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Urszula
Urszula may refer to: *Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa (1705–1753), Polish-Lithuania-Belarusian noble dramatist and writer *Urszula Augustyn (born 1964), Polish politician *Urszula Dudziak (born 1943), Polish jazz vocalist *Urszula Gacek (born 1963), British-born Polish member of the European Parliament *Urszula Kasprzak, usually known simply as Urszula (born 1960), Polish singer * Urszula Kielan (born 1960), retired high jumper from Poland * Urszula Krupa (born 1949), Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament *Urszula Mayerin (1570–1635), mistress to King Sigismund III of Poland *Urszula Modrzyńska (born 1928), Polish stage and film actress *Urszula Piwnicka, née Jasińska (born 1983), Polish javelin thrower *Urszula Plenkiewicz (1921–2021), Polish scout and liaison officer *Urszula Radwańska (born 1990), Polish tennis player *Urszula Sadkowska (born 1984), Polish judoka *Urszula Sipińska (born 1947), Polish singer-songwriter, pianist and architect *Urszula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urszula Radwańska
Urszula Radwańska (; born 7 December 1990) is a Polish professional tennis player. Radwańska has won one doubles title on the WTA Tour, as well as seven singles and ten doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 8 October 2012, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 29. On 21 September 2009, she peaked at No. 74 in the doubles rankings. As a junior player, Radwańska won the 2007 Wimbledon girls' singles title, culminating in the junior year-ending world No. 1 ranking. Nicknamed Ula, she is the younger sister of Agnieszka Radwańska. Tennis career As a junior player, Radwańska won Grand Slam titles, including the 2007 Wimbledon girls' singles, culminating in the junior year-ending world No. 1 ranking. This was the launching pad into her professional career, where she has been getting into WTA main draws via qualifying and wildcards. In 2007, Radwańska played in the main draw of three WTA Tour tournaments. She lost in the first round of the Tier II Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urszula Kasprzak
Urszula Beata Kasprzak, usually known simply as Urszula, (born 7 February 1960 in Lublin, Poland) is a Polish pop and rock singer and also a piano player and accordionist. She recorded 15 albums, her music was used in TV and cinema films, and she acted in several films herself. She gained popularity in Poland especially after recording music with the Polish rock band Budka Suflera Budka Suflera (, " prompter's box") was a Polish rock band which was started in 1969 in Lublin by Krzysztof Cugowski. Although they disbanded soon after, Cugowski and Romuald Lipko reformed the band in 1974 and were active until 2014. History .... Discography Studio albums Compilation albums Live albums References External links Official website {{DEFAULTSORT:Kasprzak, Urszula 1960 births Living people Musicians from Lublin Polish women singers Polish pop singers Polish rock singers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urszula Mayerin
Urszula Meyerin (also, ''Meierin''; 1570–1635) was a politically influential Polish courtier and mistress to King Sigismund III of Poland. Her real surname may have been ''Gienger'' (or ''Gienger von Grünbüchl''), but that remains in dispute; Władysław Czapliński, ''Władysław IV i jego czasy'' (Władysław IV and His Times). PW "Wiedza Poweszechna". Warszawa 1976, p. 18 she signed her letters ''Ursula Meyerin''. In the German language, that surname means "chamberlain", "administrator", "manager". Early life Urszula was most likely born near Munich in Duchy of Bavaria in a poor noble family. She was the daughter of Anna, a Bavarian burgher lady, and (probably) one of the Habsburgs. Meyerin came to Graz as a child in the 1580s. She was pretty in her youth, and some time later was chosen by Maria Anna of Bavaria to become mistress to King Sigismund III of Poland. Maria Anna's own daughter ( Anna of Habsburg) was fiancée to the Polish King, but was unattractive, and the H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urszula Sipińska
Urszula Sipińska (born September 19, 1947) is Polish singer-songwriter, architect and writer. Within twenty years of her musical career she earned numerous hits in Poland, including "Zapomniałam", "To był świat w zupełnie starym stylu", "Są takie dni w tygodniu", "Chcę wyjechać na wieś" and "Mam cudownych rodziców". She has won many awards and performed in Poland and abroad. At the turn of the 1980s and 1990s, Sipińska ended her singing career, focusing on architecture and writing. Biography Urszula Sipińska was raised in Wilda, Poznań with elder sister Elżbieta and younger brother Stanisław. She went to music school where she learned to play piano, and later studied Interior Design at University of Fine Arts in Poznań. Although musically active already in her student years, it was not until 1967 that her singing career took off, when she performed "Zapomniałam" at the National Festival of Polish Song in Opole. The song, which she had co-written with her sister, be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urszula Dudziak
Urszula Bogumiła Dudziak-Urbaniak (born 22 October 1943) is a Polish jazz vocalist. She has worked with Krzysztof Komeda, Michał Urbaniak (her ex-husband), Gil Evans, Archie Shepp, and Lester Bowie. In 2007, her 1970s song "Papaya" gained widespread popularity in Asia and Latin America. Career Dudziak was born in the Straconka, now a neighbourhood of Bielsko-Biała, Poland. She studied piano, but began to sing in the late 50s after hearing records by Ella Fitzgerald. Within a few years, she was one of the most popular jazz artists in her native country. She met and later married Michał Urbaniak. In the late 1960s, the couple began to tour overseas and in the 1970s settled in New York City. Dudziak customarily eschews words in favour of wordless vocalising that is far more adventurous than scat. Already gifted with a five-octave vocal range, Dudziak employs electronic devices to extend possibilities of her voice. She has frequently worked with leading contemporary musicians, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urszula Plenkiewicz
Urszula Plenkiewicz (; 15 June 1921 – 24 January 2021) was a Polish scout and liaison officer of the Bureau of Information and Propaganda of the ZWZ-AK Main Command. She taught at the covert neighbourhood school and served as a soldier in the Sub-district V of Mokotów of the District of Warsaw Union of Armed Struggle. Plenkiewicz was apprehended by the Gestapo in November 1942 and deported to the female wing of the Auschwitz concentration camp known as Birkenau, where she escaped the death march in January 1945. She was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, the Cross of the Home Army, and the Auschwitz Cross, as well as being recognised Righteous Among the Nations. Biography Plenkiewicz was born in Warsaw, Poland on 15 June 1921. She was the daughter of Leokadia Gowacka and Feliks Gowacki, a state police officer who was murdered by the NKVD in Kalinin in 1940, and she had a younger sister. In order to serve Poland as a scout, Plenkiewicz joined the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urszula Urbaniak
Urszula Urbaniak (born 27 December 1962) is a Polish filmmaker and television director. Urszula Urbaniak graduated in directing from the National Film School in Łódź (''PWSFTviT'') in 1991. She then went on to gain an M.A. in Directing at the National Film and Television School in the United Kingdom. She has directed shorts, documentaries and several dramas for Polish television. Those dramas include ''Nina'' (1994), '' Górski Hotel'' (from Václav Havel's play, 1995), '' Myra Gets Married'' (from F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1996) and ''Room 303'' (1997). In 1999, her film ''The Junction'' ('' Torowisko'') won several awards including First Film Special Distinction at the Montréal World Film Festival, the Jury Prize at the Sarajevo Film Festival and the Audience Award at the Torino International Festival of Young Cinema. She has since worked on several Polish TV productions [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urszula Augustyn
Urszula Danuta Augustyn (born 1 September 1964 in Tarnów Tarnów () is a city in southeastern Poland with 105,922 inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of 269,000 inhabitants. The city is situated in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship since 1999. From 1975 to 1998, it was the capital of the Tarn ...) is a Polish politician. A member of the Polish parliament of the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th term. Since 2019, deputy-chairman of Commission for Petitions and a member of Commission for Culture and Media in Sejm. See also * Members of Polish Sejm 2005-2007 References External links Urszula Augustyn - parliamentary page- includes declarations of interest, voting record, and transcripts of speeches. Women members of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland Civic Platform politicians Politicians from Tarnów 1964 births Living people 21st-century Polish women politicians Members of the Polish Sejm 2005–2007 Members of the Polish Sejm 2007–2011 Members of the P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa
Francesca Ursula Radziwill (February 13, 1705, Czartorysk, Chartorysk – May 23, 1753, Navahrudak), was a Polish writer and playwright, the first female writer on the territory of modern Poland and Belarus. She was the Princess (equivalent to Duchess), the last female representative of the House of Wiśniowiecki, Wiśniowiecki noble house and a wife of Michał Kazimierz "Rybeńko" Radziwiłł, Michael Casimir Radziwill "Rybonka". Biography Francesca Ursula (''Polish'': Franciszka Urszula, ''Belarusian'': Frantsishka Urshulia) was the only child of famous and wealthy parents. Her father Prince (the original title of nobility “Knyaz” is translated as prince but equivalent to duke) Janush-Anton Wiśniowiecki (1678–1741) was the Castellan of Kraków, governor of Vilnius, Vilna and Kraków, mayor of Pinsk, and his wife Théophile Leshchinskaya (1680–1757) was a daughter of the Royal family, Royal epicalyx and Cup-Bearer of the Crown, cupbearer, governor of Podlasie, mayor of Ko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urszula Gacek
Urszula Józefa Gacek (born 17 March 1963) is a Polish politician and a former member of the European Parliament, representing Civic Platform. Between 2014 and 2016 she was Consul General at the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in New York City. Early life Gacek was born in Urmston, Lancashire, England, and studied at Oxford University. She then worked as a financial analyst and as an author of chemical and energy publications before entering politics. Political life Gacek served as a member of the Polish Senate for the Civic Platform party between 2005 and 2007. In 2007 she became a Member of the European Parliament and sat with her colleagues in the EPP-ED group, serving, amongst others, on the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and the Delegation for Relations with the USA. From 3 February 2011 to 30 November 2014 she was the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Poland to the Council of Europe The Council of Europe (CoE; french: Cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urszula Zamoyska
Urszula Zamoyska (1750-1808), was a Polish noblewoman and socialite, niece of king Stanisław August Poniatowski. She is known for her public role during the reign of her uncle, when she played the ceremonial role of the hostess of his court. Life She was the daughter of Ludwika Maria Poniatowska and Jan Jakub Zamoyski. Her parents separated shortly after her birth. In 1763, her maternal uncle, Stanisław August Poniatowski, was elected king of Poland. In 1773, she married Count Wincenty Potocki (d. 1825). Her marriage was discontinued by a divorce in 1777. According to the diary of the king, the fault was with her spouse. Her divorce was subject to a poem by Ignacy Potocki. Gregory Potemkin presented a marriage proposal, but the king did not support it. She married secondly to Michal Jerzy Mniszech in 1781. Hostess of the Royal Court She played a significant role during the last two decades of her uncle's reign. As the king was unmarried and there was no queen, his favorit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urszula Modrzyńska
Urszula Modrzyńska (; 23 February 1928 – 11 December 2010) was a Polish stage and film actress. Modrzyńska began her career on stage in 1949 in Wilam Horzyca Theater in Toruń. In the 1950s and 1960 she played several memorable parts in movies by Polish directors, namely by Andrzej Wajda (Dorota in ''Pokolenie'' - 1955)) and Aleksander Ford (Jagienka in ''Krzyżacy'' - 1960). In the 1970s she played only smaller parts in movies by young directors, as in ''Droga w świetle księżyca'' by Witold Orzechowski (1972), ''Rozmowa'' by Piotr Andrejew (1974), and ''Zdjęcia Próbne'' by Agnieszka Holland, Paweł Kędzierski and Jerzy Domaradzki (1976), concentrating on her theater work at Nowy Theater in Łódź. She retired in 1983 and died on 11 December 2010 in Łódź Łódź, also rendered in English as Lodz, is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located approximately south-west of Warsaw. The city's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
