Kowalski
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Kowalski (feminine: Kowalska, plural Kowalscy) is the second most common surname in Poland (139,719). It is the patronymic form of the name for Smith (see Kowal).
Kowalski surname in voivodships
Kowalski is:- 1st in Masovia (26,270),
- 2nd in Silesia (11,811),
- 3rd in Kuyavia-Pomerania (12,076),
- 2nd in Lodz Land (15,005),
- 2nd in Lower Silesia (9,429),
- 3rd in Warmia-Masuria (6,480),
- 2nd in West Pomerania (6,345),
- 3rd in Lubusz Land (2,904).
Famous people
- Anna Kowalska (1903-1969) - Polish writer
- Aleksander Kowalski (1908-1951) - Polish trade union activist
- Alfred Kowalski-Wierusz (1849-1915) - Polish painter
- Bernard Louis Kowalski (b.1929) - American director
- Bolesław Kowalski (1915-1944) - Polish trade union activist and underground fighter (AL)
- Danuta Kowalska (b.1929) - Polish artist, designer of interior decoration
- Faustyna Kowalska (1905-1938) - Catholic nun
- Andrew Kowalski (b.1984) - American philosopher, creator of Kowalski's Law
- Franciszek Kowalski (1799-1862) - Polish poet, insurgent of the November Uprising
- Grzegorz Kowalski (b.1942) - Polish sculptor, designer of interior decoration
- Janusz Andrzej Kowalski (b.1935) - Polish artist, designer of interior decoration
- Jerzy Kowalski (1893-1948) - Polish writer and classicial philologist
- Jerzy Bogdan Kowalski (b.1923) - Polish professor of theory of state and law
- Jochen Kowalski (b.1954) - German singer
- Józef Kowalski-Wierusz (1866-1925) - Polish physicist
- Kasia Kowalska (b.1973) - Polish pop rock singer and songwriter
- Kazimierz Kowalski (b.1925) - Polish professor of zoology, ordination, mammals paleontology
- Kazimierz Maria Kowalski (b.1926) - Polish writer and journalist
- Kurt Kowalski (b.1948) - German soccer player
- Marian Kowalski (1821-1884) - Polish astronomer
- Robert Kowalski (b. 1941) - American logician
- Stanisław Kozyr-Kowalski (b.1936) - Polish professor of sociology
- Tadeusz Kowalski (1841-1904) - Polish agronomist, agricultural activist and educator
- Tadeusz Kowalski (1889-1948) - Polish orientalist, expert on Middle East muslim culture and languages
- Thomas Schmidt-Kowalski (b.1949) - German composer
- William Kowalski (b.1970) - American author of Eddie's Bastard
- Witold Cezariusz Kowalski (b.1936) - Polish professor of geology
- Wladek Kowalski (b. 1926) - Polish-Canadian professional wrestler
- Władysław Kowalski (1883-1937) - Polish trade union activist, publicist and politician (KPP)
- Władysław Kowalski (1894-1958) - Polish trade union activist, writer and politician (PSL, ZSL)
- Włodzimierz Tadeusz Kowalski (b.1935) - Polish professor of modern history and publicist
- Zygmunt Kowalski (b.1932) - Polish professor of chemistry
Fictitious
- Kowalski - Crewman on the Seaview. The Submarine on the 1960s TV show Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series).
- Kowalski - main character in the 1971 film Vanishing Point
- Kowalski - one of the penguins in the 2005 film Madagascar
- Leon Kowalski - character in the 1982 film Blade Runner
- Major Charles Kawalsky - character in the popular science fiction television series Stargate SG-1
- Stanley Kowalski - character in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play byTennessee Williams and 1951 film, "A Streetcar Named Desire"
- "Kowalski" - song by British dance/rock band Primal Scream
See also
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