List of Polish Americans

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This is an incomplete list of famous Polish Americans.

Lists of
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by U.S. state
by ethnicity:
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Contents

[edit] Entertainment

[edit] Actors

[edit] Arts

[edit] Filmmakers

[edit] Literature

[edit] Music

[edit] Other

[edit] Military

[edit] Politics

Individuals on this list were sourced by The Polish-American Advisory Council[193]unless noted by another source

[edit] Religion


[edit] Science

[edit] Sports

[edit] Baseball

[edit] Basketball

[edit] Bowling

[edit] Boxing

[edit] Figure skating

[edit] Football

[edit] Golf

[edit] Hockey

[edit] Olympic athletes

[edit] Soccer

[edit] Wrestling

[edit] Other Sports

[edit] Other Notable Polish Americans

[edit] Jewish Americans with recent Polish Jewish ancestors

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  1. ^ [1] "...he was Polish and originally from Detroit..." he is also Ukrainian on his father's side.
  2. ^ [2]"Is the 5th child in a Polish-Irish family."
  3. ^ [3]
  4. ^ [4] "Ellen: So your family's Polish, I heard? Kristen: Hmm mm... Ellen: And are there Polish words you grew up with? Kristen: That's the funny thing about Polish people, is a lot of the Polish people I've met use Polish words when they're growing up and specifically, when I was growing up, I didn't know the American words for some things."
  5. ^ [5] "CARRIE-ANNE MOSS: Maria, you've got such a passionate way of living life. Do you think that came from your family? MARIA BELLO: I do. You know the whole Italian-Polish Bello clan from Philly, and they're all very passionate. They're crazy as well. When people used to come over to the house, especially boyfriends, I would warn them: "There might be screaming, but it's all in good fun."
  6. ^ [6]"The son of a Polish immigrant haberdasher, Benny studied the violin from an early age (he really could play, though he was certainly no virtuoso), and managed to find work in local theatre orchestras."
  7. ^ [7]"The beautiful Irish, Lithuanian and Polish brunette plans to concentrate on her acting and modeling, but also makes time for photography, a hobby she took up and perfected by observing photographers at work during her photo shoots."
  8. ^ [8]"His father Elliot Brody was a Polish-Jewish retired history professor while his mother Sylvia Plachy was a renowned Hungarian-born Catholic photojournalist."
  9. ^ [9] "Dagmara Dominczyk: I came here when I was 7, so I consider myself a Polish-American. I've never made a film or done theater in my native language...
  10. ^ "Polish-born Marika Dominczyk..."
  11. ^ [10]"Mother: Polish; lived in displaced persons camp after WWII; divorced from Dzundza's father after moving to USA..."
  12. ^ [11] "Gilda Gray: Polish dancer who went to America and is credited with inventing the "Shimmy.""
  13. ^ [12] ""There are so many children in need and so many clothes you'll never wear again," says Kaczmarek. "I'm a Polish girl from Milwaukee, and I just can't stand to see anything go to waste.""
  14. ^ [13] "...the Polish transplant (she has dual citizenship), model and dancer..."
  15. ^ [14]"Born of Polish immigrant factory workers..."
  16. ^ [15]"Born of Polish immigrant factory workers..."
  17. ^ [16] "...Ted is Polish. And being proud of his Polish ancestry, he couldn't let the special run for an hour without capitalizing on the fact somehow."
  18. ^ (TV Guide, 1987)
  19. ^ [17]” Her father was a Norwegian railroad mechanic, Alfred Ridste, and her mother, Clara Stentek Ridste, was Polish.”
  20. ^ [18] "My father is from Italy, he's a fishing tools maker, while my mother has Polish origins"
  21. ^ [19] "Poland's greatest actress of all time was Helena Modjeska (1840-1909) who came to Southern California in 1876 with her husband... Their Polish agricultural colony in the little pioneer town of Anaheim was a financial failure in the drought and depression of 1877."
  22. ^ [20]
  23. ^ [21]”The actor was born in the Bronx to a Polish Catholic mother from Pennsylvania and a German Jewish father whose ancestry was Spanish Sephardic.”
  24. ^ [22] "Born Tamaszow Lubelski (Poland) Nationality Polish ... Partial Biography This dark-haired beauty honed her craft on stage in her native Poland..."
  25. ^ [23] "she's Polish way back and a practising Catholic..." [24] "Stefanie Powers is in fact of Polish ancestry (born Stefania Zofia Federkiewicz) but she was raised in Southern California." [25] "Born Stefanie Paul, of Polish-Jewish descent, on November 2, 1942, she spent some of her early childhood in England"
  26. ^ [26] "She introduced herself as Beata Pozniak, a Polish actress currently working in Dallas."
  27. ^ [27], "his live-in father is played by Polish American Robert Prosky"
  28. ^ [28]"My mother’s family is Polish and Catherine was Polish."
  29. ^ [29], [30]"Casey Siemaszko was born and raised in a Polish ethnic community in Chicago, IL. His father, a Holocaust survivor, ran a dance troupe and Casey (born Kazimierz) debuted with them at age five."
  30. ^ [31] "A Polish-American, she was born in Passaic, N.J."
  31. ^ [32]”The Witherbee-Sherman and Republic Steel Corporation records (Essex County) show: Frank Marko Jr., age 16, Polish Laborer at 3 mill; started work June 25, 1917, left September 11, 1918, and a lay-off date of April 5, 1919.”
  32. ^ [33]”The funny thing is I'm actually a Polish Jew who happens to be born in France. My mom is Polish and my dad is Bulgarian. I don't have an ounce of French blood. But I work it.”
  33. ^ [34] "His parents were Polish immigrants who observed the Sabbath, but Wallach quickly adapted to American life, sloughing off his Jewish heritage fairly easily as time went on"
  34. ^ [35] "Born to Polish Immigrants as Janina Walasek"
  35. ^ [36] "The tiny blonde Polish-American singer-actress..."
  36. ^ [37]
  37. ^ [38] "Polish-American painter, illustrator, and designer."
  38. ^ [39] "glamorous Polish-born artist..."
  39. ^ [40] "The Polish-born..."
  40. ^ [41], "Mr. Olbinski, a celebrated Polish-American artist"
  41. ^ [42] "Polish American artist Ed Paschke was born in Chicago..."
  42. ^ [43] "A Chicago born Polish American currently residing in Brasil (but never tied to any..."
  43. ^ [44]
  44. ^ [45] "Julian and his family eventually fled Europe to join other Polish refugees living in the jungles..."
  45. ^ [46] "Szyk (pronounced Schick) was a Polish Jew"
  46. ^ [47] "In his day, however, Tworkov, a Polish immigrant who firmly espoused America, didn't set out..."
  47. ^ [48], "MIT Visual Arts Professor and internationally renowned Polish-American artist Krzysztof Wodiczko, best known for his large scale video projections on architectural facades."
  48. ^ Noted as one of several Polish-Americans at [49]
  49. ^ [50] "Andrzej Bartkowiak, the Polish director behind such slick-if-shallow outings as Romeo Must Die"
  50. ^ [51] "Her father, Polish-born avant-garde filmmaker Tad Danielewski, dropped dead."
  51. ^ [52] "From All Movie Guide: In the United States from 1981, Polish-born Janusz Kaminski graduated from Columbia College..."
  52. ^ [53] "From imdb.com: Born Marcin Kunert-Dziewanowski, Warsaw, Poland."
  53. ^ [54] "Polish-born Rudolph Maté..."
  54. ^ [55] "Andrzej Sekula, the Polish-born director..."
  55. ^ [56] "Most significant was his outsider status: As a Polish Jew in Austria and..."
  56. ^ [57] "tuart Dybek is probably less known as a Polish-American author..."
  57. ^ [58] "Gorski, who is widely acknowledged as one of our region’s most innovative and compelling poets, is first-generation Polish American."
  58. ^ [59] "Polish-American author, translator and critic, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980."
  59. ^ [60] "This awe-inspiring memoir of a young Polish girl who became a Holocaust rescuer..."
  60. ^ [61] "Polish-born American journalist, novelist, short-story writer, and essayist, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978. Singer's chief subject is the traditional Polish life in various periods of history, largely before the Holocaust. He has especially examined the role of the Jewish faith in the lives of his characters, who are pestered with passions, magic, asceticisms and religious devotion."
  61. ^ [62] "...was a Polish American author of novels for young adults. She won the 1965 Newbery Medal for Shadow of a Bull (1964)."
  62. ^ [63]"There are similarities (both are Polish, Zebrowski an expatriate), but Lem is a comic magician, while Zebrowski is textually dour."
  63. ^ [64]"His father emigrated from Poland when he was a young man and met Josephine Sweet in Chicago."
  64. ^ listed as one of several "Polish and Polish-American Heros" at [65]; born "Patricia Mae Andrzejewski" of Polish/Irish ancestry [66]
  65. ^ [67] "Im a third generation Polish American and I KNOW POLKA!"
  66. ^ [68] "I guess because I was half Polish, and we played a lot of polkas."
  67. ^ [69]“My father was originally from Poland and a survivor of the war.”
  68. ^ [70]
  69. ^ [71]
  70. ^ [72] "a Polish-born pianist and composer, was considered a piano prodigy from an early age."
  71. ^ [73] "Polish-American artist-saxophonist Lawrence Gwozdz is known internationally. Audiences have heard him in many of the world's cultural centers..."
  72. ^ ”[74]Józef Kazimierz Hofmann (born in Kraków, 20 January 1876; died in Los Angeles, 16 February 1957) was an American pianist of Polish birth, son of a Polish opera conductor Kazimierz Hofmann and a singer, Matylda.”
  73. ^ [75] "Bobby Jarzombek: Yes, I am Polish. I don't have any family (that I know of) in Poland. My father is not sure exactly when our ancestors came to the US."
  74. ^ [76]” "I'm really looking forward to this, even more so as in all my years of touring with RIOT and HALFORD, I have never made it to my ancestral homeland of Poland.”
  75. ^ [77] "Polish composer Jan A.P. Kaczmarek has gained critical acclaim for his Award-winning score for Finding Neverland."
  76. ^ [78] "acclaimed Polish tenor Jan Kiepura..."
  77. ^ "I'm 100% Polish" (stated on KFOX Radio Station 98.5FM)
  78. ^ [79] "...was born to a working-class Polish family in Milwaukee...", "'Pee Wee, how in the hell can a Polish boy from Wisconsin play the accordion, write The Tennessee Waltz, be a star on the Grand Ole Opry, and lead the country's most popular western swing band?"
  79. ^ [80] "Krupa was Polish..."
  80. ^ [81] "Adam Makowicz, an internationally acclaimed Polish jazz pianist and composer..."
  81. ^ [82] "It's because he's Polish. I have no other explanation..."
  82. ^ [83]It all began in the United States, where Marilyn Mazur was born in 1955 as the daughter of a black American professor and a Polish woman.
  83. ^ [84] "Polish drummer, Paul Mazurkiewicz..."
  84. ^ [85]”Robert Muczynski was born in 1929 in Chicago of Polish-Slovak parents.”
  85. ^ [86] "however, the half-Korean, half-Polish singer is spilling her guts in an entirely different way..."
  86. ^ [87]"When you grow up in Cleveland, Ohio, playing in a Polish polka band, you learn to think fast on your feet,” says Peplowski, who played his first professional engagement when he was still in elementary school. "From my first time performing in public, I knew I wanted to play music for a living." Ken and his trumpet-playing brother, Ted, made many local radio and TV appearances and played for Polish dances and weddings virtually every weekend all through high school. "That's where I learned to improvise, 'fake' songs, learn about chord changes, etc. - it's exactly like learning to swim by being thrown into the water!"
  87. ^ [88] "the Polish-born, American-raised, England-based artist..."
  88. ^ [89],"Rubinstein was born in an Lodz, Poland, on January 28, 1887" [90], "He was Polish, hence romantic and exotic."
  89. ^ [91]”Concert II on April 26 will feature "Poland and the New World," highlighting musical creativity from three sources: Polish residents of the U.S., Polish Americans, and UCSB's own stars. Featured composers include Marta Ptaszynska, Frederic Rzewski, Robert Muczynski, Leslie A. Hogan, Wlodzimierz Kotonski, Chris Honett, and Yuval Avnur.“
  90. ^ [92]” I was brought up in an ethnic working-class neighborhood where all good 10-year-old Polish boys played the accordion. But do you know how heavy an accordion is? Put that thing on a 10-year-old's back and watch him try to outrun the bullies in the neighborhood that want to kick his @%# because he plays the accordion. It's not easy. I would come home with a bloody nose and my accordion.“
  91. ^ [93]”Born: Perth Amboy, NJ, July 11, 1959 (but got polish and Italian background) ”
  92. ^ [94] "internationally known Polish soprano..."
  93. ^ [95], "Concert Pianist and Professor Emeritus at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Former Child Prodigy celebrates over 70 years of international concertizing, and her eightieth birthday with an Asian concert tour performing 3 concertos on one concert, concluding with a command performance for the Empress of Japan."
  94. ^ [96] "Stojowski was a Polish composer, pianist, teacher, music critic active in Poland, France and the U.S."
  95. ^ [97]” The son of Polish cabinetmaker Kopernik Jozef Boleslaw Stokowski and his Irish wife Annie Marion Moore, Stokowski was born in London, England, in 1882.”
  96. ^ [98]”Urbaniak was born in Warsaw in 1943 and after graduating from the Academy of Music led a group which included the singer Urszula Dudziak, whom he later married.”
  97. ^ [99] "Bobby Vinton earned the title “The Polish Prince” through longevity and sheer talent..."
  98. ^ [100]”Born Henryk Warszawski, he was a prominent Polish composer of film music and countless show tunes and, from his youth, had exhibited a prodigious talent for music.”
  99. ^ [101]“born in Poland. Moved to the U.S. when still a child.”
  100. ^ [102]“Zachara was born in Poland, trained in Russia, and taught at two colleges in the United States.”
  101. ^ [103]”She was born in the Polish village of Radlow and emigrated with her parents when she was 5.”
  102. ^ [104] "Eileen Ford, head of the legendary modeling agency, declared Dickinson, who is Polish, "Much too ethnic. You'll never work."" [105] "My mother, Jennie Marie Pietrzykoski, was the eldest of nine children. Her Polish-born father owned a little pub in Plymouth, Pennsylvania..."
  103. ^ [106]”Ingraham noted that her Polish mother was a non-practicing Catholic when she raised Ingraham.”
  104. ^ [107]”Jenny -- whose talk show is seen by 24 million viewers each week -- was born 'Janina' to a family of Polish refugees who moved to Canada. "Jenny's parents were always fighting," disclosed the insider. "When she was 10, her mother discovered that Jenny's dad, who ran a bridal shop, was having an affair with his store assistant.“
  105. ^ [108] "Joanna Krupa was born April 23, 1981, in Warsaw, Poland. The daughter of prominent hotelier Steven Krupa, she and her family moved to Chicago's Westside -- a huge Polish community -- when she was only 5 years old. "I grew up with the Polish food and even went to a Polish school for six years," she recalls. "We followed our Polish traditions.""
  106. ^ [109] "The pianist and performer Liberace (1919-1987), half-Polish and half-Italian, was born Władzie Valentino Liberace."
  107. ^ [110] "I am Norweigen and Polish."
  108. ^ [111] "Anthony Radziwill, one of a long line of Polish royals and nephew of President John F. Kennedy."
  109. ^ [112] "PHILBIN: Sajak, Polish. A lot of Polish people in Chicago. SAJAK: We have the pope now, pal."
  110. ^ [113] "She is the girl next door. The blond, WASPy Connecticut lady who lunches occupies the same body as Polish-Catholic Martha Kostyra of Nutley, N.J. She was born in 1941, when the Depression was still a fresh memory, the second of six in a family unencumbered by an abundance of either affection or wealth."
  111. ^ [114]
  112. ^ [115] "WWII Polish officer, Jan Karski"
  113. ^ [116]
  114. ^ [117] "Polish patriot and soldier"
  115. ^ [118]
  116. ^ [119] "Casimir Pulaski is known as a Polish native who became a war hero in two countries Poland and USA"
  117. ^ [120] "Shalikashvili, a Polish-born immigrant, came to America in 1952"
  118. ^ [121] "Col. Matt Urban, an American hero for the ages, a Polish American"
  119. ^ [122] "Remembering Polish American Hero PFC Frank P. Witek"
  120. ^ [123]
  121. ^ [124]
  122. ^ [125] "Walter Ciszek, S.J., was a Polish-American born in Shenandoah"
  123. ^ [126] " 1871, a young Polish immigrant priest, Rev. Jozef Dabrowski"
  124. ^ [127] "Philadelphia Archbishop John Cardinal Krol, was a "fellow Polish" Cardinal of Karol"
  125. ^ [128]
  126. ^ [129] "Cardinal Szoka, a Polish-American and the former archbishop of Detroit"
  127. ^ [130] "Polish-American geophysicist, geologist, geographer, explorer"
  128. ^ [131], "Polish-American engineer and scientist", "contributed significantly to the design and construction of LRV (Lunar Roving Vehicle) used by missions Apollo 15, Apollo 16, and Apollo 17 on the Moon."
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  131. ^ [132] "Casimir Funk, a polish born biochemist"
  132. ^ [133] "Polish Contributors to Our World"
  133. ^ [134] "Roald Hoffmann, Polish-Jewish American , chemist, poet, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1981; PIASA Casimir Funk Award 1995"
  134. ^ [135] "Polish-American physician, educator, virologist, immunologist, recipient of ISNV Pioneer in NeuroVirology Award"
  135. ^ [136], "Polish-American linguist, pioneer in semantics"
  136. ^ [137] "Polish-American Contributions To Our Nation"
  137. ^ [138] "Ralph Modjeski (Rudolf Modrzejewski) Polish-American civil engineer, bridge builder"
  138. ^ [139]
  139. ^ [140] "Polish-American astronomer, educator, Bruce Gold Medal winner"
  140. ^ [141]
  141. ^ [142]
  142. ^ [143] "(aka. Andrzej Wiktor Schally), Polish-American physician- endocrinologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine 1977"
  143. ^ [144] "The story of a remarkable Polish mathematician called Alfred Tarski"
  144. ^ [145] "Polish-Jewish American mathematician, inventor"
  145. ^ [146] "Frank Wilczek, Polish-American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004"
  146. ^ [147] "Polish and US astronomer, discoverer of first planets beyond the Solar System, educator, Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize recipient"
  147. ^ Wozniak - [148] "Wozniak, who is extremely proud of his Polish heritage, has referred to himself as the "second most famous Pole after Marie Curie."
  148. ^ [149] "Polish-American physician, medical pioneer ; founder of the second in the USA hospital run by women physicians and surgeons"
  149. ^ [150]
  150. ^ [151] "Polish-born mathematician"
  151. ^ [152]
  152. ^ [153] "The Polish born right-hander once..."
  153. ^ [154] "Steve Gromek, a Polish man"
  154. ^ [155]
  155. ^ [156] "In the mid-1950s, the Cardinals had a group known as the Polish Falcons; Ray Jablonski, Rip Repulski, and Steve Bilko"
  156. ^ [157] "he was Polish Catholic and in his 20s"
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  162. ^ [162] "as did this Polish-American from a steel-mill town in Pennsylvania"
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  174. ^ [174] "Bobby Czyz is a member of the New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame, and has been inducted into the National Italian-American Sports Hall of Fame as well. Bobby, who happens to be 1/4 Polish and 3/4 Italian, is on the ballot to be inducted into the Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame."
  175. ^ [175] "Polish boxer Andrew Golota (Andrzej Gołota)"
  176. ^ [176] "RACE White; Polish-American"
  177. ^ [177] "In 1930, the handsome Polish Giant..."
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  182. ^ [182] "Polish immigrant by the name of George Adamski"
  183. ^ [183] "Polish-born American named Leo Gerstenzang"
  184. ^ [184] "A second-generation Polish-American, Leo Kozlowski (Dennis' father) started out as a reporter for the Associated Press."
  185. ^ [185] "David Miscavige was born with a twin sister into a Polish-Italian family"
  186. ^ [186]"His father was an immigrant from the Ukraine and his mother was Polish-American."
  187. ^ [187] "Tadeusz Sendzimir was a Polish engineer"
  188. ^ [188] "On one side, Polish."
  189. ^ [189] "Mrs. Mary Stachowicz, a Polish translator"
  190. ^ [190] "Wilfrid Michael Voynich , a Polish book dealer with a speckled past..."
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  192. ^ [192] "The Polish - born Wojnowski grew up in Italy...
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