List of Famous people named Jerzy
Jerzy Maksymiuk
Jerzy Jan Maksymiuk is a Polish composer, pianist and orchestra conductor.
Jerzy Giedroyc
Jerzy Władysław Giedroyc was a Polish writer and political activist and for many years editor of the highly influential Paris-based periodical, Kultura.
Jerzy Matuszkiewicz
Jerzy Matuszkiewicz is a Polish jazz musician and composer. He was a pioneer of the post-World War II jazz movement in Poland. Between 1950–58 he was head of the Polish jazz group Melomani. Throughout 1964 he performed both inside and outside of Poland. In 1965 he began to mainly produce music for movies and commercials. He currently resides in Warsaw, Poland with his wife, Grażyna.
Jerzy Nowak
Jerzy Nowak was a Polish film and theatre actor and teacher.
Jerzy Zelnik
Jerzy Zelnik is a Polish actor. He has appeared in 57 films and television shows since 1963. He was awarded the Badge of Merit in Culture (1997) and Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2007).
Jerzy Broszkiewicz
Jerzy Leszczyński
Jerzy Leszczyński (1884–1959) was a Polish stage and film actor. Both his parents Bolesław Leszczyński and Honorata Leszczyńska were noted stage actors of the nineteenth century.
Jerzy Wójcik
Jerzy Wójcik was a Polish cinematographer, author of screenplays and film and television director, professor of University of Silesia in Katowice and Leon Schiller National Higher School of Film, Theatre and Television in Łódź.
Jerzy Andrzejewski
Jerzy Andrzejewski was a prolific Polish author. His works confront controversial moral issues such as betrayal, the Jews and Auschwitz in the wartime. His novels, Ashes and Diamonds, and Holy Week, have been made into film adaptations by the Oscar-winning Polish director Andrzej Wajda. Holy Week and Ashes and Diamonds have both been translated into English. His novel The Gates of Paradise was translated into English by James Kirkup and published by Panther Books with the anglicised spelling "George Andrzeyevski".