Nowak
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Nowak (archaic feminine: Nowakowa, plural Nowakowie) is the most common surname in Poland (203,506 people). In some English-speaking countries (especially the United States), this name may be spelled Novak. See also: Jan Nowak. This name is derivated from the adjactive nowy 'new' and described initially a 'newcomer'.
However, the name Novak can also be derived from Novák (with acute accent on á denoting length of the vowel), the most common surname in the Czech Republic. On the other hand, this surname could also be transliterated into the form Nowak, especially in the German speaking countries (for example in the Austrian capital of Vienna, where large Czech communities settled down at the end of 19th century). Sometimes also the Czech and the Polish immigrants to the United States etc. could mix in some communities where a particular spelling of similar surnames may have been chosen regardless of the ethnicity of a person. Therewithal, the surname Novak occurs in some other Slavic speaking countries (Croatia etc.) as well.
Nowak surname in voivodships (units of administration in Poland):
- Nowak is 1st in Greater Poland (35,011)
- Nowak is 1st in Silesia (31,838)
- Nowak is 1st in Lesser Poland (23,671)
- Nowak is 1st in Lodz Land (15,460)
- Nowak is 1st in Lower Silesia (13,217)
- Nowak is 1st in West Pomerania (7,444)
- Nowak is 1st in Opole Silesia (5,538)
- Nowak is 1st in Lubusz Land (5,444)
- Nowak is 1st in Swietokrzyskie (5,538)
- Nowak is 2nd in Subcarpathia (9,301)
[edit] Famous people: Nowaks
- Edmund Nowak (b. 1918) - Polish mechanical engineer, inventor
- Edmund Nowak (b.1937) - Polish businessman
- Henry J. Nowak (b.1935) - Member of United States House of Representatives (1975-1993)
- Henry J. "Hank" Nowak (b.1968) - Buffalo City Court Judge
- Jan Nowak (1880-1940) - Polish geologist, paleontologist, professor of UJ
- Jan Nowak-Jeziorański (1913-2005) - Polish journalist and WW2 hero
- Jerzy Nowak (b.1923) - Polish actor
- Józef Nowak (1885-1878) - Upper Lusatian poet
- Józef Nowak (1925-1984) - Polish actor
- Józef Nowak (b. 1935) - Polish educational ativist and politician
- Julian Ignacy Nowak (1865-1946) - Polish phicician, veterinarian, bacteriologist, politician
- Kazimierz Nowak (1897-1937) - Polish traveller
- Kazimierz Nowak (b. 1925) - Polish professor of timber technology
- Kazimierz Nowak (b. 1915) - Polish professor of law
- Leopold Rene Nowak (b. 1934) - Polish director, scenarist, actor and journalist
- Leszek Nowak (b.1933) - Polish professor of philosophy
- Lisa Nowak, (b. 1963) - American astronaut
- Roman Nowak (1900-1980) - Polish trade union activist and politician
- Stanisław Nowak (b. 1937) - Polish politician
- Stefan Nowak (b. 1925) - Polish sociologist
- Tadeusz Nowak (b. 1930) - Polish poet
- Tadeusz Nowak (b. 1930) - Polish writer
- Zbigniew Nowak (b.1926) - Polish general and politician
- Zenon Nowak (1905-1980) - Polish trade union actist and politician
- Juliusz Nowak-Dłużewski (1893-1972) - Polish historian of literature
- Merican Nowak-Njechorinski (b.1900) - Upper Lusatian writer, painter and publicist
- Robert Nowak (1964 - present) - Percussion teacher at LVC
[edit] Famous people: Novaks
- Kim Novak (born Marilyn Pauline Novak February 13, 1933) is an American actress
- Michael Novak (born 1933) is a conservative Roman Catholic American philosopher and diplomat
- Slobodan Novak (b.1924) - Croat writer
- Vjenceslav Novak (1859-1903) - Croat writer
- Tereza Nováková (1853-1922) - Czech writer
- Robert Novak - Conservative political commentator
- Nick Novak- Professional American Football Player( kicker)
- Jan Novák - Czech composer
