everest.
Ryszard Pędrak-Janowicz
Ryszard Pędrak-Janowicz is a Polish luger who competed from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. He won a complete set of medals at the FIL World Luge Championships with a gold in the men's doubles (1963), a silver in the men's singles (1958) and a bronze in the men's doubles event (1958).
Richard Machowicz
Richard John "Mack" Machowicz was a Navy SEAL and the host of the Discovery Channel and Military Channel show Future Weapons. He was the newest member on Spike's show Deadliest Warrior.
Heiko Antoniewicz
Heiko Antoniewicz is a German chef who uses techniques of molecular gastronomy, including sous-vide.
Joanna Bruzdowicz
Joanna Bruzdowicz is a Polish composer.
John Wojtowicz
John Stanley Joseph Wojtowicz was an American bank robber whose story inspired the 1975 film Dog Day Afternoon.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Joseph Leo Mankiewicz was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Mankiewicz had a long Hollywood career, and set a record by winning a pair of writing and directing Academy Awards two years in a row. He won the Academy Award for Best Director and the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for A Letter to Three Wives (1949), and both the Academy Award for Best Director and Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for All About Eve (1950), the latter of which was nominated for 14 Academy Awards and won six.
Isaac Gilinski Sragowicz
Isaac Gilinski Sragowicz is a Colombian banker and financier currently serving as Ambassador of Colombia to Israel.
Anja Antonowicz
Anja Antonowicz is a Polish actress. She appeared in the comedy television series Bao-Bab, czyli zielono mi in 2003. She received a German Television Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress, in 2005, for "Bella Block" in the episode "Die Frau des Teppichlegers". She has also starred in a recurring role in Lindenstraße as Nastya Pashenko.
Tracy Daszkiewicz
Tracy Daszkiewicz is a Deputy Director of Population Health and Wellbeing at Public Health England. She was formerly the Director of Public Health and Safety for the county of Wiltshire, England, where in 2018 she played a leading role in the response to the Novichok poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury.
Władysław Kozakiewicz
Władysław Kozakiewicz is a retired Polish athlete who specialised in the pole vault. He is best known for winning the gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow and the bras d'honneur gesture which he showed to the hostile Soviet crowd. In Poland, where the gesture was viewed as a symbol of resistance against Soviet dominance, it became known as "Kozakiewicz's gesture". In addition, he won several medals at continental level, won two Summer Universiades and broke the pole vault world record three times, twice outdoors and once indoors. He is also a ten-time Polish champion.
Peter Serafinowicz
Peter Szymon Serafinowicz is an English actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter. He is best known for his roles as the voice of Darth Maul in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999), Pete in Shaun of the Dead (2004), and Garthan Saal in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014). He has also appeared in many British and American comedy series. He starred as the titular character in the 2016 live-action series of The Tick and has received attention for political satire videos in which he voices different versions of Donald Trump, including Cockney, sassy, and posh. He has also directed music videos for acts such as Hot Chip and Kitchen Gun.
Kazimierz Siemienowicz
Kazimierz Siemienowicz was a general of artillery, gunsmith, military engineer, and one of pioneers of rocketry. Born in the Raseiniai region of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, he served in the armies of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, the ruler of the Netherlands. No portrait or detailed biography of him has survived and much of his life is a subject of dispute.
Melody Sucharewicz
Melody Sucharewicz is the winner of the second season of Israel's popular TV show, The Ambassador, and a former foreign affairs adviser and spokesperson of Israel's Alternate Prime Minister, Defense Minister, and Blue and White Chairman, Benny Gantz.
Pamela Dutkiewicz
Pamela Dutkiewicz is a German athlete who specialises in hurdling. She qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics where she finished 4th in her semifinal for the women's 100 m hurdles and did not advance to the final. She won the silver medal at the 2018 European Championships.
Teddy Stankiewicz
Theodore J. Stankiewicz is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Toros de Tijuana of the Mexican League. He was drafted by the Boston Red Sox in the 2nd round of the 2013 Major League Baseball draft and played in the 2020 Summer Olympics for the Mexico national baseball team.
Stanisława Walasiewicz
Stanisława Walasiewicz, also known as Stefania Walasiewicz, and Stella Walsh, was a Polish-American track and field athlete, who became a women's Olympic champion in the 100 metres. Born in Poland and raised in the United States, she became an American citizen in 1947. Upon her death, it was discovered that Walasiewicz had a Y chromosome and was intersex.
Walter Olkewicz
Walter Olkewicz was an American character actor. He played Marko in the short-lived TV series Wizards and Warriors and Coach Wordman in the feature film Making the Grade.
Alicia Kozakiewicz
Alicia Kozakiewicz is an American television personality, motivational speaker, and Internet safety and missing persons advocate. Kozakiewicz is the founder of the Alicia Project, an advocacy group designed to raise awareness about online predators, abduction, and child sexual exploitation. She is also the namesake of "Alicia's Law," which provides a dedicated revenue source for child rescue efforts. Kozakiewicz has worked with the television network, Investigation Discovery (ID), to educate the public on, and effect change for, issues such as Internet safety, missing people, human trafficking, and child safety awareness education.
Anna Walentynowicz
Anna Walentynowicz was a Polish free trade union activist and co-founder of Solidarity, the first non-communist trade union in the Eastern Bloc. Her firing from her job at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk in August 1980 was the event that ignited the strike at the shipyard, set off a wave of strikes across Poland, and quickly paralyzed the Baltic coast. The Interfactory Strike Committee (MKS) based in the Gdańsk shipyard eventually transformed itself into Solidarity; by September, more than one million workers were on strike in support of the 21 demands of MKS, making it the largest strike ever.
Monika Woytowicz
Monika Woytowicz is a German stage, film and television actress. She studied at the Theaterhochschule Leipzig.
Jerzy Janowicz
Jerzy Filip Janowicz Jr. is a professional tennis player from Poland.
Mateo Klimowicz
Mateo Klimowicz is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for VfB Stuttgart.