Novak

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Novák, Novak or Nowak is the most common Polish, Czech, Slovak, and Slovenian surname, similar to the popularity of Smith in the United States. It also found all across Eastern Europe among both Christians and Jews from the region. It is usually spelt Novák in Czech and Slovak, Nowak in Polish, and Novak in Slovenian, and pronounced the same way. Many Americans of the surname Nowak have had it anglicized to Novak. Nowak is derived from nový (=new), meaning something similar to new man, newcomer, or stranger in English and was often given to someone who came to a new city or a convert to Christianity. The archaic feminine version of the Polish version is Nowakowa and its plural Nowakowie. In Poland, 203,506 people have this surname. It is also usually spelt Nowak 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) where the "w" is pronunced as a "v". The surname Novak occurs in some other Slavic speaking countries (Croatia etc.) as well.

Nowak surname in voivodships (units of administration in Poland):

[edit] Famous people: Novaks

[edit] Famous people: Nowaks

  • Andrew Nowak (b.1989) - Student, native to the town of hamsons, sounds like a chainsaw.
  • 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 WWII 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
  • Mark Nowak, (b.1964) - American poet and writer
  • 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] See also

  • Novak Electronics, manufacturer of radio control electronic equipment
  • Novak, a progressive metal band from San Francisco, California
  • Novak, a type of gunsight for automatic pistols.
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