List of recipients of the Order of Polonia Restituta
The List of recipients of the Order of Polonia Restituta includes notable recipients of the Order of Polonia Restituta sorted by their profession.
Where possible it also lists their country of origin and order grade. People highly distinguished in more than one field have duplicate entries.
Art
- Marian Konieczny — Polish sculptor
- Olga Boznańska — Polish painter
- Countess Karolina Lanckorońska — Polish art historian and collector
- Kazimierz Ostrowski — Polish painter (Officer's Cross)
- Jerzy Zaruba — Polish graphic artist (Knight's Cross, Officer's Cross)
- Adam Kossowski — Polish painter and muralist
Business and Economics
- Grzegorz Kołodko — Finance Minister of Poland (Commander's Cross)
- Edward Szczepanik — Polish economist and Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile (Knight's Cross)
- Klemens Stefan Sielecki — Engineer and technical director of Fablok (Knight's Cross)
- Henry Hilary Chmielinski — President of the Hanover Bank and Trust (Boston, MA) and founder of the Polish Daily Courier (Boston, MA) (Knight's Cross)
Education
- Władysław Dworaczek — Polish educator (Knight's Cross)
- Wojciech Falkowski — Vice-Chancellor of the Polish University Abroad (PUNO) 2002-2011, Psychiatrist, and Painter (Officer's Cross)
- Anna Radziwiłł — Polish educator, Minister of Education (Commander's Cross)
- Michael Hewitt-Gleeson, Count de Saint-Arnaud Australian scholar, (Officer's Cross)
- Margaret Schlauch — American scholar, naturalised Polish (Officer's Cross)
- Czesław Strumiłło - Polish scientist in the field of chemistry, founder of the theory of drying (Commander's Cross)
Film
- Józef Arkusz — Polish film director (Officer's Cross)
- Gustaw Holoubek — Polish actor (Knight's Cross, Commander's Cross with Star, Grand Cross)
- Lidia Wysocka — Polish actress (Officer's Cross)
- Krystyna Zachwatowicz — Polish actress and costume designer (Knight's Cross)
- Jerzy Stuhr — Polish actor
- Stanisław Zaczyk — Polish actor
Literature
- Jerzy Andrzejewski — Polish author, Ashes and Diamonds (Commander's Cross)
- Józef Białynia Chołodecki — Polish author and historian
- Janusz Korczak — Polish Jewish author and educator
- Stanisław Kutrzeba — Polish author and historian
- Jan Józef Lipski — Polish author and historian (Grand Cross)
- Richard C. Lukas — American author and historian
- Józef Mackiewicz – Polish writer (Commander's Cross)
- Hanna Ożogowska — Polish novelist and poet (Knight's Cross)
- Robert Stiller — Polish translator
- Piotr S. Wandycz — Polish American author and historian
- Jan Andrzej Zakrzewski — Polish journalist and writer
Military
- Deryck William Kingwell — Air Commodore of the RAAF(Royal Australian Air Force) [Deceased]
- Colonel Allen C. House, United States Army
- Franciszek Alter — Polish general
- Władysław Anders — commander of the Polish Armed Forces in the West (Commander's Cross)
- Tasker H. Bliss — American Chief of Staff of the US Army
- O.L Bodenhamer — National Commander of The American Legion
- Zygmunt Bohusz-Szyszko — Polish general (Officer's Cross)
- Władysław Bortnowski — Polish general (Commander's Cross, Officer's Cross)
- Omar Bradley — American General of the Army
- Leonid Brezhnev — Marshal of the Soviet Union and Soviet politician (Grand Cross)
- Edmund Charaszkiewicz — Polish military intelligence officer
- Antoni Chruściel — commander of all Polish armed forces of the Warsaw Uprising (Grand Cross)
- Victor Crutchley — British admiral
- Hieronim Dekutowski — one of commanders of Wolnosc i Niezawislosc (Grand Cross)
- John Dill — British Field Marshal
- Bolesław Bronisław Duch — Polish general (Officer's Cross)
- Dwight D. Eisenhower — President of the United States of America, Supreme Allied Commander (Chévalier-May 18, 1945)[1]
- Wanda Gertz — Polish resistance fighter
- Józef Haller de Hallenburg — Polish general (Commander's Cross)
- William Holmes — British general (Commander's Cross with Star)
- Wilm Hosenfeld — German officer (Commander's Cross)
- Norman Hulbert — British officer
- Ludwik Idzikowski — Polish aviator and pioneer (Officer's Cross)
- Wacław Jędrzejewicz — Polish soldier and diplomat (Grand Cross, Officer's Cross)
- Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski — Polish general and resistance fighter (Commander's Cross, Officer's Cross)
- Jan Karcz — Polish officer (Officer's Cross)
- Adam Koc — Polish officer (Officer's Cross)
- Stanisław Kopański — Polish general (Grand Cross, Officer's Cross)
- Franciszek Kornicki - Polish fighter pilot (Commander's Cross)
- Józef Kowalski — Polish supercentenarian and last veteran from the Polish-Soviet war 1919-1921
- Władysław Kozaczuk — Polish officer and historian (Knight's Cross)
- Roman Krzyżelewski — Polish admiral (Commander's Cross, Officer's Cross, Knight's Cross)
- Włodzimierz Kubala - Polish colonel, military attorney. (Commander's Cross)
- Tadeusz Kutrzeba — Polish general (Commander's Cross, Knight's Cross)
- Witold Łokuciewski — Polish fighter ace (Commander's Cross, Knight's Cross)
- Douglas MacArthur — American Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces
- Peyton C. March — US Army Chief of Staff
- Wacław Micuta — participant in the Warsaw Uprising, UN diplomat (Commander's Cross with Star)
- Joseph T. McNarney — American general (Commander's Cross with Star)
- Martin Dunbar-Nasmith — British officer
- Adam Nieniewski — Polish officer (Officer's Cross)
- Jerzy Pajaczkowski-Dydynski — Polish officer
- Earle E. Partridge — American general
- Hubert Perring — British officer, for services to 303 Squadron
- Sławomir Petelicki — Polish commander of GROM (Commander's Cross, Officer's Cross)
- Witold Pilecki — Polish resistance fighter
- Stanley George Culliford — New Zealand Pilot, for services during Operation Motyl.
- Jadwiga Piłsudska — Polish aviator, daughter of Józef Piłsudski
- Józef Piłsudski — Prime Minister of Poland, First Marshal, Chief of State
- Stanisław Popławski — Polish general (Grand Cross, Commander's Cross with Star, Commander's Cross)
- Arthur John Power — British admiral
- Alexander Pokryshkin - Soviet WWII ace pilot
- Wacław Przeździecki — Polish officer (Commander's Cross)
- Władysław Raginis — Polish officer (Grand Cross)
- Stefan Rowecki — Polish general (Knight's Cross)
- Wilhelm Orlik-Rueckemann — Polish general and military pioneer (Commander's Cross)
- Edward Rydz-Śmigły — Marshal of Poland
- Jan Rządkowski — Polish general
- Danuta Siedzikówna — Polish nurse
- Władysław Sikorski — general, Prime Minister of Poland, Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile
- Jan Sobczyński — Polish painter and soldier
- Stanisław Sosabowski — Polish general
- Włodzimierz Steyer — Polish admiral (Commander's Cross, Officer's Cross)
- Zygmunt Szendzielarz — Polish commander of the 5th Vilnian Home Army Brigade (Grand Cross)
- Stefan Sznuk — Polish general (Commander's Cross)
- Antoni Szylling — Polish general
- Josip Broz Tito — Marshal of Yugoslavia, Yugoslav politician (Grand Crosses) twice awarded
- Władysław Wejtko — Polish general (Commander's Cross)
- Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski — Polish general (Commander's Cross with star)
- Józef Zając — Polish general
- Mariusz Zaruski — Polish general (Grand Cross)
- Georgy Zhukov — Marshal of the Soviet Union and Soviet politician (Commander's Cross with Star)
Group Captain W.A.J. Satchell D.S.O Order of Polonia awarded 15 August 1953 for outstanding services to the Polish Air Force during World War Two.
Music
- Jan Hoffman - Polish pianist and music educator (Officer and Commander's Cross with Star)
- Wojciech Karolak — Polish musician (Knight's Cross)
- Wojciech Kilar — Polish composer (Grand Cross)
- Zofia Lissa — Polish musicologist (Knight's Cross)[2]
- Arthur Rubinstein — Polish American Jewish pianist (Knight's Cross)
- Wladimir Jan Kochanski — Polish American pianist
- Tadeusz Nalepa — Polish composer and guitarist
- Władysław Szpilman — Polish Jewish composer and pianist, protagonist of The Pianist
Politics
.jpeg)
- Władysław Bartoszewski — Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland (Commander's Cross with Star)
- Leonid Brezhnev — Marshal of the Soviet Union and Soviet politician (Grand Cross)
- Adam Bromke — Professor of International Affairs— Statesman (Grand Cross)
- Andrzej Butkiewicz — Political activist and co-founder of the Student Solidarity Committee (Knight's Cross)
- Andrzej Czuma — Minister of Justice of the Republic of Poland
- Dwight D. Eisenhower — President of the United States of America, Supreme Allied Commander (Chévalier-May 18, 1945)[1]
- Osvaldo Dorticos — President of Cuba (Grand Cross), 1973.[3]
- Fidel Castro — Prime Minister of Cuba (Grand Cross), 1973.[3]
- Henryk Józewski — Polish artist and politician
- Mariusz Kamiński — Polish politician, head of the Central Anticorruption Bureau (Commander's Cross)
- Jan Kułakowski — Polish politician, member of the European Parliament (Commander's Cross with Star)
- János Esterházy — most prominent ethnic Hungarian politician in former Czechoslovakia.
- John Lesinski, Sr. — American congressman
- Léon Noël (1888-1987), French ambassador and politician (Grand Cross).
- Jan Nowak-Jeziorański — Polish resistance fighter and activist, Radio Free Europe
- Piotr Nowina-Konopka — Polish politician (Officer's Cross)
- Alvin E. O'Konski -- American Member of Congress
- Alvin M. Owsley — American politician
- Józef Piłsudski — Prime Minister of Poland, First Marshal, Chief of State
- Adam Piłsudski — Polish senator
- Marek Rocki — Polish economometrist and politician (Knight's Cross)
- Jan Rulewski — Polish politician, activist of Solidarity; a Member of the Polish Sejm (1991-2001) and a Senator. (Commander's Cross)
- Ryszard Musielak — activist of Solidarity (Commander's Cross)
- Michał Seweryński — Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education (Knight's Cross)
- Władysław Sikorski — general, Prime Minister of Poland, Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile
- Mário Soares — Prime Minister and President of Portugal
- Edward Szczepanik — Polish economist and Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile (Knight's Cross)
- Adam Szostkiewicz - Polish author and journalist (Officer's Cross)[4]
- Josip Broz Tito — Marshal of Yugoslavia, Yugoslav politician (Grand Crosses) twice awarded
- Lech Wałęsa — President of Poland, Nobel Peace Prize winner (Knight's Cross)
Religion
- Andrzeja Górska — Polish nun (Commander's Cross)
- Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski — Polish priest
- Ignacy Jeż — Polish Catholic Bishop
- Wojciech Lemański — Polish priest
- Lawrence Wnuk — Polish priest
Royalty
- Adam Karol Czartoryski — Polish prince
- Amha Selassie of Ethiopia — last emperor of Ethiopia
- Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia — emperor of Ethiopia
Science and Engineering
- Ryszard Bartel — Polish aviation pioneer (Knight's Cross)
- Gerard Ciołek — Polish architect and historian of parks and gardens (Knight's Cross)
- Seweryn Chajtman — Polish scientist, engineer, teacher of the Industrial Management (Commander's Cross)
- Jan Chodorowski — Polish materials science engineer (Officer's Cross)
- Tadeusz Chyliński — Polish airplane constructor (Knight's Cross)
- Zbigniew Kabata — Polish parasitologist (Grand Cross)
- Stanisław Mrozowski — Polish-American physicist
- Jan Nagórski — Polish aviation pioneer
- Marian Rejewski — Polish mathematician, breaker of the Enigma cipher (Grand Cross)
- Tadeusz Sendzimir — Polish-American inventor (Officer's Cross)
- Czesław Strumiłło — Professor of Chemical and Process Engineering (Commander's Cross)
- Mirosław Vitali — Polish prosthetics pioneer
- Kazimierz Żorawski — Polish mathematician (Commander's Cross)
- Halina Leszczynska— Professor of Chemistry (Officer's Cross)
- Czeslaw Olech — Polish mathematician (Commander's Cross)
- Zdzisław Skupień — Polish mathematician (Knight's Cross, 1988)
Sport
- Leo Beenhakker — Dutch football trainer — Polish national football team coach
- Marek Cieślak — Polish speedway rider (Knight's Cross)
- Mariusz Czerkawski — Polish ice hockey player
- Kazimierz Górski — Polish football coach (Grand Cross — posthumously; Commander's Cross with Star; Commander's Cross)
- Wacław Kuźmicki — Polish decathlete (Knight's Cross)
- Katarzyna Rogowiec — Polish paralympian
- Bogdan Wenta — Polish handball player
- Waldemar Legien — Polish judoka (Officer's Cross)
- Agata Mróz-Olszewska — Polish volleyball player (posthumously, not accepted by her husband)
- Adam Małysz — Polish ski jumper (Officer's Cross and Commander's Cross)
- Natalia Partyka — Polish Table tennis player (Knight's Cross)
Other
- Fernand Auberjonois — Swiss-American journalist
- Olga Drahonowska-Małkowska — founder of scouting in Poland
- Jadwiga Falkowska — activist
- Stefan Franczak (pl:Stefan Franczak) — Jesuit monk, clematis breeder, Commander's Cross, 2009[5]
- Lucjan Kydryński (2006) — journalist and writer
- Franciszek Malinowski — journalist (Officer's Cross)
- Marie Mattingly Meloney — U.S. journalist who raised $1 million to buy radium for Marie Curie's laboratory
- Irena Sendler- Polish humanitarian who saved the lives of 2,500 Jewish children in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II
- Ryszard Siwiec — protester
- Ludwika Wawrzyńska — hero (Commander's Cross)
- Simon Wiesenthal — Austrian Jewish "Nazi-hunter"
- Tadeusz Wrona - Pilot
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "All About Ike: USA and Foreign Decorations of Dwight D. Eisenhower". Dwight D Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum. National Archives and Records Administration (United States Government). Retrieved 6 December 2012.
Poland: Order of Polonia Restituta, Chévalier (May 18, 1945)
- ↑
- ↑ 3.0 3.1
- ↑ Odznaczenia w Krakowie z okazji 25-lecia Wolności
- ↑ "Prezydent RP odznaczył wybitnego ogrodnika". Retrieved August 29, 2012.