Jacek is a Polish given name of
Greek origin related
Hyacinth, through the archaic form of ''Jacenty''. Its closely related equivalents are: Jacinto (
Spanish and
Portuguese), Giacinto (
Italian), Jácint (
Hungarian) and Jacint (
Catalan, 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, footballer
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Jacek Bednarek, racewalker
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Jacek Bogucki, politician
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Jacek Bury, Senator
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Jacek Cichocki, politician
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Jacek Dehnel, poet and writer
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Jacek Dukaj, 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, footballer
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Jacek "Tede" Graniecki, rapper
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Jacek Huchwajda, fencer
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Jacek Jezierski, writer and businessmen
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Jacek Jędruch, Polish-American nuclear engineer and historian
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Jacek Kaczmarski, singer, songwriter, dissident
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Jacek Karpiński, computer scientist and engineer
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Jacek Komuda, historian
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Jacek Kościelniak, politician
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Jacek Krupa, politician
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Jacek Krywult, politician
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Jacek Krzynówek, 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, politician
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Jacek Lipiński, 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, mayor of
Kraków
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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,
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, politician and economist
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Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, 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, 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