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Jaworski
Jaworski ( ; feminine: Jaworska, plural: Jaworscy) is a surname of Polish-language origin. It is related to a number of surnames in other languages. Related surnames People Jaworski/Jaworska * Beata Jaworska (born 1994), Polish basketball player * Chet Jaworski (1916–2003), American basketball player * Daniela Jaworska (born 1946), Polish athlete * Jakub Jaworski (born 1986), Polish speed skater * Leon Jaworski (1905–1982), American attorney * Marian Jaworski (born 1926), Polish cardinal * Matt Jaworski (born 1967), American football player * Mikee Cojuangco-Jaworski (born 1974) Filipino equestrian * Paul Jaworski (1900–1929), American gangster * Rafał Jaworski (born 1973), Polish historian *Renata Jaworska (born 1979), Polish artist * Robert Jaworski (born 1946), Filipino basketball player and politician * Robert Jaworski Jr. (born 1972), Filipino basketball player * Ron Jaworski (born 1951), American football player * Jean-Philippe Jaworski (born 1969), French fantasy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Jaworski
Robert Vincent Salazar Jaworski Sr. (; born March 8, 1946) is a Filipino former professional basketball player, head coach and politician who served as a Senator of the Philippines from 1998 to 2004. He played 23 seasons in the Philippine Basketball Association. He is widely regarded as one of the best and most popular PBA players of all-time. He was named part of the PBA's 40 Greatest Players and was inducted into the PBA Hall of Fame in 2005. Early life and college career Born to an American father of Polish descent, Theodore Vincent Jaworski and a Filipino mother of Ilocano descent, Iluminada Bautista Salazar. Jaworski grew up in the streets of Manila where he was first introduced to basketball, rising to prominence in the collegiate leagues, where in 1964, he played for the University of the East Red Warriors in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP). Jaworski delivered outstanding performances in the 1965 and 1966 UAAP seasons resulting in back-to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Jaworski
Partner owner , highlights= * Pro Bowl (1980) * Bert Bell Award (1980) * Philadelphia Eagles Hall of Fame ;NFL record * Longest touchdown pass: 99 yards (tied) , statlabel1= TD– INT , statvalue1=179–164 , statlabel2=Yards , statvalue2=28,190 , statlabel3=Passer rating , statvalue3=72.8 , nfl=ron-jaworski , pfr=JawoRo00 Ronald Vincent Jaworski (born March 23, 1951) is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL). He was also an NFL analyst on ESPN. He is the CEO of Ron Jaworski Golf Management, Inc., based out of Blackwood, New Jersey, and manages golf courses in southern New Jersey, northeast Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. He also owned part interest in the Philadelphia Soul of the Arena Football League, where he also served as Chairman of the Executive Committee for the league. Jaworski was nicknamed "Jaws" by Philadelphia 76ers player Doug Collins prior to Super Bowl XV. Jaworski started the vast majority ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leon Jaworski
Leonidas "Leon" Jaworski (September 19, 1905 – December 9, 1982) was an American attorney and law professor who served as the second special prosecutor during the Watergate Scandal. He was appointed to that position on November 1, 1973, soon after the Saturday Night Massacre of October 19–20, 1973, which included the dismissal of his predecessor Archibald Cox. Background Jaworski was born in Waco in central Texas. His mother, Marie (Mira), was an Austrian immigrant, and his father, Joseph Jaworski, was a Polish immigrant who was an evangelical minister. He was named after ancient Spartan king Leonidas, and had a brother named Hannibal. An earnest student who studied at night by the light of oil lamps, he was a champion debater at Waco High School, graduated from Baylor Law School and received his master's degree in law at the George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C. Legal career In 1925, he became the youngest person ever admitted to the Texas bar. After ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marian Jaworski
Marian Franciszek Jaworski ( uk, Мар'ян Францішек Яворський, 21 August 1926 – 5 September 2020) was a Cardinal Priest and Archbishop of Lviv of the Latins in the Roman Catholic Church. He was a close friend of Pope John Paul II. Biography Early Years Born the son of Wincenty and Stanisława Łastowiecka in Lwów, Poland (''now Lviv, Ukraine''), his family was expelled from Ukraine in 1945 when the Soviets directed a " repatriation drive" for Poles living within the former borders of Poland in the entire Kresy region. Jaworski began his studies in Poland at the Lwów Major Seminary and was ordained in Kraków on 25 June 1950. He served as a priest for two years (1950–1952) at a parish near the Ukrainian border before returning to the Jagiellonian University to complete a Doctorate in Philosophy. He had three doctorates by 1965 – one in theology from the Jagiellonian University, and Ph.D.s from the Lublin Catholic University and Warsaw Theolog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Jaworski
Paul Jaworski (born Paul Poluszynski, 1900, died January 21, 1929) was a Polish-American gangster born in Poland. He immigrated to the United States in 1905. Although born to Catholic parents, when offered the services of a chaplain before his execution Jaworski said: "I preached atheism since the day I quit singing the choir. A man is yellow if he spends his life believing in nothing and then comes crawling to the church because he is afraid his death is near." First armored car robbery He was the leader of the Flathead gang, which committed the first-ever armored car robbery, on March 11, 1927. The gang stole over $104,000 from an armored vehicle on Bethel Road (now Brightwood Road), Bethel, (now Bethel Park), 7 miles outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The bandits placed 500 pounds of black powder (stolen the previous day from nearby Mine 3 in Mollenaur, PA) under the roadbed, and made off with money that was on its way to Coverdale, Pennsylvania for the Pittsburgh Termin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikee Cojuangco-Jaworski
Mikaela María Antonia "Mikee" de los Reyes Cojuangco-Jaworski (born February 26, 1974) is a Filipino sports official, equestrienne, model, former actress and television host. She was a gold medalist at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea. Early life Cojuangco-Jaworski was born to Jose Cojuangco, Jr., former Congressman of Tarlac and Tingting Cojuangco, former Governor of Tarlac and now president of the Philippine Public Safety College. Her father is a member of the affluent Cojuangco family, who owns a 6,000-hectare sugar plantation known as Hacienda Luisita. She is the third of five daughters: Luisita C. Bautista, Josephine C. Guingona, Margarita Demetria C. Zini and Regina Patricia Jose Cojuangco. She is also a niece of former Philippine President Corazon Cojuangco-Aquino, first cousin of fellow actress Kris Aquino and former Philippine President Noynoy Aquino. Her first rise to prominence was as a model for a Swatch commercial in 1991, where she appeared with Alvi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chet Jaworski
Chester Stanley Jaworski (November 8, 1916 – October 16, 2003) was the University of Rhode Island (URI)'s first All-American selection in men's basketball. As a senior in 1938–39, he led the nation in scoring at 22.9 points per game and was named the Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year as well as a Consensus NCAA First Team All-American. He scored a career-high 44 points in December 1938. Jaworski played the forward position in basketball, but he also earned three varsity letters for the school's baseball team and one letter for the football team A football team is a group of players selected to play together in the various team sports known as football. Such teams could be selected to play in a match against an opposing team, to represent a football club, group, state or nation, an All-st .... For his achievements, Jaworski was enshrined into both the URI and New England Basketball Halls of Fame. He was a member of the Bristol Tramps champions o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Philippe Jaworski
Jean-Philippe Jaworski (born 1969) is a French author of fantasy literature and role-playing games. Life Born in 1969, Jaworski is a teacher of French literature at a ''lycée'' in Nancy. In 1983, having become interested in role-playing games, he wrote two amateur pen and paper role-playing games: ''Tiers âge'', based on the Third Age of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, and '' Te deum pour un massacre'', a period adventure taking place in 16th century France during the Wars of Religion. ''Te deum pour un massacre'' was eventually published in 2005. Jaworski published his first work of fiction, '' Janua Vera'', in 2007, and was awarded that year's '' Prix du Cafard cosmique'' for it. This collection of novellas is set in a fantasy world, ''Le Vieux Royaume'', characterized by a low degree of supernatural activity and inspired by swashbuckler novels and historical fiction. Jaworski continued to develop this world in his first novel, ''Gagner la guerre''. Published in 2009, it w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jakub Jaworski
Jakub Jaworski (born 29 July 1986 in Bialystok) is a Polish short-track speed-skater. Jaworski competed at the 2010 Winter Olympics for Poland. In the 1500 metres, he finished fourth in his first round heat, failing to advance. placing 27th overall. As of 2013, Jaworski's best performance at the World Championships came in 2012, when he placed 19th in the 1500 metres. As of 2013, Jaworski has not finished on the podium on the ISU Short Track Speed Skating World Cup The Short Track Speed Skating World Cup is a series of international short track speed skating competitions, organised yearly by the International Skating Union since the winter of 1998/1999. Every year during the winter, a number of competitions on .... His top World Cup ranking is 43rd, in the 1000 metres in 2007-08. References 1986 births Living people Polish male short track speed skaters Olympic short track speed skaters of Poland Short track speed skaters at the 2010 Winter Olympics Sportspeople fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Jaworski
Matthew Joseph Jaworski (born October 23, 1967) is a former American football linebacker who played eight games with the Indianapolis Colts during the 1991 season. Life Jaworski was born in 1967 in Blasdell, New York and attended Colgate University Colgate University is a private liberal arts college in Hamilton, New York. The college was founded in 1819 as the Baptist Education Society of the State of New York and operated under that name until 1823, when it was renamed Hamilton Theologi .... References Living people 1967 births American football linebackers Colgate Raiders football players Indianapolis Colts players Players of American football from New York (state) People from Erie County, New York {{Linebacker-1960s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walery Jaworski
Walery Jaworski (born March 20, 1849 in Florynka – died July 17, 1924 in Kraków) was one of the pioneers of gastroenterology in Poland. In 1899 he described bacteria living in the human stomach that he named ''Vibrio rugula''. He speculated that they were responsible for stomach ulcers, gastric cancer and achylia. It was one of the first observations of Helicobacter pylori. He published those findings in 1899 in a book titled ''Podręcznik chorób żołądka'' (''Handbook of Gastric Diseases'') but it was available only in Polish and went unnoticed. His findings were independently confirmed by Robin Warren and Barry Marshall, who received the Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ... in 2005. References 1849 births 1924 deaths Polish gastroentero ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tadeusz Jaworski
Tadeusz Jaworski (born 26 September 1945) is a retired Polish sprinter who specialized in the 100 and 200 metres. He was born in Poznań and represented the club Energetyka Poznań. At the inaugural 1964 European Junior Championships he won the silver medal in the 200 metres, as well as a gold medal in the 4 x 100 metres relay and a silver medal in the medley relay where he ran the opening leg. At the 1967 European Indoor Games he won a silver medal in the 4 x 300 metres relay, which he ran together with Edward Romanowski, Jan Balachowski and Edmund Borowski Edmund Borowski (23 January 1945 – 22 August 2022) was a Polish Sprint (running), sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres. At the 1966 European Athletics Championships, 1966 European Championships he won a gold medal in the 4 x 400 .... He also competed in the 50 metres without reaching the final. References 1945 births Living people Polish male sprinters Sportspeople from Poznań {{ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
