Great Poles. Author: The Polish team.
Jan Paweł II Jan Paweł II, Karol Wojtyła (1920 -2005), Pope from 1978. By 2001 went on over 90 pilgrimages all over the world. Visited Poland a few times: 1979, 1983, 1987, 1991, 1999, 2002.
Jan Kochanowski Kochanowski Jan (1530–84), poet, representative of the Renaissance.
Mikołaj Kopernik Mikołaj Kopernik(1473-1543), The great Polish astronomer, mathematician, economist, physician, priest. He was a founder of the heliocentric theory of the solar system and refuted the geocentric theory. He assumed that the Earth and other planets revolve around the sun and that simultaneously, the Earth rotates around its own axis.
Maria Skłodowska-Curie Maria Skłodowska-Curie (1867-1934), Polish chemist and physicist, worked in France. Together with her husband, Pierre Curie she conducted research on radioactivity, discovered the radioactivity of thorium and together with her husband, 2 new elements (polonium and radium). Received 2 Nobel Prizes.
Ignacy ﾅ「kasiewicz Ignacy ﾅ「kasiewicz(18221882), pharmacist and independence activist. Distilled crude oil and separated kerosene from it. He constructed the first oil lamp and thus illuminated the hospital in 1853 in Lviv. Was first to set up an oil mine and refinery in Poland.
Adam Mickiewicz Mickiewicz Adam (1798–1855), most outstanding Polish poet, a representative of the Romantic movement.
Fryderyk Chopin • Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849), most outstanding Polish composer.
Henryk Sienkiewicz • Sienkiewicz Henryk (1846–1916), writer, Nobel prize laureate.
Stanisław Wyspiański • Wyspiański Stanisław (1869– 1907), playwright, poet and painter, reformer of the theatre.
Tadeusz Kościuszko • Kościuszko Tadeusz (1746–1817), General, Chief of the National Armed Forces in the Kosciuszko Insurrection, 1794. Knights' School pupil, 1775-83 participant in the U.S. Revolutionary War
Władysław Stanisław Reymont • Stanisław Władysław Reymont (1867– 1925), writer. Nobel Prize laureate (1924)
Wisława Szymborska • Wisława Szymborska (1923), poet, Nobel prize laureate
Czesław Miłosz • Czesław Miłosz (1911 -2004), poet, prose writer, essayist; Nobel Prize winner.