List of Famous people named Franciszek

Franciszek Pieczka is a Polish actor. A graduate of the National Higher School of Theatre in Warsaw (1954), he first made his debut in the theatre in Jelenia Góra. He won the award for Best Actor at the Polish Film Festival in 1976 for The Scar.

Franciszek Żmurko was a Polish realist painter. Żmurko began drawing lessons as a young boy in his hometown with the painter Franciszek Tepa. As an adolescent he relocated to Kraków to study at the Academy of Fine Arts where he took lessons from Professor Jan Matejko. In 1877 Żmurko moved to Vienna, Austria where he was accepted at the Vienna Academy, but left soon thereafter to study under Alexander von Wagner in Munich. Żmurko returned to Kraków in 1880 and then moved to Warsaw in 1882 where he remained until his death in 1910.

Franciszek Leja was a Polish mathematician.

Archbishop František de Paula Pištěk was a Roman Catholic prelate, who served as a Titular Bishop of Azotus and Auxiliary Bishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Prague from 27 September 1824 until 24 February 1832, a Diocesan Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tarnów from 24 February 1832 until 1 February 1836 and as the Metropolitan Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv and Primate of Galicia and Lodomeria from 1 February 1836 until his death on 1 February 1846.

Franciszek Brodniewicz was a Polish actor. He died during the Warsaw Uprising

Franciszek Karpiński was the leading sentimental Polish poet of the Age of Enlightenment. He is particularly remembered for his religious works later rendered as hymns and carols. He is also considered one of the most original Polish writers of the early partitions. In his native Poland he was cherished during the Polish Romantic Period of the early 19th century.