Jacek is a Polish given name of
Greek origin related
Hyacinth
Hyacinth or Hyacinthus may refer to:
Nature Plants
* Hyacinth (plant), genus ''Hyacinthus''
** ''Hyacinthus orientalis'', common hyacinth
* Grape hyacinth, ''Muscari'', a genus of perennial bulbous plants native to Eurasia
* Hyacinth bean, ''Labl ...
, through the archaic form of ''Jacenty''. Its closely related equivalents are: Jacinto (
Spanish and
Portuguese), Giacinto (
Italian), Jácint (
Hungarian) and Jacint (
Catalan
Catalan may refer to:
Catalonia
From, or related to Catalonia:
* Catalan language, a Romance language
* Catalans, an ethnic group formed by the people from, or with origins in, Northern or southern Catalonia
Places
* 13178 Catalan, asteroid #1 ...
, shortened to ''Cint'' or ''Cinto'' following the Catalan tradition of
hypocorising through
apheresis).
The name Jacek might refer to:
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Saint Hyacinth (Święty Jacek, Jacek Odrowąż), Dominican friar and saint
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Jacek Andrzej Rossakiewicz
Jacek Andrzej Rossakiewicz (16 October 1956 – 24 September 2016) was a Polish painter, theoretician of art, philosopher and interior architect.
Biography
His first paintings were created in the 1980s. The paintings were inspired by the Pure F ...
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Jacek Bąk
Jacek Waldemar Bąk (; born 24 March 1973) is a Polish former professional footballer who played as a central defender.
Other than his country, he competed in France, Qatar and Austria, notably appearing in more than 150 competitive games for ...
, footballer
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Jacek Bednarek, racewalker
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Jacek Bogucki, politician
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Jacek Bury
Jacek Bury (born 1 January 1967) is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Senate of Poland
The Senate ( pl, Senat) is the upper house of the Polish parliament, the lower house being the Sejm. The history of the Polish Senate stretches b ...
, Senator
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Jacek Cichocki
Jacek Cichocki (born 17 December 1971) is an independent Polish politician and a former member of the Polish Council of Ministers. Cichocki served as the minister of interior in the second cabinet of Prime Minister Donald Tusk and later as chi ...
, politician
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Jacek Dehnel, poet and writer
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Jacek Dukaj
Jacek Józef Dukaj (born 30 July 1974) is a Polish science fiction and fantasy writer. He has received numerous literary prizes including the European Union Prize for Literature and Janusz A. Zajdel Award.
Career
He was born on 30 July 1974 in ...
, science fiction writer
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Jacek Falfus
Jacek Eugeniusz Falfus (born 1 February 1951 in Siemianowice Śląskie) is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 27698 votes in 27 Bielsko-Biała district as a candidate from the Law and Justice
Law ...
, politician
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Jacek Gmoch
Jacek Wojciech Gmoch (born 13 January 1939 in Pruszków) is a former Polish footballer, who later became a trainer and manager of the Poland National Team.
While having a successful football career he graduated in communication from the Warsaw ...
, footballer
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Jacek "Tede" Graniecki, rapper
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Jacek Huchwajda
Jacek Huchwajda (born 3 April 1967) is a German fencer. He competed in the team sabre event at the 1992 Summer Olympics. He currently serves as an assistant coach on the Duke University Fencing team.
Biography
Jacek Huchwajda attended the Kauf ...
, fencer
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Jacek Jezierski
Jacek Jezierski (1722–1805) was a Polish writer and businessman, a member of the Polish nobility and a political writer. From 1775 he was the castellan (governor of the castle) of the town of Łuków. He was also manager of the personal domain of ...
, writer and businessmen
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Jacek Jędruch, Polish-American nuclear engineer and historian
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Jacek Kaczmarski
Jacek Marcin Kaczmarski (22 March 1957 – 10 April 2004) was a Polish singer, songwriter, poet and author.
Life
He was the son of painter Anna Trojanowska-Kaczmarska, a Pole of Jewish background, and the artist Janusz Kaczmarski.
Kaczmarski ...
, singer, songwriter, dissident
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Jacek Karpiński
Jacek Karpiński (9 April 1927 21 February 2010) was a Polish pioneer in computer engineering and computer science.
During World War II, he was a soldier in the Batalion Zośka of the Polish Home Army, and was awarded multiple times with a C ...
, computer scientist and engineer
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Jacek Komuda, historian
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Jacek Kościelniak, politician
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Jacek Krupa
Jacek Jan Krupa (born 11 April 1955 in Skawina) is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm on 2005 parliamentary election, getting 6860 votes in 13 Kraków district from the Civic Platform list. Krupa remained in parliament until his defe ...
, politician
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Jacek Krywult
Jacek is a Polish given name of Greece, Greek origin related Hyacinth (given name), Hyacinth, through the archaic form of ''Jacenty''. Its closely related equivalents are: Jacinto (Spain, Spanish and Portugal, Portuguese), Giacinto (Italy, Italian ...
, politician
*
Jacek Krzynówek
Jacek Kamil Krzynówek (; born 15 May 1976) is a former Polish footballer.
He is regarded as one of the best Polish footballers. He has earned many awards and trophies, not only in Poland, but also abroad. He has earned the honour of twice bein ...
, footballer
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Jacek Kuroń
Jacek Jan Kuroń (; 3 March 1934 – 17 June 2004) was one of the democratic leaders of opposition in the People's Republic of Poland. He was widely known as the "godfather of the Polish opposition," not unlike Václav Havel in Czechoslovakia. Ku ...
, historian, dissident
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Jacek Kurski
Jacek Olgierd Kurski (, born 22 February 1966 in Gdańsk) is a Polish politician and journalist, and the current chairman of the Polish public broadcaster TVP. He was previously a Member of the Sejm (2005–2009), Member of the European Parliam ...
, politician
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Jacek Lipiński
Jacek Lipiński (born 26 February 1966) is a Polish lawyer, prosecutor, and mayor of Aleksandrów Łódzki, Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinc ...
, lawyer, mayor of
Aleksandrów Łódzki
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Jacek Łągwa
Jacek Andrzej Łągwa (born 11 October 1969 in Łódź, Poland) is a Polish musician, composer, actor and vocalist of the famous Polish band Ich Troje.
His parents are actors Janina Borońska
Janina Borońska-Łągwa (born 16 June 1943, Łó ...
, musician and actor
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Jacek Majchrowski
Jacek Maria Majchrowski (born 13 January 1947 in Sosnowiec) is a Polish politician, lawyer, historian, professor at the Jagiellonian University, and the current mayor of Kraków since 2002; making him the longest serving mayor in the history of t ...
, mayor of
Kraków
Kraków (), or Cracow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city dates back to the seventh century. Kraków was the official capital of Poland until 1596 ...
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Jacek Malczewski
Jacek Malczewski (; 15 July 1854 – 8 October 1929) was a Polish symbolist painter who is one of the most revered painters of Poland, associated with the patriotic Young Poland movement following a century of Partitions. He is regarded as the f ...
, painter
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Jacek Małachowski
Jacek Małachowski, of the Nałęcz coat-of-arms (1737–1821) was a Polish nobleman, politician and administrator as well as Polish chancellor.
He was Crown Deputy Master of the Pantry since 1764. Referendary of the Crown in 1764-1780, Deputy ...
,
szlachcic
The ''szlachta'' (Polish: endonym, Lithuanian: šlėkta) were the noble estate of the realm in the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth who, as a class, had the dominating position in th ...
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Jacek Pastusiński
Jacek Pastusiński (born 8 September 1964 in Majdan Królewski, Podkarpackie) is a retired male triple jumper from Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative pro ...
, triple jumper
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Jacek Poniedziałek
Jacek Poniedziałek (born 6 August 1965, Kraków) is a Polish film, theatre and television actor as well as a theatre director and translator.
Life and career
He was born on 6 August 1965 in Kraków and grew up in the city's Olsza II District. ...
, actor
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Jacek Rostowski
Jan Anthony Vincent-Rostowski, also known as Jacek Rostowski (; born 30 April 1951, London), is a Polish-British economist and politician who served as Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland.
He was a candidate ...
, politician and economist
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Jacek Saryusz-Wolski
Jacek Emil Saryusz-Wolski (born 19 September 1948 in Łódź) is a Polish diplomat and PiS ( Law and Justice) politician. He has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since June 2004. He served as Vice President of the European Parliame ...
, politician, diplomat
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Jacek Stopa
Jacek Stopa (born 3 January 1987 in Wrocław) is a Polish International master and Grandmaster chess player.
Chess career
He is a three-time gold medalist of the Polish junior championships: under 12 (1999, Wisła), under 18 (2005, Łeba) an ...
(born 1987), polish chess player
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Jacek Wszoła, high jumper
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Jacek Yerka
Jacek Yerka (born Jacek Kowalski in 1952) is a Polish surrealist painter from Toruń. Yerka's work has been exhibited in Poland, Germany, Monaco, France, and the United States, and may be found in the museums of Poland.
Early life
Jacek Yerka wa ...
, painter
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Jacint Verdaguer i Santaló
Jacint Verdaguer i Santaló (; 17 May 1845 – 10 June 1902) was a Catalan / Spanish writer, regarded as one of the greatest poets of Catalan literature and a prominent literary figure of the Renaixença, a cultural revival movement of the ...
(died 1902), Catalan poet
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Polish masculine given names