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Kowalski
Kowalski (feminine: Kowalska, plural Kowalscy) is the 2nd most popular surname in Poland (139,719). Together with Kowal and Kowalczyk it is a cognate to English name Smith.
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Kowalski surname in voivodships
Kowalski is:
- 1st in Mazovia (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
- Bolesław Kowalski (1915-1944) - Polish trade union activist and underground fighter (AL)
- Danuta Kowalska (b.1929) - Polish artist, designer of interior decoration
- 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
- Józef Kowalski-Wierusz (1866-1925) - Polish physicist
- Kazimierz Kowalski (b.1925) - Polish professor of zoology, ordination, mammals paleontology
- Kazimierz Maria Kowalski (b.1926) - Polish writer and journalist
- Marian Kowalski (1821-1884) - Polish astronomer
- 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
- Witold Cezariusz Kowalski (b.1936) - Polish professor of geology
- 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
Fictious
- Kowalski - main character in the 1971 film Vanishing Point
See also
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