Famous people of my Famous people of my country that made country that made

positive contribution positive contribution to the worldto the world

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Dąbrowa Górnicza

• A group of 20 8-year-old students worked on the project.

• Children chose the famous people that are important for them

Famous Polish people• John Paul IIJohn Paul II• Mikołaj KopernikMikołaj Kopernik• DodaDoda• Mariusz PudzianowskiMariusz Pudzianowski• Adam MałyszAdam Małysz• Jan KochanowskiJan Kochanowski• Józef PiłsudskiJózef Piłsudski• Adam MickiewiczAdam Mickiewicz• Tadeusz KościuszkoTadeusz Kościuszko• Robert KorzeniowskiRobert Korzeniowski

John Paul II

John Paul II• born as Karol Wojtyła. served as Supreme Pontiff of the

Catholic Church and Sovereign of Vatican City from 16 October 1978 until his death almost 27 years later. His was the second-longest pontificate; only Pope Pius IX served longer. He was the only Polish Pope, and was the first non-Italian Pope since Dutch Pope Adrian VI in the 1520s.

• He was one of the most-travelled world leaders in history, visiting 129 countries during his pontificate He was fluent in many languages: his native Polish as well as Italian, French, German, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Croatian, Ancient Greek and Latin. As part of his special emphasis on the universal call to holiness, he beatified 1,340 people and canonised 483 Saints, more than the combined tally of his predecessors during the last five centuries

Jan Kochanowski

Jan Kochanowski• He was a Polish Renaissance poet who established poetic patterns

that would become integral to Polish literary language. Kochanowski was born at Sycyna. In 1559 Kochanowski returned to Poland for good, where he remained active as a humanist and Renaissance poet. He spent the next fifteen years close to the court of King Sigismund II Augustus, serving for a time as royal secretary. In 1574, following the decampment of Poland's recently elected King Henry of Valois (whose candidacy to the Polish throne Kochanowski had supported), Kochanowski settled on a family estate at Czarnolas ("Blackwood") to lead the life of a country squire. In 1575 he married Dorota Podlodowska, with whom he had seven children.

• Kochanowski is sometimes referred to in Polish as "Jan z Czarnolasu" ("John of Blackwood"). It was there that he wrote his most memorable works, including The Dismissal of the Greek Envoys and the Laments.

• Kochanowski died, probably of a heart attack, in Lublin on 22 August 1584.

Doda

Doda• She is a Polish singer with one of the largest number of awards in Poland.• In 2000, at the age of 16, Rabczewska became the vocalist of the Polish rock

band Virgin.• On March 5, 2005, Rabczewska married Polish goalkeeper Radosław Majdan,

whom she later divorced. At the 2005 Sopot International Song Festival, Rabczewska won the Srebrny Słowik Music Award.

• In 2006 she lent her voice to the dubbing for Asterix and the Vikings (as Abba).• Doda received a Superjedynka award on National Festival of Polish Song in

Opole in 2006.• In 2007, she left Virgin to begin a solo career. Her first solo album released in

2007 was certified as gold on the day before its official release. In 2008 her album titled Diamond Bitch was certified a double platinum after 60,000 copies of the album had been sold.

• Doda won three awards at VIVA (Poland) Comet 2007 in the following categories: Female Artist of the Year, Image of the Year, Video of the Year (for Katharsis videoclip). At MTV Europe Music Awards 2007 Doda won in the category Best Polish Act. Doda also received a Superjedynka on 2008 National Festival of Polish Song in Opole as the Best Artist.

Mikołaj Kopernik

Mikołaj Kopernik• Nicolaus Copernicus was the first astronomer to formulate a

comprehensive heliocentric cosmology, which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe.

• Copernicus' epochal book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), published just before his death in 1543, is often regarded as the starting point of modern astronomy and the defining epiphany that began the scientific revolution. His heliocentric model, with the Sun at the center of the universe, demonstrated that the observed motions of celestial objects can be explained without putting Earth at rest in the center of the universe. His work stimulated further scientific investigations, becoming a landmark in the history of science that is often referred to as the Copernican Revolution.

• Among the great polymaths of the Renaissance, Copernicus was a mathematician, astronomer, physician, quadrilingual polyglot, classical scholar, translator, artist, Catholic cleric, jurist, governor, military leader, diplomat and economist. Among his many responsibilities, astronomy figured as little more than an avocation — yet it was in that field that he made his mark upon the world.

Robert Korzeniowski

Robert Korzeniowski• He is a former Polish racewalker. He has won four gold medals at the

Summer Olympics and has won three world championships.• Korzeniowski is a three-peat winner of the 50 km walk at the Summer

Olympics. He won 1996 in Atlanta, 2000 in Sydney, and 2004 in Athens. In addition, he became the first athlete to claim both the long distance and the short distance crown, when he won the 20 km title at the 2000 games. He won world championship titles in 1997, 2001, and 2003. He won two times a European Championship in Budapest 1998 and in Munich 2002. He is also the former world record holder in the 50 kilometers race.

• He retired after the 2004 Games but is looking to become actively involved in various roles at the International Olympic Committee. He is also the coach and mentor of former world record-holder Francisco Javier Fernandez Since 2005 he works for Polish Public Television as a chief of sport department and in 2007 he became a General Manager of TVP Sport, a new specialized channel in Poland. He created a new approach for sports in TV by eliminating live broadcast and focusing on history of sports and talk shows about sport.[citation needed]

• After his retirement he took part in commercials.

Tadeusz Kościuszko

Tadeusz Kościuszko• He was a Polish-Lithuanian general and military leader during

the Kościuszko Uprising. He is a national hero in Poland, Lithuania, the United States and Belarus. He led the 1794 Kościuszko Uprising against Imperial Russia and Kingdom of Prussia as Supreme Commander of the National Armed Force (Najwyższy Naczelnik Siły Zbrojnej Narodowej).

• Before commanding the 1794 Uprising, he had fought in the American Revolutionary War as a colonel in the Continental Army. In 1783, in recognition of his dedicated service, he had been brevetted by the Continental Congress to the rank of brigadier general and had become a naturalized citizen of the United States.

• There are several Anglicized spellings of Kościuszko's name. Perhaps the most frequently-occurring is Thaddeus Kosciusko, though the full "Andrew Thaddeus Bonaventure Kosciusko" is also seen. In Lithuanian, Kościuszko's name is rendered as Tadas Kosciuška or Tadeušas Kosciuška

Adam Małysz

Adam Małysz• He is a Polish ski jumper. He was born and still lives in the town of

Wisła in southern Poland. He is considered one of the best and most successful ski jumpers of all time. Małysz has won 38 World Cup competitions; in the history of ski jumping only Finn Matti Nykänen has won more (46). Małysz is the only ski jumper ever to win the World Cup 4 times (with Matti Nykänen) and 3 times in a row - that is why he is considered the best ever ski jumper, by some. He is also the most titled ski jumper in the history of individual World Championships.

• His success contributed to his enormous popularity not only among ski jumping fans but throughout Poland as well. Most of all, he has won three World Cups in a row, which was an unprecedented achievement. In Poland, there still are thousands of his supporters. When Małysz was most successful, more than 100 thousands fans came to Zakopane to watch his performances. Additionally, Małysz is the only five-time winner of the ski jumping event at the Holmenkollen ski festival (1996, 2001, 2003, 2006 and 2007). He earned the Holmenkollen medal in 2001 for his ski jumping victories (shared with Bente Skari and Thomas Alsgaard).

Adam Mickiewicz

Adam Mickiewicz• He was one of Poland's Three Bards, alongside Zygmunt

Krasiński and Juliusz Słowacki.• Adam Mickiewicz was born at his uncle's estate in Zaosie, near

Navahrudak in the Russian Empire (now Belarus). His father Mikołaj Mickiewicz was a member of the nobility of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and bore the hereditary Poraj coat-of-arms.

• He wrote 'Krym,s Sonets" 1826. In his russian period he also wrote: 'Dziady part II and IV" and 'Grażyna' (1823) and 'Konrad Wallenrod(1828)

• Mickiewicz is also considered by some the greatest Slavic poet, alongside Alexander Pushkin, and a leading author of the Romantic school. Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, is named after him.

Józef Piłsudski

Józef Piłsudski• He was Chief of State (1918–22), "First Marshal" (from 1920)

and (1926–35) the authoritarian leader of the Second Polish Republic. From mid-World War I he was a major influence in Poland's politics, and an important figure on the European political scene. He is considered largely responsible for Poland regaining independence in 1918, after a hundred twenty-three years of partitions

• From November 1918, when Poland regained independence, until 1922, Piłsudski was Poland's Chief of State. In 1919–21 he commanded Poland's forces in the Polish-Soviet War. In 1923, with the Polish government dominated by his opponents, particularly the National Democrats, he withdrew from active politics. Three years later he returned to power with the May 1926 coup d'état, and became the de facto dictator of Poland. From then until his death in 1935, he concerned himself primarily with military and foreign affairs.

Mariusz Pudzianowski

Mariusz Pudzianowski• He is a former gym instructor turned strongman competitor. He has

won more World's Strongest Man titles than any other strongman competitor, winning the event in 2008 for his fifth time. He made his victorious mixed martial arts debut at KSW XII in Poland in December 2009.

• He is sometimes known by the nicknames Pudzian, Dominator, Super Mariusz (Super Mario), Pyton (Python) and Duży Pyton (Big Python).

• On May 1, 1999 Pudzianowski entered his first Strongman competition, held in Płock, Poland. He achieved his first major success at the international level in 2000 when he finished fourth in his first World's Strongest Man (WSM) competition. He returned to win the WSM contest in 2002, and retained his title in 2003 by the largest margin ever achieved in the competition. In March 2004, he also became the Strongman Super Series World Champion.

• Recently, he competed in the 2009 World Strongest Man competition, which took place in Malta, placing second after Žydrūnas Savickas.