Malczewski (feminine: Malczewska, plural: Malczewscy) is a

Polish Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Poles, people from Poland or of Polish descent * Polish chicken *Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin screenwr ...

locational surname A toponymic surname or topographic surname is a surname derived from a place name.

, which originally meant a person from Malczew or Malczewo in

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...

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Oxford University Press, 2013. Retrieved on 18 January 2016. Variants of the name include Malczewscy, Malchevski, Malchevsky. The name may refer to: *

Antoni Malczewski Antoni Malczewski (3 June 1793 – 2 May 1826) was a Polish romantic poet, known for his only work, "a narrative poem of dire pessimism", ''Maria'' (1825). At the times, prominent and scandalizing was his autodestructive romance with a married ...

(1793–1826), Polish poet * (1754–1819), Polish archbishops *

Jacek Malczewski Jacek Malczewski (; 15 July 1854 – 8 October 1929) was a Polish symbolist painter who is one of the most revered painters of Poland, associated with the patriotic Young Poland movement following a century of Partitions. He is regarded as the f ...

(1854–1929), Polish painter * Jakub Malczewski (born 1974), Polish alpine skier *

Rafał Malczewski Rafał Marceli Ludwik Fortunat Józef Malczewski (24 October 1892 - 15 February 1965) was a Polish landscape and portrait painter, draughtsman, author and columnist. He was a noted Tatra mountaineer, skier and populariser of the Tatra Mountai ...

(1892-1965), Polish painter, writer and mountaineer *

Rafał Skarbek-Malczewski Rafał Skarbek-Malczewski (born 7 October 1982) is a Polish snowboarder. He competed in the men's snowboard cross event at the 2006 Winter Olympics The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially the XX Olympic Winter Games ( it, XX Giochi olimpici ...

(born 1982), Polish snowboarder * Alexey Sergeevich Malchevsky (1915–1985), Soviet ornithologist, dean of biology at the Leningrad State University

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{{surname, Malczewski, Malczewska Polish-language surnames

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