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Polish People who have made a difference

Polish People who have made a difference. Pope Saint John Paul II. Probably the most famous Pole ever. He was born in Poland and his name was Karol Jozef Wojtyla . When he was elected Pope in 1978 he became the first non-Italian Pope in 455 years.

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Polish People who have made a difference

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  1. Polish People who have made a difference

  2. Pope Saint John Paul II Probably the most famous Pole ever. He was born in Poland and his name was Karol JozefWojtyla. When he was elected Pope in 1978 he became the first non-Italian Pope in 455 years. Pope John Paul II modernised the papacy and visited 129 countries where he would speak to massive gatherings of Catholics. Pope John Paul II improved the Catholic Church's relations with Judaism, Islam, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Anglican Church. Since being canonised (becoming a saint) he is also known as Saint John Paul the Great.

  3. Lech Walesa1943 - • Lech Walesa was an electrician and leader of the Solidarity trade union movement that led Poland out of communism. • He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983 for being determined to solve Poland’s problems through negotiation and cooperation and without violence. • He served as President of Poland between 1990 and 1995. • He was also famous for having a moustache! • Walesa is pronounced Vawensa in English.

  4. Frédéric Chopin1810-1849 • Frederic Chopin was a Polish composer and pianist. • He is considered to be one of the greatest ‘Romantic’ composers. • He left Poland just before the 1830 Polish Uprising which was crushed by the Imperial Russian Army, and he lived in Paris for most of his adult life. • Chopin’s music has a very expressive style and he wrote many small-scale works, and two concertos.

  5. NicolausCopernicus(1473-1543) Copernicus is said to be the founder of modern astronomy. He was born in 1473, in Poland. Copernicus was an astronomer best known for his astronomical theory that: • the sun is at rest near the centre of the universe, • that the earth, spinning on its axis once daily, revolves annually around the sun. • This is called the heliocentric, or sun-centred, system.

  6. Marie Skłodowska-Curie 1867 – 1934 Marie Skłodowska-Curie (she used both names) was a Polish-born physicist and chemist who worked mainly in France. She is famous for her pioneering research on radioactivity. She named the first chemical element that she discovered, polonium, after her native country. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only woman that has ever won in two fields (Physics and Chemistry). She was also the first female professor at the University of Paris. Skłodowska is pronounced ‘Skwodovska’ in English

  7. Irena Szewińska(1946-) Irena Szewińskais a Polish/Jewish sprinter who won seven Olympic medals (three gold ones). She took part in the Olympics five times and she broke the world record ten times. She also broke six world records and is the only athlete (male or female) to have held a world record in the 100m, 200m and the 400m events She was the first woman in the world to run the 400m sprint faster than 50 seconds. Szewińska is pronounced ‘Sheveenyska’ in English.

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