Kashubians - Notable Kashubians

Notable Kashubians

  • Lech Bądkowski (1920–1984) writer, journalist, translator, political, cultural, and social activist
  • Józef Borzyszkowski (1946- ) historian, politician, founder of the Kashubian Institute
  • Jan Romuald Byzewski (1842-1905) Kashubian-born American priest and social activist
  • Florian Ceynowa (1817–1881) political activist, writer, linguist, and revolutionary
  • Hieronim Derdowski (1852–1902) Kashubian-born American writer, newspaper editor, and political activist
  • Günter Grass (1927- ) Nobel Prize-winning German author of Kashubian descent
  • Yurek K. Hinz (1965- ) American computer scientist - professor
  • Marian Jeliński (1949- ) Veterinarian, author, Kashubian activist
  • Wojciech Kasperski (1981- ) film director, screenwriter
  • Zenon Kitowski (1962- ) clarinet player
  • Józef Kos (1900–2007) World War I veteran
  • Gerard Labuda (1916–2010) historian
  • Mark Lilla (1956-) American writer, intellectual historian
  • Aleksander Majkowski (1876–1938) author, publicist, play writer, cultural activist
  • Paul Mattick (1904-1981) Marxist writer, social revolutionary
  • Mestwin II (1220–1294) ruler of united Eastern Pomerania
  • Paul Nipkow (1860–1940) inventor of the first television system called the nipkow disc
  • Jerzy Samp (1951- ) writer, publicist, historian, and social activist
  • Wawrzyniec Samp (1939- ) sculptor and graphic artist
  • Franziska Schanzkowska (1896–1984); aka Anna Anderson, impostor who claimed to be, Anastasia Romanova, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II
  • Danuta Stenka (1962- ) actress
  • Swantopolk II (1195–1266) powerful ruler of Eastern Pomerania
  • Brunon Synak is a professor of sociology and a Kashubian activist
  • David Shulist (Kashubian: Dawid Szulëst) (1951- ) Mayor of Madawaska Valley, Ontario (Canada) and Kashubian activist
  • Friedrich Bogislav von Tauentzien (1710-1791), Prussian general of the Seven Years' War
  • Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel Graf Tauentzien von Wittenberg (1760-1824), Prussian general of the Napoleonic Wars and namesake of Tauentzienstraße in Berlin
  • Jan Trepczyk (1907–1989) poet, song-writer, lexicographer and creator of the Polish-Kashubian dictionary
  • Donald Tusk (1957- ) historian, politician, leader of Civic Platform, Prime Minister of Poland
  • Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg (1759–1830) Prussian Field Marshal of the Napoleonic era

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