Konopka
Konopka is a Polish surname. People with this name include:
- Gerhard Konopka, German major of the Wehrmacht during WWII
- Jan Konopka, Polish fighter for national independence and a general in Napoleon's army
- Joseph Konopka convicted criminal
- Kazimierz Konopka, Polish activist
- Kazimierz Konopka, S.J., Polish Jesuit priest, graduate and later teacher of Zakład Naukowo-Wychowawczy Ojców Jezuitów w Chyrowie, missionary to Rhodesia, victim of Soviet repressions of Polish citizens (1939–46), killed in NKVD massacres of prisoners in mid-1941
- Magda Konopka, Polish former model and actress
- Piotr Nowina-Konopka, former Minister of State, Polish politician and vice-rector of the College of Europe
- Ron Konopka, biologist who discovered the period gene
- Ted Knight (born Tadeusz Wladyslaw Konopka), American actor
- Zenon Konopka, professional ice hockey center currently playing for the NHL's Minnesota Wild
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