Janusz Kazimierz Zawodny (born 1921, Warsaw) is a Polish-American historian, political scientist and World War II soldier and resistance fighter.
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Zawodny fought in the Polish Army during World War II, first during the Invasion of Poland, then with the underground Home Army resistance movement. He took part as a second lieutenant in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising and became a prisoner of war in Oflag VII-A Murnau.
After the war (1945-48), he served with the Polish Second Corps. When the Soviet Union took control of Poland, creating the People's Republic of Poland, he decided to stay abroad and settled in the United States and currently resides in Washington State.
He studied at the University of Iowa and earned his Ph.D in 1955 at Stanford University. He went on to teach at Princeton University, St Antony's College (Oxford University), and Pomona College.
He was a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study (1961-62), and served as an advisor to the National Security Council (1979–84).