Adamowicz

	Adamowicz Adamowicz is a Polish surname; it may refer to: * Adamowicz brothers Benjamin (born Bolesław) Adamowicz (1898–1979) and Joseph (born Józef) Adamowicz (1893–1970) Adamowicz, Poland-born American businessmen and amateur aviators known for their transatlantic flight in 1934 * Irena Adamowicz (1910–1973), Polish scout and resistance worker during World War II * Katarzyna Adamowicz (born 1993), Polish chess player * Laurent Adamowicz, French businessman, entrepreneur, lecturer, author, and public health advocate. * Magdalena Adamowicz, (born 1973), Polish lawyer and the widow of Paweł Adamowicz * Paweł Adamowicz (1965–2019), Polish politician, mayor of Gdańsk * Tony Adamowicz Tony Adamowicz (May 2, 1941 – October 10, 2016) was an American racing driver, active from 1963 until his death. He won the Under 2-Liter class of the 1968 Trans-Am Championship and the 1969 SCCA Continental Championship. Early life Adamowicz ... (1941–2016), American racing driver { ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Paweł Adamowicz Paweł Bogdan Adamowicz (; 2 November 1965 – 14 January 2019) was a Polish politician and lawyer who served as the city mayor of Gdańsk from 1998 until his assassination in 2019. Adamowicz was one of the organizers of the 1988 Polish strikes before becoming the head of the strike committee. In 1990, he was elected to the Gdańsk City Council, chairing the body from 1994 during his second term and holding this post until 1998. He was elected Mayor of Gdańsk in 1998 and reelected in 2002 with 72% of the vote. In 2018, he was reelected as an independent. He was known as a liberal, progressive figure, speaking in support of LGBT rights, immigration, and of minority ethnic groups such as Kashubians. On 13 January 2019, Adamowicz was stabbed during a live charity event in Gdansk, the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity's 27th Grand Finale by 27-year-old Stefan Wilmont, a former inmate diagnosed with schizophrenia. Adamowicz died the following day from his injuries, at the age o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Irena Adamowicz Irena Adamowicz (11 May 1910 – 12 August 1973), was a Polish-born scout leader and a resistance member during World War II. She was a courier for the underground Home Army (''Armia Krajowa''). In 1985, Adamowicz was posthumously bestowed the title of the Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem in Jerusalem for her activities involving providing information to a number of Jewish ghettos in occupied Poland. Biography Adamowicz was born in Warsaw, to a Szlachta, Polish noble family and held a degree in social work from the University of Warsaw before World War II. Irena Adamowicz: Sprawiedliwy wśród Narodów Świata. MHŻP, Warsaw. She served as one of the leaders of the Polish Scouting Association, Polish Scout movement (''Harcerz Polski'') coordinating its activities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Magdalena Adamowicz Magdalena Adamowicz (née Abramska; born 10 April 1973) is a lawyer and the widow of Paweł Adamowicz, a Polish politician. She was elected to the European Parliament in the 2019 election as part of the center-left European Coalition opposition. She has since been serving on the Committee on Transport and Tourism. In addition to her committee assignments, Adamowicz is part of the Parliament's delegation for relations to South Africa. She is also a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Seas, Rivers, Islands and Coastal Areas and the URBAN Intergroup. Biography Educational career Magdalena Adamowicz studied in Primary School number 14 named after Janusz Korczak in Słupsk and 1st High School named after Bolesław III Wrymouth in Słupsk. Then she graduated from the faculty of law at the University of Gdańsk and completed Legal Counsel application. In 2003 she was awarded a Gdańsk Doctor of Philosophy at the faculty of law for her dissertation: ''The role of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Laurent Adamowicz Laurent Adamowicz is a French businessman, entrepreneur, lecturer, author, and public health advocate. He is the founder and president of the public charity EChO – Eradicate Childhood Obesity Foundation and a member of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Nutrition Round Table. Education Adamowicz graduated with a B.A. from ESCP Europe and subsequently obtained an MBA from the Wharton School. Career Adamowicz was a co-founder of Global Commerce Technology Company (GC Tech SA), a technology company that introduced the first micro-payments system on the Internet in 1995. He organized the buyout of Fauchon in January 1998. Fauchon operated 650 stores in 34 countries. Since 2005, Adamovicz he has been a senior lecturer, a speaker at TED Conferences, an author, and a judge of academic competitions, including the annual business plan competition at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard College's Top Chef Competition, the Harvard President’s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Adamowicz Brothers Brothers Benjamin Adamowicz (born in Krajsk, Russian Empire, 1898; died June 1979, New York), and Joseph Adamowicz (born in Jankowszczyzna, Russian Empire, 1893; died November 1970, New York), born Bolesław and Józef Adamowicz, were American businessmen of Polish descent and amateur aviators, who were known for their transatlantic flight in 1934. Early life They were born in and Janowszczyzna (near ), Wilejka powiat, Vilna Governorate of the Russian Empire (now — Minsk Region, Belarus). Before World War I they emigrated to the United States and after working in a sugar factory, they started their own small business in New York City, in 1918, producing soda water and soft drinks. In 1928, they flew in an aircraft for the first time as passengers, sparking their enthusiasm for aviation. They bought a Waco biplane and learned to fly at a basic level. Impressed by trans-Atlantic flights, they decided to fly across the Atlantic themselves. In May 1932 they won a minor tourist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Katarzyna Adamowicz Katarzyna Adamowicz (born 7 January 1993) is a Polish chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to dist ... player who holds the title of Woman FIDE Master (WFM) (2009). Biography Katarzyna Adamowicz many times participated in the Polish Youth Chess Championships in different girls' age groups, where she won six medals: two gold (2005 - U12, 2007 - U14), three silver (2006 - U14, 2009 - U16, 2011 - U18) and bronze (2007 - U20). With chess club ''Hetman-Politechnika Koszalińska'', she twice won the Polish Team's Blitz Chess Championships (2007, 2009). Katarzyna Adamowicz repeatedly represented Poland at the European Youth Chess Championships and World Youth Chess Championships in different age groups, where she won a gold medal in 2009, at the European Youth Chess Championship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]