List of Famous people born in Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland

Adam Kownacki

First Name Adam
Last Name Kownacki
Born on March 27, 1989 (age 35)
Height 191 cm | 6'3

Adam Kownacki is a Polish professional boxer. As of February 2020, Kownacki is ranked as the world's tenth best active heavyweight by The Ring magazine.

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Izabella Scorupco

Izabella Dorota Skorupko
First Name Izabella
Born on June 4, 1970 (age 53)
Height 172 cm | 5'8

Izabella Scorupco is a Polish-Swedish actress, singer and model. She is best known for having played Bond girl Natalya Simonova in the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye. She is also remembered for her cover of the Shirley & Company song "Shame, Shame, Shame" which was released in 1992 and became a European hit.

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Andrzej Wajda

First Name Andrzej
Born on March 6, 1926
Died on October 9, 2016 (aged 90)

Andrzej Witold Wajda was a Polish film and theatre director. Recipient of an Honorary Oscar, the Palme d'Or, as well as Honorary Golden Lion and Honorary Golden Bear Awards, he was a prominent member of the "Polish Film School". He was known especially for his trilogy of war films consisting of A Generation (1955), Kanał (1956) and Ashes and Diamonds (1958).

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Samuel Pisar

First Name Samuel
Last Name Pisar
Born on March 18, 1929
Died on July 28, 2015 (aged 86)

Samuel Pisar was a Polish-born American lawyer, author, and a Holocaust survivor.

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Alexander Bogdanov

First Name Alexander
Last Name Bogdanov
Born on August 10, 1873
Died on April 7, 1928 (aged 54)

Alexander Aleksandrovich Bogdanov, born Alexander Malinovsky, was a Russian and later Soviet physician, philosopher, science fiction writer, and Bolshevik revolutionary.

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Maria Andrejczyk

First Name Maria
Last Name Andrejczyk
Born on March 9, 1996 (age 28)
Height 174 cm | 5'9

Maria Magdalena Andrejczyk is a Polish track and field athlete who competes in the javelin throw. She is the 2020 Summer Olympics silver medalist and 2015 European Junior Champion. Her personal best of 71.40 m, set in 2021, is the Polish record as well as the third best result in the history of the women's javelin throw competition.

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Ross Martin

First Name Ross
Last Name Martin
Born on March 22, 1920
Died on July 3, 1981 (aged 61)

Ross Martin was an American radio, voice, stage, film and television actor. Martin was best known for portraying Artemus Gordon on the CBS Western series The Wild Wild West, which aired from 1965 to 1969. He was the voice of Doctor Paul Williams in 1972's Sealab 2020, additional characters in 1973's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids, and additional character voices in 1978's Jana of the Jungle.

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Dziga Vertov

First Name Dziga
Died on February 12, 1954

Dziga Vertov was a Soviet pioneer documentary film and newsreel director, as well as a cinema theorist. His filming practices and theories influenced the cinéma vérité style of documentary movie-making and the Dziga Vertov Group, a radical film-making cooperative which was active from 1968 to 1972. He was a member of the Kinoks collective, with Elizaveta Svilova and Mikhail Kaufman.

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Kamil Szeremeta

First Name Kamil
Last Name Szeremeta
Born on October 11, 1989 (age 34)
Height 176 cm | 5'9

Kamil Szeremeta is a Polish professional boxer who held the European middleweight title from 2018 to 2019. As of June 2020, he is ranked as the world's seventh best active middleweight by The Ring and eighth by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board.

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L. L. Zamenhof

Лейзеръ Заменговъ
First Name L.
Last Name Zamenhof
Born on December 15, 1859
Died on April 14, 1917 (aged 57)

Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof was a Polish ophthalmologist, linguist and the creator of the international language Esperanto, the most widely used constructed international auxiliary language in the world.

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