The List of recipients of the Order of Polonia Restituta includes notable recipients of the

Order of Polonia Restituta The Order of Polonia Restituta ( pl, Order Odrodzenia Polski, en, Order of Restored Poland) is a Polish state decoration, state Order (decoration), order established 4 February 1921. It is conferred on both military and civilians as well as on al ...

sorted by their profession. Where possible it also lists their country of origin and order grade. People highly distinguished in more than one field have duplicate entries.

Art

Marian Konieczny Marian Adam Konieczny (13 January 1930, Jasionów – 25 July 2017 Jaroszowiec) was a Polish sculptor and politician, Professor and Dean at the Faculty of Sculpture of the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Life A 1954 graduate of the ...

— Polish sculptor *

Władysław T. Benda Władysław Teodor "W.T." Benda (15 January 1873 – 30 November 1948) was a Polish painter, illustrator, and designer. Early life The son of musician Jan Szymon Benda, and a nephew of the actress Helena Modrzejewska (known in the United State ...

— Polish-American artist *

Olga Boznańska Olga Boznańska (15 April 1865 – 26 October 1940) was a Polish painter of the turn of the 20th century. She was a notable painter in Poland and Europe, and was stylistically associated with the French impressionism, though she rejected this lab ...

— Polish painter *

Bohdan Butenko Bohdan Butenko (8 February 1931 – 14 October 2019) was a Polish cartoonist, illustrator, comic book writer and artist, as well as puppet designer.

— Polish cartoonist * Józef Hen - Polish novelist (Commander's Cross with Star) *

Ryszard Horowitz Ryszard Horowitz (born May 5, 1939) is a Polish-born American photographer recognized as a pioneer of special effects photography that predates digital imaging. Early life Horowitz was born in Kraków, Poland on May 5, 1939. Four months later, be ...

— Polish-American photographer *

Countess Karolina Lanckorońska Count (feminine: countess) is a historical title of nobility in certain European countries, varying in relative status, generally of middling rank in the hierarchy of nobility. Pine, L. G. ''Titles: How the King Became His Majesty''. New York: ...

— Polish art historian and collector *

Kazimierz Ostrowski Kazimierz Ostrowski (born February 14, 1917 in Berlin, died July 12, 1999 in Gdynia) was a Polish painter. Biography Kazimierz Ostrowski was born on February 14, 1917 in Berlin. In 1920 his family moved to Poznań. In 1934 Ostrowski left for G ...

— Polish painter (Officer's Cross) *

Jerzy Zaruba Jerzy Zaruba (1891–1971) was a Polish graphic artist, stage scenographer and caricaturist; author of satirical drawings, political Nativity scene, crèches and illustrations for books and magazines. Pupil of Stanisław Lentz. His work was part ...

— Polish graphic artist (Knight's Cross; Officer's Cross) *

Adam Kossowski Adam Kossowski (5 December 1905 – 31 March 1986) was a Polish artist, born in Nowy Sącz, notable for his works for the Catholic Church in England, where he arrived in 1943 as a refugee from Soviet labour camps and was invited in 1944 to join ...

— Polish painter and muralist * Boleslaw Jan Czedekowski — Polish portrait painter

Business and economics

Grzegorz Kołodko Grzegorz Witold Kołodko (pronounced ; born 28 January 1949 in Tczew, Poland) is a distinguished professor of economics. A key architect of Polish economic reforms. He is the author of New Pragmatism original paradigmatic and heterodox theory of ...

— Finance Minister of Poland (Commander's Cross) *

Edward Szczepanik Edward Franciszek Szczepanik (; 22 August 1915 – 11 October 2005) was a Poles, Polish economist and the last Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland, Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile. Biography Szczepanik was born on 21 A ...

— Polish economist and Prime Minister of the

Polish Government in Exile The Polish government-in-exile, officially known as the Government of the Republic of Poland in exile ( pl, Rząd Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej na uchodźstwie), was the government in exile of Poland formed in the aftermath of the Invasion of Pola ...

(Knight's Cross) *

Klemens Stefan Sielecki Klemens Stefan Sielecki (December 8, 1903 in Stanisławów, Austria-Hungary – July 14, 1980 in Kamień Pomorski, Poland) was a Polish engineer and technical director of the first Polish Locomotive Factory Fablok in Chrzanów in the post-war year ...

— Engineer and technical director of

Fablok Fablok is a Polish manufacturer of locomotives, based in Chrzanów. Until 1947 the official name was ''First Factory of Locomotives in Poland Ltd.'' ( pl, Pierwsza Fabryka Lokomotyw w Polsce Sp. Akc.), Fablok being a widely used syllabic abbrevia ...

(Knight's Cross) * Henry Hilary Chmielinski — President of the Hanover Bank and Trust ( Boston, Massachusetts) and founder of the Polish Daily Courier (Boston) (Knight's Cross) * Grzegorz Hajdarowicz — Polish entrepreneur, film producer, publisher (Knight's Cross) * Stanisław Zybała — Polish economist, activist, and organization co-founder

Education

* Benon Bromberek — Polish educator, Professor of Pedagogical Sciences (Knight's Cross, 1977) * Jakub Chlebowski — Polish medical educator * Maria Dobrowolska — Polish educator (Commander's Cross) * Władysław Dworaczek — Polish educator (Knight's Cross) * Wojciech Falkowski — Vice-Chancellor of the

Polish University Abroad The Polish University Abroad, or Polish University in Exile ( pl, Polski Uniwersytet na Obczyźnie, abbreviated PUNO), was initially established in London in 1949 (de facto 1952). The Polish University Abroad has a B.A. programme and does researc ...

(2002–2011), psychiatrist, and painter (Officer's Cross) *

Lili Pohlmann Lili Stern-Pohlmann MBE (29 March 1930 – 15 September 2021) was a Holocaust survivor and educator. Early life Lili Stern was born in Lviv and raised in Kraków, the daughter of Filip Stern and Cecylia Bruek Stern. Her father was a bank manag ...

— Holocaust survivor and educator (Commander's Cross) *

Anna Radziwiłł Anna Maria Radziwiłł (; 20 April 1939 – 23 January 2009) was a Polish historian, educator, and politician. She was a former member of the Polish Senate and Minister of Education, and was very active in educational reform and the underground ...

— Polish educator, Minister of Education (Commander's Cross) * Michael Hewitt-Gleeson — Australian scholar (Officer's Cross) *

Margaret Schlauch Margaret Schlauch (September 25, 1898 – July 19, 1986) was a scholar of medieval studies at New York University and later, after she left the United States for political reasons in 1951, at the University of Warsaw, where she headed the depa ...

— American scholar, naturalized Polish (Officer's Cross) * Czesław Strumiłło — Polish scientist in the field of chemistry, founder of the theory of drying (Commander's Cross) * Kazimierz Lisiecki — Polish educator (Officer's Cross) * Leonard Weber — Polish educator, beekeeper * Anna Żarnowska — Polish historian (Officer's Cross) * Anna Sitarska Polish librarian and University Teacher

Film

* Józef Arkusz — Polish film director (Officer's Cross) *

Stanisław Brudny Stanislav and variants may refer to: People * Stanislav (given name), a Slavic given name with many spelling variations (Stanislaus, Stanislas, Stanisław, etc.) Places * Stanislav, a coastal village in Kherson, Ukraine * Stanislaus County, C ...

- Polish actor *

Sylwester Chęciński Sylwester Chęciński (21 May 1930, Skwarki – 8 December 2021, Wrocław) was a Polish film and television director. He was born in Susiec, Poland, on 21 May 1930. Chęciński died in Wrocław on 8 December 2021, at the age of 91. Biography ...

— Polish film director (Grand Cross, ''posthumous''; Commander's Cross with Star; Commander's Cross) *

Bronisław Cieślak Bronisław Emil Cieślak (8 October 1943 – 2 May 2021) was a Polish actor, journalist, media presenter and politician. He was born in Kraków. He was best known for his role as Sławomir Borewicz, the main hero of a popular Polish TV series ' ...

— Polish actor, politician and journalist, member of the

Sejm The Sejm (English: , Polish: ), officially known as the Sejm of the Republic of Poland (Polish: ''Sejm Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej''), is the lower house of the bicameral parliament of Poland. The Sejm has been the highest governing body of t ...

Anna Dymna Anna Dymna (née Dziadyk ) (born 20 July 1951) is a Polish TV, film and theatre actress. Foundress of a charity foundation Mimo Wszystko (Against the Odds). Career Anna Dymna intended to study psychology before she decided to take an entrance ex ...

— Polish actress (Commander's Cross) *

Krystyna Feldman Krystyna Zofia Feldman (1 March 1916 – 24 January 2007) was a Polish actress. Life and career Born in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary (now Lviv, Ukraine) to a Catholic mother, Katarzyna Sawicka, an opera singer and a Jewish father, Ferdynand Feldm ...

— Polish actress (Commander's Cross) *

Piotr Fronczewski Piotr Fronczewski (born 8 June 1946 in Łódź, Poland), is a Polish actor and a cabaret and theatre singer. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most popular actors of his generation. Life and career He was born to a Polish mother, Bogna D ...

— Polish actor *

Ignacy Gogolewski Ignacy Gogolewski (17 June 1931 – 15 May 2022) was a Polish film actor. He appeared in more than 30 films. Selected filmography * '' Three Stories'' (1953) * ''Tonight a City Will Die'' (1961) * ''The Codes'' (1966) * ''Stawka większa niż � ...

— Polish actor (Commander's Cross with Star) *

Wiesław Gołas Wiesław Ryszard Gołas (Polish: vʲε.swav 'gɔ.was 9 October 1930 – 9 September 2021) was a Polish actor and Armia Krajowa soldier. He was cast in the role of Tomasz Czereśniak in ''Czterej pancerni i pies'' (Polish: ''Four tank men an ...

— Polish actor (Grand Cross, ''posthumous'') * Mikołaj Grabowski - Polish actor (Officer's Cross) *

Stefania Grodzieńska Stefania Grodzieńska (2 September 1914 – 28 April 2010) was a Polish writer, stage and theatrical actress during the Interbellum; dancer, radio announcer, and satirist known as the First Lady of Polish Humor. Biography Grodzieńska was born i ...

- Polish actress (Commander's Cross) * Jerzy Gruza — Polish director (Commander's Cross, ''posthumous'') *

Jerzy Hoffman Jerzy Julian Hoffman (; born 15 March 1932) is a Polish director, screenwriter, and producer. He received the Polish Academy Life Achievement Award in February 2006. Hoffman is best known for his works in ''The Deluge'' (1974) and ''With Fire and ...

— Polish film director (Grand Cross) *

Gustaw Holoubek Gustaw Teofil Holoubek (21 April 1923 – 6 March 2008) was a Polish actor, director, member of the Polish Sejm, and a senator. Holoubek participated in the September Campaign and was a prisoner of war during the Nazi German Occupation of Pol ...

— Polish actor (Knight's Cross; Commander's Cross with Star; Grand Cross) *

Krystyna Janda Krystyna Jolanta Janda (born 18 December 1952) is a Polish film and theater actress best known internationally for playing leading roles in several films by Polish director Andrzej Wajda, including ''Man of Marble'' (''Człowiek z marmuru'', 1976 ...

— Polish actress (Commander's Cross with Star) *

Alina Janowska Alina Janowska (16 April 1923 – 13 November 2017) was a Polish actress. She appeared in more than 35 films and television shows between 1946 and 2017. Biography Janowska was born in 1923 in Warsaw into a wealthy family. She was arrested ...

- Polish actress (Commander's Cross with Star, Commander's Cross) *

Krzysztof Jasiński Krzysztof Jasiński (born July 21, 1943, in Borzechów) is a Polish actor, TV and theatre director.Krzysztof Jasi ...

- Polish film director (Commander's Cross with Star, Commander's Cross) *

Kazimierz Kaczor Kazimierz Julian Kaczor (born February 9, 1941) is a Polish actor and television presenter. He has made over 40 appearances in film and television. He starred in the 1986-1987 television series ''Zmiennicy'' but is well known for hosting the Poli ...

— Polish actor (Grand Cross) * Jerzy Kamas — Polish actor (Officer's Cross) *

Emilian Kamiński Emilian or Emiliano may refer to: *Emilia (region of Italy), a region of northern Italy *Emilian of Cogolla, a Visigothic saint *Emilian dialects, spoken in Emilia, northern Italy *A Romanian male given name: **Emilian Bratu (1904–1991), chemic ...

- Polish actor (Commander's Cross with Star, ''posthumous'', Officer's Cross) *

Emil Karewicz Emil Karewicz (13 March 1923 – 18 March 2020) was a Polish actor. Early life His acting career began in Wilno, at the local theatre, where he played the role of a monkey in the "Quartet" by Ivan Krylov. During World War II he served in the Po ...

— Polish actor (Commander's Cross, ''posthumous'') *

Jerzy Kawalerowicz Jerzy Franciszek Kawalerowicz (19 January 1922 – 27 December 2007) was a Polish film director and politician, having been a member of Polish United Workers' Party from 1954 until its dissolution in 1990 and a deputy in Polish parliament since ...

- Polish film director (Grand Cross) * Jan Kobuszewski — Polish actor (Commander's Cross with Star) *

Jan Kociniak Jan Kociniak (8 November 1937 – 20 April 2007) was a Polish film and theatre actor. Jan Kociniak was born in Stryj, Poland (now Ukraine). He graduated from The Warsaw Higher Theatrical School in 1961 and for most of his professional career he ...

— Polish actor *

Krzysztof Kolberger Krzysztof Marek Kolberger (13 August 1950 – 7 January 2011) was a Polish actor and theatre director. His father's surname was changed from Kohlberger in the 1950s. He had a daughter, actress Julia Kolberger, with ex-wife Anna Romantowska. ...

— Polish actor (Commander's Cross, ''posthumous'') *

Wiesław Komasa :"Wiesław" is sometimes transliterated as "Wieslaw", in the absence of ''L with stroke.'' Wiesław () is a Polish language, Polish Male, masculine given name, of Slavic names, Slavonic origin, meaning "great glory" or "all glory". It is the shorte ...

- Polish actor (Officer's Cross) *

Maja Komorowska Maja Komorowska-Tyszkiewicz (born 23 December 1937) is a Polish film actress. She has appeared in over 35 films since 1970. Selected filmography * ''Family Life'' (1971) * ''A Woman's Decision'' (1975) * ''Budapest Tales'' (1976) * ''Spiral'' ...

— Polish actress (Grand Cross, Commander's Cross) * Paweł Królikowski — Polish actor (Commander's Cross, ''posthumous'') *

Irena Kwiatkowska Irena Kwiatkowska (17 September 19123 March 2011) was a popular Polish actress, known in Poland for her many cabaret roles and monologues, as well as appearances in (mostly comedy) movies and television shows. Life Kwiatkowska graduated from th ...

— Polish actress (Commander's Cross with Star) *

Jan Machulski Jan Henryk Machulski (3 July 1928 – 20 November 2008) was a Polish theater director, as well as a film and theatrical actor. He appeared in more than 45 film roles and 70 theater roles throughout his career. Personal life Machulski was born in ...

— Polish actor *

Juliusz Machulski Juliusz Machulski (born 10 March 1955 in Olsztyn) is a Polish film director and screenplay writer. Son of noted actor Jan Machulski, Juliusz became notable for his comedies ridiculing the life in communist-ruled Poland of the 1970s and 1980s. B ...

— Polish director *

Zdzisław Maklakiewicz Zdzisław Maklakiewicz (9 July 1927 in Warsaw – 9 October 1977) was a Polish actor. He was the nephew of composers Jan and Tadeusz Maklakiewicz. Biography During World War II, Maklakiewicz served in the Home Army. He took part in the Warsaw ...

— Polish actor *

Janusz Morgenstern Janusz "Kuba" Morgenstern (16 November 1922 – 6 September 2011) was a Polish film director and producer. Janusz Morgenstern was born in 1922 to a Jewish family in the town of Mikulińce, Poland (now Mykulyntsi, Ukraine), to Dawid Morgenstern ...

— Polish director (Commander's Cross with Star) *

Daniel Olbrychski Daniel Marcel Olbrychski (; born 27 February 1945) is a Polish film and theatre actor who is widely considered one of the greatest Polish actors of his generation. He appeared in 180 films and TV productions and is best known for leading roles i ...

— Polish actor (Commander's Cross) *

Marian Opania Marian Opania (, born 1 February 1943) is a Polish film actor and singer. He has appeared in more than 50 films since 1965. Biography He was born on 1 February 1943 in Puławy as the second son of Julian and Jadwiga. His father was a forester ...

— Polish actor (Officer's Cross) *

Franciszek Pieczka Franciszek Maksymilian Pieczka (18 January 1928 – 23 September 2022) was a Polish actor. A graduate of the National Higher School of Theatre in Warsaw (1954), he first made his debut in the theatre in Jelenia Góra. He won the award for Best ...

— Polish actor (Grand Cross; Commander's Cross with Star) *

Wojciech Pszoniak Wojciech Zygmunt Pszoniak (2 May 1942 – 19 October 2020) was a Polish film and theatre actor. Biography and career Pszoniak was born in Lwów, Nazi occupied Poland, now in Ukraine. He gained international visibility following Andrzej Wajda's 19 ...

— Polish actor (Commander's Cross) *

Andrzej Seweryn Andrzej Teodor Seweryn (born 25 April 1946) is a Polish actor and director. One of the most successful Polish theatre actors, he starred in over 50 films, mostly in Poland, France and Germany. He is also one of only three non-French actors to b ...

— Polish actor (Commander's Cross) *

Bohdan Smoleń Bohdan Smoleń (9 June 1947 – 15 December 2016) was a Polish comedian, singer and actor. He was a member of the Kabaret TEY, and was featured in the television show ''Świat według Kiepskich'' (''Night and Day''). On 20 May 2009 he was awar ...

— Polish actor *

Jerzy Stuhr Jerzy Oskar Stuhr (; born 18 April 1947) is a Polish film and theatre actor. He is one of the most popular, influential and versatile Polish actors. He also works as a screenwriter, film director and drama professor. He served as the Rector of th ...

— Polish actor (Commander's Cross with Star) *

Danuta Szaflarska Danuta Szaflarska (; 6 February 1915 – 19 February 2017) was a Polish film and stage actress. In 2008 she was awarded the Złota Kaczka for the best Polish actress of the century. Szaflarska participated in the Warsaw Uprising as a liaison. Sz ...

- Polish actress (Grand Cross, Commander's Cross with Star) *

Jerzy Trela Jerzy Józef Trela (14 March 1942 – 15 May 2022) was a Polish actor. In 2003 he starred in the film ''An Ancient Tale: When the Sun Was a God'' under Jerzy Hoffman. He is also known for ''Three Colours: White, White'' (1994), ''Quo Vadis (2001 ...

— Polish actor (Commander's Cross with Star; Commander's Cross) *

Jerzy Turek Jerzy Turek (17 January 1934 – 14 February 2010) was a Polish actor and performer. Turek was born on 17 January 1934 in the eastern village of Tchórzowa. He died on 14 February 2010 in Warsaw at the age of 76. Selected filmography * '' K ...

- Polish actor (Officer's Cross, ''posthumous'') *

Beata Tyszkiewicz Beata Maria Helena Tyszkiewicz (born 14 August 1938) is a retired Polish actress and TV personality. Career Beata Tyszkiewicz has worked mostly on the big screen but acted in several French TV movies, becoming famous through her portrayal of d ...

- Polish actress (Commander's Cross with Star) *

Andrzej Wajda Andrzej Witold Wajda (; 6 March 1926 – 9 October 2016) was a Polish film and theatre director. Recipient of an Honorary Oscar, the Palme d'Or, as well as Honorary Golden Lion and Honorary Golden Bear Awards, he was a prominent member of the ...

— Polish film director (Grand Cross) *

Lidia Wysocka Lidia Wysocka (June 24, 1916 – January 2, 2006) was a Polish stage, film and voice actress, singer, cabaret performer and creative director, theatre director and costume designer, editorialist. Filmography In 1934 she dubbed Madeleine Carroll ...

— Polish actress (Officer's Cross) *

Krystyna Zachwatowicz Krystyna Zachwatowicz-Wajda (born Krystyna Zachwatowicz; 16 May 1930) is a Polish scenographer, costume designer and actress. She is a daughter of architect and restorer Jan Zachwatowicz and Maria Chodźko ''h.'' Kościesza, and wife of film dir ...

— Polish actress and costume designer (Knight's Cross) *

Stanisław Zaczyk Stanisław Zaczyk (26 September 1923 – 6 April 1985) was a Polish theatre and film actor. He was awarded the Polonia Restituta in 1969. Biography Zaczyk was born in Nowy Sącz, Poland. In 1945, he graduated from the Theatre Studio near The Ol ...

— Polish actor *

Janusz Zakrzeński Janusz Zakrzeński (8 March 1936 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish film and theatrical actor. Zakrzeński was born in Przededworze. He graduated from high school III LO in Wrocław, Poland, in 1953. He was an actor in the Juliusz Słowacki Theatr ...

— Polish actor (Commander's Cross, ''posthumous'') *

Krzysztof Zanussi Krzysztof Pius Zanussi (born 17 June 1939) is a Polish film and theatre director, producer and screenwriter. He is a professor of European film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland where he conducts a summer workshop. He is ...

— Polish film director (Commander's Cross with Star) *

Zbigniew Zapasiewicz Zbigniew Jan Zapasiewicz (13 September 1934 – 14 July 2009) was one of the most prominent post-war Polish actors, as well as a theatre director and pedagogue. Biography Zbigniew Zapasiewicz was born on 13 September 1934 in Warsaw, Poland. Du ...

— Polish actor (Grand Cross, ''posthumous'') *

Magdalena Zawadzka Magdalena Zawadzka (born 29 October 1944) is a Polish stage and film actress. She is the wife of actor Gustaw Holoubek and the mother of cinematographer Jan Holoubek. She gained wide popularity after the 1968 film ''Colonel Wolodyjowski (film), C ...

— Polish actress *

Jerzy Zelnik Jerzy Zelnik (born 14 September 1945) is a Polish actor. He has appeared in more than 60 films and television shows since 1963. He was awarded the Badge of Merit in Culture (1997) and Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2007). Sel ...

- Polish actor

Literature

Jerzy Andrzejewski Jerzy Andrzejewski (; 19 August 1909 – 19 April 1983) was a prolific Polish writer. His works confront controversial moral issues such as betrayal, the Jews and Auschwitz in the wartime. His novels, ''Ashes and Diamonds'' (about the immediate ...

— Polish author, ''Ashes and Diamonds'' (Commander's Cross) *

Józef Białynia Chołodecki Józef Dominik "Kresowiec" Bartłomiej Chołodecki (15 August 1852 – 30 January 1934) was a Polish historian. Biography Chołodecki was born in 1852 in in the Galicia (Central Europe), Galician region of the then Austro-Hungarian empire, clo ...

— Polish author and historian *

Ernest Bryll Ernest is a given name derived from Germanic word ''ernst'', meaning "serious". Notable people and fictional characters with the name include: People *Archduke Ernest of Austria (1553–1595), son of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor *Ernest, M ...

- Polish poet, author, translator (Commander's Cross) *

Maria Dąbrowska Maria Dąbrowska (; born Maria Szumska; 6 October 1889 – 19 May 1965) was a Polish writer, novelist, essayist, journalist and playwright, author of the popular Polish historical novel ''Noce i dnie'' (Nights and Days) written between 1932 and 1 ...

— Polish writer novelist and journalist * Adam Galis — Wartime Radio Speaker, author, translator, poet, ''Bryły'' (Commander's Cross) *

Julia Hartwig Julia Hartwig-Międzyrzecka (14 August 1921 – 14 July 2017) was a Polish writer, poet and translator, considered to be one of Poland's most important poets. Life and career She was born and raised in Lublin. She studied Polish and French lite ...

- Polish poet (Grand Cross) *

Andrzej Kijowski ::''Not to be mistaken for Andrzej Tadeusz Kijowski, his son.'' Andrzej Kijowski (29 November 1928, Krakow, Poland – 29 June 1985, Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish literary critic, essayist, prose and screenwriter. His son is poet and crit ...

- Polish writer (Commander's Cross) *

Janusz Korczak Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit (22 July 1878 or 1879 – 7 August 1942), was a Polish Jewish educator, children's author and pedagogue known as ''Pan Doktor'' ("Mr. Doctor") or ''Stary Doktor'' ("Old Doctor"). After spending ma ...

— Polish Jewish author and educator * Mirosława Maria Kruszewska — Polish author, ''Polacy w Ameryce'' (Cavalier's Cross) *

Stanisław Kutrzeba Stanisław Marian Kutrzeba (1876–1946) was a Polish historian and politician who was Professor of the Jagiellonian University from 1908, and then until the end of his life the Chair of Studies in Polish law. He was chair of the Law Department ( ...

— Polish author and historian *

Jan Józef Lipski Jan Józef Lipski (26 May 1926 in Warsaw – 10 September 1991 in Kraków) was a Polish critic, literature historian, politician and freemason. As a soldier of the Home Army ( Armia Krajowa), he fought in the Warsaw Uprising. Editor of collected w ...

— Polish author and historian (Grand Cross) *

Richard C. Lukas Richard Conrad Lukas (born 1937) is an American historian and author of books and articles on military, diplomatic, Polish, and Polish-American history. He specializes in the history of Poland during World War II. Lukas is best known for '' Th ...

— American author and historian *

Józef Mackiewicz Józef Mackiewicz (April 1, 1902 – January 31, 1985) was a Polish writer, novelist and political commentator; best known for his documentary novels ''Nie trzeba głośno mówić'' (One Is Not Supposed to Speak Aloud), and ''Droga donikąd'' (The ...

— Polish writer (Commander's Cross) *

Sławomir Mrożek Sławomir Mrożek (29 June 1930 – 15 August 2013) was a Polish dramatist, writer and cartoonist. Mrożek joined the Polish United Workers' Party during the reign of Stalinism in the People's Republic of Poland, and made a living as a politica ...

- Polish writer *

Wiesław Myśliwski Wiesław Myśliwski (born 25 March 1932 in Dwikozy, near Sandomierz) is a Polish novelist. Biography He was born to a middle class family and raised in Ćmielów, where his father had participated in the Polish-Soviet War and became a local off ...

- Polish writer (Commander's Cross with Star) * Hanna Ożogowska — Polish novelist and poet (Knight's Cross) *

Robert Stiller Robert Reuven Stiller (25 January 1928 – 10 December 2016) was a Polish polyglot, writer, poet, translator, and editor. Life Robert Stiller was born in Warsaw, Poland, to Polish parents and spent his early childhood in what is now Belarus. His f ...

— Polish translator *

Bohdan Urbankowski Bohdan Urbankowski (19 May 1943 – 15 June 2023) was a Polish writer, poet, and philosopher. An opposition activist in the People's Republic of Poland, he received several awards for his publications, most of which were published underground ( ...

- Polish poet (Commander's Cross with Star) *

Piotr S. Wandycz Piotr Stefan Wandycz (September 20, 1923 – July 29, 2017) was a Polish-American historian. He was also the President of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, and professor emeritus at Yale University, specializing in Eastern a ...

— Polish American author and historian *

Józef Weyssenhoff Józef Weyssenhoff (8 April 1860 – 6 July 1932) was a Polish novelist, poet, literary critic, publisher. Close to the National Democracy (Poland), National Democracy political movement after 1905, he paid tribute to the tradition of the Polish ...

— Polish writer, novelist, poet, literary critic, publisher (Officer's Cross) *

Adam Zagajewski Adam Zagajewski (21 June 1945 – 21 March 2021) was a Polish poet, novelist, translator, and essayist. He was awarded the 2004 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award, the 2017 Princ ...

— Polish poet (Commander's Cross) * Jan Andrzej Zakrzewski — Polish journalist and writer *

Andrzej Zaniewski Andrzej Zaniewski (born April 13, 1939) is a Polish poet, prose writer and songwriter. Early life and career Andrzej Zaniewski was born on April 13, 1939, in Warsaw, Poland. Zaniewski completed his studies of art history at the University of W ...

— Polish writer, novelist, poet, songwriter (Officer's Cross)

Military

Franciszek Alter Franciszek Alter (22 November 1889 in Lviv – 23 January 1945 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen) was a Polish general. Career Franciszek Alter began his career as an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army, reaching the rank of captain. He fought in the ...

— Polish general *

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— Commander of the

Polish Armed Forces in the West The Polish Armed Forces in the West () refers to the Polish military formations formed to fight alongside the Western Allies against Nazi Germany and its allies during World War II. Polish forces were also raised within Soviet territories; thes ...

(Commander's Cross) *

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— Soviet-Armenian military commander * Stefan Bałuk - Polish general(Grand Cross, ''posthumous'') *

Tasker H. Bliss Tasker Howard Bliss (December 31, 1853 – November 9, 1930) was a United States Army officer who served as Chief of Staff of the United States Army from September 22, 1917 until May 18, 1918. He was also a diplomat involved in the peace negotiati ...

— American Chief of Staff of the

U.S. Army The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is one of the eight U.S. uniformed services, and is designated as the Army of the United States in the U.S. Constitution.Article II, section 2, cla ...

Zygmunt Bohusz-Szyszko Zygmunt Piotr Bohusz-Szyszko (1893 in Chełm – 1982 in London) was a Polish general. During World War I he served in the Imperial Russian army. In 1940, he was Commanding Officer Polish Independent Highland Brigade (''Samodzielna Brygada Strze ...

— Polish general (Officer's Cross) *

Władysław Bortnowski Władysław Bortnowski (12 November 1891 – 21 November 1966) was a Polish historian, military commander and one of the highest ranking generals of the Polish Army. He is most famous for commanding the Pomorze Army in the Battle of Bzura during ...

— Polish general (Commander's Cross; Officer's Cross) *

Omar Bradley Omar Nelson Bradley (February 12, 1893April 8, 1981) was a senior Officer (armed forces), officer of the United States Army during and after World War II, rising to the rank of General of the Army (United States), General of the Army. Bradley ...

— American General of the Army *

Leonid Brezhnev Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev; uk, links= no, Леонід Ілліч Брежнєв, . (19 December 1906– 10 November 1982) was a Soviet Union, Soviet politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Gener ...

— Marshal of the Soviet Union and Soviet politician (Grand Cross) *

Tadeusz Buk Tadeusz Buk (15 December 1960 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish military figure. He received numerous military and civil awards, including the Order of Polonia Restituta. Buk was born at Mójcza. He served as commander of the Polish Land Forces ...

- Polish general (Commander's Cross, ''posthumous'') *

Edmund Charaszkiewicz Edmund Kalikst Eugeniusz Charaszkiewicz (; Poniec, 14 October 1895 – 22 December 1975, London) was a Polish military intelligence officer who specialized in clandestine warfare. Between the World Wars, he helped establish Poland's interbellum ...

— Polish military intelligence officer *

Antoni Chruściel Gen. Antoni Chruściel ( '' nom de guerre'' Monter; 16 July 1895 – 30 November 1960) was a Polish military officer and a general of the Polish Army. He is best known as the ''de facto'' commander of all the armed forces of the Warsaw Uprising o ...

— Commander of all Polish armed forces of the

Warsaw Uprising The Warsaw Uprising ( pl, powstanie warszawskie; german: Warschauer Aufstand) was a major World War II operation by the Polish resistance movement in World War II, Polish underground resistance to liberate Warsaw from German occupation. It occ ...

(Grand Cross, ''posthumous'') * Frederick Edwards Collins — British admiral, commanding Gibraltar. *

Victor Crutchley Admiral Sir Victor Alexander Charles Crutchley (2 November 1893 – 24 January 1986) was a British naval officer. He was a First World War recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be ...

— British admiral *

Hieronim Dekutowski Hieronim Dekutowski (noms de guerre "Zapora", "Odra", "Rezu", "Stary", "Henryk Zagon", 24 September 1918 – 7 March 1949) was a Polish boy scout and soldier, who fought in Polish September Campaign, was a member of the elite forces Cichociemni, ...

— One of commanders of

Wolnosc i Niezawislosc Freedom and Independence Association ( pl, Zrzeszenie Wolność i Niezawisłość, or WiN) was a Polish underground anticommunist organisation founded on September 2, 1945 and active until 1952. Political goals and realities The main purpose of it ...

(Grand Cross) *

John Dill Sir John Greer Dill, (25 December 1881 – 4 November 1944) was a senior British Army officer with service in both the First World War and the Second World War. From May 1940 to December 1941 he was the Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS ...

— British field marshal *

Bolesław Bronisław Duch Bolesław Bronisław Duch (1885–1980) was a Polish Major General and General Inspector of the Armed Forces. Life Duch served during World War I, 1914–18, in the Polish Legions. After Poland regained independence, he served in the Polish Army ...

— Polish general (Officer's Cross) *

Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (born David Dwight Eisenhower; ; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, ...

— 34th

President of the United States The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United Stat ...

, Supreme Allied Commander (Chévalier, 1945) *

Franciszek Gągor Franciszek Gągor (8 September 1951 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish general, Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces between 2006 and 2010. He died in the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash near Smolensk with the President of Po ...

— Polish general (Grand Cross, ''posthumous'') *

Wanda Gertz Major Wanda Gertz (13 April 1896 – 10 November 1958) was a Polish woman of noble birth, who began her military career in the Polish Legion during World War I, dressed as a man, under the pseudonym of "Kazimierz 'Kazik' Żuchowicz". She subseq ...

— Polish resistance fighter *

Kazimierz Gilarski Brigadier General Kazimierz Gilarski (7 May 1955 in Rudołowice – 10 April 2010 in Smolensk) was a Polish military figure and Commander of the Warsaw Garrison. He was among the passengers killed in the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash. Hono ...

- Polish general (Commander's Cross, ''posthumous'') * William Remsburg Grove — American Colonel, for relief efforts in 1919 *

Józef Haller de Hallenburg Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the mo ...

— Polish general (Commander's Cross) *

William Holmes William is a masculine given name of Norman French origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conques ...

— British general (Commander's Cross with Star) *

Wilm Hosenfeld Wilhelm Adalbert Hosenfeld (; 2 May 1895 – 13 August 1952), originally a school teacher, was a German Army officer who by the end of the Second World War had risen to the rank of ''Hauptmann'' (Captain). He helped to hide or rescue several Poli ...

— German officer (Commander's Cross) *

Norman Hulbert Wing Commander Sir Norman John Hulbert, DL (5 June 1903 – 1 June 1972) was a British company director, Royal Air Force officer and politician who served as a member of parliament for the Conservative Party for nearly thirty years. Early in his ...

— British officer *

Ludwik Idzikowski Ludwik Idzikowski (August 24, 1891 – July 13, 1929) was a Polish military aviator. He died during a transatlantic flight trial. Early life and service Ludwik Idzikowski was born in Warsaw. He started mining studies in Liège, Belgium. A ...

— Polish aviator and pioneer (Officer's Cross) *

Sergěj Ingr General of the Army Jan Sergěj Ingr (2 September 1894 – 17 June 1956) was a Czechoslovak Army five star general and the Minister of National Defense in the Czechoslovak government-in-exile during the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Early ...

, Minister of National Defense in the

Czechoslovak government-in-exile The Czechoslovak government-in-exile, sometimes styled officially as the Provisional Government of Czechoslovakia ( cz, Prozatímní vláda Československa, sk, Dočasná vláda Československa), was an informal title conferred upon the Czechos ...

during the

Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia; cs, Protektorát Čechy a Morava; its territory was called by the Nazis ("the rest of Czechia"). was a partially annexed territory of Nazi Germany established on 16 March 1939 following the German oc ...

(Grand Cross) *

Wacław Jędrzejewicz General Wacław Jędrzejewicz (; 29 January 1893 – 30 November 1993) was a Polish Army officer, diplomat, politician and historian, and subsequently an American college professor. He was co-founder, president, and long-time executive direct ...

— Polish soldier and diplomat (Grand Cross; Officer's Cross) *

Wojciech Kania Wojciech Kania (b. in Łodygowice, d. in Bielsko-Biała) – major of Polish Armed Forces in the West, promoted to the rank of podpułkownik after the war. Kania was a son of Józef and Katarzyna (née Duraj). In 1932 he graduated from gymna ...

— Polish officer *

Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski Michał () is a Polish and Sorbian form of Michael and may refer to: * Michał Bajor (born 1957), Polish actor and musician * Michał Chylinski (born 1986), Polish basketball player * Michał Drzymała (1857–1937), Polish rebel * Michał Helle ...

— Polish general and resistance fighter (Commander's Cross; Officer's Cross) *

Jan Karcz Jan Karcz (16 October 1892, in Modlica near Kraków – 25 January 1943, in Auschwitz) was a Polish Army Colonel, posthumously promoted to the rank of a Brigadier General. During the Second World War he was held and murdered in the Birkenau conce ...

— Polish officer (Officer's Cross) *

Andrzej Karweta Andrzej Karweta (11 June 1958 – 10 April 2010) was rear admiral (NATO code OF-7) of the Polish Navy and its commander-in-chief from November 2007 until his death in April 2010 in the Smolensk air crash. He was posthumously promoted to the ran ...

- Polish admiral (Commander's Cross, ''posthumous'') * Deryck William Kingwell — Air Commodore of the

Royal Australian Air Force "Through Adversity to the Stars" , colours = , colours_label = , march = , mascot = , anniversaries = RAAF Anniversary Commemoration ...

Adam Koc Adam Ignacy Koc (31 August 1891 – 3 February 1969) was a Polish politician, MP, soldier, journalist and Freemason. Koc, who had several ''noms de guerre'' (Witold, Szlachetny, Adam Krajewski, Adam Warmiński and Witold Warmiński), fought ...

— Polish officer (Officer's Cross) * Stanisław Komornicki - Polish general (Grand Cross) * Piotr Konieczka — Polish soldier (''posthumous'') *

Stanisław Kopański General Stanisław Kopański (19 May 1895 – 23 March 1976) was a Polish military commander, politician, diplomat, an engineer and one of the best-educated Polish officers of the time, serving with distinction during World War II. He is best know ...

— Polish general (Grand Cross; Officer's Cross) *

Franciszek Kornicki Franciszek Kornicki (18 December 1916 – 16 November 2017) was a Polish fighter pilot who served in the Polish Air Force in Poland, France and Britain during the Second World War and later served in the Royal Air Force (RAF). He died just a few ...

— Polish fighter pilot (Commander's Cross) * Józef Kowalski — Polish

supercentenarian A supercentenarian (sometimes hyphenated as super-centenarian) is a person who has reached the age of 110 years. This age is achieved by about one in 1,000 centenarians. Supercentenarians typically live a life free of major age-related diseases u ...

and second-to-last veteran from the Polish-Soviet war 1919–1921 *

Władysław Kozaczuk Władysław Kozaczuk (23 December 1923 – 26 September 2003) was a Polish Army colonel and a military and intelligence historian. Life Born in the village of Babiki near Sokółka, Kozaczuk joined the army in 1944, during World War II, at Bia� ...

— Polish officer and historian (Knight's Cross) *

Roman Krzyżelewski Roman Krzyżelewski (born January 25, 1949 in Rzeczenica, Poland) was the commander-in-chief of the Polish Navy between October 2003 and November 2007. For most of his career he was a Submarine Officer, although he started his career as a Weap ...

— Polish admiral (Commander's Cross; Officer's Cross; Knight's Cross) * Włodzimierz Kubala — Polish colonel, military attorney (Commander's Cross) *

Tadeusz Kutrzeba Tadeusz Kutrzeba (15 April 1885 – 8 January 1947) was a general of the army during the Second Polish Republic. He served as a major general in the Polish Army in overall command of Army Poznań during the 1939 German Invasion of Poland. :pl:Tad ...

— Polish general (Commander's Cross; Knight's Cross) *

Bronisław Kwiatkowski Lieutenant General Bronisław Kwiatkowski (5 May 1950 in Mazury – 10 April 2010 in Smolensk) was a Polish military figure, Commander of the Polish Armed Forces Operational Command. He was among the passengers killed in the 2010 Polish A ...

- Polish general (Commander's Cross , ''posthumous'') * Witold Łokuciewski — Polish fighter ace (Commander's Cross; Knight's Cross) *

Douglas MacArthur Douglas MacArthur (26 January 18805 April 1964) was an American military leader who served as General of the Army for the United States, as well as a field marshal to the Philippine Army. He had served with distinction in World War I, was C ...

— American

Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers was the title held by General Douglas MacArthur during the United States-led Allied occupation of Japan following World War II. It issued SCAP Directives (alias SCAPIN, SCAP Index Number) to the Japanese government, aiming to suppress its "milita ...

* Mason MacFarlane — British Major-General,

Governor of Gibraltar The governor of Gibraltar is the representative of the British monarch in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar. The governor is appointed by the monarch on the advice of the British government. The role of the governor is to act as the ...

Peyton C. March General Peyton Conway March (December 27, 1864April 13, 1955) was a senior officer of the United States Army. He served in the Philippines, on the Mexican border, and World War I. March was the ninth Chief of Staff from 1918 to 1921, accomplish ...

— U.S. Army Chief of Staff *

Wacław Micuta Wacław Micuta (pseudonym ''Wacek''; Petrograd, Russia, 6 December 1915 – 21 September 2008, Geneva, Switzerland) was a Polish economist, World War II veteran, and United Nations functionary. He took part in the September 1939 defense of Polan ...

— Participant in the

, UN diplomat (Commander's Cross with Star) *

Joseph T. McNarney Joseph Taggart McNarney (August 28, 1893 – February 1, 1972) was a four-star general in the United States Army and in the United States Air Force, who served as Military Governor of occupied Germany. Early life Joseph Taggart McNarney was ...

— American general (Commander's Cross with Star) *

Martin Dunbar-Nasmith Admiral Sir Martin Eric Dunbar-Nasmith, (1 April 1883 – 29 June 1965) was a Royal Navy officer and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth force ...

— British officer * Adam Nieniewski — Polish officer (Officer's Cross) * Mieczyslaw Oziewicz — RAF Warrant Officer (Commander's Cross) * Jerzy Pajaczkowski-Dydynski — Polish officer *

Earle E. Partridge Earle Everard "Pat" Partridge (July 7, 1900 – September 7, 1990) was a four-star general in the United States Air Force and a Command Pilot. Biography Earl Partridge graduated Ashby High School, Ashby, Massachusetts in 1917. Partridge enliste ...

— American general *Hubert Perring — British officer, for services to No. 303 Squadron *

Sławomir Petelicki Brigadier General Sławomir Petelicki (13 September 1946 – 16 June 2012) was the first commander of the Poland, Polish special forces unit GROM from July 13, 1990, until December 19, 1995. Later, he was the head of the Foundation of Former ...

— Polish commander of

GROM Grom may refer to: Military * JW GROM, a Polish special forces unit * ORP ''Grom'', several ships of the Polish Navy * Grom (missile), a Polish anti-aircraft missile * A Yugoslav/Serbian version of the Kh-23 (AS-9 'Kyle') air-to-surface missi ...

(Commander's Cross; Officer's Cross) *

Witold Pilecki Witold Pilecki (13 May 190125 May 1948; ; codenames ''Roman Jezierski, Tomasz Serafiński, Druh, Witold'') was a Polish World War II cavalry officer, intelligence agent, and resistance leader. As a youth, Pilecki joined Polish underground sc ...

— Polish resistance fighter * Stanley George Culliford — New Zealand pilot, for services during Operation Motyl *

Jadwiga Piłsudska Jadwiga Piłsudska-Jaraczewska (; 28 February 1920 – 16 November 2014) was a Polish pilot, who served in the Air Transport Auxiliary during the Second World War. She was one of two daughters of Józef Piłsudski. Life and career Piłsudska ...

— Polish aviator, daughter of

Józef Piłsudski ), Vilna Governorate, Russian Empire (now Lithuania) , death_date = , death_place = Warsaw, Poland , constituency = , party = None (formerly PPS) , spouse = , children = Wan ...

—

Prime Minister of Poland The President of the Council of Ministers ( pl, Prezes Rady Ministrów, lit=Chairman of the Council of Ministers), colloquially referred to as the prime minister (), is the head of the cabinet and the head of government of Poland. The responsibi ...

, first marshal, Chief of State * Jan Pirog — Polish soldier (Knight's Cross) * Ryszard Piotrowski — Polish Major, Armija Krajowa * Ryszard Polanski — Knight's cross * Stanisław Popławski — Polish general (Grand Cross; Commander's Cross with Star; Commander's Cross) * Arthur John Power — British admiral *

Alexander Pokryshkin Alexander is a male given name. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history. Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Al ...

— Soviet WWII ace pilot *

Wacław Przeździecki Wacław Jan Przeździecki (; 15 July 1883 – 29 June 1964) was a Polish military commander and Brigadier General of the Polish Army. During the Invasion of Poland in 1939, he was the commanding officer of the reserve Wołkowysk Cavalry Brigade th ...

— Polish officer (Commander's Cross) *

Władysław Raginis Władysław Raginis (June 27, 1908 – September 10, 1939) was a Polish military commander during the Polish Defensive War of 1939 of a small force holding the Polish fortified defense positions against a vastly larger invasion during the Battl ...

— Polish officer (Grand Cross) *

Stefan Rowecki Stefan Paweł Rowecki (pseudonym: ''Grot'', "Spearhead", hence the alternate name, Stefan Grot-Rowecki; 25 December 1895 – 2 August 1944) was a Polish general, journalist and the leader of the Armia Krajowa. He was murdered by the Gestapo in ...

— Polish general (Knight's Cross) *

Wilhelm Orlik-Rueckemann Wilhelm may refer to: People and fictional characters * William Charles John Pitcher, costume designer known professionally as "Wilhelm" * Wilhelm (name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or surname Other uses * Mount ...

— Polish general and military pioneer (Commander's Cross) *

Edward Rydz-Śmigły Marshal Edward Rydz-Śmigły (11 March 1886 – 2 December 1941; nom de guerre ''Śmigły, Tarłowski, Adam Zawisza''), also called Edward Śmigły-Rydz, was a Polish politician, statesman, Marshal of Poland and Commander-in-Chief of Poland's ...

—

Marshal of Poland Marshal of Poland ( pl, Marszałek Polski) is the highest rank in the Polish Army. It has been granted to only six officers. At present, Marshal is equivalent to a Field Marshal or General of the Army (OF-10) in other NATO armies. History To ...

* Jan Rządkowski — Polish general *W. A. J. Satchell — Group Captain, for outstanding services to the Polish Air Force during World War II *

Danuta Siedzikówna Danuta Helena Siedzikówna (nom de guerre: ''Inka''; underground name: ''Danuta Obuchowicz''; 3 September 1928 – 28 August 1946) was a Polish medical orderly in the 4th Squadron of the 5th Wilno Brigade in Home Army. In 1946 she served with t ...

— Polish nurse *

Władysław Sikorski Władysław Eugeniusz Sikorski (; 20 May 18814 July 1943) was a Polish military and political leader. Prior to the First World War, Sikorski established and participated in several underground organizations that promoted the cause for Polish ...

— General, Prime Minister of Poland, Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile *Jan Sobczyński — Polish painter and soldier *

Stanisław Sosabowski Stanisław Franciszek Sosabowski CBE (; 8 May 1892 – 25 September 1967) was a Polish general in World War II. He fought in the Polish Campaign of 1939 and at the Battle of Arnhem (Netherlands) in 1944 as commander of the Polish 1st Independe ...

— Polish general * Mieczysław Stachowiak - Polish general *

Arthur Stanley-Clarke Brigadier Arthur Christopher Lancelot Stanley-Clarke, (30 June 1886 – 8 January 1983) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer. After attending Winchester College and the University of Oxford, Stanley-Clarke enlisted with ...

— British officer * Włodzimierz Steyer — Polish admiral (Commander's Cross; Officer's Cross) *

Charles Pelot Summerall General Charles Pelot Summerall (March 4, 1867 – May 14, 1955) was a senior United States Army officer. He commanded the 1st Infantry Division in World War I, was Chief of Staff of the United States Army from 1926 to 1930, and was President of ...

— American general, president of

The Citadel The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, commonly known simply as The Citadel, is a Public college, public United States senior military college, senior military college in Charleston, South Carolina. Established in 1842, it is one ...

(Grand Cross) *

Zygmunt Szendzielarz Zygmunt Szendzielarz (12 March 1910 – 8 February 1951) was the commander of the Polish 5th Wilno Brigade of the Home Army (Armia Krajowa), nom de guerre "Łupaszka". He fought against the Red Army after the end of the Second World War. Followi ...

— Polish commander of the 5th Vilnian Home Army Brigade (Grand Cross) * Stefan Sznuk — Polish general (Commander's Cross) *

Henryk Szumski Henryk Szumski (6 April 1941 – 30 January 2012) was a Polish general, Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces between 1997 and 2000. Life Education He is a graduate of the Military Academy of the Armored Forces in Poznań (1961 ...

— Polish general *

Antoni Szylling Antoni Szylling (31 August 1884 – 17 June 1971) was a Polish general, considered, along with Generals Wiktor Thommée and Stanisław Maczek, to have been one of the most successful Polish Armed Forces commanders during the Invasion of Poland of ...

— Polish general * Carl Edelhjelm — Swedish officer *

Josip Broz Tito Josip Broz ( sh-Cyrl, Јосип Броз, ; 7 May 1892 – 4 May 1980), commonly known as Tito (; sh-Cyrl, Тито, links=no, ), was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and statesman, serving in various positions from 1943 until his deat ...

—

Marshal of Yugoslavia Marshal of Yugoslavia ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Maršal Jugoslavije, Маршал Југославије; sl, Maršal Jugoslavije; mk, Маршал на Југославија, Maršal na Jugoslavija) was the Highest military ranks, hig ...

, Yugoslav politician (Grand Crosses, twice awarded) *

Rodoljub Čolaković Rodoljub "Roćko" Čolaković ( sr-cyr, Родољуб Чолаковић; 7 June 1900 – 30 March 1983) was a Yugoslav politician and writer who served as the 1st Prime Minister of PR Bosnia and Herzegovina and as the Minister for PR Bosnia ...

— Yugoslav partisan and politician *

Tōgō Heihachirō Marshal-Admiral Marquis , served as a '' gensui'' or admiral of the fleet in the Imperial Japanese Navy and became one of Japan's greatest naval heroes. He claimed descent from Samurai Shijo Kingo, and he was an integral part of preserving ...

— Japanese admiral *

Władysław Wejtko Władysław Wejtko (1 February 1859 – 16 November 1933) was a Polish general of the Imperial Russian Army, and later of the Polish Army. He fought on the side of the Second Polish Republic as a major-general in Józef Piłsudski's forces during ...

— Polish general (Commander's Cross) *Harold Edward Whittingham — British Air Marshal (Commander's Cross with Star) *

Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski Bolesław Ignacy Florian Wieniawa-Długoszowski (22 July 1881 – 1 July 1942) was a Polish general, adjutant to Chief of State Józef Piłsudski, politician, freemason, diplomat, poet, artist and formally for one day the President of the Republ ...

— Polish general (Commander's Cross with Star) *Ryszard Winowski — Polish colonel (Commander's Cross) *Stanislaw Robert Wlosok-Nawarski — Polish Air Force pilot during World War II *

Józef Zając Józef Ludwik Zając (pron. Za-YANTz) (1891–1963) was a Polish general and pilot. Biography Born on 14 March 1891 in Rzeszów, Józef Zając studied at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, graduating with a PhD in philosophy in 1915. He ...

— Polish general *

Mariusz Zaruski Mariusz Zaruski (18 January 1867 – 8 April 1941) was a brigadier-general in the Polish Army, a pioneer of Polish sports yachting, an outstanding climber of the winter and caves of Tatra Mountains. He was a photographer, painter, poet and writer ...

— Polish general (Grand Cross) *Czesław Zawilski — Polish corporal during World War II *

Georgy Zhukov Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov ( rus, Георгий Константинович Жуков, p=ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪj kənstɐnʲˈtʲinəvʲɪtɕ ˈʐukəf, a=Ru-Георгий_Константинович_Жуков.ogg; 1 December 1896 – ...

— Marshal of the Soviet Union and Soviet politician (Commander's Cross with Star)

Music

* Ewa Bandrowska-Turska —

Coloratura soprano A coloratura soprano is a type of operatic soprano voice that specializes in music that is distinguished by agile runs, leaps and trills. The term '' coloratura'' refers to the elaborate ornamentation of a melody, which is a typical component o ...

and music educator (Officer's Cross) *

Piotr Beczała Piotr Beczała (Polish pronunciation: ); born 28 December 1966) is a Polish operatic tenor with an international career based primarily in Europe and the United States. He has performed in the world's leading opera houses including Metropolitan ...

— Polish tenor *

Rafał Blechacz Rafał Blechacz (; born 30 June 1985) is a Polish classical pianist who rose to fame after decisively winning the XV International Chopin Piano Competition in 2005. Biography Blechacz began piano lessons at the age of five, and enrolled in the ...

— Polish pianist *

Ewa Demarczyk Ewa Maria Demarczyk (16 January 1941 – 14 August 2020) was a Polish singer, generally associated with the sung poetry genre and the Piwnica pod Baranami cabaret. Demarczyk was recognized as one of the most talented and charismatic singers in t ...

— Polish singer (Commander's Cross with Star, Commander's Cross) *

Marek Grechuta Marek Michał Grechuta (10 December 1945 – 9 October 2006) was a Polish singer, songwriter, composer, and lyricist. Early life Grechuta was born on 10 December 1945 in Zamość, Poland. He studied architecture at Tadeusz Kościuszko University ...

— Polish singer (Commander's Cross) *

Jan Hoffman Jan Hoffman (11 June 1906 – 25 October 1995) was a Polish pianist and music educator. Biography Jan Hoffman was born in Kraków and studied with Józef Śliwiński and Wiktor Łabuński at the Conservatory of Music in Kraków, receiving a dip ...

— Polish pianist and music educator (Officer and Commander's Cross with Star) * Maciej Jaskiewicz — Polish-Canadian conductor *

Wojciech Karolak Wojciech Krzysztof (Wojtek) Karolak (28 May 1939 – 23 June 2021)
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— Polish musician (Knight's Cross) *

Wojciech Kilar Wojciech Kilar (; 17 July 1932 – 29 December 2013) was a Polish classical and film music composer. One of his greatest successes came with his score to Francis Ford Coppola's '' Bram Stoker's Dracula'' in 1992, which received the ASCAP Award ...

— Polish composer (Grand Cross, Commander's Cross with Star) *

Wladimir Jan Kochanski Wladimir Jan Kochanski (5 December 1935 – 24 March 2015) was a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music and enjoyed a long career as a concert pianist. Throughout his career, the Texas-born virtuoso retained a loyal following. Other pianists adm ...

— Polish-American pianist *

Maria Koterbska Maria Koterbska (13 July 1924 – 18 January 2021) was a Polish singer who was particularly popular in the 1950s and 1960s. Her biggest hits include ''Augustowskie noce'', ''Brzydula i rudzielec'', ''Karuzela'', ''Parasolki'', ''Serduszko puka w ...

— Polish singer * Sławomir Kowalewski — Polish musician and singer *

Krzysztof Krawczyk Krzysztof January Krawczyk (; 8 September 1946 – 5 April 2021) was a Polish baritone pop singer, guitarist and composer. He was the vocalist of a popular Polish band, Trubadurzy ("the Troubadours"), from 1963 to 1973 when he started his ...

— Polish musician and singer * Marian Lichtman — Polish musician and singer *

Zofia Lissa Zofia Lissa (19 October 1908 – 26 March 1980) was a Polish music educator and musicologist. Life Zofia Lissa was born in Lemberg and studied piano and music theory at the Polish Music Society in Lviv. She continued her studies in musicology wit ...

— Polish musicologist (Knight's Cross) *

Jerzy Matuszkiewicz Jerzy "Duduś" Matuszkiewicz (; 10 April 1928 – 31 July 2021) was a Polish jazz musician and composer, playing saxophone, clarinet and piano. Between 1950 and 1958, he was leader of the jazz group Melomani. From 1965, he focused on composing m ...

— Polish music composer (Commander's Cross) *

Wojciech Młynarski Wojciech Młynarski (26 March 1941 – 15 March 2017) was a Polish poet, singer, songwriter, translator and director. A well-known figure on the Polish musical scene, he was most famous for his ballads and what is known as sung poetry, as well a ...

— Polish poet and singer (Commander's Cross) *

Włodzimierz Nahorny Włodzimierz may refer to the following : People * Włodzimierz (given name), a Polish variant of the (East) Slavic name Vladimir Places and jurisdictions * Włodzimierz, Greater Poland Voivodeship (west-central Poland) * Włodzimierz, Łask C ...

— Polish musician *

Tadeusz Nalepa Tadeusz Nalepa (26 August 1943 in Zgłobień, Poland – 4 March 2007, Warsaw) was a Polish composer, guitar player, vocalist, and lyricist. Career Nalepa graduated from the Music Academy in Rzeszów in the departments of violin, clarinet a ...

— Polish composer and guitarist *

Jan Pietrzak Jan Pietrzak (pronounced ; born 26 April 1937) is a Polish satirist, singer-songwriter, stage and film actor, and columnist for ''Tygodnik Solidarność'' (Solidarity Weekly). Career Pietrzak co-founded in Warsaw, with Jonasz Kofta, the student ...

— Polish singer, actor (Grand Cross, Commander's Cross) *

Jerzy Połomski Jerzy Połomski (born Jerzy Pająk; 18 September 1933 – 14 November 2022) was a Polish pop singer and actor. He is widely considered among the most popular Polish music artists of the 1960s and 1970s. Life and career Born in Radom, Pająk ...

— Polish singer * Andrzej Rozbicki — Polish conductor *

Arthur Rubinstein Arthur Rubinstein ( pl, Artur Rubinstein; 28 January 188720 December 1982) was a Polish Americans, Polish-American pianist.

— Polish-American Jewish pianist (Knight's Cross) *

Tomasz Stańko Tomasz Ludwik Stańko (11 July 1942 – 29 July 2018) was a Polish trumpeter and composer. Stańko was associated with free jazz and the avant-garde. In 1962, Tomasz Stańko formed his first band, the Jazz Darings, with saxophonist Janusz Munia ...

— Polish jazzman *

Władysław Szpilman Władysław Szpilman (; 5 December 1911 – 6 July 2000) was a Polish pianist and classical composer of Jewish descent. Szpilman is widely known as the central figure in the 2002 Roman Polanski film '' The Pianist'', which was based on Szpilman ...

— Polish-Jewish composer and pianist, protagonist of '' The Pianist'' (Commander's Cross) * Robert Szreder — Polish violinist *

Antoinette Szumowska Antoinette Szumowska (February 22, 1868 — August 16, 1938), originally Antonina Szumowska, later Antoinette Szumowska-Adamowska, was a Polish pianist and piano teacher. Early life Antonina Szumowska was born near Lublin. Her father, a professo ...

— Polish pianist, for relief efforts in 1920, awarded by

Ignacy Jan Paderewski Ignacy Jan Paderewski (; – 29 June 1941) was a Polish pianist and composer who became a spokesman for Polish independence. In 1919, he was the new nation's Prime Minister and foreign minister during which he signed the Treaty of Versaill ...

(Officer's Cross) *

Stanisław Wisłocki Stanisław Wisłocki (July 7, 1921May 31, 1998) was a Polish conductor of classical music who performed and recorded with many internationally renowned orchestras, ensembles and virtuoso musicians and is highly regarded for his interpretations ...

— Polish pianist and conductor *

Zbigniew Wodecki Zbigniew Stanisław Wodecki (; 6 May 1950 – 22 May 2017) was a Polish singer, musician, composer, actor and TV presenter. Early life and career He was born on 6 May 1950 in Godów, Poland. He started to play the violin at the age of fiv ...

— Polish musician, singer and composer *

Krystian Zimerman Krystian Zimerman (born 5 December 1956) is a Polish-Swiss concert pianist, conductor and pedagogue who has been described as one of the greatest pianists of his generation. In 1975, he won the IX International Chopin Piano Competition. Follo ...

— Polish pianist (Commander's Cross with Star) *

Teresa Żylis-Gara Teresa Żylis-Gara (23 January 1930 – 28 August 2021) was a Polish operatic soprano who enjoyed a major international career from the 1950s through the 1990s. She made her stage debut at the Opera Krakowska in 1958 in the title role of Moni ...

— Polish opera singer

Politics

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 strik ...

- Polish lawyer, local government official, politician *

Władysław Bartoszewski Władysław Bartoszewski (; 19 February 1922 – 24 April 2015) was a Polish politician, social activist, journalist, writer and historian. A former Auschwitz concentration camp prisoner, he was a World War II resistance fighter as part of the ...

—

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (''Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych'', MSZ) is the Polish government department tasked with maintaining Poland's international relations and coordinating its participation in international and regional supra-nation ...

(Commander's Cross with Star) * Józefa Bramowska — Polish politician *

Edvard Beneš Edvard Beneš (; 28 May 1884 – 3 September 1948) was a Czech politician and statesman who served as the president of Czechoslovakia from 1935 to 1938, and again from 1945 to 1948. He also led the Czechoslovak government-in-exile 1939 to 1945 ...

— Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia, 1925 *

— Marshal of the Soviet Union and Soviet politician (Grand Cross) *

Krystyna Bochenek Krystyna Maria Bochenek (née Neuman) (30 June 1953 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish journalist, politician and Vice-Marshal of the Senate of the Republic of Poland representing Civic Platform (Platforma Obywatelska). She died in office on board th ...

— Polish politician and journalist (Commander's Cross with Star) * Adam Bromke — Professor of International Affairs, statesman (Grand Cross) * Andrzej Butkiewicz — Political activist and co-founder of the Student Solidarity Committee (Knight's Cross) * Andrzej Byrt — Polish diplomat (Officer's Cross; Commander's Cross) *

Wiesław Chrzanowski Wiesław Marian Chrzanowski (, 20 December 1923 – 29 April 2012) was a Polish politician and lawyer; from 1991 to 1993 he was Sejm Marshal.Posłowie I kadencji 1991 - 1993 (Delegates of 1st Session, 1991-1993), Sejm of Poland/ref> He was a ...

- Polish lawyer, politician, member of the Sejm,

Marshal of the Sejm The Marshal of the Sejm , also known as Sejm Marshal, Chairman of the Sejm or Speaker of the Sejm ( pl, Marszałek Sejmu, ) is the Speaker (politics), speaker (chairperson, chair) of the Sejm, the lower house of the Parliament of Poland, Polish ...

(Grand Cross) *

Andrzej Czuma Andrzej Bobola Czuma (born 7 December 1938 in Lublin) is a Polish politician, lawyer and historian. He was an activist of the Polish anti-Communist opposition in the Polish People's Republic and was oppressed and imprisoned by the Communist autho ...

— Minister of Justice of the Republic of Poland * Leszek Deptuła — Polish politician, member of the

* Grzegorz Dolniak — Polish politician, member of the

Waldemar Dubaniowski Waldemar Jan Dubaniowski (born 23 February 1964 in Warsaw) is a Polish government official and diplomat; currently serving as an ambassador of Poland to Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar; a former member of the National Broadcasting Council; ...

— Polish diplomat, civil servant, secretary of state and Chief of the Cabinet of the President of Poland *

— President of the United States of America, Supreme Allied Commander (Chévalier, 1945) *

Zhou Enlai Zhou Enlai (; 5 March 1898 – 8 January 1976) was a Chinese statesman and military officer who served as the first Premier of the People's Republic of China, premier of the People's Republic of China from 1 October 1949 until his death on 8 J ...

—

Premier of the People's Republic of China The premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, commonly called the premier of China and sometimes also referred to as the prime minister, is the head of government of China and leader of the State Council. The premier is ...

(Grand Cross, 1954) * Osvaldo Dorticos —

President of Cuba The president of Cuba ( es, Presidente de Cuba), officially the president of the Republic of Cuba ( es, Presidente de la República de Cuba), is the head of state of Cuba. The office in its current form was established under the Constitution of ...

(Grand Cross, 1973) *

Fidel Castro Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (; ; 13 August 1926 – 25 November 2016) was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 200 ...

—

Prime Minister of Cuba The Prime Minister of Cuba ( es, Primer Ministro de Cuba), officially known as the President of the Council of Ministers ( es, Presidente del Consejo de Ministros de Cuba) between 1976 and 2019, is the head of government The head of gov ...

(Grand Cross, 1973) *

Jolanta Fedak Jolanta Beata Fedak (21 September 1960 – 31 December 2020) was a Polish politician who served as Minister of Labour and Social Policy from 2007 to 2011. Early life and education Born in Żary, Fedak graduated with a degree in political scie ...

— Polish politician, member of the

* Tadeusz Ferenc — Polish politician *

Grażyna Gęsicka Grażyna Gęsicka (13 December 1951 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish sociologist and politician and a former (2006 - 2007) minister of Regional Development in Marcinkiewicz's and Jarosław Kaczyński's government. From 2009 until her death she ...

— Polish politician, member of the

Mieczysław Gil Mieczysław Władysław Gil (9 January 1944 – 29 September 2022) was a Polish trade unionist and politician. A member of the Solidarity Citizens' Committee and later Law and Justice, he served in the Sejm from 1989 to 1993 and the Senate ...

— Polish politician, member of the

Zyta Gilowska Zyta Janina Gilowska (7 July 1949 – 5 April 2016) was a Polish economist, academic, and politician. Early life and education Gilowska was born in Nowe Miasto Lubawskie on 7 July 1949. In 1972, she graduated with a degree in economics from Wa ...

— Polish economist and politician * Henryk Goryszewski - Polish politician, member of the

Przemysław Gosiewski Przemysław Edgar Gosiewski (; 12 May 1964 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish politician and a deputy chair of Law and Justice (''Prawo i Sprawiedliwość'') party. In the 1980s he was active in the Solidarity movement. In years 2006-2007 he served ...

— Polish politician, member of the

Bernard Hausner Bernard Hausner (March 11, 1874 – August 8, 1938) was a Polish rabbi, politician, and diplomat. Life Hausner was born on March 11, 1874 in Chortkiv, Galicia, Austria-Hungary, the son of Shlomo and Tsherna Hausner. Hausner became an active Zio ...

— Polish diplomat and member of the

Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka Izabela Walentyna Jaruga-Nowacka (23 August 1950 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish political figure who had served in the national Parliament (Sejm) since 1993 (with a four-year hiatus in 1997–2001) and, in May 2004, rose to become Deputy Prim ...

— Polish politician, member of the

Henryk Józewski Henryk Jan Józewski (Kyiv, August 6, 1892 - April 23, 1981, Warsaw) was a Polish visual artist, politician, a member of government of the Ukrainian People's Republic, later an administrator during the Second Polish Republic. A member of Polish-i ...

— Polish artist and politician *

Marek Jurek Marek Jurek (; 28 June 1960 in Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland) is a right-wing politician and a Member of the European Parliament. Since 20 April 2007 he has been the leader of the aspirant party Right of the Republic. Politically, he is most kno ...

— Polish politician, member of the

(Commander's Cross) *

Mariusz Kamiński Mariusz Kamiński (born 25 September 1965 in Sochaczew) is a Polish politician who served as the head of the Central Anticorruption Bureau (CBA) from August 2006 to October 2009. Since 14 August 2019, he has served as the Minister of the Inter ...

— Polish politician, head of the

Central Anticorruption Bureau The Central Anticorruption Bureau (CBA, pl, Centralne Biuro Antykorupcyjne) is a division of the Polish government, reporting to the Prime Minister of Poland, responsible for addressing corruption in Poland. Located in Warsaw, the CBA has been fu ...

(Commander's Cross) *

Sebastian Karpiniuk Sebastian Marek Karpiniuk (4 December 1972 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish politician. Political career Karpiniuk was an assistant to President of Kolobrzeg, Henryk Bienowski before becoming politically independent. He was elected to the Sejm ...

— Polish politician *

Teresa Klimek Teresa Klimek (1929-2013) was a Polish people, Polish educator and activist. Educated to teach mathematics, she taught in various schools in Gorzów Wielkopolski from 1953 to 1984 and was honored for her skill as an educator. She helped found the ...

— Co-founder of the local branch of the Catholic Intellectuals Club and executive on the regional branch of

Solidarity ''Solidarity'' is an awareness of shared interests, objectives, standards, and sympathies creating a psychological sense of unity of groups or classes. It is based on class collaboration.''Merriam Webster'', http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictio ...

(Knight's Cross) *

Leo Krzycki Leo Krzycki (1881-1966) was a chairman of the Socialist Party of America and vice president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Background Leo C. Krzycki was born on August 10, 1881, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Martin Krzycki and K ...

— Polish-American unionist and activist, awarded by

Bolesław Bierut Bolesław Bierut (; 18 April 1892 – 12 March 1956) was a Polish communist activist and politician, leader of the Polish People's Republic from 1947 until 1956. He was President of the State National Council from 1944 to 1947, President of Polan ...

(1946) * Jerzy Kulczycki - Polish publisher and bookseller in London * Jan Kułakowski — Polish politician, member of the

European Parliament The European Parliament (EP) is one of the legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions. Together with the Council of the European Union (known as the Council and informally as the Council of Ministers), it adopts ...

(Commander's Cross with Star) *

János Esterházy Count János Eszterházy (; rarely sk, Ján Esterházi; March 14, 1901 – March 8, 1957) was a prominent ethnic Hungarian politician in inter-war Czechoslovakia and later in the First Slovak Republic. He was a member of the Czechoslovak Parl ...

— Most prominent ethnic Hungarian politician in former

Czechoslovakia , rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי, , common_name = Czechoslovakia , life_span = 1918–19391945–1992 , p1 = Austria-Hungary , image_p1 ...

* Andrzej Kern — Polish politician and lawyer, member of the

John Lesinski Sr. John Lesinski Sr. (January 3, 1885 – May 27, 1950) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. He was the father of John Lesinski Jr., who succeeded him in the United States House of Representatives. Early life Lesinski was born in Erie ...

— American congressman * Jan Lityński — Polish politician, member of the

Léon Noël Léon Philippe Jules Arthur Noël (March 28, 1888 – August 6, 1987) was a French diplomat, politician and historian. Biography He is the son of Jules Noël, ''conseiller d'Etat'', and Cécile Burchard-Bélaváry. He received a Doctor of La ...

— French ambassador and politician (Grand Cross) *

Jan Nowak-Jeziorański Jan Nowak-Jeziorański (; 2 October 1914 – 20 January 2005) was a Polish journalist, writer, politician, social worker and patriot. He served during the Second World War as one of the most notable resistance fighters of the Home Army. He is b ...

— Polish resistance fighter and activist,

Radio Free Europe Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is a United States government funded organization that broadcasts and reports news, information, and analysis to countries in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Caucasus, and the Middle East where it says tha ...

Piotr Nowina-Konopka Piotr Nowina-Konopka (born 27 May 1949 in Chorzów) is a Polish academic, politician and diplomat. Academia Konopka studied at the Sopot School of Economics, Gdańsk University, where he gained an MSc (1972) and a PhD (1978) in economics. From ...

— Polish politician (Officer's Cross) * Alvin E. O'Konski — American member of Congress * Alvin M. Owsley — American politician * Andrzej Papierz — Polish diplomat *

Józef Piłsudski ), Vilna Governorate, Russian Empire (now Lithuania) , death_date = , death_place = Warsaw, Poland , constituency = , party = None (formerly PPS) , spouse = , children = Wan ...

— Prime Minister of Poland, first marshal, Chief of State *

Adam Piłsudski Adam Piłsudski (Zalavas, 25 September 1869 - 16 December 1935) was a member of the Senate of Poland, vice president of Wilno, brother of the famous Józef Piłsudski. He was honored with the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. ...

— Polish senator * Walerian Piotrowski - Polish lawyer (Grand Cross) *

Krzysztof Putra Krzysztof Jakub Putra (, July 4, 1957 – April 10, 2010) was a Polish politician, a member of the Law and Justice (PiS). He served as a Deputy of the Senate Marshal from October 27, 2005 until November 4, 2007. He later became a Sejm member ...

— Polish politician, member of the

and a senator *

Condoleezza Rice Condoleezza Rice ( ; born November 14, 1954) is an American diplomat and political scientist who is the current director of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. A member of the Republican Party, she previously served as the 66th Uni ...

— 66th US Secretary of State, stateswoman * Marek Rocki — Polish econometrist and politician (Knight's Cross) *

Jan Rulewski Jan Rulewski (born April 18, 1944 in Bydgoszcz, Poland) is a Polish politician, activist of Solidarity; a Member of the Polish Sejm (1991-2001) and a Senator (since 2007). He was in charge of the Bydgoszcz region of Solidarity (1980-1981 and from ...

— Polish politician, activist of solidarity, member of the

(1991–2001) and a senator (Grand Cross, Commander's Cross) *

Arkadiusz Rybicki Arkadiusz Czesław Rybicki (12 January 1953 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish politician. Biography Rybicki was born in Gdynia. In the 1980s he was active in the Solidarity movement. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 9466 v ...

— Polish politician, member of the

Ryszard Musielak Ryszard Józef Musielak (born 6 September 1950, Szubin, Poland), was formerly one of the leaders of the Polish Solidarity union in Toruń. Currently one of the leaders of the local branch of Committee for the Defence of Democracy. He led the st ...

— Activist of solidarity (Commander's Cross) *

Józef Oleksy Józef Oleksy (; 22 June 1946 – 9 January 2015) was a Polish left-wing politician, former chairman of the Democratic Left Alliance (''Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej'', SLD). Early life and education In his youth he lived in Nowy Sącz, and was ...

— Polish politician, member of the

Maciej Płażyński Maciej Płażyński (; 10 February 1958 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish liberal-conservative politician. Biography Płażyński was born in Młynary. He began his political career in 1980 / 1981 as one of the leaders of the Students' Solidar ...

— Polish politician (Grand Cross, ''posthumous'') *

Michał Seweryński Michał Seweryński (born 1 July 1939 in Łódź) is a professor of the University of Łódź. Doctor honoris causa of the University of Lyon 3. Expert on Polish and international labour law. The author of about 130 scientific publications and re ...

— Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education (Knight's Cross) *

— General, Prime Minister of Poland, Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile *

Mário Soares Mário Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares, GColTE, GCC, GColL (; 7 December 1924 – 7 January 2017) was a Portuguese politician, who served as prime minister of Portugal from 1976 to 1978 and from 1983 to 1985, and subsequently as the 17th presid ...

—

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...

and

President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) *President (education), a leader of a college or university *President (government title) President may also refer to: Automobiles * Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ful ...

Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ...

Władysław Stasiak Władysław Augustyn Stasiak (15 March 1966 – 10 April 2010) was a senior official and politician of the Republic of Poland. Biography Władysław Stasiak was born in Wrocław. He made history studies in Wrocław University, and got the N ...

— Polish senior official and politician *

— Polish economist and Prime Minister of the

(Knight's Cross) *

Aleksander Szczygło Aleksander Marek Szczygło (27 October 1963 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish politician. He was first elected to Polish parliament Sejm in 2001 and subsequently reelected on 25 September 2005 with 19,006 votes in 35th electoral district (Olsztyn ...

— Polish politician, member of the

Jolanta Szczypińska Jolanta Irena Szczypińska (24 June 1957 – 8 December 2018) was a Polish politician. Biography After professionally working as a nurse, she became a member of the Sejm (the lower House of Parliament) after Wiesław Walendziak had stepped d ...

— Polish politician, member of the

Jerzy Szmajdziński Jerzy Andrzej Szmajdziński (, 9 April 1952 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish politician who was a Deputy Marshal of Polish Sejm and previously served as Minister of Defence. He was a candidate for President of Poland in the 2010 election. Szma ...

— Polish politician, member of the

Jolanta Szymanek-Deresz Jolanta Dorota Szymanek-Deresz (; 12 July 1954 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish lawyer and politician. Szymanek-Deresz was born in Przedbórz. She was elected to Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 9,723 votes in 16 Płock district as a ca ...

— Polish lawyer, politician, member of the

Adam Szostkiewicz Adam Dawid Szostkiewicz (; born 22 June 1952) is a Polish author, commentator on religion and politics, journalist and translator. Biography Szostkiewicz was born in Częstochowa. He studied Polish language and literature in the early seventies ...

— Polish author and journalist (Officer's Cross) *

—

, Yugoslav politician (Grand Crosses, twice awarded) * Izabela Tomaszewska — Polish director of protocol *

Lech Wałęsa Lech Wałęsa (; ; born 29 September 1943) is a Polish statesman, dissident, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who served as the President of Poland between 1990 and 1995. After winning the 1990 election, Wałęsa became the first democratica ...

—

President of Poland The president of Poland ( pl, Prezydent RP), officially the president of the Republic of Poland ( pl, Prezydent Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej), is the head of state of Poland. Their rights and obligations are determined in the Constitution of Polan ...

Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Swedish industrialist, inventor and armaments (military weapons and equipment) manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemi ...

winner (Knight's Cross) *

Zbigniew Wassermann Zbigniew Franciszek Wassermann (; 17 September 1949 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish politician. He was an MP representing Law and Justice (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość). Wassermann was born in Kraków. He was a graduate in law from Jagiellonian ...

— Polish politician, member of the

Wiesław Woda Wiesław Woda (17 August 1946 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish politician. Woda was born in Paleśnica. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 8,818 votes in 15 Tarnów district as a candidate for Polish People's Party. He wa ...

— Polish politician, member of the

* Edward Wojtas — Polish politician, member of the

* Henryk Wujec — Polish politician, member of the

Stanisław Zając Stanisław Zając (, 1 May 1949 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish lawyer and politician. He was a member of Sejm 1991–1993 and Sejm 1997–2001. On 25 September 2005 he was elected a member of the Sejm again, getting 25,225 votes in 22 Kro ...

— Polish politician and lawyer *

Piotr Paweł Morta Piotr Paweł Morta (born 19 June 1959 in Wieluń) is a Polish political activist, dissident, economist, co-inventor, activist in underground "Solidarity", Krajowy Mistrz Racjonalizacji 1983 (Polish master of rationalization in 1983), and vice-chai ...

— Polish political activist, economist, activist in underground "Solidarity" (Officer's Cross)

Religion

Stanisław Dziwisz Stanisław Jan Dziwisz (; born 27 April 1939) is a Polish prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as Metropolitan Archbishop of Kraków from 2005 until 2016. He was created a cardinal in 2006. He was a long-time and influential aide to Pope ...

— Polish

Catholic Cardinal A cardinal ( la, Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae cardinalis, literally 'cardinal of the Holy Roman Church') is a senior member of the clergy of the Catholic Church. Cardinals are created by the ruling pope and typically hold the title for life. Col ...

(Grand Cross) * Edward Frankowski — Polish Catholic Bishop (Grand Cross) *

Sławoj Leszek Głódź Sławoj Leszek Głódź (born 13 August 1945) is a Polish prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Gdańsk from 2008 to 2020. He has been a bishop since 1991 and before that spent a decade working in the Roman Curia. Early ...

— Polish Catholic Archbishop (Commander's Cross with Star) *

Andrzeja Górska Andrzeja Górska (born Maria Stefania Górska; 2 February 1917 – 15 December 2007) was a Polish Roman Catholic nun. She was born in Łódź, the sixth of nine children. Gorska served as the abbess, or Mother Superior, of the Congregation of the ...

— Polish nun (Commander's Cross) *

Zenon Grocholewski Zenon Grocholewski (11 October 1939 – 17 July 2020) was a Polish prelate of the Catholic Church, who was elevated to the rank of cardinal in 2001. He joined the Roman Curia in 1972 and served from 1999 until 2015 as Prefect of the Congregation ...

— Polish Catholic Cardinal (Commander's Cross with Star) *

Roman Indrzejczyk Roman Indrzejczyk (14 November 1931 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish Roman Catholicism, Catholic priest, from 2005 to 2010 he was chaplain of the Polish President, Lech Kaczyński. Life Roman Indrzejczyk was born in Żychlin. In 1951 he graduated ...

- Polish priest (Commander's Cross with Star) *

Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski Tadeusz Bohdan Isakowicz-Zaleski ( hy, Թադևոս Վարդապետ Իսահակյան-Զալեսկի, translit=Tadevos Vartapet Isahakian-Zaleski) is a Polish Roman Catholic and Armenian Catholic priest, author and activist. Born in 1956, in K ...

— Polish priest (Commander's Cross) *

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 Jo ...

— Polish Catholic Cardinal *Ignacy Jeż — Polish Catholic Bishop (Grand Cross) *Michał Józefczyk — Polish priest *Józef Kowalczyk — Polish Archbishop (Grand Cross) *Adam Kozłowiecki — Polish Catholic Cardinal (Grand Cross) *Wojciech Lemański — Polish priest *Franciszek Macharski — Polish Catholic Cardinal, List of Roman Catholic bishops of Kraków, Archbishop of Kraków (Grand Cross) *Henryk Muszyński — Polish Archbishop (Grand Cross) *Tadeusz Pieronek — Polish Bishop (Grand Cross) *Tadeusz Płoski — Polish Catholic Bishop (Commander's Cross) *Jan Sikorski - Polish priest (Grand Cross) *Lawrence Wnuk — Polish priest

Royalty

*Adam Karol Czartoryski — Polish prince *Amha Selassie of Ethiopia — Last Emperor of Ethiopia, emperor of Ethiopia *Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia — Emperor of Ethiopia

Science and engineering

*Ryszard Bartel — Polish aviation pioneer (Knight's Cross) *Gerard Ciołek — Polish architect and historian of parks and gardens (Knight's Cross) *Seweryn Chajtman — Polish scientist, engineer, teacher of the Industrial Management (Commander's Cross) *Jan Chodorowski — Polish materials science engineer (Officer's Cross) *Tadeusz Chyliński — Polish airplane constructor (Knight's Cross) *Ewa Damek — Polish mathematician (Knight's Cross) *Ryszard Jurkowski — Polish architect and urban planner (Officer's Cross) *Zbigniew Kabata — Polish parasitologist (Grand Cross) *Krzysztof Kazimierz Miller— Polish architect and urbanist (Knight's Cross) *Stanisław Mrozowski — Polish-American physicist *Jan Nagórski — Polish aviation pioneer *Marian Rejewski — Polish mathematician, breaker of the Enigma cipher (Grand Cross) *Zbigniew Religa - Polish cardiac surgeon (Grand Cross) *Tadeusz Sendzimir — Polish-American inventor (Officer's Cross) * Czesław Strumiłło — Professor of Chemical and Process Engineering (Commander's Cross) *Mirosław Vitali — Polish prosthetics pioneer *Kazimierz Żorawski — Polish mathematician (Commander's Cross) *Halina Leszczynska— Professor of Chemistry (Officer's Cross) *Czeslaw Olech — Polish mathematician (Commander's Cross) *Andrzej Chmielewski — Professor of Chemistry (Officer's Cross) *Marek Jan Sadowski — Professor of Physics (Officer's Cross) *Zdzisław Skupień — Polish mathematician (Knight's Cross) *Roman Antoszewski — Polish plant physiologist (Knight's Cross) *Witold Abramowicz (scientist), Witold Abramowicz — Polish scientist, professor of economics (Knight's Cross) *Marcin Kacprzak — Polish doctor, educator, Pedagogy, pedagogue, publicist, pioneer of social medicine *Władysław Tryliński — Polish engineer and inventor (Officer's Cross, 1923) *Michał Gryziński — Polish nuclear physicist (Chevalier's Cross) *Andrzej Zakrzewski - Polish historian, lawyer, politician (Grand Cross) *Marian Zembala - Polish cardiac surgeon (Commander's Cross)

Sport

*Leo Beenhakker — Netherlands, Dutch football trainer — Poland national football team coach (Officer's Cross) *Jakub Błaszczykowski — Polish football player (Commander's Cross) *Zbigniew Boniek — Polish football player *Marek Cieślak — Polish Motorcycle speedway, speedway rider (Knight's Cross) *Gerard Cieślik - Polish football player *Czesław Cybulski — Polish athletics coach (Commander's Cross) *Mariusz Czerkawski — Polish ice hockey player *Adela Dankowska — Polish glider pilot *Kazimierz Deyna — Polish football player *Małgorzata Dydek — Polish basketball player *Wojciech Fortuna — Polish ski jumper *Kazimierz Górski — Polish football coach (Grand Cross, ''posthumous''; Commander's Cross with Star; Commander's Cross) *Marian Kasprzyk - Polish boxer (Commander's Cross) *Ewa Kłobukowska - Polish athletic (Commander's Cross) *Robert Korzeniowski - Polish racewalker (Commander's Cross) *Justyna Kowalczyk - Polish cross-country skiing (sport), cross-country skier (Commander's Cross with Star) *Jerzy Kulej - Polish boxer (Commander's Cross) *Wacław Kuźmicki — Polish Decathlon, decathlete (Knight's Cross) *Czesław Lang — Polish cyclist *Grzegorz Lato — Polish football player *Waldemar Legień — Polish judoka (Officer's Cross) *Robert Lewandowski — Polish football player (Commander's Cross) *Włodzimierz Lubański — Polish football player *Agata Mróz-Olszewska — Polish volleyball player (''posthumous'', not accepted by her husband) *Pelagia Majewska — Polish glider pilot *Adam Małysz — Polish ski jumper (Officer's Cross; Commander's Cross, Commander's Cross with Star) *Natalia Partyka — Polish table tennis player (Commander's Cross with Star, Knight's Cross; Officer's Cross) *Katarzyna Rogowiec — Polish paralympian *Alfred Smoczyk — Polish speedway rider (Officer's Cross) *Włodzimierz Smolarek — Polish football player (Officer's Cross ''posthumous'') *Kamil Stoch — Polish ski jumper (Officer's Cross) *Irena Szewińska — Polish athletic (Grand Cross, Commander's Cross with Star) *Ryszard Szurkowski — Polish cyclist (Grand Cross, ''posthumous'', Commander's Cross with Star) *Antoni Szymanowski — Polish football player *Tomasz Świątek — Polish rower (Officer's Cross) *Denis Urubko — Russian-Polish alpinist *Bogdan Wenta — Polish handball player *Anita Włodarczyk — Polish athletic (Commander's Cross with Star) *Adam Wójcik — Polish basketball player *Teresa Zarzeczańska-Różańska - Polish swimmer *Piotr Żyła - Polish ski jumper

Other

*Fernand Auberjonois — Swiss-American journalist *Irena Anders — Polish actress, widow of General

(Commander's Cross) *Jerzy Bahr — Polish diplomat *Edmund Baranowski — Warsaw insurgent (Commander's Cross with Star) *Stanisław Bednarek — Royal Air Force, RAF aircraft engineer, "for his work dedicated to end the war and contribution to democracy" (2022) *Zygmunt Broniarek - Polish journalist (Commander's Cross with Star) *Helena Cehak-Holubowiczowa – Polish archaeologist *Olga Drahonowska-Małkowska — Founder of scouting in Poland *Jadwiga Falkowska — Activist *Stefan Franczak (:pl:Stefan Franczak) — Jesuits, Jesuit monk, clematis breeder (Commander's Cross, 2009) *Zbigniew Galperyn — Warsaw insurgent *Mirosław Hermaszewski — Polish Astronaut, cosmonaut, fighter plane pilot, and Polish Air Force officer (Commander's Cross) *Jerzy Jachowicz — Polish journalist (Commander's Cross) *Anna Jakubowska — Warsaw insurgent *Karolina Kaczorowska — Widow of Ryszard Kaczorowski, the last President of the Republic of Poland in exile (Commander's Cross) *Andrzej Tadeusz Kijowski — Journalist and writer (Commander's Cross). *Lucjan Kydryński — Journalist and writer *Tomasz Lis - Polish journalist *Eugeniusz Lokajski — Warsaw insurgent *Franciszek Malinowski (journalist), Franciszek Malinowski — Journalist (Officer's Cross) *Jacek Maziarski — Polish journalist and politician (Commander's Cross) *Marie Mattingly Meloney — U.S. journalist who raised $1 million to buy radium for Marie Curie's laboratory *Edward Miszczak - Polish journalist *Maciej Orłoś — Polish journalist * Edwin B. Parker – American diplomat and arbiter *Simcha Rotem — Fighter in the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Grand Cross) *Maciej Rybiński — Polish publicist *Irena Sendler — Polish humanitarian who saved the lives of 2,500 Jewish children in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II (Commander's Cross with Star) *Ryszard Siwiec — Protester *Krzysztof Skowroński - Polish journalist *Reinhold Smyczek — Polish émigré activist, "for the work dedicated to independence and national treasure" *Włodzimierz Szaranowicz — Polish sport commentator *Zbigniew Ścibor-Rylski — Warsaw insurgent (Grand Cross, Commander's Cross with Star) *Ludwika Wawrzyńska — Hero (Commander's Cross) *Simon Wiesenthal — Austrian Jewish "Nazi-hunter" *Tadeusz Wrona (aviator), Tadeusz Wrona — Pilot *Sugihara Chiune — Japanese vice consul in Lithuania during World War II *Foster Furcolo — American politician involved in international investigation of Katyn massacre *Anna Sabbat — Widow of Kazimierz Sabbat, President of the Republic of Poland in exile (Commander's Cross) *Adam Strzembosz - Polish lawyer (Grand Cross) *Anna Stupnicka-Bando — Helped Jews in World War II (2008) *Dariusz Szpakowski — Polish sport commentator *Eugeniusz Szyfner — Helped Jews in World War II (2016) *Bohdan Tomaszewski — Polish sport commentator (Commander's Cross) *Anna Walentynowicz - Polish social activist *Bogusław Wołoszański — Polish journalist, politician, member of the

*Paweł Zarzeczny - Polish journalist

References

{{reflist Recipients of the Order of Polonia Restituta,