List of Leopolitans

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The inhabitants of Lviv are commonly known in English as Leopolitans (from the Latin name for the city, Leopolis). The following is a list of famous Leopolitans.

Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

[edit] A

Roman Abraham, general of the Polish army
Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, logician and philosopher
Spirydion Albanski, soccer goalkeeper of Polish National Team
Zofia Albinowska-Minkiewiczowa, painter
Stanislaw Albinowski, economist, columnist and journalist
Bohdan-Ihor Antonych, poet
Szymon Askenazy, historian and politician, founder of the Lvov-Warsaw historical school
Muhammad Asad, translator of Quran into English (born Leopold Weiss)
Herman Auerbach, mathematician
Emanuel Ax, American pianist
Teodor Axentowicz, painter
Erwin Axer, actor and theatre professor

[edit] B

Oswald Balzer, law historian, rector of the Lwów University (1895-1896), founder of the Society of Support of Polish Science in Lwów (Tow. dla Popierania Nauki Pol. we Lwowie), the first scientifical organisation in the city
Stefan Banach, mathematician
Yuri Bashmet, viola soloist
Kazimierz Bartel, mathematician and politician, prime minister of Poland (1926-1930)
Adolf Beck, physiologist (1863-1939)
Alexander Beliavsky, chess master
Władysław Bełza, poet, author of the most popular Polish poem for children
Józef Bem, Polish and Hungarian national hero
Saint Józef Bilczewski, archbishop of Lwów and a Catholic saint
Szymon Okolski (1580-1653), a historian, specialist in heraldry, prowincjał of the Dominican Order
Fabian Birkowski, writer, preacher
Wojciech Bobowski (1610-1675), dragoman and musician in the Ottoman Empire, translated the Bible into Ottoman Turkish
Wojciech Bogusławski, composer
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, general of the Polish army, commander-in-chief of the Home Army
Mieczysław Boruta-Spiechowicz, general of the Polish army
Heinrich Gottfried von Bretschneider, German satirical writer
Martin Buber, philosopher

[edit] C

Emmanuil Chekalyuk, petroleum engineer
Vyacheslav Chornovil, politician
Hryhoriy Chubay, poet
Taras Chubay, leader of Ukrainian rock band Plach Yeremiji
Jan Czekanowski, anthropologist
Anna Czekanowska-Kuklińska, musicologist and ethnographer

[edit] D

Danylo of Halych, 1st King of Galicia, founder of city
Andrzej Dobrowolski, composer
Hryhoriy Dolenko, petroleum geologist, academician
Count Wojciech Dzieduszycki, conservative politician and philosopher
Irena Dziedzic, journalist and Polish TV personality

[edit] F

Ludwik Fleck, biologist
Aleksander Ford, film director
Ivan Franko, poet and linguist, reformer of the Ukrainian language
Mikhail Fridman, Russian oligarch
Ivan Fedorov, founder of book printing in Russia and Ukraine
Count Aleksander Fredro, comedy writer

[edit] G

Mieczysław Gębarowicz, scientist and art historian, director of the Ossolineum Institute during the World War II
Franciszek Ksawery Godebski, director of the Ossolineum and father to Cyprian Godebski, renown sculptor
Georgiy R. Gongadze, journalist kidnapped and murdered in 2000
Andrei Lahush, writer
Zygmunt Gorgolewski, architect, constructor of the Grand Theatre in Lwów (currently Opera Theatre in Lviv)
Kazimierz Górski, football coach
Uri Zvi Greenberg, poet
Artur Grottger, late romanticist painter

[edit] H

Zbigniew Herbert, poet
Mykhailo Hrushevsky, first president of the Ukrainian People's Republic
Lyubomyr Huzar, Cardinal, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

[edit] I

Vasyl Ivanchuk, chess master
Volodymyr Ivasyuk, composer

[edit] K

Bertha Kalich, actress
Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski, general
Stanisław Kasznica, resistance soldier
Zygmunt Kętrzyński, historian, director of Ossolineum institute
Wojciech Kilar, composer
Lubka Kolessa, pianist
Yevhen Konovalets, Ukrainian nationalist leader
Maria Konopnicka, writer
Juliusz Kossak, painter
Jan Krukowiecki, general
Solomiya Krushelnytska, opera singer
Ivan Krypyakevych, historian
Jacek Kuroń, freedom fighter and politician (Solidarity, KOR)
Vilém Kurz, pianist, professor at the Lviv State Conservatory
Wacław Kuchar, talented athlete, multiple champion of Poland in various sports
Ilya Kutik, Russian poet

[edit] L

Kateryna Lahno, chess player
Stanisław Lem, science fiction writer and futurist
Stanisław Leśniewski, philosopher and logician
Antoni Łomnicki, mathematician
Stanisław I Leszczyński, King of Poland
Roman Longschamps de Berier, lawyer, last rector of the Jan Kazimierz University
Ignacy Łukasiewicz, engineer, pioneer of oil industry
Jan Łukasiewicz, philosopher and logician

[edit] M

Stanisław Maczek, Polish WW2 general, Commander Allied (Polish) 1st Armoured Division in Western Europe
Włada Majewska, singer and actress
Kornel Makuszyński, writer of books for children
Alexandra Marinina, writer of detective stories
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, writer, author of Venus in Furs
Kazimierz Michałowski, Egyptologist, founder of Nubiology
Jerzy Michotek, ethnologue
Piotr Mikolasch, pharmacist and chemician, tutor of Ignacy Łukasiewicz, founder of the world oil industry
Ludwig von Mises, free-market economist (born in Lemberg)
Richard von Mises, mathematician (younger brother of Ludwig, also born in Lemberg)
Sigmund Mogulesko, Yiddish singer and actor
Ignacy Mościcki, chemist and President of Poland (1926-1939)
Andrzej Mostowski, mathematician
Paul Muni, actor
Anna Muzychuk, chess player

[edit] N

Lewis Bernstein Namier, historian
Joseph Saul Nathanson, leading rabbinical authority of the 1800s

[edit] O

Janusz Onyszkiewicz, politician, Vice President of the European Parliament

[edit] P

Jan Parandowski, writer
Teodor Parnicki, historian
Wojciech Pszoniak, actor
Witold Pyrkosz, modern polish actor

[edit] R

Karl Radek, international Communist figure
Samuel Judah Löb Rapoport, prominent Austran rabbi
Wilhelm Reich, American psychiatrist
Paolo Dominici Romanus, Italian architect
Eugeniusz Romer, geographer and geologist
Józef Rotblat, scientist and Nobel Peace Prize beneficient, fouder of "Pugwash"
Lillian Roxon, writer
Ruslana, pop singer

[edit] S

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, journalist and BDSM writer whose surname originated the term “masochism”
Henryk Samsonowicz, historian
Markiyan Shashkevych, poet
Andrey Sheptytsky, head of the Ukrainian Church through both the world wars
Roman Shukhevych, general of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army
Count Stanisław Skarbek, city's benefactor
Adam Mikołaj Sieniawski, hetman
Wacław Sobieski, historian
Leopold Staff, poet
Vasyl Stefanyk, writer
Hugo Steinhaus, mathematician
Stanisław Skrowaczewski, composer
Julian Stryjkowski, writer
Bohdan Stupka, actor
Tadeusz Sygietyński, composer
Moritz Szeps, journalist
Wacław Szybalski, medical researcher
Alex Shpaner, medical doctor, physician and surgeon
Leonid Shpaner I, WWII captain, actor
Leon Shpaner, economist